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Benefits for participating
- You will be providing a valuable service to a program that has a tremendous benefit to the staff, youth and children who participate in Spruce Lake Wilderness Camp!
- The SIT program is also designed to help you gain experience, develop personal leadership skills, and grow in your walk with Jesus Christ.
- Serving as an SIT is a tremendous opportunity to be recognized for future staff positions at Wilderness Camp.
- The SIT group gets to travel off-site for a special weekend SIT outing, which you will help to plan.
- You'll receive some staff perks like a staff shirt and a 25 % discount on any camp store purchase while you are here.
- You will also receive a $100 discount toward a Navigators Week or the Senior Expedition of your choice!
To be considered for the SIT role, you'll need to meet the following requirements:
- Have graduated 10th grade or be age 16 through 18.
- Possess a personal relationship with Jesus Christ and be in agreement with our statement of faith.
- Be available for the entire two weeks of service.
- Initiate the process by submitting references and applications in good time. Most of our SIT confirmations occur between March and May.
- Be available for a personal phone interview.
- Once you are accepted, register for the appropriate week using the camper on-line registration feature and pay the registration fee.
How to apply
Most of our SIT hires happen between the months of March and May. The earlier you apply the more positions we will have opened to you.
- Complete the SIT application either online or on paper. We will begin processing summer SIT
applications in February of 2012, but you are welcome to submit one prior.
- For online applications, make sure to select the submit button, making sure that the application is complete.
- For printable pdf applications, fill them out and mail to: Eric Kauffman, Director, Spruce
Lake Wilderness Camp, 5389 Rt. 447, Canadensis PA 18325.
- Contact those whom you would like to be your references (see criteria on the application), and ask their permission to use them as references. Send this form to four different references.
- For online references, you may use the Reference Sender Feature, making sure all email addresses are correct. Because of spam, we recommend that you follow up with each reference to make sure the reference link was received.
- For printable pdf references, you may print the reference form and provide it to your references along with an envelope addressed to Spruce Lake Wilderness Camp, and a first class postage stamp.
- Then wait. It can take 2-4 weeks for references to be returned and all the materials to be reviewed.
- Within 3-4 weeks we will contact you to either set up a phone interview or to decline the application. If you do not hear from us within 3-4 weeks, please contact us again to see where the process is. That’s it; we can’t wait to hear form you!
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