A Ministry Internship is a two or three year opportunity to learn gospel ministry in the context of a local church. Interns work closely with an experienced trainer, gaining hands-on experience, personal mentoring, and biblical grounding in the convictions, character, and competencies essential for lifelong ministry. Alongside local training, interns and trainers gather several times a year for Multiply-led intensives that provide shared learning, encouragement, and gospel-shaped formation.

 Jesus said the harvest is plentiful but the workers are few—and that reality is keenly felt in Aotearoa today. As churches seek to grow and plant new congregations, the need for trained gospel workers has never been greater. Multiply exists to help meet this need by fostering a culture of ministry training across the country—raising up and equipping the next generation of workers so that, under God, more people might be reached with the gospel and more healthy churches established throughout New Zealand.

Ministry interns will generally train for two or three years in a local church. The key feature is an ongoing relationship with a trainer, working alongside them, learning the basics of reformed evangelical ministry.

The trainer – trainee relationship can never be replaced with a classroom environment. Over the term of the internship, each intern will be mentored through a broad range of ministry contexts and exposed to the highs and lows of ministry life as they walk alongside their trainer.

Each church will structure their internship to match their capacity and opportunities, but there are basic elements that would be consistent across churches – developing every intern in their convictions, character and ministry competencies.

Outside local training, the trainer would commit to bringing their trainees to events that gather interns and their trainers for input, specifically:

• Quarterly day-long intensives

• Challenge events

• The annual Multiply Conference