Dear Brother or Sister in Christ:

Congratulations on your decision to serve the Lord here at Calvary Chapel Breath of Life.

The desire to serve is a natural and proper response to the work of Christ within you. Where to serve becomes the big question. This Ministry Application has been designed to help us to get to know you better and to assist you in determining your place in the Body of Christ. Each of us has a unique blend of experiences, talents, traits, gifts, and past tragedies that God will use to accomplish His work.

The Apostle Paul uses the “body” as a metaphor to describe how the local church should function. Each one of us is a unique part of the body of Christ, and just like our human bodies, each part has a specific purpose. One thing we are attempting to avoid is having you serve in an area of ministry for which you are not designed. It would be much like filling the position of a kneecap with an elbow and trying to “make” it work. Though it may get the job done, it will be at the personal expense of the elbow and will affect the maximum efficiency of the entire body. One of the main reasons for “burnout” in ministry is the lack of a proper “fit.” Taking your time to fill out this application will minimize the chances of placing you in an area of ministry you were not designed for and maximize the potential for you to experience one of the greatest joys you’ll ever know - used by God in the capacity for which you were created to serve Him.

You might be surprised to see a background consent and waiver among the forms, which we have asked you to complete. Please let me encourage you not to let this form intimidate you. Because many of our areas of ministry involve children, elderly, handicapped and other groups which require these background checks, we have found it necessary to have all ministry volunteers screened since so many times we have need to call upon one area of ministry for help in another. I also want to encourage you that just because you may have something in your background that preempts you legally from serving in an area of ministry, we feel that no one has sinned so greatly that the blood of Christ cannot make a place for you to serve in the Body of Christ. We may not be able to offer you certain avenues of ministry because of legal prerequisites (Romans 13), but we can find a ministry area in which God will be glorified through the gifts and talents He has given you. Trust God and He will prove faithful in placing you exactly into the area for which He designed you in the Body of Christ.

Ephesians 2 tells us that we are God’s workmanship created in Christ Jesus for good works, which He planned for us before the foundations of the earth. Enjoy the excitement and challenge of this truth as you complete the enclosed Ministry Questionnaire and find the destiny of your mission for God. Then, have a blast serving with all your heart.

Till The Whole World Hears,

Pastor Keith Gardner

Senior Pastor

HOW CAN I GET INVOLVED?

Steps to getting involved at Calvary Chapel Breath of Life:

1. Contact the ministry head to verify whether or not there is a current need for volunteers and what specific requirements are needed to serve in the ministry.

2. Review the Servant’s Requirements and the Ministry Opportunities, determine what level of requirements are required for the particular ministry in which you want to serve.

3. Review the Statement of Faith of Calvary Chapel Breath of Life. If there is anything that you do not agree with, before you proceed to fill out the questionnaire, please make an appointment to speak to the ministry leader, minister or pastor to discuss these differences. Can two walk together, unless they are agreed? (Amos 3:3) If you agree with the Statement of Faith and have completed the prerequisites, please continue by filling out the questionnaire.

4. Attach a recent and clear photograph to this application, preferably NOT a driver’s license).

NOTICE

If you are filling out this application to serve in the Nursery, Children’s or Youth Ministry, or any other ministry that involves the elderly or minors, you will be asked to sign an additional Consent waiver form for a national criminal background check. This screening will also require you to submit your fingerprints. Both the fingerprints and the waiver form will be obtained at a later stage in the interview process.

STATEMENT OF FAITH

* Calvary Chapel Breath of Life has been formed as a fellowship of believers in the Lordship of Jesus Christ. Our supreme desire is to know Christ and be conformed to His image by the power of the Holy Spirit. We are not a denominational church, nor are we opposed to denominations as such; only to their over-emphasis of the doctrinal differences that have led to the division of the Body of Christ.

* We believe the only true basis of Christian fellowship is Christ’s (Agape) love, which is greater than differences we possess, and without which we have no right to claim ourselves Christians.

