FAQs

We will be having a good amount of time in the classroom learning and there will be both group and individual projects/assignments to complete but Rooted is not like high school with grades and report cards.  That being said, each student is still called to do their best and to be ready for discussions and to complete all of the assignments.  As Colossians 3:23 says, “Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as if working for the Lord…”

One thing that we are very conscious of is not to have the Rooted students to feel like slaves being called to work all the time.  However, we also feel that work offers a lot of opportunity to learn and grow.  Instead of each week having the same amount of work there will instead be work weeks (4-6 throughout the year) where we will be working more hours in order to help during larger weekly events at Tuscarora.  In those weeks we will not have an intensive class but will still have reading assignments and discussions.  There will also be some work that we will do each week and opportunities for people who are interested to learn in specific areas of ministry if they would be interested in pursuing that in the future.

There will be fun!  There will be time to just hang out together but all sorts of adventures that we have planned in the area and in the big cities around us.  There are all sorts of towns with everything you would want to do within 30/40 minutes and New York and Philly just 1 1/2 hours away.

We can fit up to 16 people in our current housing!

The desire is for each person to have a roommate, but there are some single occupancy rooms if we need to use them.  Each person will also be in an apartment within the dorm which each have their own bathroom, lounge/living room and kitchenette.  These efficiencies have one or two bedrooms and will be for 2,3, or 4 students each.

The year will roughly be split between work weeks, learning weeks and travel/missions weeks, broken down to 60% learning weeks, 20% travel weeks, and 20% work weeks.