Will you go deeper with your student relationships this year?

We see it often. A student with great capacity to be a future marketplace leader is esteemed in relationship with a campus leader but not pushed outside the comfort of it. Mentoring and nurturing happen well, helping the student grow in character and confidence. Challenging a student, however, to stretch and work harder than he or she has ever worked earns pushback.

We invite you to fight for Kingdom potential. See the student who asks the most questions or looks outside the box or signs up first or shows more interest in, more heart for others. Think about the qualities that make an exceptional leader, and then see those students through that lens. See tomorrow’s leader.

Now consider what it takes for them to grow into that full potential: mentoring like you have provided, continued character development, life experience, work experience and a really high bar.

Will you invite GBI to join you in shaping them?

GBI is an important FOCUS International operation that prepares students to enter the mission field through marketplace service to businesses.

We teach students to live out their faith

in a common business setting because

we see the reality of the next 50 years

of Kingdom work. We must place young

people in the global marketplace now. It’s

becoming too difficult to put students on

overseas campuses or career people in

overseas traditional platforms.

The GBI team within FOCUS intentionally and effectively links Kingdom-minded university students to like-minded business leaders in the global

marketplace. These students are placed as interns or apprentices. They come from more than 30 active partnerships on campuses across the U.S. They come from every major and field of study.

We look for the best-of-the-best applicants.A qualified GBI internship candidate is a current university student who shares our values and has the skills to help businesses complete value-added projects. This next generation of business leaders receives exceptional, above-peer training with stringent accountability, so the recruitment process is highly selective. Student vetting occurs at a higher level than normal job interviews.

We look for direction rather than perfection in student candidates. GBI students demonstrate character, competence, commitment and desire for connection. Character is at the top of our list of requirements:

Character / Attitude:• Displays the FOCUS values• A sense of calling to a project Knowledge / Information:• Dedication to Kingdom living• Understanding of culture• Know what they believe and why• Awareness of spiritual gifts Skills / Training:• Relational skills• Ability to do the specific task• Cross-cultural skills (sensitivity)

GBI Standards/ Skills• Displays hard work• Must have at least a 3.0 GPA • Work history references • Course of study or skill that matches with an

internship opportunity

We’re on the leading edge of student mobilization in the global marketplace.

GLOBAL BUSINESS INTERNSHIPEquipping students for marketplace influence.

GLOBAL BUSINESS INTERNSHIPEquipping students for marketplace influence.

GLOBAL BUSINESS INTERNSHIPEquipping students for marketplace influence.

GLOBAL BUSINESS INTERNSHIPEquipping students for marketplace influence.

GLOBAL BUSINESS INTERNSHIPEquipping students for marketplace influence.

GLOBAL BUSINESS INTERNSHIPEquipping students for marketplace influence.

GLOBAL BUSINESS INTERNSHIPEquipping students for marketplace influence.

GLOBAL BUSINESS INTERNSHIPEquipping students for marketplace influence.

Equipping students for marketplace influence.

GBI is committed to training the next generation in a real-life

setting. We’ve sent students to:

51countries

5continents

85%of the interns we have placed

have worked with our target region:

The rectangular area of North Africa, the Middle East and Asia between 10 degrees north and 40 degrees north latitude; it includes many of

the world’s oldest cultures and belief systems as well as some of the

fastest-growing economies.

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GBI interns receive comprehensive, experiential training before they take the field. Like the police or firefighter academies or medical industry, we support GBI interns with a complete immersion experience. More than 200 universities across the U.S. are familiar with FOCUS International O Week and other GBI pre-field training disciplines.

“There is a tendency for students to

believe they’re smart enough to figure

any thing out. Couple that with foreign

predisposition to think of us as arrogant

Americans, and you have a compelling

reason to prioritize experiential training.

We want our training regimen to be

more difficult than anything a student

can encounter on foreign soil. Why? So

GBI interns will hit the ground running,

equipped with relationship skills and

cultural sensitivity and ready to be

immediately accretive to the bottom line.” —GBI Director Josh Pearce

You are the first critical influencer for a student.We are always at work building strong, vetted relationships with stateside and overseas partners so we can offer best-practice internships. We continually process student applications. But we can’t do the Kingdom work we’re called to do

without you. In the life of a student, you are a high-profile opinion leader. In the life of a parent, you’re the first line of defense.

We need campus champions who will join us in developing marketplace potential. You will see the first signs of leadership potential. You will understand readiness to stretch better than anyone in a student’s faith journey. Your opinion will be among those that matter most to a student beginning to feel hunger to be significant.

Will you go deeper this year? Will you join us in shaping tomorrow’s Kingdom leaders?

“I cannot think of any resource that

I have seen have more of an impact

on university students in the areas of

character development, team work, and

heart for God and what He is doing around

the world than FOCUS training. One of

the questions we continue to ask in our

campus ministry as we seek to grow in our

own competency at discipling students is,

What can we learn from FOCUS? FOCUS

training has become part of our DNA as a

ministry, and I am so grateful for it.” –Robbie Nutter, director, Christian Challenge, Kansas State University

GBI Application Process•Online application with FOCUS International•Transcript & Resume•FOCUS ministry interviews•Professional business interviews•Notification of acceptance

GBI Preparation•Pre-employment training•Funding the internship•Formal orientation week

GBI Internship•Stateside component•Overseas component•Business mentoring component•Ministry mentoring component•Special assignments

Project Completion•Exit interview•Debriefing

If you’re interested in finding out more about GBI, contact Josh Pearce, GBI director, at 618.8268, or email him at focusjoshp@gmail.com. We invite you to stand with us.

P.O. Box 12391, Wichita, KS 67277-2391 | 316.618.8268 | thefocusoffice@gmail.com

Why now?It’s imperative that we help equip the next generation to do business globally. Developing countries seek big ideas and business professionals with the skills to turn those ideas into sustainable, profitable businesses that transform communities and impact lives.

We prepare and launch them well. We know a six-month Bible study isn’t enough to equip students for an internship on foreign soil. We know a meal of unfamiliar food in a restaurant in the heart of Chinatown or role-playing lost luggage isn’t enough to give them cross-cultural legs. Our student fielding process is designed to give students every advantage for success in a Kingdom career-shaping internship.