THE NATIONAL FELLOWS PROGRAM
The National Fellows Program equips emerging leaders to understand God’s design for work and to step confidently into their callings through a combination of workplace experience, intentional discipleship, and life-shaping community.
PROGRAM OVERVIEW
The program launches recent college graduates into a year of purpose, growth, and impact. Fellows dive into accredited graduate-level coursework, gain professional experience through a paid internship, receive personal mentoring that accelerates both spiritual and career development, and participate in opportunities for service and leadership within the church.
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Fellows discover how to integrate the Christian worldview into every sphere of life while applying their gifts in meaningful, real-world settings. The program also offers an exceptional chance to live and work in a dynamic environment, build lifelong community, and contribute to the flourishing of the city through the love of Christ.
THE EXPERIENCE
Fellows abundantly receive and lovingly serve. The journey begins with a fundamental question:
What does it mean to set yourself apart for God and present your whole life as a living sacrifice?
Channeling a spirit of discipleship, this experience refuses to confine faith to chapel services or isolated devotional moments. Instead, Fellows learn that every sphere of life—study, friendships, habits, work, and even the culture—is a domain in which Christ claims authority.
This formation is deliberately comprehensive. Fellows are taught that worship is not merely something performed but something lived, and that God’s mercy naturally demands a response grounded in obedience and renewed patterns of thought and behavior. Through this process, students uncover how God’s grace establishes real responsibility, how personal renewal leads to cultural transformation, and how offering one’s life to God becomes the most important act a believer can make.
The Fellow & The Christian Mind
At the foundation of the Fellows experience lies a robust and comprehensive study of Scripture. Fellows engage in two courses at Reformed Theological Seminary with a clear mandate: to learn the Christian worldview as a total way of life and to apply it to the cultural challenges and opportunities of our age. This includes a thematic exploration of the whole of Scripture, tracing God’s sovereign plan for humanity and the unfolding of His kingdom throughout history. These courses work in harmony with weekly Bible study and professional development seminars, each designed to cultivate the Christian mind.
Mentoring & Spiritual Formation
Fellows are personally discipled by mentors within the church and are immersed in the life of the congregation through weekly worship, men’s fireside discussions, women’s Bible studies, home groups, and regular church gatherings.
Fellows also serve in TFCA’s thriving youth ministry, co-leading middle or high school groups alongside seasoned leaders. This hands-on ministry experience helps Fellows discover their gifts and calling while building spiritual muscle for servant leadership.
The Church
Located just outside Washington, D.C., The Falls Church Anglican (TFCA) is uniquely positioned to serve the spiritual needs of the nation’s capital. With a history predating the country’s founding, TFCA today is an evangelical congregation diverse in experience and thought but united in devotion to holy Scripture. We are a church that exalts the name of Jesus Christ, hungers for the presence and glory of God, and longs to see God’s kingdom come in our lives, our community, and throughout the world.
Housing
Throughout the nine-month experience, each Fellow lives with a TFCA host family who practices intentional, even countercultural, hospitality. These households serve as living examples of a gospel-shaped community—families who open their doors and lives in a demonstration of generosity, mutual service, and shared mission. In this environment, Fellows encounter a vision of Christian community that is both faithful in its commitment to God’s order and focused on its goal of living out that mandate for the sake of others.
VOCATION & THE WORKPLACE
Fellows are strategically placed in vocational settings that align with their sense of calling, working three days a week in fields as varied as government, finance, law, education, philanthropy, non-profits, think-tank research, and church ministry. These placements affirm that every sphere of society stands under the authority of Christ and is therefore a legitimate field of kingdom labor. Fellows step into these workplaces not merely as employees but as servants—carrying the gospel into the cultural centers where excellence applied to one’s respective work is the order of the day, meaning is shaped, and culture is formed.
Every aspect of the Fellows program is structured to unify calling, labor, and worship. Work is no longer a secular necessity but a sphere under Christ’s reign. Faith is not a private sentiment but a comprehensive standard. Life is not fragmented but integrated within the life of the church and the broader community. The city is not merely a place to inhabit but a field to cultivate for God’s glory. The entire program is designed to form students who can think Christianly, act faithfully, and labor confidently as co-contributors to God’s purpose of redeeming all things to Himself.
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THE LOCATION
Washington, D.C.
The Falls Church Anglican is located 8 miles outside of our nation’s capital in Washington, D.C. The fellows live, worship and work in the suburbs of Northern Virginia on or near Capitol Hill. This is an exciting place to live, bustling with the energy of government, media, and business. Ready access to the metro, the Smithsonian museum complex, the Kennedy Center, myriad other cultural venues, and a wide array of international cultures and cuisines adds depth and nuance to the fellows’s experience.
