C.A.U.S.E. Intern & Resident Application


Welcome to the C.A.U.S.E Program Application!
We’re so excited that you’re interested in the C.A.U.S.E program! Before you begin, please take a moment to review these important steps to ensure your application is complete.

Before You Apply:

1. Download the C.A.U.S.E Informational Packet
This packet provides in-depth details about each opportunity within the program, helping you make the best choice when completing your application. CAUSE Info Packet

2. Prepare Your Autobiographical Essay
This essay must be written in a separate document and uploaded at the end of this application. It should include:
  • Home Life: Share a brief overview of your home life, including interpersonal relationships, your family’s spiritual or religious background, current family worship practices, and attitude toward Christian living and service. If applicable, please note any history of addiction, substance abuse, legal issues, or other significant factors.
  • Spiritual Journey: Describe your spiritual growth, including when and how you became a Christian, what Scripture means to you, the role of prayer in your life, your spiritual gifts, and opportunities for Christian fellowship.
  • Ministry Involvement: Detail your ministry experience, both as a participant and a leader (e.g., mission trips, Sunday school, youth group). Be sure to include roles, duration, and responsibilities.
  • Vocational and Ministry Goals: Share your long-term vocational and ministry aspirations, and explain how an Internship or Residency at Armitage will help you achieve them.
3. Submit a Pastor’s Reference Form
Please send the CAUSE Pastor's Reference Form to your pastor for completion. They can submit it to steve.laughlin@armitagechurch.org.

What You’ll Need for This Application: 
  • Education history
  • Work history
  • Current church information
  • References (non-relatives)

Personal Information

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Education

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Work Experience

Please list your last two work experiences.
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Health Insurance

Emergency Contact

Church Information

Where you currently attend or hold a membership status.

Lifestyle Questionnaire

You are being considered for the role of either Intern or Resident. This ministry carries a high level of responsibility in the church and should be held only by those whose lives demonstrate the internal and external qualities outlined in Romans 14:7, 13; 1 Thes. 5:22; and 1 John 2:15. We request that you read these passages of Scripture and prayerfully and thoughtfully answer the following questions:

Doctrinal Statement

Please read our doctrinal positions and indicate whether you are in agreement with our church.

1. We believe in the verbal inspiration of the entire Bible, in the original manuscripts, which is inerrant, supreme and final in all matters of belief and practice.

2. We believe in one God eternally existing in three persons: Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

3. We believe in Jesus Christ as fully God and fully man, His conception by the Holy Spirit, His virgin birth, His bodily resurrection, and His personal, visible return with power and great glory.

4. We believe that man, being created by a direct act of God, was an innocent, free, moral being; that he sinned and thereby incurred the penalty of physical and spiritual death, not only for himself but also for the entire human race, with the result that we are all sinful by nature.

5. We believe that Jesus Christ, by His substitutionary death on the cross, secured salvation for all those who will receive Him as their only Savior; that these, who are regenerated by the Holy Spirit, will never perish; and that it is impossible for anyone to be saved except by Jesus Christ.

6. We believe that the universal, invisible church is composed of all believers; that the local, visible church is a congregation of baptized believers in a particular locality, associated for worship, fellowship, service and observance of the ordinances; and that this local church is independent in that the only authority over it is that of Christ and the Word of God.

7. We believe that every Christian should be baptized (immersed) in water in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit; that baptism is an outward act of obedience, symbolic of God’s inner work of regeneration; and that it represents the believer’s identification with Christ, his baptism by the Holy Spirit and his good conscience before God.

8. We believe in the observance of the Lord’s Supper as the symbol of continual, spiritual fellowship with our Savior; that it is for believers only; and that by doing this we remember His death until He comes.

9. We believe in the ultimate triumph of Jesus Christ, His church and righteousness at His glorious appearing, in the resurrection of the dead, in the eternal blessedness of the saved and in the eternal, conscious suffering of the unsaved.

Autobiographical Essay

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    References (do not include relatives)

    Please indicate at least three references who are able to answer questions about your skills, talents, gifts, strengths, and weaknesses. By giving us this information, you are giving consent to contact them and request information about your life.

    Acknowledgment & Consent

    Upon acceptance as an intern at Armitage Baptist Church, you will be required to complete a background check. If your selected track involves working with minors, you must also complete the Mandated Reporter Training for the state of Illinois.

    I also give my consent for Armitage Baptist Church to verify this information and contact the references I have provided. I understand that typing my name serves as my legal signature.

    A copy of your responses will be sent to your email address.