Want to grow, have a go at new things? Developing your skills and giftings and be invested in at the same time?  

The EXPLORE Internship is an opportunity for you to serve at The Well in our growing leadership and volunteer team. It’s a chance to explore an area of ministry that interests you and you wish to grow in. You will gain experience, develop skills, and pour your creativity into chosen areas of church and community life.  In return, The Well will invest into your life and ministry, through an experienced mentor rather like an apprenticeship, and through you being part of the team week in, week out, with further opportunities for indepth discipleship or study.

EXPLORE runs from mid September 2022 to June 2023 for a set number of hours/days per week.

Alongside the EXPLORE Internship we encourage you to participate in DEEPER.
Deeper is our part-time ministry school which sees people’s lives transformed each year. We focus on 3 aspects: teaching and discipleship | prayer and worship | outreach and a missional lifestyle.

It’s an ideal match. DEEPER will focus most on your character and learning. EXPLORE will be an opportunity to get more hands on in developing skills and giftings. 

If you’re already a Deeper graduate, or you’ve completed similar year-out schemes, there are opportunities for you to continue in learning or study both with local partners/colleges in the city, and tailored discipleship groups called ‘huddles’. 

Explore will be shaped around you

EXPLORE will integrate you into the regular life of The Well by participating and leading in areas like morning prayers, training, Sunday services, ministries and events & festivals in church. 

It will develop you intellectually, emotionally and spiritually through Deeper and Explore Huddle and more. 

You will chose an area to serve and grow in. Your skills and passion will help to develop that area of ministry, alongside the regular tasks that make it function. You’ll work alongside the ministry leader and other volunteers of that team. 

Areas of Internship can be: 

• CHURCH PLANTING - Join a new church plant, alongisde the leadership team, to pioneer a new culture, call people to faith, and build community.

• YOUTH – Our numbers and impact to 11-18s is growing all the time. Our qualified Youth Worker will mentor you with a passion to reach out and develop our youth work in this community. 

• STUDENTS– We have 2 large universities on our doorstep, and students are close to our heart. We already have a good size student group within our church with a dedicated leader and team, and a passion to reach loads more including the many international students in our city. 

• CHILDREN – We’re passionate to see children grow in a fun, safe atmosphere of faith, creativity and energy. Our team are dedicted and experienced, led by a nationally sought-after specialist.

• FAMILIES OUTREACH – Our facilities are brilliant for serving our local parents and toddlers community, plus opportunities like marriage/family courses to improve the social fabric of Sheffield. Our team leader is fun, nurturing and missional.

• WORSHIP & PRAYER – The heartbeat of The Well. Grow in skills and depth through opportunities to pioneer, lead, train and serve alongside a large team.

• EVANGELISM – We’re in a time of harvest and we’re regularly out on the streets. Be part of seeing this grow and reaching our neighbours. 

• VULNERABLE PEOPLE – Be involved in the wider picture of serving the homeless and vulnerable of our city alongside great ministries run by The Well and other local churches.

• INTERNATIONAL MISSION – The nations are close to our heart. We are a church and city of internationals, where the nations have come to us and often we visit them with our friends and partners in both rich and developing parts of the world. 

This list is not exclusive and some areas might be able to be combined.