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EXTENDED FIELD EXPERIENCE

Missions Residency

If you’re exploring a future in missions, Missions Residency offers a season of deeper service. Live and serve alongside IMB missionaries for 4–13 months while growing in faith, ministry skill, and clarity about your next step.

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Overview

Missions Residency is a 4–13 month cross-cultural mission experience for 18–29 year olds who want to serve alongside IMB teams while discerning a future in missions. Residents participate in strategic gospel ministry, receive intentional discipleship and training, and gain practical ministry experience that prepares them for potential mid-term (2 years) or long-term (3+ years) missionary service.

Cross cultural ministry experience

Serve as a contributing member of an IMB team engaged in evangelism, discipleship, and church planting efforts.

Intentional mentorship

Grow spiritually and develop ministry skills through guided discipleship and leadership investment.

First-class training

Receive structured training from IMB staff and missionary leaders in biblical ministry and cross-cultural service.

Logistics

From housing and flights to visas and insurance, IMB coordinates the details so you can arrive ready to focus on the mission.

Missions Residency Trips

Take a 4 – 13 month mission trip with the IMB.
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American Peoples
Asia Pacific
Central Asia
Europe
North Africa & Middle East
South Asia
Sub-Saharan Africa

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Katowice, Poland

Gospel convos + coffee = awesome – Spring 2027 Residency in Southwest Poland

When you share the Gospel, how do you begin the conversation and how do you gain a person’s trust? In Poland, English conversation is a valuable entry to relationship and…

$5,000 + visa costs
Katowice, Poland

Runners share Jesus – Fall 2027 Residency in Southwest Poland

When you share the Gospel, how do you begin the conversation and how do you gain a person’s trust? In Poland, English conversation is a valuable entry to relationship and…

$5,000 + visa costs
City of 200,000 in Eastern Europe

Residency in the Balkans Spring 2027

Join in the ground floor of reaching a people group! Help us engage students and encourage local workers through evangelism, prayer walking, sports, running english classes, cultural exchange events and…

$5,600 + visa costs
Brasov, Romania

Residency – Transylvanian University and Disability Ministry (Spring 2027)

A semester long internship for those interested in university ministry, church planting, and/or special needs ministries. As an intern, you will be working in a variety of ministries in Transylvania.…

$6,500 + visa costs
City of 200,000 in Eastern Europe

Residency in the Balkans Spring 2028

Join in the ground floor of reaching a people group! Help us engage students and encourage local workers through evangelism, prayer walking, sports, running english classes, cultural exchange events and…

$5,600 + visa costs
Montreal, QC, Canada

Residency – Reach Montreal Students

Make Your Semester Count in Montreal Step into a city where thousands of students are searching for truth, community, and real hope—and where your faith can make an eternal impact.…

$5,800 + visa costs
Katowice, Poland

Residency in Southwest Poland, Spring 2027

When you share the Gospel, how do you begin the conversation and how do you gain a person’s trust? In Poland, English conversation is a valuable entry to relationship and…

$5,000 + visa costs
Quebec City, Quebec

Residency – Reach Quebec Students

Ready to Make Your Semester Count? Whether you’re in between semesters, recently graduated, or taking a purposeful break—come serve in Quebec City and be part of something that lasts for…

$4,700 + visa costs
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South Asia

Residency: Reaching Muslims Frontliner Spring 2027

Along the Southwest coast, there is an abundance of beaches, palm trees, and unknown gods being worshipped. Our city is the birthplace of one of the Hindu holy texts and…

$5,580 + visa costs
South Asia

Residency: Urban Catalyst Spring 2027

Enter into a cultural melting pot…the urban centers! Engage people from all walks of life with the eternal hope of Jesus Christ. Big cities, busy lives, and hungry souls desiring…

$5,580 + visa costs
South Asia

Residency: Reach the Unreached Spring 2027

Hike to unreached places to see movement of the gospel! Will you give up your comforts to see His name spread? Train national believers in simple and reproducible discipleship models.…

