Thank you for your interest in serving with us again as a member of our Summit 2025 Summer Staff Team. 

In the 2025 application process, our highest priority is creating staff teams who passionately love our students, serve wholeheartedly, and exemplify a mature relationship with Jesus Christ. By effectively combining returning and first-time staffers, we hope to create tremendous teams that will successfully fulfill the mission God has given to Summit Ministries.

We won't be able to hire every returning staff applicant. In this application, help us see how you would be a contributor to the team we desire to create. 

The Application Process:

First Round - Please complete and submit the application below. Applications received by January 1st, 2025 will be given preference.

Second Round - If moved on in the application process, we will ask you to submit a video recording with answers to specific question prompts.

Third Round - If moved on in the application process, we will contact you in January or February 2025 to set up a phone interview with a member of the hiring team.

We plan to select applicants by March 6th, 2025.

For Summit Summer 2025 we are hiring 3 separate teams for 2 different locations (Colorado 1st Half, Colorado 2nd Half, and Georgia). We are looking for applicants ages 19-28.

 
At our COLORADO (Manitou Springs) location staff lead a small group of 4-6 students that meets every other night. Staff also play a critical role in running our facilities. Roles and responsibilities include working a daily shift in one of the following departments — Medical, Kitchen, Dish Pit, Hospitality, Front Desk, Classroom, or Nightwatch.

 
At our GEORGIA (Lookout Mountain) location staff also lead small groups of 6-8 students that meet every night. Additionally, each staff member serves on a team in one of the following areas — Medical, Front Desk, Classroom, or Activities. 

We have already started praying for you as you consider reapplying for this challenging and rewarding Summer Staff position. If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to reach out to us! 

 
Kasey Leander - kasey.leander@summit.org - Conference Manager

Hayley Costello - hayley.costello@summit.org - Conference Logistics Coordinator

 

*NOTE: This form will not save your answers if you refresh the page. It could be helpful to type longer responses in a separate document and copy them into the application.

• The Bible instructs us to "Let no one despise you for your youth, but set the believers an example in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith, in purity". 1 Timothy 4:12. With that in mind, we are asking you to be an example to the students and the new staff in your language, dress, attitude, and overall impressions of Summit and ultimately Christ Jesus.
   
• We are asking you to come back with the expectation that you will be a servant leader and take the initiative to invest and encourage the new staff and students. "If anyone wishes to come after Me, he must deny himself, and take up his cross daily and follow Me." Luke 9:23
   
  Returning staff are entrusted with more responsibility so you will be expected to lead in such things as staff meetings, devotionals, worship, etc.
   
• Rumors, backbiting, and unresolved personal issues can quickly tear apart the people of God. Matthew 18:15-17 is clear about how to handle disagreements, misunderstandings, and troubled feelings. We ask you to only talk only with the person(s) who has offended you about the offense, and not talk to anyone else about the offense until you have worked out the problem in the proper Biblical steps.
   
• If hired, you agree to abide willingly by the standards set at Summit as detailed by the Staff Manager and to live in a manner honoring the Lord.
   

 

Summer Staff Expectations

A commitment to :

Love (being kind and loving towards students, staff, and faculty)

Lead (through small groups, work assignments, worship, activities, etc.)

Serve (working hard on whatever tasks are presented to you)

Think well (thoughtfully engaging with students, staff, and faculty)

Rest (using your day off and abiding by the staff curfew)

Model ("Let no one despise you for your youth, but set the believers an example in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith, in purity." 1 Timothy 4:12)

Participate (being present in small groups, job assignment, worship, sports time, etc.)

Praise & Pray (through devotions, evening worship, day of rest, etc.)

Grow (through challenging assignments and your willingness to do any task at any time when asked)

Honor (honor and not undermine those in authority over you)

Humility (open to feedback, teachable, eager to grow and improve)

Please carefully read through our Statement of Faith and Convictions. We wholeheartedly endorse this to be true in relation to the Bible. Furthermore, these statements are what we expect you to believe and model to the students.

 

Summit’s Faith and Convictions

Since the very beginning, Summit Ministries has focused on applying Christianity’s essential doctrines to understand the times and know what our society ought to do. Summit’s board of directors, employees, and volunteers seek to clearly state our faith as well as the convictions that flow from it.

 

As a Statement of Faith, Summit agrees with and holds to the Apostles’ Creed, an ancient

profession affirmed by Jesus-followers for more than 1,500 years:

[We] believe in God, the Father almighty, creator of heaven and earth.

