Rowing Club 2025

Apply to join Rowing Club 2025!

Applications Open: December 20, 2024

Applications Close: February 15, 2025

The best 2 weeks of your summer

Barnabas Rowing Club 2025 is an amazing two-week summer volunteer opportunity for High School students ages 14-18.

You’ll help with dishwashing, food preparation, dining service and childcare for two weeks of Barnabas Summer Family Retreats. Rowing Club is a great opportunity to make new friends, learn to work as a team, stretch your faith, develop your life experience and enjoy two weeks on the northern tip of Keats Island.

Rowing Club is led by our Rowing Club Captain, First Mate and Coxswains.


2025 Dates

There are 5 Rowing Club sessions in 2025. Each Rowing Club session lasts for 2 weeks (except for Rowing Club 1).

Key Tasks

  • Kitchen: washing dishes, assisting in preparing food for the guests, setting tables, and clearing tables.

  • Childcare: involved with early childhood care, ages 0 to 2 years.

  • Cleaning: keeping the public bathrooms and showers cleaned and stocked with paper products

  • Assisting summer staff in their departments on a rotational basis such as waterfront, program, and maintenance, and contributing to the summer staff community life.

Next Steps

If you would like to be considered for Rowing Club 2025, please apply using our online application system. Click Apply Now to start this process. We’ll ask you questions about your experience, your education and your faith journey. We will contact applicants in Spring 2025.

As Rowing Club is extremely popular, we expect the number of applications to greatly exceed the spaces available. As a result, not all applications will be successful.

Note: The application system requires you to give an email address when you create your account. Please use your own email address if possible. If you don’t have your own email address, please use your parent’s or guardian’s email.

Questions?

If you have any questions, please email our Summer Director, Jon Anderson.