Chapel Worship Team Member

Approximate number of positions offered:20

The goal of our dynamic chapel program is to exalt the Triune God through biblical, Christ-centred worship and prayer, and to inspire people to pursue a lifestyle of worship that glorifies him in deed, word, thought and attitude. We believe that providing leadership for congregational worship is a very important role to play in the life of any Christian community, and that it flows out of the life that each individual lives before God and in Christian community with others. The following is a summary of the kind of person we’re looking for, and of the basic time commitments involved in our chapel worship team ministry.

Requirements

Qualifications	As a worship team member, you are a follower of Jesus Christ, striving to maintain a consistent relationship with Him as your Lord and Saviour. Your heart’s desire is to honour God with your thoughts, words and actions, in public and in private. You will seek to set "an example to the believers, in speech, in life, in love, in faith and in purity" (1 Timothy 4:12), and live with integrity according to God’s word. As a member of the Trinity Western University community, it is also expected that you fulfil your commitment to support and adhere to the Responsibilities of Membership. You have a passion for ministering to others, offering your gifts and talents in service to individuals, to fellow team members, and to the campus community, so that they be drawn into deeper devotion to God. You are committed to producing the best possible musical and artistic material as an aid to congregational worship, both as an individual musician and as part of a musical group.

Qualifications

As a worship team member, you are a follower of Jesus Christ, striving to maintain a consistent relationship with Him as your Lord and Saviour. Your heart’s desire is to honour God with your thoughts, words and actions, in public and in private. You will seek to set "an example to the believers, in speech, in life, in love, in faith and in purity" (1 Timothy 4:12), and live with integrity according to God’s word.
As a member of the Trinity Western University community, it is also expected that you fulfil your commitment to support and adhere to the Responsibilities of Membership.
You have a passion for ministering to others, offering your gifts and talents in service to individuals, to fellow team members, and to the campus community, so that they be drawn into deeper devotion to God.
You are committed to producing the best possible musical and artistic material as an aid to congregational worship, both as an individual musician and as part of a musical group.

Responsibilities

Specific responsibilities	Attendance at the New Teams Orientation Meeting at 5:00 pm on Thursday, April 5, 2012. You will attend a 2-day Worship Team Orientation Workshop from 9 am, Tuesday, September 4 to 7:30 pm, Wednesday, September 5, 2012. This time will include practice, fellowship, training workshops, and two meals. A more detailed schedulewill be sent to you during the summer. Your commitment extends from Tuesday, September 4, 2012 to Friday, April 13, 2013. You will participate in leading... • Chapel Team: 5 chapels every 3 weeks and one or two off-campus ministry opportunities per semester as scheduled by the leaders. Time: Weekdays, 10:45 - 11:30 am. • Sunday Night Alive Team: A worship service approximately every second Sunday during the semester and one or two off-campus ministry opportunities per semester as scheduled by the leaders. Time: Sundays, 6 - 10 pm. • Additional off-campus ministry opportunities may be scheduled at the discretion of the team leader, in consultation with the team. You are willing to support chapel leadership, including your team leader, Student Ministries staff, and Trinity Western University authority. This includes full adherence and support of the Responsibilities of Membership. You will participate in approximately 3 hours of practice and/or prayer & Bible study time every week, as scheduled by your team. You will model consistent attendance and punctuality at all team practices and prayer times and at all events where the team is serving. It is expected that you will model a commitment to the chapel program through consistent, frequent attendance and attentiveness at chapel.

Specific responsibilities

Attendance at the New Teams Orientation Meeting at 5:00 pm on Thursday, April 5, 2012.

You will attend a 2-day Worship Team Orientation Workshop from 9 am, Tuesday, September 4 to 7:30 pm, Wednesday, September 5, 2012. This time will include practice, fellowship, training workshops, and two meals. A more detailed schedulewill be sent to you during the summer.

Your commitment extends from Tuesday, September 4, 2012 to Friday, April 13, 2013.

You will participate in leading...
• Chapel Team: 5 chapels every 3 weeks and one or two off-campus ministry opportunities per semester as scheduled by the leaders. Time: Weekdays, 10:45 - 11:30 am.
• Sunday Night Alive Team: A worship service approximately every second Sunday during the semester and one or two off-campus ministry opportunities per semester as scheduled by the leaders. Time: Sundays, 6 - 10 pm.
• Additional off-campus ministry opportunities may be scheduled at the discretion of the team leader, in consultation with the team.

You are willing to support chapel leadership, including your team leader, Student Ministries staff, and Trinity Western University authority. This includes full adherence and support of the Responsibilities of Membership.

You will participate in approximately 3 hours of practice and/or prayer & Bible study time every week, as scheduled by your team. You will model consistent attendance and punctuality at all team practices and prayer times and at all events where the team is serving.

It is expected that you will model a commitment to the chapel program through consistent, frequent attendance and attentiveness at chapel.

Instruments we're looking for:

Of course, we're looking for the standard instruments you'd find in a contemporary worship team - soprano, alto, tenor and baritone/bass vocalists, acoustic guitarists, pianoists and keyboardist, electric guitarists, bass players, and drummers. But we value diversity of instrumental arrangements too, so if you play any colour instrument - violin/viola, cello, double bass, flute, trumpet, saxophone, oboe, clarinet, penny whistle, percussion (djembe, conga, bodhran, shakers, tambourine, rain stick), didjeridoo, sitar, DJ console, or anything else, we'd love to put you to use on one of our teams.

NOTE: If you are not yet attending TWU, but will be attending TWU in the upcoming year, we will consider you for a team, provided you contact us by March 13, complete an application form (which will be emailed to you), and either make room in your schedule to come on campus and participate in an audition, or send a recording demonstrating your abilities as a musician. (Contact us for more details regarding what should be included in that recording.)

Timeline

Applications DUE	March 16, 2012
Signup for audition	March 5-9, 2012
Auditions	March 12-16, 2012
Possible Call-backs	March 26-29, 2012
Notification via email	March 30, 2012
First Chapel & Team Meeting	April 5, 2012