GATEWAY TRAINING CENTER
The Gateway Training Center focuses on providing training and experience for growth and development for those who have a calling for cross-cultural ministry to serve effectively in any context.
Cross-Cultural Training Program
Athens is the largest and capital city of Greece, is a crossroads between the East and the West, Europe and the Middle East/North Africa, and between Christianity and Islam. It is a city where civilizations meet and cultures fuse, where refugees from Africa, the Middle East and Central Asia find shelter. It is also where the Lord is using His children to reach out to people from many cultures to witness about the Good News of Jesus Christ, show compassion and love, and tend to the various needs for people from many nations.
The Vision of the Gateway Training Center Cross-Cultural Training Program is to see trained believers ministering effectively in their own home context or internationally, by providing training and experience for growth and development for those who have a calling for cross-cultural ministry to serve effectively in any context.
Located in Athens, the program gives participants, through EME Ministries and other influential partnering churches and organizations, the opportunity to be trained on how to minister to people from other countries.
For more information on the program and its phases please read through our Cross-Cultural Program Booklet by clicking on the link below.
SIP Program
Have you even wondered what the apostle Paul’s journey through Greece felt like? The places he saw, the people he met, and the opportunities to witness about the gospel of Jesus Christ that changed his life? Well, now you can follow in his footsteps by visiting the places he traveled to understand what it is like to minister to people from different cultures, and to participate in practical outreach – all in one month!
The Gateway Training Center (in Athens, Greece) has developed the internship program with three areas in mind:
- First week of ‘Footsteps of the apostle Paul’ tour in Greece (from Philippi to Corinth).
- Three weeks of outreach in and around Athens and the island of Kefalonia.
- Training seminars on specific topics related to outreach and cross-cultural communication during the above four weeks.
The two months before the internship, participants will be expected to attend six two-hour training sessions as planning and preparation for the internship. At the end of the internship, a comprehensive debriefing will take place together with training how to re-enter into your own home context.
If you want to follow in the footsteps of Paul and his co-workers, learn more about reaching the nations with the love, compassion and Good News of our Lord Jesus Christ, want to experience the life and culture in Greece, and/or want to discern how the Lord wants to use you as He advances His Kingdom, then this may be the internship for you!
Please feel free to download our SIP brochure for more information.