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We are looking forward to receiving your application! As soon as we receive your application, we will begin contacting your references. We will pray about each applicant and contact you as soon as we have made our decision.

Normally the start and end dates of Summer Job Project are firm. Please contact us before you apply and explain if you will not be able to arrive by the start date, or must leave before the end date, or must be absent for a period during the summer. We will let you know whether or not we can accommodate.

Please keep a copy of your application answers.

Note: Please do not use quotation marks (") in your answers. If necessary, use single quotes (') instead.

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Personal Information
Name:
Gender:	Female Male
Age:
U.S. Citizen?	Yes No (U.S. citizenship is required.)
Street Address:
Street Address (cont.):
City:
State:
Zip:
Phone:
E-mail:
Job
1. Describe your work habits and attitude - both at your employment and at home.
2. Are you open to correction in your work habits for the purpose of becoming a Christ-honoring employee?
3. Are you willing to be in your bedroom by 11 PM so that you can offer well-rested work to your employer?
4. List any work experience you have in the following areas either from a job, volunteer work, or at home. This information makes it easier to find a job for you. List specifically what you did for each position. Landscaping (specifically list below what machinery you have used below) Gardening Nursery plants Lawn care Construction Metal fabrication Ranch/farm work Window washing Laying sprinkler systems Dairy Queen Restaurant Personal Caregiver Office work House painting Cleaning Barista Cash register experience Other work experience
Discipleship
1. Briefly (200-300 words) describe how you came to have a personal relationship with Christ.
2. Describe your present Bible reading habits.
3. We offer you holistic discipleship. “Holistic” means we will encourage and correct each other to follow Jesus fully in every area of our life – on the mountain trail, at work, in our spending, in the kitchen, or playing volleyball. Describe your response to correction from peers, an employer, or a leader?
4. Describe your attitude toward making personal changes in order to align your life with the Bible's teachings? Include a recent change you've made.
5. Summer Job Project integrates personal discipleship into your work, community building, mountain adventures, witness, and Bible studies. Will you fully and willingly participate in all aspects of the Summer Job Project program?
6. Are you willing to develop a summer budget and strive to live within it?
7. Are you willing to be financially accountable and improve your money management skills?
8. Will you make yourself accountable for meeting with God regularly to read the Bible and pray?
9. Will you agree to abstain from sex, drugs, gambling, tobacco (all forms), pornography, and alcohol for the entire duration of the Summer Job Project including days off?
Community
1. Describe how you would demonstrate love for the other residents by your words, actions, and attitudes.
2. What personal strengths would you bring to the other residents?
3. With God's help, what weaknesses would you work to overcome through living in the XA House community?
4. We have a No Dating Policy for the duration of the summer program. That means refrain from showing special attention to one person over others of the opposite gender. Refrain from physical or verbal expressions of romantic attraction. We want you to focus on the experiences of the program without distraction. (This policy does not apply to someone you are already dating now outside the program.) Will you agree to the No Dating Policy?
5. What is your definition of a clean kitchen? Clean bathroom? Clean common living areas?
6. Will you complete your assigned chores in the XA House with a good attitude?
7. Will you gratefully eat evening meals provided and refrain from grumbling? (We do our best to offer simple, tasty, nutritious meals.)
8. Will you wholeheartedly cooperate with the House Director, the SJP staff team and resource people, and your employer?
Message
1. Will you, as God opens opportunities, speak and live Christ's message authentically with co-workers and new friends?
2. Will you seek to build relationships with people who are yet to know Christ and introduce them to Him as He opens their hearts? Will you diligently pray for them?
Mountains
1. Describe specifically your present exercise habits and your present physical condition. Include your height and weight.
2. Describe any physical, mental, or emotional issues that we should know about or that could affect your full participation in Summer Job Project. Please list all allergies.
3. Are you willing to maintain a learning posture to the leaders during the outdoor experiences?
4. Will you yield to the leaders' safety requirements and decisions?
References
Please give us the contact information for the following people. Please ask them if you may list them as a reference.
Recent Employer:
Employer's Name:
Company Name:
E-mail:
Phone - office:
Phone - home:
Your Campus Pastor:
Name:
E-mail:
Phone - office:
Phone - home:
A friend who knows you well or your small group leader:
Name:
E-mail:
Phone:
Verify you are human by entering what you see in the field to the right: