Application for Summer Interns

Application for Summer Interns

High SchoolMiddle School

Youth Ministry

Application Checklist:

Thank you for your interest in the summer youth intern position at LMPC.

The following checklist is to ensure quick and efficient processing of your application. Every section of this application is important, and we read it all carefully.

_____ I have read the Child Protection Policy (note: this is a separate document.)

_____ I have used a blue or black pen.

_____ I have written neatly.

_____ I have provided the information asked of me to the best of my ability.

______I will be available for the entire summer commitment (11 weeks with one week vacation).

______I have contacted 3 people (a pastor, a peer, and an adult who is not related to me) to fill out my reference forms

(see reference instructions below). Their names and email addresses are:

1)______

2)______

3)______

_____ I have read, signed and submitted the Covenant to Teach and Nurture statement.

_____ I have read, signed and submitted the Child Protection Policy Screening and Release Statement.

If you have any questions, please call the youth ministry secretary at 423-424-4092 or

Lookout Mountain Presbyterian Church

SUMMER YOUTH INTERN

JOB DESCRIPTION

I. Accountability

Accountable ultimately to Christ, but performance and time commitment to Youth Director.

II. Responsibilities

a)Do contact ministry with individuals and groups of kids during the days or evenings when kids are available.

b)Assist the planning and implementation of weekly and monthly meetings and events, i.e., youth groups, service projects, special events, retreats and missions trips.

c)Participate in all youth staff meetings including a retreat in late May. This may include Monday morning staff meetings with the church staff.

d)Turn in aweekly staff report which records your relationship/contact work with students as well as your walk with Jesus.

e)Regular teaching responsibilities (Sunday school, Bible studies, youth group) including taking the appropriate amount of preparation time to teach well.

f)This job requires at least 40 hours each week with one guaranteed day off per week.

III.Benefits

The salary is $3000 for an 11 week period fromlate May until early August.You will be able to schedule one week of vacation during this time period.

Out–of-pocket expenses will be reimbursed if approved and within budget.

Work related vehicle expense is tax deductible.

V.Evaluation

Evaluation of performance will occur weekly during staff meetings.

At the end of the summer, the youth staff will meet with you to do an overall evaluation of your performance, attitude, successes & failures.

Child Protection PolicyCovenant to Teach and Nurture

LookoutMountainPresbyterianChurch

LookoutMountain Presbyterian Church is a member of thePresbyterian Church in America (PCA)and theTennessee Valley Presbyteryis the regional presbytery of which we are a part. In summary, the PCA seeks to be faithful to the Scriptures, true to the Reformed tradition and obedient to the Great Commission of our Savior and King. As a member of the PCA, LMPC holds to the following basic beliefs of the Christian faith.

Basic Beliefs

God is the one and only God. There are three persons in the Godhead – Father, Son and Holy Spirit. God is the creator of all things made.

Jesus Christ is fully God and fully man. He is the second person of the Trinity. He is the one and only Savior and Redeemer of the world. There is no other hope for mankind except through the saving power of Jesus Christ.

Salvation is by God’s saving grace alone through faith in Jesus Christ. Good works are a result of salvation, not a cause of it.

The Scripture of the Old and New Testaments as originally given is the inerrant Word of God, the only infallible rule of faith and practice. The Bible is the basis for our doctrine and knowledge of God. All of our teaching needs to be based upon the truths found in the Bible.

The Doctrine of LMPC is Reformed Theology as evidenced in Scripture and expressed in the Westminster Confession of Faith and the Westminster Shorter Catechism. (My signature below indicates that I have read questions 1-42 and 92-97 of the Westminster Shorter Catechism.)

I affirm that Jesus Christ is my personal Lord and Savior and I covenant with God:

• to teach Bible lessons in accordance with the Scriptures and the doctrinal beliefs of LMPC.
• that I will not teach anything out of accord with LMPC’s system of doctrine.
• to honor these basic beliefs as I carry out my daily duties of teaching and fulfilling my responsibilities as communicated to me by my ministry supervisor(s).
• to strive to maintain a teachable spirit and adhere to the LMPC Child Protection Policy adopted by the Session.
• to be diligent to attend worship services regularly.

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Applicant’s name, Please Print

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Applicant’s Signature Date

Revised 11.2015

The Westminster Shorter Catechism

Questions 1-42 and 92-97

required reading for the LMPC Covenant to Teach and Nurture

Q. 1. What is the chief end of man?
A. Man’s chief end is to glorify God, and to enjoy him forever.

Q. 2. What rule has God given to direct us how we may glorify and enjoy him?
A. The Word of God, which is contained in the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments, is the only rule to direct us how we may glorify and enjoy him.

Q. 3. What do the Scriptures principally teach?
A. The Scriptures principally teach, what man is to believe concerning God, and what duty God requires of man.

Q. 4. What is God?
A. God is a Spirit,infinite,eternal, and unchangeable,in his being, wisdom, power, holiness, justice, goodness, and truth.

