Common Fire, Seasonal Staff and Year Round Positions
If you are interested in summer staff opportunities please click the 'Summer Staff' link to the left or click : Summer Staff Page
Scroll down for information about all of our year-round and seasonal opportunities. Application, job description, background check and reference forms below.
Calvin Crest's Seasonal Staff/Common Fire program is a community. For one or two semesters, high school or college graduates, age 18 or older, are invited to work, learn, and live together at Calvin Crest. For the nine months that constitutes the bulk of Calvin Crest's activity, Central Valley sixth-graders attend our Outdoor School, and guest groups from churches and other organizations utilize our facilities weekdays and weekends. CommonFire employees serve as support staff for these groups, cooking meals and cleaning facilities. Beyond work CommonFire is a chance to grow, a chance to find faith, freedom, and discipline, and a chance to learn what it means to live in community. Participants receive room, board, and a small stipend.
While you are retreating to God’s creation you are not retreating from the world. Your time on Staff is intended to prepare you to make valuable contributions to the communities where you live and work, encourage others to a closer relationship with Christ and demonstrate true servant leadership. Being in mission service means being relevant, meaningful and attractive to the world without becoming of the world. It means turning up the volume and listening to the needs of others, then being willing to actually do something to meet those needs. It means doing this for all, not just those most like you. You will receive from the Common Fire experience in direct proportion to what you invest in it.
You will be expected to work an average of 40 hours a week (some weeks more, some maybe less) under the direction and care of your supervisor and full-time staff leadership of Calvin Crest. You will be paid for your work and receive free room and board. The ministry is manifested through your service of guests and amongst you as an individual, team and community. Your work, no matter what it is, plays a vital role in the whole of what takes place here at Calvin Crest and in the kingdom of God. Our call as Christians is to be servant leaders, serving before being served, and to exercise stewardship of time, talents and treasures. We should work as if Christ is at our side. You are expected to take responsibility and accountability for your actions. The ability to work effectively arms you with the ability to sustain yourself and your family. Bible study, community time, peer support and life skills training help young adults learn and grow. If you are interested in becoming a part of this, fill out the forms below by downloading them then mailing or faxing them in.
2008-2009 Common Fire Contract Seasonal Application Form Background Check Release Form
Address: Calvin Crest Conferences
Ref: CommonFire Application
45800 Calvin Crest Rd., Oakhurst, CA 93644
Fax: (559) 683-7118
For more information, call the Calvin Crest office at (559) 685-4450.
Or you can apply online by clicking HERE (you must still download, fill out and send us the "Background Release Form")
To send us a reference for a Non-Summer Job Applicant click HERE
If you are interested in summer staff opportunities please click the 'Summer Staff' link to the left or click : Summer Staff Page
Scroll down for information about all of our year-round and seasonal opportunities. Application, job description, background check and reference forms below.
Calvin Crest's Seasonal Staff/Common Fire program is a community. For one or two semesters, high school or college graduates, age 18 or older, are invited to work, learn, and live together at Calvin Crest. For the nine months that constitutes the bulk of Calvin Crest's activity, Central Valley sixth-graders attend our Outdoor School, and guest groups from churches and other organizations utilize our facilities weekdays and weekends. CommonFire employees serve as support staff for these groups, cooking meals and cleaning facilities. Beyond work CommonFire is a chance to grow, a chance to find faith, freedom, and discipline, and a chance to learn what it means to live in community. Participants receive room, board, and a small stipend.
While you are retreating to God’s creation you are not retreating from the world. Your time on Staff is intended to prepare you to make valuable contributions to the communities where you live and work, encourage others to a closer relationship with Christ and demonstrate true servant leadership. Being in mission service means being relevant, meaningful and attractive to the world without becoming of the world. It means turning up the volume and listening to the needs of others, then being willing to actually do something to meet those needs. It means doing this for all, not just those most like you. You will receive from the Common Fire experience in direct proportion to what you invest in it.
You will be expected to work an average of 40 hours a week (some weeks more, some maybe less) under the direction and care of your supervisor and full-time staff leadership of Calvin Crest. You will be paid for your work and receive free room and board. The ministry is manifested through your service of guests and amongst you as an individual, team and community. Your work, no matter what it is, plays a vital role in the whole of what takes place here at Calvin Crest and in the kingdom of God. Our call as Christians is to be servant leaders, serving before being served, and to exercise stewardship of time, talents and treasures. We should work as if Christ is at our side. You are expected to take responsibility and accountability for your actions. The ability to work effectively arms you with the ability to sustain yourself and your family. Bible study, community time, peer support and life skills training help young adults learn and grow. If you are interested in becoming a part of this, fill out the forms below by downloading them then mailing or faxing them in.
2008-2009 Common Fire Contract Seasonal Application Form Background Check Release Form
Address: Calvin Crest Conferences
Ref: CommonFire Application
45800 Calvin Crest Rd., Oakhurst, CA 93644
Fax: (559) 683-7118
For more information, call the Calvin Crest office at (559) 685-4450.
Or you can apply online by clicking HERE (you must still download, fill out and send us the "Background Release Form")
To send us a reference for a Non-Summer Job Applicant click HERE