In short, you’ll be living as an everyday, Spirit-led missionary in the context of a church plant in our city. The exact details of your week will differ depending on which church plant you are partnered with.

But, in general, here are things you can expect in a typical week.

• Sundays: worship and serve with your assigned church plant.

• Monday - Friday: you’ll serve alongside your church plant in the following areas:

1. Evangelism

2. Compassion ministries (homeless, food insecurity, foster care, trafficking, addiction recovery, etc.)

3. Planning and leading outreach events

4. Preparing a missional strategy to engage an unreached area or demographic.

5. You’ll also participate in bible studies, small groups/missional communities, and have gender and reflection nights.

• Thursday afternoon and evening: the entire GenSend team will gather at Tremont Temple for Equip Nights where we’ll eat, sing, pray, worship, share, celebrate, and be challenged through testimonies and sermons.

• Saturdays: unless your church plant has an event, the city will be your playground. Explore it and fall in love with it!

Students arrive around noon on Tuesday, May 30 and depart by noon on Monday, July 24.

Once accepted into GenSend, there is a non-refundable fee of $800. Additionally, you are responsible for round-trip transportation to and from Boston. But, once you get to Boston, we provide food, housing, and transportation.

You apply through the main GenSend website. When you apply, select Boston as your #1 city preference. Once you have finished your application and GenSend receives your references and runs a background check, your application will be sent to us. We will then reach out to schedule a short interview. Once we officially accept you, you’ll receive an email where you’ll have to officially accept on your end.

Cohort Participant:
If this is your first summer doing GenSend, most likely you’ll just be a summer missionary in a cohort with 6-10 others alongside a church plant.

Cohort Leader:
Many Gendsenders will return for a second or third summer as cohort leaders. Our goal is to have a male and female leader for each of our cohorts. Our single-gender cohorts will just be led by either a male or female leader.

GenSend Boston Leadership Team
There are three unique roles where students serve alongside the GenSend Director to serve the larger GenSend Team. Each of these will lead a team within GenSend to execute each of their areas and responsibilities. Even if you don’t serve in one of these three roles, there may be a way for you to serve on one of these teams using your skills (ex. musicians, singers, photographers, videographers, video editors, etc.).

1. Worship Leader

2. Communication Leader (social media, promo videos)

3. Hospitality Leader (food, coffee and drinks)

Ministry Intensive
Sometimes we are able to craft a ministry intensive underneath the GenSend Summer experience where you serve with a church plant in a specific area (kids, students, college, communications, worship leading). These are almost always reserved for returning students and approved on a case by case basis by the director. Check out ministry internships here.

If you are interested in being considered as a cohort leader, one of the three leadership team positions or for a ministry intensive, make a note on your application somewhere and let the director know when he follows up with you after you apply. You can also contact us here to see if these positions are still available.

Most GenSenders will just be a part of a church plant cohort. But, we’ve crafted two specific cohorts that might interest you:

Worship Leader Cohort
This cohort is designed to help develop the next wave of worship leaders for church plants in Boston. In addition to being a part of the day to day activities of your specific cohort, this cohort involves 1 hour of online equipping that you do on your own and then you meet once/week as a cohort to:

1. Review the online modules for development and growth.

2. Participate in weekly interviews with worship leaders across Greater Boston

3. Help plan, participate in and/or execute GenSend Equip Nights.

4. Receive coaching on leading a worship team and planning/executing Sunday worship sets.

Faith and Work Cohort
This cohort is designed for students who need to do a full-time internship in their field of study. We’ll help you find an internship (paid or unpaid) in Boston (explore work internships here). Once you get to Boston, we ask that you commit to serving faithfully with a church plant while you are here (probably one where we have a GenSend team) and to being a part of this weekly cohort. This weekly cohort will include some online equipping that you’ll complete each week and then meet weekly together with other businessmen and women in our city to learn how to live as a workplace missionary and integrate your faith and work.

If you are interested in either of these cohorts, let the director know when he follows up with you after you apply. You can also contact us here to discuss anything related to either of these cohorts.