[We] believe in Jesus Christ, God’s only Son, our Lord, who was conceived by the Holy

Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died, and

was buried; he descended to the dead. On the third day he rose again; he ascended into

heaven, he is seated at the right hand of the Father, and he will come again to judge the

living and the dead.

[We] believe in the Holy Spirit, the holy catholic [universal] church, the communion of

saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and the life everlasting.

AMEN.

 

 

Statement of Convictions

As an outworking of this Statement of Faith, Summit agrees with and holds to certain convictions describing what we know to be true about the world:

God. God, existing eternally in three persons, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, is the source of all truth and He expresses His nature relationally. God has revealed himself both in nature and through the Bible, the only inerrant, inspired, authoritative Word of God. This has implications for the institutions of church, family, commerce, and government.

Humanity. All human beings bear God’s image and are thus inherently valuable—beginning at conception—whether or not society regards them as healthy, productive, or useful. As God’s image-bearers, men and women of all races and nationalities have the capacity and the calling to steward creation, create economic and social value, pursue justice, stand against evil, and act in a transforming way in culture.

Salvation. Through sin, humanity has departed from God’s way, but through our Lord Jesus Christ, God has made a way for us to be reconciled to Him, to be transformed to understand and do His will, and to be ambassadors of His gospel. Further, God has instituted the Church as a vital means by which His gospel would be proclaimed and practiced.

Society. Citizens of the kingdom of heaven will always be the best citizens of the kingdom of man because obeying God above all earthly powers is what best secures the blessings of liberty. Government is God-ordained to punish evil and protect the good. When it oversteps its bounds by failing to recognize the value of each person, or by constraining conscience, or by calling good what God calls evil and calling evil what God calls good, we must call it to account.

Marriage. God made human beings male and female, equal in value but complementary in their relationship to one another (Gen. 1:26-27). Gender is not a mere social construction, but part of a loving Creator’s design that is lived out in singlehood as well as in marriage, which we believe to have been created by God and intended for one man and one woman, for life (Gen. 2:18-25). Man/woman marriage is the only proper place for intimate sexual relationship and it is the proper place in which to welcome children—by birth or adoption—as a blessing from God. As valuable as marriage is, though, we believe that only God can ultimately meet our need for intimacy and that our identity is properly placed in Christ rather than in our marital status or our assessment of our feelings of sexual attraction.

Stewardship. Human beings were given charge over God’s creation, and we take seriously our calling to care for it. We are called to bear God’s image through creativity and industriousness.

We support the principles of free exchange, respect for private property, and honesty as being means by which we best care for our planet, serve one another, and alleviate poverty and its effects.

We see these convictions as based on justified true beliefs describing the world as it actually is, not on mere opinion or upbringing. Thus, out of gratitude and commitment to our Lord, we will believe them, act upon them, and seek to persuade others.

I certify under penalty of perjury that the information contained in this application is true, accurate, and complete to the best of my knowledge and belief. I understand that if employed, false statements on this application shall be considered sufficient cause for involuntary termination. I hereby authorize Summit to check any references I have given, conduct a background check, and also to check any additional sources for information deemed pertinent to its decision with respect to my application in its reasonable discretion. I give permission for any of the references you check to give you any information that they may have regarding my suitability and eligibility for youth-related work.

I understand that this is an application for employment, and it does not guarantee such. I further understand that if I am hired, I will be hired for what position Summit administration deems appropriate and that the administration reserves the right to change positions at any time during my employment. I further recognize that I will be an at-will employee and that the administration has the right to terminate my employment at any time, for any reason.

Summit does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, ancestry, disability, age, or socioeconomic status. Summit also does not discriminate on the basis of sex, insofar as that term refers to the binary conception of sex (i.e., male and female) consistent with Summit’s religious beliefs and the teachings of the Christian faith. Summit is a religious organization and integrates its Christian faith and convictions into every aspect of it operations, including without limitation its corporate governance, contracts, public and private activities, communications, accommodations, and employment. Summit makes, and reserves the right to make, employment-related decisions based on a person’s denominational background, religious beliefs, and spiritual maturity, and based on a person’s conduct or lifestyle and its consistency with Scripture, Christian values, and other standards of conduct as determined by Summit.

We are excited to receive your application! You will see a confirmation page once we have received it. 

Feel free to contact us if you have any questions! 

 

Kasey Leander - Colorado Staff and Conference Manager 

kasey.leander@summit.org

 

 

Summit Ministries  

941 Osage Ave 

Manitou Springs, CO 80829