Service Camp Staff

Activities : Community Projects / Humanitarian / Religious / Summer Camp / Summer Jobs
Company : The Pittsburgh Project
Country : United States
Region : Pittsburgh, PA
Duration : May 27 through August 13, 2008

Info

Want to help kids catch a vision for rebuilding neighborhoods? Join our high-energy, relational youth ministry team this summer.

We receive 2500 young people who pay to come to inner-city Pittsburgh and rebuild homes for elderly residents. Service Camp Staff are responsible for the programmatic and relational elements of these week-long residential Summer Service Camps. Building redemptive relationships with participating teenagers is of vital importance; experience in youth ministry is helpful.

Job responsibilities include the following:

1. Serve as high-energy role models for Service Camp participants, learning names of and building friendships with teenagers ages 12-18 throughout each of the 9 one-week home repair sessions
2. Run daily program for 260 campers including upfront skits, disc jockeying at meals, setting-up, running and breaking-down evening special events
3. Traveling to worksites several times a week to visit homeowners and take pictures and video of the home repair being performed by students at worksites
4. Facilitate nightly group Bible discussions for about 30 teenagers addressing topics like Christian servant leadership, mercy, loving your neighbor, and justice
5. Take an active part in "Club," our large group time of worship, skit, and talk
6. Share your personal testimony with the entire camp several times throughout the summer
7. Facilitate small and large group initiative games with teenagers. Act as a server in the dining hall during breakfast and dinner
8. Facilitate nightly lights-out for campers
9. Take part in all scheduled events
10. Live onsite in the staff quarters while camp is in session
11. Contribute to community life by serving where needed
12. Attend weekly Service Camp Staff lunch with the Service Camp Coordinator
13. Meet daily for community morning prayer (optional)
14. Meet regularly for staff and community meetings

Dates

May 27

Benefits / Salary / Costs

Our summer staff members are paid a stipend which ranges from $1200 to $3000, depending on job duties. We train you for a full week or more, provide meals while programs are in session, and free housing if you need it. Possible internship credit, a taste of community life, vibrant worship, and scores of new friends are all at hand.