Q. 5. Are there more Gods than one?
A. There is but one only, the living and true God.

Q. 6. How many persons are there in the Godhead?
A. There are three persons in the Godhead: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost;and these three are one God, the same in substance, equal in power and glory.

Q. 7. What are the decrees of God?
A. The decrees of God are, his eternal purpose, according to the counsel of his will, by which, for his own glory, he has foreordained whatsoever comes to pass.

Q. 8. How does God execute his decrees?
A. God executes his decrees in the works of creation and providence.

Q. 9. What is the work of creation?
A. The work of creation is God’s making all things of nothing, by the word of his power, in the space of six days, and all very good.

Q. 10. How did God create man?
A. God created man male and female, after his own image, in knowledge,righteousness, and holiness, with dominion over the creatures.

Q. 11. What are God’s works of providence?
A. God’s works of providence are his most holy, wise, and powerful preserving and governing all his creatures and all their actions.

Q. 12. What special act of providence did God exercise towards man in the estate in which he was created?
A. When God had created man he entered into a covenant of life with him upon condition of perfect obedience; forbidding him to eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil upon the pain of death.

Q. 13. Did our first parents continue in the estate in which they were created?
A. Our first parents, being left to the freedom of their own will, fell from the estate in which they were created by sinning against God.

Q. 14. What is sin?
A. Sin is any lack of conformity to, or transgression of, the law of God.

Q. 15. What was the sin whereby our first parents fell from the estate in which they were created?
A. The sin whereby our first parents fell from the estate in which they were created, was their eating the forbidden fruit.

Q. 16. Did all mankind fall in Adam’s first transgression?
A. The covenant was made with Adam, not only for himself, but for his posterity; all mankind, descending from him by ordinary generation, sinned in him and fell with him in his first transgression.

Q. 17. Into what estate did the fall bring mankind?
A. The fall brought mankind into an estate of sin and misery.

Q. 18. What is sinful in that estate into which man fell?
A. The sinfulness of that estate into which man fell consists in the guilt of Adam’s first sin, the want of original righteousness, and the corruption of his whole nature, which is commonly called original sin; together with all actual transgressions which proceed from it.

Q. 19. What is the misery of that estate into which man fell?
A. All mankind by their fall lost communion with God, are under his wrathand curse, and so made liable to all the miseries of this life, to death itself, and to the pains of hell forever.

Q. 20. Did God leave all mankind to perish in the estate of sin and misery?
A. God, having out of his mere good pleasure, from all eternity, elected some to everlasting life, entered into a covenant of grace to deliver them out of the estate of sin and misery and to bring them into an estate of salvation by a Redeemer.

Q. 21. Who is the Redeemer of God’s elect?
A. The only Redeemer of God’s elect is the Lord Jesus Christ who, being the eternal Son of God, became man, and so was and continues to be, God and man in two distinct natures and one person forever.

Q. 22. How did Christ, being the Son of God, become man?
A. Christ, the Son of God, became man by taking to himself a true body and a reasonable soul, being conceived by the power of the Holy Ghost in the womb of the virgin Mary and born of her, yet without sin.

Q. 23. What offices does Christ execute as our Redeemer?
A. Christ, as our Redeemer, executes the offices of a prophet, of a priest, and of a king, both in his estate of humiliation and exaltation.

Q. 24. How does Christ execute the office of a prophet?
A. Christ executes the office of a prophet, in revealing to us, by his Word and Spirit the will of God for our salvation.

Q. 25. How does Christ execute the office of a priest?
A. Christ executes the office of a priest, in his once offering up of himself a sacrifice to satisfy divine justice and reconcile us to God, and in making continual intercession for us.

Q. 26. How does Christ execute the office of a king?
A. Christ executes the office of a king, in subduing us to himself, in ruling and defending us,and in restraining and conquering all his and our enemies.

Q. 27. Wherein did Christ’s humiliation consist?
A. Christ’s humiliation consisted in his being born, and that in a low condition, made under the law, undergoing the miseries of this life, the wrath of God, and the cursed death of the cross; in being buried and continuing under the power of death for a time.

Q. 28. Wherein consists Christ’s exaltation?
A. Christ’s exaltation consists in his rising again from the dead on the third day, in ascending up into heaven,in sitting at the right hand of God the Father, and in coming to judge the world at the last day.

Q. 29. How are we made partakers of the redemption purchased by Christ?
A. We are made partakers of the redemption purchased by Christ by the effectual application of it to us by his Holy Spirit.

Q. 30. How does the Spirit apply to us the redemption purchased by Christ?
A. The Spirit applies to us the redemption purchased by Christ by working faith in us and thereby uniting us to Christ in our effectual calling.

Q. 32. What benefits do they that are effectually called partake of in this life?
A. They that are effectually called do in this life partake of justification, adoption, and sanctification, and other benefits which in this life either accompany or flow from them.

Q. 33. What is justification?
A. Justification is an act of God’s free grace, in which he pardons all our sins, and accepts us as righteous in his sight, only for the righteousness of Christ imputed to us, and received by faith alone.

