Participant Expectations
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Program Focus: To develop and unleash the leadership abilities and dreams of high school students to make an impact for Christ.
Imagine the Impact’s Leadership Institute is an experience rooted in five core values: Christ, Community, Character, Competency, and Calling. Participants are expected to take ownership for learning and growth in these five areas to help guide them into becoming life long leaders with Godly leadership development habits:
Christ
The exploration, nurturing and development of a relationship with Jesus Christ that is the central focus of life.Community
People are placed in community, exist in community, and will always be living in some form of community. Leaders lead in the midst of the communities where they are placed. Godly leadership in the midst of community is critical whether in settings like Imagine the Impact, in family settings, or in the midst of peers.Character
A leader can only grow as deep and wide as the character in the leader’s heart. Imagine the Impact stresses the importance of developing life long habits that positions a person for continual character growth.Competency
Leading from a position of godly character in the midst of one’s community while living a Christ centered life will allow a person to be mightily used by God. Imagine the Impact provides skills training that will build upon this foundation while instilling the principle that leaders are life-long learners.Calling
Author, Os Guiness, says in his book "The Call" that everyone, everywhere, in everything is called by God, to God, for God. Understanding that idea allows people to seek God and catch a glimpse of what He has created in them that can be used for His glory. Imagine the Impact leads young leaders on a journey of discovering this Calling in their life.General Expectations:
- A personal relationship with Jesus Christ and a desire to grow deeper in this relationship.
- Attendance and participation in a local church.
- Students are expected to choose either the Standard or Advanced Graduation Track and passionately pursue excellence in the midst of the Track that is chosen. Students are asked to determine a track at the time of their application. Adjustment of this decision may occur at the end of the first residential experience.
- Students are expected to choose a mentor that will connect with the student through out the Imagine the Impact institute. The mentor must be approved by the student’s parents/guardians and be willing to read and sign the mentor expectations form.
- Students are expected to be entering 10th, 11th or 12th grade in the Fall of the year that Imagine the Impact institute is begun.
- Students are expected to have a work ethic that demonstrates a desire to grow and learn.
- Imagine the Impact staff recognizes that any time students of like age are mixed in a community that boy-girl relationships can occur. Relationships of this kind are not to be pursued during the three residential gatherings. Signs of this occurring will be strongly discouraged.
- Students are expected to leave all electronic devices at home (Cell phones, MP3 players, portable video game devices, etc.)
- Alcohol, tobacco products, and recreational or illegal drugs are not to be used.
- Students, Parents/Guardians, and the student’s local church are expected to provide their financial portion accordingly to the schedule explained on the Financial Expectations form unless different arrangements are made.