$5,580 + visa costs
South Asia

Residency: Logistics & Business Vibe Curator Spring 2027

Blend your biz management and HR skills with Gospel vibes! Flex your logistics skills to back up missionaries, like yourself, in South Asia, helping them live their best lives on…

$5,580 + visa costs
South Asia

Residency: Light Bearer Spring 2027

Enter into conversations so that the good news of Jesus Christ can be made known to those who have never heard. You would be serving in a country with a…

$10,000 + visa costs
South Asia

Residency: Edge of Lostness Explorer Spring 2027

Here on the Eastern Frontier we have almost 514 million in population. It would be considered the 3rd largest country in the world and adds almost 20,000 people per day.…

$5,580 + visa costs
South Asia

Residency: Ends of the Earth Explorer Spring 2027

Come join the Ends of the Earth Team! There are several areas that we don’t have any workers in, but that doesn’t mean that God hasn’t been working in those…

$5,580 + visa costs
South Asia

Residency: Collegians to Collegians Spring 2027

Would you be willing to hit the streets and engage the next generation of South Asia for the sake of the Gospel? Come spend a summer taking part in the…

$6,650 + visa costs
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Lilongwe, Malawi

Residency – TCK Education and NextGen Discipleship – Spring 2027

Assist two long-term missionary families as they homeschool their children. Evangelize and disciple young people in the capital city, Lilongwe, in one the world’s youngest nations. Open doors for sharing…

$5,038 + visa costs
Kampala, Uganda

Residency: City Mapper Spring 2027

You will work with the Kampala Urban Segment to determine what people groups live in Kampala, the population of each people group, what ministry is occurring within the people groups…

$4,465 + visa costs
West Africa

Residency – Cultivating Community by Sharing His Story

Build meaningful relationships and engage an underserved community with the hope of the gospel. Hear someone’s story and share yours. Engage a poor community with the gospel and discover how…

$3,950 + visa costs
Malawi

Residency – Campus Evangelism and Discipleship – Spring 2027

Side by side with Malawian believers, invest in the lives of Malawian college students and young people on university campuses in some of the most beautiful places in the country,…

$5,643 + visa costs
Kigoma, Tanzania

Residency: Teach ESL Under the Mango Tree

Come to rural Tanzania and teach English under the mango trees as a part of a broad discipleship strategy! Seeking students for a semester to join our team and work…

$1,460 + visa costs
Kenya

Residency- Ministering to Refugees through ESL

One of the top desires of every refugee we meet is to learn English. Come be part of our team to enter new communities to teach English and open doors…

$5,000 + visa costs
Lilongwe, Malawi

Residency – TCK Education and NextGen Discipleship – Spring 2027

Assist two long-term missionary families as they homeschool their children. Evangelize and disciple young people in the capital city, Lilongwe, in one the world’s youngest nations. Open doors for sharing…

$5,038 + visa costs
Chimoio, Mozambique

Residency: Reaching NextGen Students and Mapping Unreached Peoples – 2026

You will work alongside a young but experienced family and their team of national partners, to engage university students through ESL clubs, and small group bible studies. In addition, you…

$4,562 + visa costs
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TESTIMONIALS

If you’re a college student looking for a life-altering opportunity, no organization is better equipped to mobilize college students than the IMB.  You’ll be assigned to a location where your work will be part of an ongoing strategy.  You will be equipped not only for your task, but for a lifetime of missions work. – Drew Dabbs

I’ve worked with IMB for years. Whether on the field personally or sending students, I’ve always had confidence that we we’re blessed to be a part of a great team God is using to reach the nations with the gospel! – Brandon Brister

Serving with the IMB has opened my eyes to the need for people to take the gospel to the nations. Through serving I now know I am called to spend my life serving in ministry. – Ashley Ruth Charles

PREPARING PEOPLE FOR MISSION

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We’ll help you prepare for every step of your residency. From application questions to on-field logistics, our team is here to guide you through the process and set you up for a successful time on the mission field.

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