RIT InterVarsity Christian Fellowship
Current Leaders Involvement Questionnaire
2008-2009
Please email your completed questionnaire to Mark Weber () in the next 2 weeks. Feel free to email him with any questions.
Name:______E-mail:______
Apt/ dorm #:______Phone #:______
Major:______Birthday:______
Projected Graduation Date:______
Next year’s school address (if known):
Summer address (if known):
- Briefly discuss what God has been doing in your life lately.
- Articulate briefly how you express your devotion to Christ on a regular basis through prayer, Bible study, fellowship, service, and evangelism. (Give a sentence or two for each discipline; expand if you think necessary).
- What do you believe are your strongest talents and gifts? How do you see those skills helpful in a team setting?
- What areas do you hope to grow in spiritually, emotionally, and/or vocationally within the next 18 months?
- How could our chapter better reach our vision to see Students and Faculty Transformed, the RIT campus renewed, and world changers developed? If you had 10 available hours/week, what activities would you like to be involved in or lead to help see this vision fulfilled? What specific people groups on campus would you be interested in serving?
- What local church do you attend? How are you involved there?
7. What will your academic workload be like in the 2009-2010 academic year? How many hours/week will you work? Will you have a co-op next year? Which quarter(s)? Are you planning to be involved in other extra-curricular activities? If you had a leadership position with InterVarsity, do you think you will still have the time you need for your studies, for personal spiritual development, and time enough to maintain relationships with both Christians and non-Christians?
8. Leaders in InterVarsity invest heavily in the lives of people in our chapter and try to serve as a model for them. In order to protect your time and because we believe that investing in one community rather than in many leads to deep, meaningful relationships, we in InterVarsity will strive to uphold the Trail West Agreement between InterVarsity, Navigators, Campus Crusade for Christ, Youth for Christ and Young Life that states, “Student officers (leaders) of one organization should not participate in the functions of other organizations.” This agreement is the product of the leaders of each movement coming together to prayerfully consider the ministry needs and the best discipleship of our students. If you are asked to be a leader next year for InterVarsity and model for our chapter, will you be able to uphold this national agreement? Y / N
9. If you are asked to be on leadership, will you be able to attend InterVarsity’s annual training/planning retreat ‘Basileia’ (May 22 – 27, 2008)? (Note that this is a requirement for Servant Team positions and strongly encouraged for all other leadership positions even if they have had training outside of Basileia.) Y / N
10. An essential part of being involved in the chapter is interacting with the chapter as a whole. Please record any activities you will be participating in over the next year that will routinely hinder you from coming to large group meetings. Also, all leaders MUST attend the Fall retreat, Expedition (tentatively Oct 23-25, 2009). If you know of any reason you will not be able to attend Expedition, please record it here.
11. Are you able to fully affirm and support the InterVarsity/USA Statement of Purpose and Doctrinal Basis, and the RIT InterVarsity Vision Statement? Y / N
INTERVARSITY CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP/USA
Statement of Purpose
In response to God’s love, grace and truth:
The purpose of InterVarsity Christian Fellowship/USA is
to establish and advance at colleges and universities
witnessing communities of students and faculty
who follow Jesus as Savior and Lord:
growing in love for God,
God’s Word,
God’s people of every ethnicity and culture
and God’s purposes in the world.
INTERVARSITY CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP
Vision
Students and Faculty Transformed, Campuses Renewed, World-Changers Developed
INTERVARSITY CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP/USA
Doctrinal Basis
We believe in:
The only true God, the almighty Creator of all things,
existing eternally in three persons—
Father, Son, and Holy Spirit—full of love and glory.
The unique divine inspiration,
entire trustworthiness
and authority of the Bible.
The value and dignity of all people:
created in God's image to live in love and holiness,
but alienated from God and each other because of our sin and guilt,
and justly subject to God’s wrath.
Jesus Christ, fully human and fully divine,
who lived as a perfect example,
who assumed the judgment due sinners by dying in our place,
and who was bodily raised from the dead and ascended as Savior and Lord.
Justification by God's grace to all who repent
and put their faith in Jesus Christ alone for salvation.
The indwelling presence and transforming power of the Holy Spirit,
who gives to all believers a new life and a new calling to obedient service.
The unity of all believers in Jesus Christ,
manifest in worshipping and witnessing churches
making disciples throughout the world.
The victorious reign and future personal return of Jesus Christ,
who will judge all people with justice and mercy,
giving over the unrepentant to eternal condemnation
but receiving the redeemed into eternal life.