After supper, students attend another prayer meeting. The rest of the evening is for studying and preparing for weekend ministry assignments. The strength of the program is the combination of Bible study, ministry preparation and mission training, she said. The structure allows the students to focus exclusively on study and spiritual disciplines. We're not going home to families or other jobs.
Students come with the decision already made to be in full-time ministry.
During weekends, the students work in congregations. Wenger spends three hours on the train to get to her assignment in Yokohama. In addition to a variety of roles in worship services, she works in open-air evangelism, often visiting neighborhood parks and telling stories to children. She also teaches English classes, closing each class with a brief Bible study. One of her strongest lessons from Japanese Christians is devotion to church life.