Dear Potential Counselor
Dear potential counselor,
Thank you for your interest in becoming a Learn & Serve (L&S) summer counselor. Our L&S summer training gives youth a holistic view of the world and challenges them to explore how God is calling us to not just live, but serve. Every summer roughly 600 students ages 12-18 visit our 176-acre campus to learn through interactive programming, simulations and training. After receiving a global view, we send them back to love their local communities and serve others.
Since 1979 SIFAT has trained leaders in 90 different countries around the world. Drawing from these 35 years of international mission experience, L&S summer training strives to challenge and empower its participants during their time on our campus. This involves inviting participants to step out of their comfort zone, to experience God in a way that encourages serving God by serving His people.
We are looking for enthusiastic, Spirit-filled people who are ready to impact the youth of America through God. As a member of the L&S summer staff, you will be challenged with the opportunity to teach, serve and explore this idea of loving the way God has called us to, while strengthening your relationship with God and growing in your walk as a servant of Christ.
We are excited that you are interested and can’t wait to hear from you! Please contact me at or call at (256) 396-2015 if you have any questions about the L&S summer counselor position.
Jillian Matthews
Campus Program Manager
About SIFAT:
Servants in Faith and Technology (SIFAT) is an international Christian nonprofit organization that merges faith and appropriate technology for the purpose of enabling international community leaders to go back to their countries and train their own people who are struggling to meet their basic needs of food, water and shelter. Since its foundation in 1979, SIFAT has trained community leaders from 90 countries around the world. We have a 176 acre campus in Lineville, AL that serves as our “home base”. On our campus we hold two annual trainings to equip these international community leaders.
L&S Summer Counselor:
Being L&S summer counselor is a very challenging, but rewarding experience! As a counselor, you will be stretched mentally, physically and spiritually. We are looking for counselors that are mature in their faith and are capable of modeling a lifestyle of love and service to the 7-12 grade students who attend. While fulfilling the role of a L&S summer counselor you will gain valuable experience in things like;
•Appropriate technology such as water purification, sustainable agriculture, and fuel efficient cook stoves.
•Teaching appropriate technology to North Americans.
•Working with international community leaders from around the world.
•Teaching, leading, fostering, encouraging and learning from youth and young people from around the United States.
•Working with young people with the same passions for bridging the gap between students here in America and our brothers and sisters around the world.
SIFAT offers first year L&S summer counselors a weekly salary of $175 and an increase of $10/week for each year on staff. (For example: 2nd year staff are paid $185/week, 3rd year staff are paid $195/week, etc.)
If after prayerful consideration you are interested in being a part of this ministry this summer, please fill out the attached application and return to:
SIFAT Learn & Serve
2944 County Road 113
Lineville, AL36266
Or if you have any questions, please call: 256-396-2015 or e-mail
IMPORTANT DATES:
2016 Learn and Serve Summer Camp Dates:
Staff Training week: May 29-June 4, 2016
All L&S Summer Staff are required to report to SIFAT May 29 and depart Aug 1
Applications must be submitted to SIFAT no later than January 31, 2016
Counselor Application
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L&S Counselor Application
Name:______
Address:______
Phone #: ______
Email:______
Age/DOB:______Year Graduated H.S.: ______
Denomination (if applicable): ______
Home church: ______
Address: ______
Church phone: ______
Pastor’s Name: ______
Do you have health insurance? ____
What company?______
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L&S Counselor Application
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EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
Last two places of employment:
1) Business______Supervisor______
Address______Phone______
______Dates______
2) Business______Supervisor______
Address______Phone______
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CHARACTERREFERENCES
Please list two Character References and list one reference as someone you have lived with….please do not list family members on any of these. If you have not lived with someone (i.e. roommate) other than your family, please indicate below and list a third character reference.
1) Name______Phone______
Relationship to You______
Email Address______
2) Name______Phone______
Relationship to you______
Email Address______
3) Name______Phone______
Relationship to you______
Email Address______
These questions are designed to help us get to know you better. Please be prayerful and honest in your answers. If more space is needed, feel free to attach additional pages.
1) How did you hear about SIFAT?
2) Why are you interested in working for SIFAT?
3) Can you foresee any reason why you would not be able to complete the entire
summer on staff?
4) Do you have any experience as a public speaker? If so, please explain.
5) Have you ever lead a small group? If so, please explain.
6) Do you have any experience working with 7th-12th grade youth?
7) What languages (if any) do you speak in addition to English?
8) List any skills you have that would be beneficial to a summer camp environment. (construction, camping, gardening, life guard, etc.)
9) List any ministries in which you are currently involved.
10) Describe any experience you have had with service and missions.
11) What is “missions?”
12) What are your experiences with culturally diverse environments?
13) What is your philosophy on investing in international missions when there is
so much need in America?
14) What do you feel is the greatest struggle for 7th-12th graders here in America? Why do you feel this way?
15) When is the last time you helped someone? Explain what you did?
16) Describe a time in your life when you felt “successful.”
17) Describe a time in your life when you felt “unsuccessful.”
18) How do your passions reveal themselves in your everyday life?
19) When do you feel closest to God?
20) What is something that you feel is keeping you from a deeper relationship
with God?
21) What role do you see yourself as on a team?
Essay Question: Read the Parable of the Great Banquet, Luke 14:15-24. In this story which character do you identify with most and why?
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L&S Counselor Application