CROSSTRAINERS

CrossTrainers exists to create loving, Christ-centered mentorships between college students and at-risk kids and teens in our community. These college students meet one-on-one with their assigned kid a few times a month as a means to demonstrate the love of Jesus and help them grow into the young man or woman they were always intended to become.

There are two ways to be involved with Crosstrainers: 

1. You can be a Crosstrainers Mentor
2. You can be on the Lead Team for Crosstrainers
   

CROSSTRAINERS MENTOR

Through CrossTrainers, you will have the opportunity to experience cross-cultural ministry by loving children in need, serving the local Athens community.

Expectations and Time Commitment For Mentors: 3-4 hours/week

• Attending small group led by CrossTrainers interns (1.5 hours every other week)
  
• Assisting with and attending Spring Retreat and monthly group events for kid/mentors (time varies)
  
• Meeting with your assigned child/teen (1 hour every other week)
  
• Wesley Service (1.5 hours)
  

ENCOUNTER

Encounter is an opportunity specifically for upperclassmen to take what we learn about God and turn it into a lifestyle. We will emphasize how to know God’s voice for yourself as we are led in expressing His love toward others and serving the community around us. As a group, we will learn together how to take the things of God that could seem lofty and make them practical and tangible. This growth and application will happen through our weekly group gatherings and our monthly Encounter Nights. Encounter is for 3rd/4th year students.

Expectations & Time Commitment: 3 hours/week

• Tuesday night large group with monthly Encounter nights (1.5 hours)
  
• Wesley Service (1.5 hours)

MEDIA

Media is a SERVE area for students with a passion for videography, video editing, graphic design, photography or production. Media students will work together on group projects or on individual assignments that will both further their personal skills and supplement the Wesley media content each week. Monthly large group gatherings consist of spiritual formation, fun and fellowship. 

Expectations & Time Commitment: 3-4 hours/week

• Large Group Gathering 1x month (1.5 hours)
  
• Weekly Media Projects (1-2 hours )
  
• Wesley Service (1.5 hours) 

**Positions on the media team are limited. To interview for a position on the Media team, you must also submit a portfolio of your work by April 1, 2021 to devon.rad@gmail.com and media must be your first choice on your Serve application.**

PRAYER

Prayer exists to help students develop a personal prayer life while learning about intercession and identity. Prayer is a ministry of people interceding on behalf of Wesley, Freshley, the campus and Athens. Throughout the year, we will gather to learn about the practicals of prayer while also learning more about who we are and what that means as persevering people of prayer. Our weekly large group will consist of teachings, intercession and small groups led by senior students and Prayer interns. 

Expectations & Time Commitment: 3 hours

• Sunday night  (1.5 hours)
  
• Wesley Service (1.5 hours)

THE LIGHT

The Light is a youth group that pours directly into the children living in the RockSprings project on Baxter street. The ministry is new and the children need a lot of love, attention, and Jesus. Thursday nights our Student leaders will help in large group time and co-lead small groups with each other. The ages at the Light have a wide variety but small groups are split up into elementary and middle school clusters. 

Expectations and Time Commitments: 5 hours/week

• Thursday Night Youth Group (3 hours) 
  
• Wesley Service (1.5 hours)

YOUTH

Wesley partners with local churches around the Athens area to assist their youth pastors as they pour into their youth by helping them run their Sunday Night Youth Services. The youth leader primarily functions as a Sunday night small group leader to middle or high school students. In this role, they will be building relationships with and leading the middle and high schoolers in their faith and getting great hands-on ministry experience with youth in the Athens area. 

Expectations and Time Commitments: 5-6 hours/week*

• Sunday Youth Activities (2-4 hours)
  
• Wesley Service (1.5 hours) 
  
• *Retreats and Other Special Events  (Time varies)

WESLEY CONNECT

A Wesley Connect Leader’s main job is to help create a fun and inviting environment on Wednesday Nights. A Wesley Connect Leader would be responsible to help facilitate all pre-service, mid-service, and post-service guest services offered to students. These responsibilities include greeting, ushering, decorating, working the welcome center, initiating conversations, and setting an environment that lets all students know that they matter. Wesley Connect Leaders will also be expected to follow up with new students outside of Wednesday night. We are looking for students who are willing to be the first ones to show up and the last to leave because they come alive having fun and making other people feel welcome and included. 

Expectations and Time Commitment: 5-6 hours/week

• Wednesday Night Service Set Up: (1 hours)
  
• Wednesday Night Service
  
• Bi-weekly one-on-one Discipleship (1 hour)
  
• Follow Up With new students (Occasionally)

FRESHLEY SMALL GROUP

Freshley’s purpose is to provide an environment where 1st year students can grow in their faith and form community with one another. This primarily takes place through a Monday night Freshley service. Freshley Small Group Leaders facilitate a same-sex small group discussion after the Freshley service. In addition, Freshley Small Group Leaders are asked to follow up with freshmen outside of Monday nights, be a part of Freshley fellowship events/retreats, and to consider going on our Jamaica spring break mission trip. 

Expectations and Time Commitment: 5-6 hours/week

• Monday Night Freshley Service: (2.5-3 hours)
  
• Wesley Service (1.5 hours) 
  
• Bi-weekly one-on-one Discipleship (1 hour)
  
• Fellowship Opportunities/Retreats: (seasonal)

STUDENT DISCIPLESHIP

Discipleship is at the core of our mission at Wesley and one of the primary things we are committed to as a ministry. At Wesley, we want to give students who are already on the journey of discipleship the opportunity to lead others by making disciples as well. You will have the opportunity to walk through life with another student and invest in what The Lord is doing in their lives. 

Expectations and Time Commitment: 3.5-6 hours/week

• Discipling 2-4 students (2-4 hours) every two weeks
  
• Bi-weekly Student Discipleship Meeting / Coaching Meeting (1 hour)
  
• Bi-weekly one-on-one Discipleship (1 hour)
  

WEDNESDAY NIGHT SMALL GROUPS

The Wednesday night service is the main gathering and key formational experience for the Wesley body. Wednesday Night Small Group Leaders will facilitate a same-sex small group after the Wesley Service so that students have the opportunity to connect with one another and also discuss that night’s message further. All Small Group Leaders will be trained before every service in how to lead a discussion based on that night’s message. Additionally, Small Group Leaders are asked to follow up with students outside of Wednesday nights.

Expectations and Time Commitment: 4-5 hours/week

• Weekly Leadership Small Group before the Wednesday Night Service: (1 hours)
  
• Wesley Service and following Small Group (2 hours) 
  
• Bi-weekly one-on-one Discipleship (1 hour)
  
• Fellowship Opportunities/Retreats: (seasonal)

WORSHIP

Wesley Worship serves the Wesley body as a whole.  We seek to worship God in spirit and in truth, and lead others to do the same.  Investing into our team’s relationship with Christ, students will grow in their character as well as their musicality.  Unity and community are vital to a worship team.  Over the semester, students are required to attend several all-team nights.  These nights are engaging times of fellowship and teaching, and mandatory to play at services.

Expectations & Time Commitment: 6-8 hours/week

• On weeks playing, a two-night-a-week commitment:
  
• Worship Service (either Monday or Wednesday) [1.5 hours]
  
• Practice (either Monday or Tuesday) [1.5 hours]

Other commitments:

• Regular Wednesday attendance (2 hours)
  
• Bi-weekly one-on-one Discipleship (1 hour)
  
• Monthly All-Team Nights (2 hours)

**You may only select Worship if you have completed a tryout and have been accepted onto the team by a worship director**