Transforming Puerto Rico

Immersion Experience

Program Cost is $1000/ month 

Internship program and immersion experience

Our Immersion Experience provides a unique opportunity for participants to gain valuable community outreach experience. Through this program, participants have the chance to engage with various community organizations, churches, and individuals to make a positive impact and create meaningful connections. Participants will develop essential skills in communication, teamwork, event planning, and project management while working on community outreach initiatives while building a stronger and more connected community.

Frequently Asked Questions

The program offers a 3 month and 10 month option. All participants are required to start with the 3 month program and extend to the 10 month program if accepted. 

 The Immersion Experience is an unpaid training experience for future leaders in ministry, social services, nonprofit management, etc. Accordingly, as a participant in the Immersion Experience, you will not be an employee of Dream Center Esperanza, will not be paid any wages, and will not be entitled to any of the employee benefits available to Dream Center Esperanza’s employees.

The financial obligation for The Immersion Experience includes a monthly program fee of $1000 per month. The 3 month program MUST BE PAID IN FULL BEFORE ARRIVAL ($3000). Month to month payment of fee is approved after the completion of the 3 month program for the duration of the 10 month program.

Program fee includes room and board, food, group transportation, wifi in residents/campus, and monthly outings.

Not included in monthly cost in not limited to the following: Personal shopping, bedding, hygiene/ beauty products, insurance of any kind, or airfare to/from Puerto Rico. 

Participants will reside in an apartment with the same sex and share a room with up to 3 other participants. 

Internship Program and Immersion Experience
Internship program and immersion experience

A message from the pastors

As the pastors and founders of Dream Center Esperanza, we recognize the importance of nurturing the next generation of leaders and are committed to providing a transformative experience that will equip you for a fulfilling life of faith and ministry. We believe that this internship program will be a catalyst for your spiritual transformation, equipping you with the knowledge, skills, and spiritual maturity necessary to make a significant impact in the lives of others.

Internship program and immersion experience

Dear Applicant

Thank you for your interest in The Dream Center Esperanza Immersion Experience! Our purpose is to provide you with practical ministry training within the context of outreach ministry. If accepted, you will have the opportunity to work side by side with our ministry teams as they seek to bring holistic healing to both individuals and communities that have been degraded and devalued.

Dream Center Esperanza’s purpose is to reconnect isolated people to God and a community of support by providing human and community services that address immediate and long-term needs in the areas of addiction, abuse, and poverty.

Our desire is to build a community of resilient people whose lives have been redeemed by God’s love. The men, women and families we help also go on to share that love with others, to pass on the hope they have been given, and to make transformation possible for those in their respective communities. As part of the Immersion Experience, you will participate and further the vision and mission of Dream Center Esperanza by reconnecting isolated individuals and communities to a God who loves them--in a word, you will bring Heaven to Earth.

The Immersion Experience is not a program. It is not clinical in its approach or structure. Rather, it is intentionally created to be an organic, raw, and holistic experience that will challenge you mentally and spiritually while also creating space for relationship, community, and rest.

We dare to do great things because we serve the God of the impossible. Join us as we strive to bring Heaven, in all of its glory, to our broken and desperate world.

Daniel & Yolanda Rivera
Executive Directors
Dream Center Esperanza

Program Eligibility

Applicants must be at least 18 years old and single (not married).
*Because of space, we are not able to accommodate married couples or children

IMPORTANT STEPS

  1. Complete & submit this online applicaion
  2. After submission, a link will be sent for the following
    1. Send non-refundable application fee of $50 
    2. Submit a Personal Testimony (250-1000 words)

PERSONAL/CONTACT INFORMATION OF APPLICANT

EMERGENCY CONTACT INFORMATION

Additional Information

All participants are required to start in our 3 month program before extending to our 10 month program.

EDUCATION

MINISTRY EXPERIENCE

REFERENCES

PROFESSIONAL REFERENCE

This should be an employer or supervisor who knows you well but is not a relative.

PASTORAL REFERENCE

This may be a pastor, youth pastor, etc. OR ministry leader in your church who knows you well but is not a relative.

EDUCATIONAL OR MENTOR REFERENCE

This should be a teacher, professor, or mentor who knows you well but is not a relative.

PROGRAM COSTS

The financial obligation for the Immersion Experience includes a monthly program fee of $___ (please see dreamcenteresperanza.org/immersion-experience ). The 3 month program MUST BE PAID IN FULL BEFORE ARRIVAL. Month to month payment of fee is approved after the completion of the 3 month program for the duration of the 10 month program.

Bedding is NOT provided. Participants can bring their own or pay an additional $100 fee so that a NEW set of bedding (1 fitted sheet, 1 flat sheet, 1 pillow case, 1 pillow, 1 comforter, and 2 towels) may be purchased and ready upon their arrival.

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