Frequently Asked Questions - short term

Testdrive is a hands on church planting experience in Australia. You will still be working with unreached peoples helping with evangelism, discipleship and gathering them into communities. You can do a testdrive as short as a weekend. It's a great way to get the feeling for WEC and church planting among the unreached.

Trek is the short term program where you can visit a field overseas that you're interested in. The orientation process is longer and the debrief process more involved to help you get the most out of your cross cultural experience. You can do an individual trek or get a group together.

Testdrive is held in Sydney with a team of church planters working primarily among muslims.

Overseas trek programs can be arranged  in Asia, Middle East, Africa and Europe.

There are five essentials:

1. You need to have a living relationship with God that is confirmed by your church leadership.
2. You need to be interested in exploring cross cultural church planting ministries with an openness to have God lead you back into such a minitry for a longer period.
3. You need to have a church that is willing to send you.
4. You need to be over 17.
5. If you are going for longer than six weeks, you will need to have medical and police checks.

1. First you need to get in touch with us by expressing your interest, making an application online or by speaking to a mobiliser (1300 788 566)
2. Discuss where you'd like to go and for how long
3. You'll then introduce your mobiliser to your sending church leadership
4. Fill in some forms possibly including a medical one
5. Participate in a short term orientation (if doing a trek)
6. Go on your short term church planting experience
7. Spend some time debriefing when you return (if doing a trek)
8. Within six months of returning join in a post-trek experience and another short debriefing