Team Trip Member Agreement Form



Code of Conduct

Please read the items below carefully before signing the form:

Once selected to be a part of a Saving Susan Ministry Team, I make a commitment to:

• Go through the required training process prior to departure and after I return from the trip.  If unable to make a meeting I will let the team leader know in advance and review material missed.  

• Be personally responsible for incurred expenses on my behalf.

• Submit to the authority and leadership  of the team leader, host leader in-the-field, and to all outlined team policies.

• Refrain from any behavior that may compromise my personal, team, or church witness.

• Refrain from consumption of alcohol during the trip, including during travel

• Serve others in any way I can.

• Recognize my role in a positive manner for team fellowship and showing grace to fellow team members, agreeing to pray for our team, our mission and myself.  

• As representatives of Jesus Christ, you are responsible to demonstrate a lifestyle consistent with His character and are expected to be men and women of high moral character and whose sexual conduct is consistent with the standards of Scripture. This includes abstaining from any pattern of addiction and from homosexual, premarital, and extramarital sexual conduct.

• Follow the Saving Susan Ministry child protection policy as outlined below:

  • Team members are not allowed to be alone with children on the trip; all interactions should include two or more adults

  • Never leave the team or enter an unsupervised area with a child or children

  • Do not enter the children’s dorms unless authorized by and supervised by a children’s home staff member

  • Do not engage in any inappropriate behavior with or around the children, team members or in-country partners - including sexually explicit, derogatory, or abusive language and actions

  • Minors may supervise activities with children only if under the direct leadership of an adult

  • Physical contact must be appropriate to the situation. If you know the child well or are their Parent Partner, a hug may be appropriate. Otherwise it is safest to err on the side of caution. Fist bumps, high fives, pats on the shoulder, or similar may be more appropriate. Several of the children we partner with have abuse in their past. Ask your team leader for guidance if unsure.

  • Corporal punishment is never appropriate. This includes any punishment involving pain. The children’s home staff is responsible for disciplining the children and any behavioral issues should be brought to your team leader to bring to their attention

  • Any observed or suspected violations to these policies should be brought to the immediate attention of your team leader

  • Focus on these spiritual guidelines when working with young people:

1 Thessalonians 2:11,12 – For you know that we dealt with each of you as a father deals with his own children, encouraging, comforting and urging you to live lives worthy of God, who calls you into his kingdom and glory.  

1 Thessalonians 5:22 – Avoid every kind of evil.  

Philippians 4:8 – Finally brothers, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is admirable -  if anything is excellent or praiseworthy - think about such things.  

James 3:8-10 – …but no man can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison. With the tongue we praise our Lord and Father, and with it we curse men, who have been made in God’s likeness. Out of the same mouth come praise and cursing. My brothers, this should not be.

• Additionally, if at any time while on the project my behavior constitutes a problem, I understand the team leader has the authority to ask me to return home. Any additional expenses incurred on my behalf as a result of this action will be covered at my own expense.

Team Trip Parental Financial Agreement Form

Fill out only if you are the parent of a minor who is applying for a team trip. If this doesn’t apply, selected NA

I am the parent or legal guardian of the participant listed below, hereinafter referred to as “Participating Minor," who has applied to Saving Susan Ministry, Inc. hereinafter “Saving Susan," to participate in a mission project to the project location listed below, on the dates listed below, for said mission project hereinafter referred to as “The Project." As a condition of Saving Susan allowing my Participating Minor to participate in The Project, I hereby acknowledge and agree to the following. I hereby acknowledge and agree that I am financially responsible for the entire cost of my Participating Minor’s participation in The Project. I shall pay Saving Susan a deposit in the amount listed below, in advance of The Project accordingly. I understand that my deposit will be used to cover the cost of my Participating Minor’s participation in The Project and may be used by Saving Susan to make advance purchases of my Participating Minor’s travel accommodations, plane tickets, deposits required at the project location, or to purchase my Participating Minor’s materials for The Project. I understand my deposit is non-refundable to me at any time.

Team Trip Parental Release Form

I, as the parent or legal guardian of the participant listed below, (hereinafter referred to as “Participating Minor”) hereby acknowledge and agree that Participating Minor has applied to Saving Susan Ministry Inc. for permission to participate in Saving Susan’s short-term mission/ministry project to the location listed below, beginning on the dates listed below (said project is hereinafter referred to as “the Project”); and that Saving Susan has accepted Participating Minor on the Project subject to the terms set forth herein below.

 
 

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