Attach an essay describing your Christian journey and addressing the following: When you became a Christian, your growth as a Christian, your basic beliefs, recent involvement in church and school, and goals for the future, etc.) Comparing your Christian faith to a sport, how have you prepared for it? How do you train? When and how do you practice? Is it a priority? What position do you play? How do you hope to improve? What are your gifts and talents that you might use in missions and service to bring good news to others? How do you feel about working with and ministering to persons who are of ethnic and/or religious backgrounds different from your own? Are you ready to make a commitment to deliberately attending to your Christian growth and being held accountable to that commitment? Would you do it even if there was no scholarship available?