• American citizen                                                  
• Excellent grammar and spelling skills
• Excellent research skills
• Microsoft Office Word
• USB foot pedal
• High-speed internet service
• Digital playback software such as Express Scribe

          or Bytescribe WavPlayer

• Ability to stay on a tight schedule
• Ability to take constructive criticism
• Biblical knowledge (see below). 

Biblical Knowledge

Biblical knowledge doesn't mean you went to Vacation Bible School when you were a child or even that you go to church now; it means you know the Bible well enough to recognize mistakes in a sermon. For instance, if a pastor says, "Turn in your Bibles to the Gospel of John, and let's begin reading in chapter 1, verse 1, 'That which was from the beginning, which we have heard...,'" do you immediately know what is wrong with that sentence? If you don't, and if you can't answer most of the following questions without getting out your Bible to find the answers, then you do not have enough biblical knowledge to work for DST.

1. Who threw a javelin at David?

2. Who told her husband, "Curse God and die"?

3. Which book of the Bible begins, "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God..."?

4. Who said, "Lord, thou knowest all things; thou knowest that I love thee"?

5. Where in the Bible would you find the "love chapter"?

6. Who is known as the "weeping prophet"?

7. What are the fruits of the Spirit?

8. Who did Boaz marry?

9. Who said, "I pray thee, let a double portion of thy spirit be upon me"?

10. Who wrote Ecclesiastes? 

Note: It is not necessary to send us the answers to these questions.