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BBC Admissions RiSE Worship Team

We’ve created a great way for you to travel, serve local churches, play music, and be compensated all at the same time.

Fill out an application here.
The deadline for application is January 21.

Please contact Geoff Ellsworth at gellsworth@bbc.edu with any questions.

Here are some details:
 
Purpose
The team exists to glorify God by serving the local church as a whole with a focus toward ministry to teenagers. The team will represent His work at BBC by mentoring young leaders and providing meaningful and biblical corporate worship experiences through music and the arts.

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 varied and based on a modern “worship band” format (e.g. - guitars, bass, drums, keyboards, vocals, etc).  
We include vocal and instrumental performances from a variety of genres to reflect the diversity of God and His people and to enhance the corporate worship experience.

Schedule
Rehearsals begin in February with travel starting in May after BBC Graduation. The May Tour is a three week tour of Christian Schools primarily in PA and NY. The summer months are filled with camps, music festivals, and churches. School-year appointments would focus more on places within a 2-3 hour drive.

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 at least 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 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.

Oversight
BBC Admissions – Ken Shepard, Geoff Ellsworth, and Sean MacPherson

Questions?
Contact Geoff Ellsworth at gellsworth@bbc.edu.