SWAT Team (Servants Working at Tadmor)

Time commitment: June 16 - Aug 13*

Must be 16 years of age by June 23.

"Well done, good and faithful servant. (Matthew 25:23)", words that the SWAT team lives by. While camp is in full session, the SWAT team works behind the scenes to ensure that we provide a quality facility, which will enable us to minister to thousands of students each year. Whether you are washing dishes, cleaning restrooms, chopping wood, or racing to break the garbage run record, you will learn to live in community with your team as you pray, work, and live together. Days are filled with devotions, work, and the infamous SWAT games and team challenges. As a member of the team, you will make new friends and be challenged in your walk with God as you practice and demonstrate how to serve. This is where many people start at Tadmor.

SWAT DH & Crew Boss

Time commitment: June 16 - Aug 13*

Must be 18 years of age by June 23.

Stipend Provided

• SWAT DH - This person will work directly with the cooks, help lead fellow SWAT members in the kitchen, and work with campers to set up and clean up for each meal.
• SWAT Crew Boss - While serving behind the scenes, this person will help lead fellow SWAT members and SAW Team members on various projects around camp.

Program Team

Time commitment: June 11 - Aug 13*

Must be 19 years of age by June 23.

Stipend Provided

This team has the opportunity to be fun and creative in a unique way that makes the other teams successful. In fact, the primary goal of a Program Team member is to make sure your teammates, the counselors, and the church group leaders have a positive and fun environment in which to teach and act out the gospel. This is a great team to join if you want to hone some of your leadership skills, to disciple others, to be creative, and to be discipled. On Program Team, you will take part in the planning, facilitating, and implementation of skits, games, and activities. Applicants for Program Team need to be flexible and engaging, as well as demonstrate a high level of maturity, self-motivation, and discipline. The specific job descriptions below are in addition to the everyday responsibilities of a Program Team member. We have openings for the following program roles:

• Program Lead - This position is available for one male and one female. You must have the ability to disciple and care for team members. Significant organizational skills are required to ensure all the moving parts of the Program Team are successful. An overall gifting in logistics and time-management is necessary for this position. Being creative and having the ability to lead others to use their creativity is also important. This may include capturing an audience, creating skits, and bringing entertainment to games. You will report directly to the Program team's full-time staff leader--Zack Brown (Gramps).
• Program Support - You must be able to follow directions well and to problem solve when the situation calls for it. Being able to make set pieces or programmatic elements creatively is an added plus for the position. Your duties would include helping in all aspects of program team, including prepping for the set up of games, skits, and other camp activities. You will work closely with the Program leads and Recreation Facilitator.
• AV Tech - An understanding and previous experience of soundboards, speakers, microphones, and production software are required. You will be responsible for operating sound and video projection equipment during worship, setting up and running sound at rec games, and evening events. You will help keep the Forum clean and organized, including instruments and sound equipment on and off the stage.
• Office Assistant - You will work in the office during the day, answering phone calls, assisting the registrar, and helping with other administrative duties. Verbal/written communication skills and attention to details are important for this position.
• Recreation Facilitator - You will work in conjunction with the program leads to create group rec games and group night games that will result in a fun camp experience and support the summer theme.
• Ropes Course Facilitator - You will oversee the safety and use of the ropes course for the summer. Every afternoon will be spent at the course, communicating and instructing safe course usage and connecting God's truth to the challenge the course provides.
• Head Lifeguard - You will oversee the waterfront in several key categories: Performance and schedule of other guards, organization of the waterfront, safe and fun usage of each of the waterfront activities, and the cleanliness of the lakefront area, including sport courts and boat house.
• Lifeguard - You will join other lifeguards in ensuring camper safety on the waterfront, mostly during the afternoons. Lifeguard certification is available through camp shortly before the summer begins.
• Worship Facilitator - You will help assemble a team from the summer staff that will lead the camp in worship on a nightly basis. Musical talent, a servant's heart, and the ability to organize and facilitate a worship session are all skills required for this position. Other duties include getting slides ready and communicating with the AV person, and helping to maintain the stage's cleanliness and organization.
• Videographer - This person will shoot, edit and produce a video for the campers to purchase during every session of camp. Additionally, several programmatic videos will need to be made throughout the course of the summer to enhance the summer program.
• Barista Assistant - Our coffee shop can get crazy at Tadmor. Seriously, picture Starbucks on Saturday morning crazy. We need a responsible, teachable, coffee fluent person who can make drinks and back up our Lead Barista, Emily Brown. Primarily the coffee shop is open from 1-5pm daily. When you are not assisting with the coffee shop, you will be on the Program Team. This is a fast-paced team that works hard to make camp fun. To plug into this team you have to be willing to serve, whether that means setting up a game or talking in the microphone.