Q. 34. What is adoption?
A. Adoption is an act of God’s free grace, whereby we are received into the number and have a right to all the privileges, of the sons of God.

Q. 35. What is sanctification?
A. Sanctification is the work of God’s free grace, whereby we are renewed in the whole man after the image of God and are enabled more and more to die unto sin and live unto righteousness.

Q. 36. What are the benefits in this life which accompany or flow from justification, adoption, and sanctification?
A. The benefits which in this life accompany or flow from justification, adoption, and sanctification, are: assurance of God’s love, peace of conscience, joy in the Holy Ghost,increase of grace, and perseverance therein to the end.

Q. 37. What benefits do believers receive from Christ at death?
A. The souls of believers are at their death made perfect in holiness, and do immediately pass into glory; and their bodies, being still united in Christ, rest in their graves, till the resurrection.

Q. 38. What benefits do believers receive from Christ at the resurrection?
A. At the resurrection, believers, being raised up in glory, shall be openly acknowledged and acquitted in the day of judgment, and made perfectly blessed in the full enjoying of God to all eternity.

Q. 39. What is the duty which God requires of man?
A. The duty which God requires of man, is obedience to his revealed will.

Q. 40. What did God at first reveal to man for the rule of his obedience?
A. The rule which God at first revealed to man for his obedience, was the moral law.

Q. 41. Where is a summary of the moral law?
A. The summary of the moral law is comprehended in the ten commandments.

Q. 42. What is the sum of the ten commandments?
A. The sum of the ten commandments is to love the Lord our God with all our heart, with all our soul, with all our strength, and with all our mind; and our neighbor as ourselves.

(catechism questions regarding the sacraments)

Q. 92. What is a sacrament?
A. A sacrament is a holy ordinance instituted by Christ;in which, by sensible signs, Christ, and the benefits of the new covenant, are represented, sealed, and applied to believers.

Q. 93. Which are the sacraments of the New Testament?
A. The sacraments of the New Testament are baptismand the Lord’s Supper.

Q. 94. What is baptism?
A. Baptism is a sacrament, in which the washing with water in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost,signifies and seals our ingrafting into Christ, and partaking of the benefits of the covenant of grace, and our engagement to be the Lord’s.

Q. 95. To whom is baptism to be administered?
A. Baptism is not to be administered to any that are out of the visible church, till they profess their faith in Christ, and obedience to him;but the infants of such as are members of the visible church are to be baptized.

Q. 96. What is the Lord’s Supper?
A. The Lord’s Supper is a sacrament, in which, by giving and receiving bread and wine, according to Christ’s appointment, his death is showed forth; and the worthy receivers are, not after a corporal and carnal manner, but by faith, made partakers of his body and blood, with all his benefits, to their spiritual nourishment, and growth in grace.

Q. 97. What is required for the worthy receiving of the Lord’s Supper?
A. It is required of them that would worthily partake of the Lord’s Supper, that they examine themselves of their knowledge to discern the Lord’s body, of their faith to feed upon him, of their repentance, love, and new obedience; lest, coming unworthily, they eat and drink judgment to themselves.

For further study, we recommend The Westminster Shorter Catechism in Modern English by Douglas Kelly and Philip Rollinson; P&R Publishing Company. Copies are available in the MDO, nursery, children and youth departments.

Revised 1/12/05

For all questions, please respond clearly and concisely, using a separate page if necessary.

CHURCH INFORMATION

Please provide us with accurate information concerning the church(es) you have been a part of.

date attended / name, address, phone and email address of church you attend while in school / senior pastor’s name
from/to
date attended / name, address, phone and email address of your home church / senior pastor’s name and youth pastor’s name
from/to
Are you a member of your home church? / If not, at what church do you hold a church membership?
__ yes __ no

SPIRITUAL DEVELOPMENT

1. Define the Gospel:

1. On a separate piece of paper and in 2–3 paragraphs, briefly share your testimony.

1. What do you believe about Scripture and what role does it play in your life?

1. Describe your day to day relationship with Jesus Christ.

1. Who has been a spiritual influence in your life? May we contact this person? (Include phone number an email address.)

MINISTRY & PERSONAL INFORMATION

1. Why do you want to work at Lookout Mountain Presbyterian Church this summer?

1. How did you become interested in this opportunity?

1. Describe your philosophy of youth ministry.

1. What gifts, skills, or background do you believe will assist you in your summer intern position? (List any training or personal experiences that would help you in ministering to youth.)

1. Describe your relationship with your parents and siblings. How will your family feel about your being a summer intern? May we contact them?

1. What is your understanding of leadership and authority? How do you do under someone else’s supervision?

1. If you are not hired at LMPC this summer, what other options are you considering?

1. Please list 2 or 3 books you have read this past year which have had a positive impact on your life.

1. List 3 personal strengths and 3 personal weaknesses. Please complete EACH space.

STRENGTHS WEAKNESSES