The Gate Church International
Refine is a training programme designed to nurture, train, equip and release young people to serve God and recognize their potential. Lasting for 10 months, Refine is aimed at young people taking a year out between school or college and university, or before launching their career after university. If you have a passion in your heart and fire in your spirit to get real with God, allow Him to shape and mould your character and serve His church, then this is for you!
The heart of Refine is that young people will establish themselves more firmly in their faith and be released and envisioned into whatever call God has placed upon their lives. They will be trained in the daily things of God, His word, and ministry, the heart of a servant within the church context, supporting and establishing new projects both within the church and in the local community.
Gordon Stewart, pastor of Gate Church International, believes that Refine can be foundational in peoples’ lives:
“It delights the heart of God when someone is willing to give themselves to serve Him wholeheartedly for a season without any limitations, where He can take them from a little self belief to being on fire for God believing and dreaming for the impossible. Daring to dream is free – actualizing your dreams will cost.”
Key Features of Refine
· Cultivating a pastor’s heart
· Training in spiritual leadership and discipleship
· Evangelism
· Deepen your understanding of God’s logos word
· Discover God’s call for your life
· Corporate and individual prayer
· Establishing a daily personal and corporate devotional time
· Social action and community influence
· Team building
· Mission
The 2007-08 session has now finished, but if you are interested in applying to join Refine next year, please get in touch! Email info@the-gate.org.uk
“All my life I have suffered from terrible fears due to traumas I was subjected to as a child, and I grew up not able to cope with life. I was adopted at an early age, and was always desperately unhappy and anxious about everything.....”