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My OYM Internship Reflection
As I sit here trying to think of a way to reflect and explain my internship at OYM for the summer for 2007, plenty of stories, instances, people, and prayerful times come to mind. But to be able to sum up in words what it is to be an OYM intern is something I just don’t think is possible. Perhaps it’s one of those instances in life that’s better off unexplained. For example when you get touched by the Holy Spirit in prayer and you hear and feel things that no one else can. Well psychiatrists and psychoanalysts will sit there and tell you it was a chemical reaction in your brain or you were part of mass hysteria caused by all the people you saw worshiping Christ at an event like Steubenville. But you and God truly know what went on and nothing can take that away from you. Yes, my internship at OYM was a blessing God saw fit to put into my life for the summer but it wasn’t all magic and prayer. Being an OYM intern means you have to work your butt off in order to experience the powerful retreats you organize. As an intern you work hard and do a lot of meaningless tasks, at least you think they are meaningless at the time. But then you go on a retreat like Project Life and Steubenville and see how that silly little thing you did made the difference in some teen’s life. And that’s the moment that made all the hard work worth it, when God pats you one the back and says “see that’s why I had you do that silly little thing for me.”
As an OYM intern you will work hard but will be rewarded ten fold in the ways you are allowed to see Christ work in the teens, but also in the ways you will see how Christ works in the office along with you. I saw Christ in the things people did for each other and every single day I was in the office, I saw Christ in the OYM staff. The people there and their depth of faith are indescribable. The best thing I can equate it to would be a family in Christ, a faith family if you’ve ever been to Luke 18. You work, pray, suffer, and help each other as staff for the OYM but most of all, you love each other. You joke, talk, pray, and even have the occasional nerf war with each other, to keep each other working and focused on who we are really working for. I couldn’t imagine my summer not being blessed with the OYM staff. God always seems to bless me with love when I most need it and the OYM staff delivered what I needed and more. I thank God that He blessed me with even the idea of being on the OYM staff and I just pray that he’ll do the same for you.
- Mike Fitzgerald
Fitz is at Benedictine College in Atchison, Kansas
As an OYM intern you will work hard but will be rewarded ten fold in the ways you are allowed to see Christ work in the teens, but also in the ways you will see how Christ works in the office along with you. I saw Christ in the things people did for each other and every single day I was in the office, I saw Christ in the OYM staff. The people there and their depth of faith are indescribable. The best thing I can equate it to would be a family in Christ, a faith family if you’ve ever been to Luke 18. You work, pray, suffer, and help each other as staff for the OYM but most of all, you love each other. You joke, talk, pray, and even have the occasional nerf war with each other, to keep each other working and focused on who we are really working for. I couldn’t imagine my summer not being blessed with the OYM staff. God always seems to bless me with love when I most need it and the OYM staff delivered what I needed and more. I thank God that He blessed me with even the idea of being on the OYM staff and I just pray that he’ll do the same for you.
- Mike Fitzgerald
Fitz is at Benedictine College in Atchison, Kansas