* We believe worship of God should be spiritual; therefore, we remain flexible and yielded to the leading of the Holy Spirit to direct our worship.

* We believe worship of God should be inspirational; therefore, we give great place to music in our worship.

* We believe worship of God should be intelligent; therefore, our services are designed with great emphasis upon the teaching of the Word of God that He might instruct us on how He should be worshipped.

* We believe worship of God should be fruitful; therefore, we look for His love in our lives as the supreme manifestation that we have been truly worshipping Him.

* We believe in all the fundamental doctrines of orthodox evangelical Christianity.

* We believe in the inerrancy of Scripture; that the Bible (Old and New Testaments) is the inspired, infallible Word of God.

* We believe that God is eternally existent in three separate persons: Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

* We believe that God, the Father, is the personal, transcendent, and sovereign Creator of all things.

* We believe that Jesus Christ is fully God and fully human, that he was born of a virgin, lived a sinless life, provided for the atonement of our sins by His vicarious death on the cross, was bodily resurrected by the power of the Holy Spirit, ascended back to the right hand of God the Father, and ever lives to make intercession for us.

* After Jesus ascended to Heaven, He poured out His Holy Spirit on believers in Jerusalem, enabling them to fulfill His command to preach the Gospel to the entire world; an obligation shared by all believers today.

* We believe that all people are by nature separated from God and responsible for their own sin, but that salvation, redemption, and forgiveness are freely offered to all by the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ. When a person repents of sin and accepts Jesus Christ as their personal Lord and Savior, trusting Him to save, that person is immediately born again and sealed by the Holy Spirit, all of his/her sins are forgiven, and that person becomes a child of God, destined to spend eternity with the Lord.

* We believe in the gifts of the Holy Spirit mentioned in the Scriptures, and that they are valid for today and are to be exercised within scriptural guidelines. We, as believers, are to covet the best gifts, seeking to exercise them in love that the whole Body of Christ might be edified. We believe that love is more important than the most spectacular gifts, and without love, all exercise of spiritual gifts is worthless.

* We believe that the church government should be simplistic rather than a complex bureaucracy, and that we depend on the Holy Spirit to lead, rather than on fleshly promotion.

* We await the pre-tribulation rapture of the church, and we believe that the Second Coming of

Christ with His saints to rule the earth will be personal, pre-millennial, and visible. This motivates us to holy living, heartfelt worship, committed service, diligent study of God’s Word, regular fellowship, participation in adult baptism by immersion and Holy Communion.

* We seek to teach the Word of God in such a way that its message can be applied to the individual’s life, leading that person to a greater maturity in Christ.

* We do not believe in “positive confession” (the faith movement belief that God can be commanded to heal or work miracles according to man’s will); human prophecy that supersedes the Scriptures; the incorporation of humanistic and secular psychology into Biblical teaching; the over-emphasis of spiritual gifts and experiential signs and wonders to the exclusion of Biblical teaching; or that true Christians can be demon-possessed.

* We are neither Five-Point Calvinists nor are we Armenians. We adhere firmly to the Biblical teaching of God’s sovereignty and man’s responsibility. We avoid any theological systems of belief which go beyond the written Word and thereby divide the body of Christ.

* In our services, we focus on a personal relationship with God through worship, prayer and the teaching of the Word of God. We teach both expository and topically. We do not allow speaking in tongues loudly during services, nor prophecy while a Bible study is in progress because we do not believe that the Holy Spirit would interrupt Himself. We have specific “after-glow services” and believer’s meetings.

Everyone who serves at Calvary Chapel Breath of Life must:

* Be born again and have a clear testimony

* Honor Jesus Christ as the number one priority in your life

* Attend Calvary Chapel Breath of Life church services regularly

* Be reliable, dependable, committed

* Agree with Calvary Chapel Breath of Life Statement of Faith with no

reservations