How is a CMIT intern evaluated?
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The CMIT director is committed to an open, sincere and honest relationship with you. Their goal will be to build you up in the faith as well as in your ministry. This not only includes day to day activities, but also as they evaluate your gifts, talents, character and calling as they understand them. Their hope is that they can help to isolate your weaknesses and build upon your strengths as a pastoral and missionary leader.
They will do their best to give you consistent feedback and encouragement with regards to these strengths and weaknesses. At the end of the fall semester they will take time to review your progress. Not only will they give you feedback, but they will also ask you to share your opinions of the CMIT program up to this point, and allow you to offer any suggestions that may help them serve you better.
At the end of the school year you will have another review similar to the one at the end of the fall semester and you will need to complete two written evaluations - one for the director and another to be sent to the National Chi Alpha CMIT Program Director.
Towards the end of the CMIT program, plans will already be in motion to place you if the staff affirms your readiness to enter campus ministry (if that is where you sense God's leading). You will either be placed in an existing Chi Alpha ministry or sent to a viable location to pioneer a new ministry.
Because pioneering a campus ministry can be a demanding and difficult task, we are committed to being cautious about sending CMIT graduates for this purpose. Some graduates might be encouraged to wait an additional year to further develop ministry skills and / or character. Working a year as a staff person in an already developed ministry is usually a good avenue for this development.
Because vocational ministry is so demanding physically, but more so spiritually and emotionally, the staff may not affirm a CMIT graduate for full-time, vocational ministry. However, if this is the case, our doubts and reasons will be fully explained as best as possible. In addition, guidance will be given as to what options might be available that would best meet the goals and gifts of the intern.
CMIT directors will use the Campus Missionary (CM) qualities listed on the Internship Overview page as some "windows" into your life, growth, and maturity. The hope is to see those qualities develop and deepen in your life over the course of the internship experience.
