Who are you?

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

First name

What name do you go by?

Last name

Full name as shown on ID

Needed for airline reservations

Street address

City

State

Postal code

Birth date

Month

Day

Year

Needed for airline reservations

Personal email

Work email

Preferred email address

Personal email

Work email

Cell phone

Work phone

Preferred phone

Cell phone

Work phone

Emergency contact

Emergency contact phone

Relationship

What is your emergency contact's relationship to you?

Congregation where you serve

Congregation Address

Congregation city

Congregation state

Postal code

Food allergies/dietary restrictions

Airport

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

Airline loyalty programs

If you have a frequent flyer membership, please list the airline/s and membership number/s.

Photo

Please upload a jpeg of a a headshot of you that we can use in telling others about the good stuff God is doing in the Project. (Your upload indicates your permission to use the photo.)

Photo release

Yes

No

Do you give the Iowa Preachers Project to use photos of you taken at events in its various recruitment and marketing materials ?

Now, the fun stuff

Unusual fact

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

Favorite snacks/drinks

What's your favorite hymn?

Playlist song

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

Travel fantasy

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

Serious book

What theological book has been influential for you should everybody read?

Fun book

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

Preaching text

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

Bible verse

What's your favorite Bible verse? Why?

Who I am as a preacher

I'm no St. Paul, but I'm catching up

I'm close to being able to bring in the parousia

I'm new at this, but I'm eager to learn

I rely on a homiletical cookbook, but I have the basics down

I easily improvise a meal of meat and potatoes sermon on a weekly basis

Choose one option to describe what kind of preacher you've become

Parrot

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)?

Ping pong balls

If you had 10,000 ping pong balls, what would you do with them?

Prunes

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

Other

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