VOLUNTEERS
Thank you for your interest in volunteering for LifeLight. Please complete the application and choose your preferred areas to work. There is an option to choose to work the festival and/or work at events year round.
The festival is broken down into the following areas:
FinanceFinance is responsible for collecting and managing donations and vendor commissions throughout the festival weekend. Offering ushers, counters, vendor check-out workers are all needed. We usually take two offerings per day at the main stage and one offering per day at the other stages. Over 100 volunteers are needed to assist with offerings.
Production
Production is responsible to assure all stages are loaded and functioning for each artist performance. Stage hands, sound technicians, video camera shooters, and other production areas are needed. These positions are usually filled through the production manager, if you have trained skills in any of these areas please e-mail us and indicate what your skills and interests are for volunteering in the production area.
Ministry is the most important area of the festival. It is why we do the festival! Prayer Counselors, Student Ministry street teams, Children’s area workers, and Missions tent workers are all needed. Over 300 prayer partners/counselors are needed to pray with new believers and those who are rededicating their lives to Christ in the prayer tents. Student ministry street teams are out in the crowds at the Souled Out stage talking with kids about the Lord. Children’s area workers help with all activities and also pray with children accepting Christ as their Savior. Missions tent workers encourage those entering the tents to consider going on a LifeLight Missions trip and providing information about how to support and encourage missionaries around the world.
Volunteers who wish to work in the prayer tent ministries must register by attending one session of training and orientation every year. If you do not attend one of the sessions listed below you are not registered and will not be permitted to volunteer in the prayer tent ministries. You do not have to pre-register to attend a training session.
Prayer Counseling Training Sessions (must attend one session)
1. Sat July 12 @ 10:00 AM @ New Haven Ministries @ 27213 473rd Ave
2. Sat July 26 @ 10:00 AM @ Abiding Savior Free Lutheran Church @ 4100 S Bahnson Ave
3. Mon July 28 @ 7:00 PM @ Trinity Baptist Church @ 2400 W 18th St
4. Sat August 2 @ 10:00 AM @ Central Baptist Church @ 3100 W Ralph Rogers Rd
The training sessions are scheduled for 1.5 hours in length. At the training, you will receive the sample supplies and materials that will be used as our evangelism tools for the 2008 LifeLight Festival on Labor Day Weekend.
Media
Media is responsible to capture all the areas of the festival and year round events on camera, being it video or images. Media also facilitates press interviews and provides press releases about the ministry to local, regional, and national media outlets. Media is also in charge of promoting the festival through distributing posters, web site advertisements, and other forms of advertising. If you have skills in photography our photography coordinator will contact you about helping shoot pictures at the festival and other events. Volunteers to distribute posters around Sioux Falls and area communities are also needed.
Hospitality
Hospitality is responsible to provide a place to relax and have something to eat and drink for our artists, sponsors, and volunteers. In order to make these areas as comfortable and inviting as possible volunteers are needed to assist our decorator in decorating all of our hospitality areas prior to the festival and tear down decorations after the festival. Volunteers are also needed who have skills in cooking and serving food. We also need people/groups to bring certain types of foods such as salads, pies, cookies, etc, which are served in the hospitality areas.
Camping
Camping provides an area for thousands of people to gather and camp throughout the festival weekend. Setting up the campground requires volunteers who can help with electric, plumbing, and site development and planning. During the festival our camping attendants help check-in campers and escort them to their camping spot or area. We also need volunteers to help in the camp store with retail sales of items for campers.
Festival Relations is responsible to provide assistance to all of our vendors, guests, and artists at the festival. Volunteers are needed to sell artist products in the main vendor tent, assist people at our information booth, provide programs and welcome all participants at our entrance gates, and provide other assistance to artist as needed.
Operations
Operations is responsible for all functions of the festival, pre, during, and post. Operations prepares the land for the event building roads, putting up fences, setting up electricity, and plumbing were needed. Operations works with all areas to help meet their needs to function properly, Volunteers are needed who have skills in the areas of carpentry, electric, plumbing, machine operations, grading, construction, etc. If you’re a hard worker who enjoys working with your hands and being outside this is the area for you. We really need pre and post festival volunteers who can help one week prior or one week post festival. Building a city in a week and then tearing it down is truly an amazing process to be a part of, come join us!!
Risk Management is responsible to assure the public remains safe throughout the event. It handles parking, event safety, public safety planning, radio communications, medical personnel, and shuttle services from town. Hundreds of volunteers are needed to help with parking, this area is great for group volunteering. There are several parking lots around the venue traffic is routed too, it is Risk Managements responsibility to assure cars drive through the parking lots safety and are directed to their parking spots quickly. Event safety assists festival participants with safety issues around the grounds. Overnight volunteers are needed who can walk the grounds and assure a safe environment for campers and vendors throughout the day and night hours. Crowd safety and control is also an area that event safety is responsible for. Medical personnel, mainly EMT’s and nurses are needed to operate our first aid stations at the festival. If you have skills in any of these areas we would love the help!
Volunteer Coordination Team
The volunteer coordination team is responsible to communicate with all of the above area coordinators to provide them with volunteers who have signed up for those areas. The volunteer team needs people who like data entry, office work, phone calling and e-mailing. The festival needs over 1,000 volunteers to operate smoothly and the volunteer team is key in communicating with all those needed in every area.
