• MISSION INTERNSHIP

    A year of service that will change your life forever.

We live, serve, and pray together so that our work is filled with love. Come join us.

Kinship Community Food Center is a nonprofit in Milwaukee, WI that works with the urban poor. In our community, we focus on using food as an entry point to encounter others so that we may discover that no matter our differences, we still belong to one another. 

Our mission interns dedicate themselves to living in this Community of Generosity for a summer or year in our mission internship program. They create loving, close relationships with one another and within our community, so that they may bring the culture of kinship with them for the rest of their lives.

 

Welcome to a Year of Service in the Heart of Milwaukee

Ready to learn more?

Attend a Come-and-See Weekend and experience the life of a mission intern. You are invited to serve with us at the food center, experience communal living, pray with us, and explore Milwaukee. You will be hosted by our current mission interns, and all food will be provided.  

Please fill out the form if you are interested in attending a Come-and-See weekend or would like more information about our program. 

 

Important
Dates

Full Year Application Opens:
November 1, 2026

Summer Internship:
June-July 2027

Full Year Mission Intern Start Date:
August 2027

Full Year Mission Intern End Date: 
End of July 2028

WHAT YOU’LL EXPERIENCE

 

  • We cultivate silence to encounter God and more deeply encounter each other. This is punctuated by Adoration, Liturgy of the Hours, Mass, readings from Scripture, and the lives of the saints.

  • We are committed to intentionally living and working with one another in a community, in the heart of the neighborhood we serve, so that the care we have for each other flows into the larger community. 

  • We discuss our experiences throughout the year to foster growth in our spiritual and personal lives. Together, we consider what keeps us from mutuality and what enables us to exist in mutual love more fully. 

  • We walk with those in our community through relationship-building, mentoring, advocacy, hospitality, and other opportunities.  We also develop nonprofit management skills in day-to-day Community Food Center operations.

Considerations

  • Full-Year Mission Interns commit to a year of service starting in August through the end of July.

  • Summer Mission Interns commit to 8 weeks of service in June and July.

  • Shared housing is provided within the neighborhood we serve, living alongside other Mission Interns.

  • We offer a stipend of $750/month for Full-Year Mission Interns and $500/month for Summer Mission Interns.

  • No fundraising is required to become a Mission Intern.

Who CAN APPLY?

  • For the Full-Year Mission Internship, we welcome adults between the ages of 21 and 26. For the Summer Mission Internship, we welcome those age 20 to 23 to apply.

  • Your background can be in area, a degree is not required.

  • Our Mission Interns actively deepen their spiritual life through prayer in the Catholic faith tradition.

 

Kinship’s Mission Internship Program is thankful for The Catholic Community Foundation’s donation to help continue this mission.