The Charlotte FellowsYOU GRADUATE. AND THEN?
You do your best to start figuring out what it means to be a young professional. How do you do that? How do you decide where to live, what job to take, or where to invest your time and relational capacity? How does what you believe impact what you actually do? How do your family and your individual life experience shape who you are today? What gets you out of bed in the morning? How do you relate to others? How do you see the world? How do you make major life decisions? Who do you go to for counsel?
The answers to these questions matter because they set your life’s course. Spend a year as a Charlotte Fellow and discover how the Gospel helps you answer these questions and shapes the way you engage your city, your career, your local church, and your personal relationships.
WHAT FELLOWS DO
DEVELOP PROFESSIONALLY.
Fellows spend significant time focusing on the intersection of faith and work. They work three days per week in paid professional work placements, gaining valuable work experience in areas of focus such as marketing, finance, education, real estate, communications, marketing, start-ups, and non-profits. Through seminars, graduate-level classes, and individual coaching, Fellows learn how to add value to an organization, think strategically about work, and cultivate their own talents in a professional setting.
GROW IN WISDOM AND UNDERSTANDING.
Much of the program is designed to help Fellows contextualize every area of life to the Gospel. On a weekly basis Fellows take part in small group studies, hear the spiritual journeys of men and women in various careers and life stages in the Charlotte community, and gather to process everything that they are experiencing. Fellows also complete two graduate-level courses: the first on redemptive history and personal spiritual growth and the second on the intersection of Gospel, career, and culture.
WORSHIP TOGETHER WITH GOD’S PEOPLE.
Fellows worship together weekly at our partner churches. Pastors, professors, and others meet with Fellows, helping them understand and experience the blessings of corporate worship.
ENJOY AUTHENTIC COMMUNITY.
In addition to cultivating authentic, life-giving friendships with one another, Fellows build significant friendships with their host families, mentors, coworkers, church members, and people throughout Charlotte. By year’s end, Fellows have a multi-generational community of friendships to enjoy for the rest of their lives.
STRATEGICALLY BUILD INTO THE CITY.
Fellows learn how to strategically care for the people of Charlotte. To that end, Fellows spend a half day each week working with Brookstone Schools, a local inner-city elementary and middle school. Fellows also plan and execute a community development project with the help of community leaders over the course of the year, and spend a week in Chattanooga learning about healthy cross-cultural community development.
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