Dear,
As you might know, I am leaving first of september for 10 months to London.
The idea is to serve there as a full-time Kairos Gapper.
Here is a short explanation.
Kairos GAP is more than a year out. It is a year of your life invested in service, training and mentoring.
Service
The gappers typically spend around six hours a day in some kind of Christian volunteer service capacity.
This could be serving the desperately poor living on the rubbish dumps of Manila or speaking to college students in Minnesota about Jesus Christ.
It could be helping with a youth outreach in Latin America or running a street mission in inner city Dublin.
Training
Over the course of the year, the average gapper spends around 400 hours exploring training from life skill topics such as self-management and intercultural awareness to more discipleship topics such as service and scripture.
Given that a normal college class can take around 40 hours of your time, the GAP year is a bit like 10 classes over a year.
The high training input that goes on in the year is the reason why many gappers point to their GAP year as a foundational year of service and learning impacting the rest of their lives.
Indeed one of the most valued aspects of the year is the space to develop and think about longer term vision for life.
(http://www.kairos-eme.org/Training/GAP/Vision)
More specific GAP in Londen:
My service will mostly be in Koinonia. This is a mission which reaches university students in London. (Similar to Pharos here in Leuven.)
Most of my work will be reaching out to students in London to tell them about Christ. Alongside the evangelism I will be involved with some administrative tasks for Koinonia, helping out with some youth work in community (Antioch) and a few other service opportunities.
The training consists of:
1. Evangelisation
2. Scripture study
3. project management
4. Local mission – improving as a mission worker
reassurance :)
In case you were wondering. I am indeed going to interrupt my studies for this year of service. Because it is the end of my theoretical studies, it is a good time to serve in another community. After my year of service, I will return to my studies and begin two years of practical studies.
So do not fret, I am looking forward to starting my internships as soon as I come back :)
More questions?
Ask them here and answers will follow!
salut!
Marie-Sophie
more information about GAP: http://www.kairos-eme.org/Training/GAP
more information about Koinonia: http://site.koinonia.co.uk./
As you might know, I am leaving first of september for 10 months to London.
The idea is to serve there as a full-time Kairos Gapper.
Here is a short explanation.
GAP? Never heard of it…
“The practical and spiritual lessons of this past year will be of use for a lifetime.”Kairos GAP is more than a year out. It is a year of your life invested in service, training and mentoring.
Service
The gappers typically spend around six hours a day in some kind of Christian volunteer service capacity.This could be serving the desperately poor living on the rubbish dumps of Manila or speaking to college students in Minnesota about Jesus Christ.
It could be helping with a youth outreach in Latin America or running a street mission in inner city Dublin.
Training
Over the course of the year, the average gapper spends around 400 hours exploring training from life skill topics such as self-management and intercultural awareness to more discipleship topics such as service and scripture.
Given that a normal college class can take around 40 hours of your time, the GAP year is a bit like 10 classes over a year.The high training input that goes on in the year is the reason why many gappers point to their GAP year as a foundational year of service and learning impacting the rest of their lives.
Indeed one of the most valued aspects of the year is the space to develop and think about longer term vision for life.
(http://www.kairos-eme.org/Training/GAP/Vision)
More specific GAP in Londen:
My service will mostly be in Koinonia. This is a mission which reaches university students in London. (Similar to Pharos here in Leuven.)
Most of my work will be reaching out to students in London to tell them about Christ. Alongside the evangelism I will be involved with some administrative tasks for Koinonia, helping out with some youth work in community (Antioch) and a few other service opportunities.
The training consists of:
1. Evangelisation
2. Scripture study
3. project management
4. Local mission – improving as a mission worker
reassurance :)
In case you were wondering. I am indeed going to interrupt my studies for this year of service. Because it is the end of my theoretical studies, it is a good time to serve in another community. After my year of service, I will return to my studies and begin two years of practical studies.
So do not fret, I am looking forward to starting my internships as soon as I come back :)
More questions?
Ask them here and answers will follow!
salut!
Marie-Sophie
more information about GAP: http://www.kairos-eme.org/Training/GAP
more information about Koinonia: http://site.koinonia.co.uk./
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