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Entrance survey

Congratulations on becoming a Preaching Fellow in the Iowa Preachers Project! We're looking forward to all of getting to know each other over the program year. To get things started, please complete the survey below. Asterisks indicate required fields.

First, the official housekeeping stuff

What is your emergency contact's relationship to you?

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Please tell us the airport out of which you'd fly when we make air travel arrangements for you (for events where you're not within driving distance).

Please upload a jpeg of a photo of you that we can use in telling other sinners about the good stuff God is doing in the Project. Points for shots of preaching action! (Your upload indicates your permission to use the photo.)

Now, the fun stuff

What's something interesting or unique about you that has nothing at all to do with preaching?

What song do you think everyone should have on their personal playlist?

If you could travel anywhere in the world (and cost weren't a question), where would you go?

What theological book has been most influential for you?

What's your favorite non-theological book (acknowledging, of course, that everything is theological!)?

What Bible story, passage, or book would you never want to preach on?

If you had a pet parrot, what word or phrase would you teach it to say (keeping in mind they can live 100 years and may annoy your successor as owner)?

What's your favorite Bible verse? Why?

Please complete this sentence: "When I think of prunes, I..."

Let us know what other comments or information you think it's important for us to know.

The Iowa Preachers Project at Grand View University gratefully partners with Mockingbird  Ministries and is the recipient of generous funding from the Compelling Preaching Initiative of Lilly Endowment Inc.

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