The Second Summer

The second summer is the most unique aspect of Josiah Project. After getting training and experience, students go through a time of debriefing and discernment at the end of the first summer. It's a time to evaluate how God has gifted you for ministry and what He may be calling you to do.

The first summer you discover or refine your calling. The second summer you go and do it.

Rock the World does not dictate what participant's second summer project is, but instead we lend you our resources, experience, and connections to help you develop and implement whatever God has placed on your heart.

What you do, where you go, how much it costs is all up to whatever The Spirit Leads you to do. There are a few minor parameters for a program to be considered a Second Summer project.

Past JP-ers have done cross country ministry trips, planted churches, led short term trips to Nepal, Belize, Singapore, and Russia, lobbied for Hunger Relief on Capitol Hill, worked with Sudanese refugees, or returned to their home churches or campus ministries better equipped to serve and with a stronger passion to make a Kingdom impact. These are just examples of what God may be calling you to do.

Some second summer projects have even grown into full-blown ministries. Eric Geisbert and Shea Rankin from JP 13 felt God was laying on their heart the children of Ambridge, PA, where the team lived during the first summer. The children in this old mill town had nothing to do during the summer months. JP 13 developed and implemented a sports camp to give the kids an opportunity to have fun. Over the past few summers Ambridge Sports Camp grew to include an arts camp as well. This year, Eric is starting a lacrosse team and a mentoring program. All this arose from God giving the students a pursuing what God called them to do in their Second Summer. Check out Ambridge Youth Ignite.