About Us
Many more men and women are desperately needed to join in the effort to spread the gospel in this country and overseas.
Over the last 10 years, 9:38 has helped to respond to this need by encouraging Christians (especially students and those in their 20s and 30s) to consider a lifetime in full-time gospel ministry.
- 9:38 encourages churches to set up apprenticeship schemes - 1 or 2 year placements for young Christians to test the water and receive some ministry training (there are currently about 200 schemes in the country).
- Hundreds of young men and women have attended 9:38 conferences to consider full-time ministry and been given a ministry mindset.
- Recruitment and training has been placed higher up on the agenda at many churches.
Our ‘bread and butter' is running conferences for Christians considering going into full-time gospel ministry. We run one for undergraduate students, which has a wider aim of encouraging students to make gospel decisions whatever they end up doing, and one for ‘workers', which includes postgraduates, and are generally but not exclusively, for those in their 20s or 30s. We also run a conference just for apprentices, which aims to equip them for their current and future ministry and build up a peer group of young likeminded gospel workers.
We pioneered apprenticeship schemes, and now help churches set them up and recruit for them. These aim to give the apprentice a taste of what full-time gospel ministry is like, offer the beginning of a theological education, and be a stepping stone into further ministry longterm.
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