One of the aspects of the Leadership Project is that students are required to work 35-40 hours a week at a local place of employment. (For collegiate athletes its 25-30 max.) There are many reasons for incorporating jobs as a required element of the Leadership Project. First, we want the students to have a day-to-day experience with others outside the project in order to use their place of employment as a field of ministry. It is our desire to see them build relationships with their fellow employees and even bosses and use these relationships as a means of communicating the Gospel of Christ. Second, we set it up so that the students can work with the other people in their discipleship group so as to continue to cultivate an enviroment of life on life discipleship. This means that they would have another area of life where they live alongside other participants who desire to know more of Christ and use these life experiences as a means of pushing each other in their spiritual walks. Another benefit of requiring our students to work these jobs is that we desire that the students would learn what it is to be disciplined and exhibit a healthy work ethic.

Getting Jobs:

We, as a ministry, have on going relationships with many of the businesses in Myrtle Beach and we use these relationships as a means of assisting the students in finding jobs. A team of our Campus Outreach Greenville staff will visit Myrtle Beach in March and reconnect with these employers to set up potential job opportunities for the project participants. During one of the orientation days at the beginning of the project, students will go out and connect with these potential employees. Most of the students will get a job that same day!

Potential Employers: Walmart, Build a Bear, Wendy's, Old Navy, Sketchers, Banana Republic, Johnny Rockets, and more!