The Benefits of Being a Fellow
Life changes after you leave school. Everyone knows that, but almost no one prepares you for it. How do you adjust to a workplace environment? How do you keep God as the focus of your life? How do you start the rest of your life? The Fellows experience will help you understand how to live an authentic life with God at the center of all you do: spiritual, family, career, and personal.
Some questions you may be asking yourself:
- What is God calling me to do after I finish college?
- How do I live a balanced life after college, including my job, my spiritual life, my (someday) family, my friends, and my church?
- What is life like on my own, without family or a Christian campus group? Will I be lonely?
- How do I serve God in my career, especially if my job has nothing to do with working in a church or a Christian organization?
- How do I reach out to the world with the good news and compassion of the gospel?
- How do I grow in Christ for the rest of my life, once I am not part of a campus ministry?
- How do I serve God in a church environment?
- Will I crash and burn?
These are great questions, and you don't have to come up with an answer alone. In fact, you can't. Questions like these are answered within the context of a community. So if these questions are on your mind (or if they are after reading this list!), consider The Capital Fellows program: nine months with a small group of Fellows, a time to explore God's calling on your life and to prepare to honor God for the rest of your life. It's time well-spent.
The Capital Fellows program is a comprehensive Christian leadership and discipleship program for a small group of Fellows, combining:
- A three-day-per-week internship in a workplace environment: within a business, government, or nonprofit organization
- One-on-one mentoring by a Christian (of the same gender) who is experienced in the marketplace and in ministry
- Graduate-level academic work on apologetics (the intellectual defense of the Christian faith) and cultural interaction through Reformed Theological Seminary
- Retreats and conferences
- Training in discipleship, evangelism, and prayer
- Ministry within McLean Presbyterian Church, especially in children's and youth ministries
- Service to the community
- Living with a host family from the church and being involved in Christian family life
- Overlapping communities of the Fellows, church body, and geographic community.