Circle T Ranch Team

Time commitment: June 11 - Aug 13*

Must be 18 years of age by June 23.

Stipend Provided

On Circle T, you will invest time as a counselor in a cabin of campers, making disciples and leading them through an amazing week of summer camp. On this unique team you will also have the opportunity to serve on Circle T's program team, helping to plan, facilitate, and implement skits, games, and activities. If hanging out with junior campers and being part of a close-knit team here at Tadmor sounds great, then being a Circle T Deputy is for you! Join us this summer as we create the best rootin' tootin' camp ever! We will dress up like cowboys and cowgirls, play crazy games to help build relationships, and share the gospel with our 3rd-6th grade campers.

Circle T LEAD

Time commitment: June 11 - Aug 13*

Must be 19 years of age by June 23.

Stipend Provided

This position is available for one male and one female. You will oversee a team of your same gender. You will need to offer guidance and support for the whole team of 8-10. You must have the ability to disciple and care for team members. You will model how to connect and communicate with 3rd-6th graders as well as coach campers that are struggling to thrive in the camp environment. You will also be a guide for the leaders who brought their church group. Organizational skills are required to ensure the moving parts of Circle T are successful, being creative and having the ability to lead others to use their creativity is also important. This may include capturing an audience, creating skits, and bringing entertainment to games. You will report directly to the Circle T's full-time staff leader.

Lead Counselor, Lead SALT, Lead SWAT

Time commitment: June 11 - Aug 13*

Must be 19 years of age by June 23.

Stipend Provided

Experienced and mature individuals who oversee and direct specific areas of the summer camping ministry.

• Circle T LEAD - This position is available for one male and one female. You will oversee a team of your same gender. You will need to offer guidance and support for the whole team of 8-10. You must have the ability to disciple and care for team members. You will model how to connect and communicate with 3rd-6th graders as well as coach campers that are struggling to thrive in the camp environment. You will also be a guide for the leaders who brought their church group. Organizational skills are required to ensure the moving parts of Circle T are successful, being creative and having the ability to lead others to use their creativity is also important. This may include capturing an audience, creating skits, and bringing entertainment to games. You will report directly to the Circle T's full-time staff leader.
• Counseling LEAD - This position is available for one male and one female. Oversee a team of your same gender counselors. You will need to offer guidance and support for the whole team of 14-16 counselors. Lead devotionals with the team. Coach campers that are struggling to thrive in the camp environment. You will also be a guide for the leaders who brought their church group. You will report directly to the counseling team's full-time staff leader--Joey Wallberg (Two).
• Program LEAD - This position is available for one male and one female. You must have the ability to disciple and care for team members. Significant organizational skills are required to ensure all the moving parts of the Program Team are successful. An overall gifting in logistics and time-management is necessary for this position. Being creative and having the ability to lead others to use their creativity is also important. This may include capturing an audience, creating skits, and bringing entertainment to games. You will report directly to the Program team's full-time staff leader--Zack Brown (Gramps).
• SALT LEAD - Lead the SALT team for the summer in conjunction with your co-lead of the opposite gender and your full-time staff overseer--Zach Paul (Phog).
• SWAT LEAD - Lead the SWAT team for the summer in conjunction with your co-lead of the opposite gender and your full-time staff overseer--Erik Tuneberg (E!).

Cook

Our kitchen produces meals for up to 450 people a week in the summer. The food is very important to us and we are grateful to our cooks for the work they do to make it excellent. We have a full-size industrial kitchen with walk-in coolers. Food comes in on pallets, is stored, and then within a matter of days is served to campers. We have a team of teenagers who will work with you to make foodservice happen. This position requires organizational skills, careful planning, a knowledge of food, and a love for service. Previous cooking experience in a large kitchen is helpful. Our cooks need to model Christ well for our teenagers and interact positively with them.

Health Services Staff(R.N., E.M.T., M.D., P.A.)

This position is in charge of responding to medical emergencies and injuries, administering first aid, and distributing medications during a session of camp.

Please email [email protected] for more information and a link to our health services staff application.