What is it?
The Met Internship is a one-year paid program that enables men and women to learn and gain experience working in the church. The program focuses on Bible training and practical ministry experience.
Why do we have an intern program?
To equip people with the tools, resources, and experience they need for full-time ministry. Our goal for this program is to see people gain further clarity in their understanding of full-time ministry and the call to serve God’s people in various ministry settings.
Why should you join?
The Internship is a great fit for anyone who aspires to full-time vocational ministry service. Interns at The Met will see what working in ministry is really like and will gain valuable knowledge and experience. Applicants with university-level education preferred.
Features
We appreciate the work our interns do, so we want to give them the best experience possible. Interns work under the direction of ministry staff who are intentional about teaching, training, mentoring and equipping them.
Classroom Instruction
Faithfully handling the text of Scripture for preaching and ministry.
Theological Development
Participating in a reading group with books provided by the church.
Ministry Exposure
Serving in various ministry settings and events.
Teaching Opportunities
Practicing expository preaching to different audiences.
Mentoring
Guidance and encouragement from experienced full-time ministers.
Application Deadline: February 1, 2026 (on a rolling basis)
Adam Callaway
The Met Internship Program Director, Young Adults Pastor
Adam has been pastoring in various capacities at The Met since 2018 and currently serves as the Young Adults pastor as well as the director for The Met's Internship Training Program. He is a native of Chicago, IL in the western suburb of Wheaton. He studied Economics at Wheaton College for his undergraduate degree and holds a Master of Divinity from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. Adam also writes for The Gospel Coalition Canada.
Intern Testimonials
Senai Debebe
Met Intern 2025-2026
"I applied for The Met Internship to discern whether I could be doing pastoral ministry full-time, and one thing I really appreciate about the Internship is how much exposure I’ve been given to see how the whole life of the church functions. You’re plugged into each ministry and you get to see how interconnected these ministries are and how the church disciples its members every day of the week."
Jacob Abraham
Met Intern 2025-26
"It's been rich. Rich in the sense of the resources I’m able to get my hands on - whether it be books, articles, videos, etc. - and rich in the sense of giving me a full palette of what vocational ministry could be like and it’s been really helpful in my discerning for the next steps."
Tiffany Yang
Met Intern 2024-2025
Women’s Ministry Coordinator, The Met
"The Internship really helped me in that it gave me first-hand experience in Women’s Ministry during my rotation there. That helped me to just jump right into ministry once I started after the Internship. It also gave me a lot of experience and feedback and training in teaching, which allowed me to be part of the teaching team for Women’s Ministry now and then."
Manasseh Eric
Met Intern 2019-2020
Seniors' Pastor, The Met
"This program prepared me into ministry, where I am now, in a sense of it confirmed my vocational calling into ministry. It strengthened my deep love for God’s Word, my deep love for God’s people. And from there, I pursued further theological studies. [Through The Met Internship] you learn God’s Word, ministry, and yourself."
Joe Candy
Met Intern 2018-2019
Music & Tech Assistant, The Met
"I found the training and instruction given in the Internship on how to faithfully handle the Word of God so helpful and useful. Even though I’m not primarily called to the ministry of preaching, understanding how expository preachers craft sermons has absolutely helped me better choose songs as a worship leader that align with the given text and help the congregation to respond."
The Met Internship in a few words...
stretching, challenging, equipping, rewarding, relational, rich, and joy-filled!
Endorsements
Alistair Begg
Former Senior Pastor at Parkside Church in Cleveland Ohio, President of Truth for Life Ministries
As a pastor committed to expository Bible teaching and preaching, I’m delighted to hear about The Met’s internship training program and the potential it has to equip people for significant gospel impact in Canada and beyond!
D.A. Carson
Emeritus Professor of New Testament at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, Founder and Theologian-at-Large of the Gospel Coalition
A good pastoral internship program provides not only supervised quality readings and courses, but modelling: interns need to observe a healthy, functioning church, from the inside. They need to become involved in supervised ministry, with mentors to help them reflect on what they are doing. And they must learn with their whole being what an enormous privilege it is to serve King Jesus in this way -- even while they discover that their best efforts still mark them out as "unprofitable servants." I believe that the Metropolitan Bible Church is pulling together the necessary ingredients of such a program.
Jen Pollock Michel
Author, Speaker, Podcast Host, and Mentor in the MFA Program in Creative Writing at Whitworth University
How I wish I’d had a program like this one when I was a young woman with ministry interests and gifts. Even now, years into informal lay ministry, I can imagine the benefit I’d receive from this kind of intentional ministry training. I’m so glad to see a program of this kind being offered to both men and women!
Josh Moody
Senior Pastor at College Church in Wheaton, President of God Centered Life Ministries
God’s means of identifying, training and equipping ministers of the gospel is the local church. Over time, the local church has resourced and established excellent Bible training colleges and seminaries of various kinds to support this calling of the local church to train future gospel workers. But the mandate still falls on the local church. And there are still aspects of being a minister that cannot be learned in a classroom. Much of pastoral work is more like learning to be a surgeon than learning mathematics: you need to see how someone does it for yourself, have them watch you while you do it, and then be given the room to do it yourself where failure does not have cataclysmic consequences. For all these reasons, I am delighted to hear of the Met’s internship program. May God bless it and all who participate to the furthering of His kingdom and to His great glory.
Dr. Rick Reed
Former Lead Pastor at the Metropolitan Bible Church, Former President of Heritage College and Seminary
Dr. Linda Reed
Former Director of the Heritage Center for Women in Ministry
Developing men and women for ministry has always been a priority at The Met. Over the years, God has used The Met to raise up pastors, missionaries and ministry leaders for Canada and the world. If you are looking for an internship that combines solid biblical teaching with guided ministry experience in the context of a vibrant local church, you will want to explore The Met’s Internship Program. We highly recommend it.
Dane Ortlund
Senior Pastor of Naperville Presbyterian Church in Naperville, Illinois, Author of Gentle and Lowly: The Heart of Christ for Sinners and Sufferers
It is heartening to see the robust training enterprise at The Met raise up ministers of the gospel. May God bless this wonderful endeavor for many years to come!