Millsaps Faith and Work Initiative

Mentors for Lilly Interns

Work and life. As the poet William Stafford says, “ask me whether what I have done is my life.” Someone is asking. The Millsaps Faith & Work Initiative offers you an opportunity to think about the ways work is related to matters of spirit, purpose, and service to others.

Though Internships are not new to Millsaps or the Jackson area, the Lilly Internships offered through the Millsaps Faith & Work Initiative are something new and different. The difference, quite simply, is vocation. Lilly Internships are designed to offer students an opportunity to reflect upon work as a calling that comes into focus as understandings of self are connected with broader experience of the world. The hallmark of Lilly Internships is a clear and strong connection between on-campus and off-campus learning.

The critical point of connection that extends learning into the community is a mentor who can listen, be authentic, and dialogue with students. Mentors are needed who can offer a student

• an internship opportunity that will involve about 10 hours a week, and
• at least one hour a month to discuss the ways in which work is or can be connected to meaning, spirituality, and the common good.

Internship Mentors will team up with a faculty member who will assess the student’s learning, a Lilly Fellow who will help facilitate the student’s reflection, and the Associate Director of the Initiative who will provide regular opportunities for students to reflect upon work and vocation.

If you are willing to serve as a Mentor, please e-mail Raymond Clothier or call (601) 974-1470.