You were a JSI.

Despite the fact that you never really knew what JSI stood for (or even worse, someone told you it stood for Just a Summer Intern), your JSI experience is almost impossible to put into words. So here goes nothing…

As a college student, or maybe even a high school student, you found yourself living overseas for the the majority of your summer. Some people might call what you did a mission trip. Some people would be wrong. This was different, so different from a mission trip. This was living the life of a missionary.

I don’t say that lightly. I say it because every time I visited our teams on the field the JSI experience was the one that always stood out. It was always impressive to see you lead our first-time student teams for sure. But what was really outstanding was the way you became so culturally adept. You became friends (real friends) with restaurant owners, convenience store clerks, gelato stand workers (of course), and people that hung out in the park nearby (even the old guy in Cologne that did tricks on the rings).

I received free warm cokes more than once simply because I was your guest when I entered a restaurant. And you were 17. And you had only been there for 3 weeks. You were a living picture of 1 Thessalonians 2:8: – “so we cared for you. Because we loved you so much, we were delighted to share with you not only the gospel of God but our lives as well.”

As a JSI you learned to lead. You led first-time students and you led adult chaperones. You led future JSI’s, and you led a few students that might have tricked us on their application. You led from the front, and you led from the back. You modeled prayer walking, 5-minute English, obedience over activity, and how round can you get. You made mistakes in front of your group, and you learned how to own them and move on. You even wore man-pris.

More than anything else, you led by example. Which is why the JSI program continues to thrive today. Someone in your trek group watched you and realized that God could use them to do what you were doing. And they became a JSI that next summer. And someone watched them and followed suit.

Someone did it before you as well. And you followed in order to learn how to lead. There is no doubt that your JSI experience changed you. In some ways it probably still defines at least a part of who you are. It is a beautiful memory of a summer of learning, leading, and transforming.

So what if we gave you an opportunity to relive that experience, but we skipped the $4500 price tag?

Welcome to Launch Crew. By now you have heard that iGo Global is doing something brand new this summer called Launch Box, right? If not, you need to watch this , and read this, and also read this right now.

Launch Box is going live in Plano, Texas in June and again in July. The box will also be launched in Oklahoma City in July. And we need you to make it possible. The Launch Crew is basically a team of JSI’s that will serve at Launch Box by leading teams/groups/treks on the field every day.

You can do one, or you could do two, or you could even do all three. Launch Box is going to be amazing, and the Launch Crew will be the heart of it all. We need YOU former JSI. Come and join us this summer!

Start your Launch Crew application by visiting the Launch Crew Webpage right now.

So you weren’t a JSI? No problem. We can train you for this.