Our interns represent a variety of backgrounds, personalities, interests, and future goals, but they all desire to discover and follow God’s call on their lives. Without further ado, here they are, the Spring 2012 interns!
Name: Kari Jo McMichael
Position: Worship Intern 
Church: Pequea BIC
Hometown: Manheim, PA
School: Berklee College of Music, Boston, MA
Future Goals: I would love to lead worship at a church, or for an organization in the future. I also hope to write a lot of music in the future!
Personal Facts: I love to make music – in whatever way possible. I lived in Boston, MA for a few years while attending Berklee College of Music and got the opportunity to meet students from all over the world! I also enjoy going on adventures – exploring and traveling to new places. Spending time with friends and family is very important to me too. A few other things I love are swimming, penguins, movies, and photography. 
Name - Chris Mellon
Position – Worship and Technical Team member
Church – Manheim
School - Lancaster Bible College
Major/Year – Worshipping and Performing Arts – Junior
Hometown – Richland, PA
Future Plans – Working in a church being a technical director or worship coordinator Hobbies – Love music and technology. Love traveling and photography. Also enjoying looking at art and enjoying God’s creation.
Name: Taylor D. Pfaff
Internship Title: Youth Ministry Intern 
Sponsoring Church: New Hope Church
Hometown: Granby, Connecticut
School/Education: Christian Ministries Major at Messiah College (Sophomore)
Personal Facts: I’m a big reader and film watcher. Music, literature and film encourage and challenge my thinking; thus, I invest a large amount of personal time with them. I enjoy friends, running for fun (I’ve completed two half-marathons), and coffee.
Future Goals: I aspire to become a pastor in some capacity. During and following that, I really would love to invest more in personal higher education. I would absolutely love being able to teach Bible or Theology courses at the collegiate level.
Name: Matthew Edgar
P
osition: Worship leader and Pastoral internship at Grace Community Church (GCC), Vineland, NJ
Undergraduate: Dickinson College
Current schooling: University of Medicine and Dentistry in NJ (UMDNJ)
Additional Work: Substitute high school teacher
I plan on using this internship to seek God, and the calling that He has for all of His children. My hope is to become a physician and use medicine as an avenue for planting churches and work in the mission field. God has recently shown me a model of healthcare that connects free clinics with the church. In this way, the church is able to spread the gospel by serving and meeting the needs of the hurting. I find that biblically, this is God’s intended model for reaching the lost: loving God first, our neighbor second, and sacrificing our comforts to help the “least of these.”
I played soccer at Dickinson and am currently the worship leader at GCC.
Name: Jaylene Nissley
Internship: Children’s Ministry at The Bridge, Hummelstown
School: I am a sophomore Social Work student at Me
ssiah College. Outside of school and my internship I enjoy babysitting 12-15 month olds once or twice a week.
Future goals: I plan to graduate from Messiah and go on to graduate school to get my masters in social work. For now I’m not sure what area of social work I want to pursue, but nearly all of them interest me. Once I’m done with school I hope to find a job in the city where I can live, work and eventually be a foster parent and start a family.
Personal Facts: I grew up in Elizabethtown PA and attended E-town BIC church from 5th grade till college. I’m the second child in my family and I have three brothers. I played a variety of sports growing up such as soccer, basketball, and volleyball and I loved bicycling in high school. At Messiah College I play ultimate frisbee. I also love listening to music and am learning to play guitar from a friend. Many of you may be familiar with Bible Quizzing. Throughout high school I was on E-town BIC’s Bible Quiz team and loved doing it. I especially loved the connection I made with my teammates and other quizzers through it.
Random Facts: I’m pretty tall (5’ 11”), yet I’m the shortest in my family. I love long walks and running with friends. If you ask any of my friends they’ll tell you that I love apples. My roommate and I had to put a limit on how many we’re allowed to eat each day. Fall is my favorite season. I love to drive. I think it runs in my family because my mom grew up wanting to be a race car driver and her brothers tend to fly down the road as well. I especially like the feeling of cruising down curvy back roads.
Hello, my name is Bradley Vater. I have lived in the Ephrata/Akron area for the past three years and, before my i
nternship at New Joy BIC, was a youth leader at New Life Fellowship Church here in Ephrata. Prior to that time, I lived in sunny (liquid sunshine) Ocala, Florida for about seven years where I attained my Associates in Arts degree at the College of Central Florida and also served as youth pastor for Bread of Life Free Methodist Church. This fall I will be attending LBC to attain my Bachelor of Science in Biblical Studies while continuing to work full-time at Sight & Sound Theatres as a lighting technician. I am very much blessed and looking forward to my internship at New Joy BIC and am excited to see how God uses me to help grow His Kingdom! I also look forward to meeting as many of you, my fellow interns, as possible! In Him for them!
Name: Guillermo “Billy” Arboleda
Internship Title: Band/Production Intern
Sponsoring Church: The Bridge Church
School: Messiah College – Senior Christian Ministries Major
Work: Resident Assistant in Mellinger Apartment
Future Goals/Dreams: I would love to be a college pastor and have the opportunity to both minister to students and teach classes in Bible or theology. I am looking forward to pursuing a Master’s of Divinity after I graduate from Messiah and eventually getting a PhD in some field of Biblical Studies.
Personal Facts: I enjoy deep, meaningful conversations, sports, music, exotic cuisines, wearing v-necks, wrestling bears, and telling poop jokes.
Name: Juli Rairigh
Int
ernship Title/Location: Birth – Third Grade Children’s Ministry Intern at Elizabethtown Brethren in Christ Church
Current School: Messiah College
Major/Year: Senior Christian Ministries Major with a Youth Ministry Concentration
Hometown: East Petersburg, Pennsylvania
Previous Internships: 2009 NextGen Internship with the Atlantic Conference, 2009-2010; Kindergarten – Fifth Grade Children’s Ministry Intern at The Bridge, 2010-2011; Birth – Fifth Grade Children’s Ministry Intern at LifePoint BIC Church
Future Goals/Plans: Come graduation in May, I hope to continue serving in children’s ministry in the local church.
Hobbies: Playing piano, taking pictures, family game nights, reading, driving, traveling, and spending time with kids
Name: Ashley Ober
Internship title/location: Youth intern at Cross Roads BIC (Mount Joy)
Current School: Messiah College
Major/Year: Cross Cultural Ministries, Sophomore
Hometown: Mount Joy, Pa
Future Goals/plans: In the future I hope to work with students from around the world in various cross cultural settings.
Facts: Some of my hobbies include playing softball, reading, and playing piano. I love traveling to different places. One of my favorite places to go is Ontario, Canada.