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BBC Admissions RiSE Worship Team

RiSE = worship, discipleship, service, music, travel.  Interested in being part of the team? 

Fill out an application here.

The deadline for application is January 19, 2013.

Please contact Geoff Ellsworth at gellsworth@bbc.edu with any questions after you read the details mentioned here:

Purpose
The team exists to glorify God by representing and recruiting students to BBC&S by serving the local church with a focus on ministry to teenagers. The team will represent God’s work at BBC by mentoring young leaders and providing meaningful and biblical corporate worship experiences through music, Scripture and testimony.

Membership
Team members are pulled from the entire student body by audition/interview. Membership is open to any student from any program/major who has a musical or technical gifting, enjoys travel and variety, and likes interacting with people.

Format
The team is made up of five to eight members. It is music/worship leading-based with opportunities for camp counseling and speaking in churches, youth groups, school chapels, and camps. Music style would be diverse but based on a modern “worship band” format (e.g. - guitars, bass, drums, keyboards, vocals, etc). 

Schedule
Meetings and rehearsals begin in February 2013 with travel starting in May. This year’s May Tour starts right after BBC graduation and is a two week tour of Christian Schools primarily in PA and NY.  Summer travel starts in early-mid June, ends in early August and is filled mostly with camps, conferences and churches.  School-year appointments focus more on places within a 2-3 hour drive, with trips occasionally going farther.

Compensation
Compensation will be in the form of scholarships, direct payments, or a combination of both.  Details will be discussed in the interview/audition.

Commitment
This is a job as well as a ministry. Your involvement in one other on-campus activity/organization should be doable, depending on the schedule of that activity. You would need to be available May through early August, as well as for various engagements during the school year (mostly, though not exclusively on weekends/Sundays, two-three times per month).  Efforts will be made to work with programs/departments to work around potentially conflicting schedules. Since this group will be doing a lot of work during the summer, it will be largely established and rehearsed once school starts in the fall. We expect this to minimize the need for intense, regular rehearsals during the school year.

Application & Timing
You can apply online at www.bbc.edu/ministryteam   Applications are due January 19.  Interviews/auditions and selection of the team will take place soon after.  Casual orientation meetings and rehearsals could begin as early as February; more intense preparations will likely begin in March.

Oversight
BBC Admissions – Geoff Ellsworth, and Sean MacPherson