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Alternatively, you can phone Alan Ward on 0114 267 1090 or email him at alan.ward@stthomascrookes.org
(If you email us, please include a short paragraph about yourself along with the name of your church and your minister)
Testimonies from previous trainees...
Bekki
Form was an incredibly challenging and exciting year for me. My relationship with God is totally incomparable to how it was when I started. It was a difficult decision for me to give up a year for God but He has blessed it so much. I began the year feeling afraid, I loved God but felt inadequate and unsure of how He could possibly use me. Now I know that God uses me everyday in small and large ways and that all I want from my life is to serve him and love others.
Andy
The fact that you set aside a year to go deeper with God and with others shows that you want to seek first the Kingdom. My testimony is that as you engage with form and seek God and as he leads and prompts you to speak, listen and act then He really does amazing things.
Bryony
I’m really glad I made the decision to come to Sheffield and do form. I will remember my form year as a year where I grew closer to God, learnt more about myself, found more clarity about what God was calling me to and made some amazing friends!
Form isn’t like going to theological college or Bible school: it’s not about sitting in a classroom. For me form was about learning what it is to be a disciple, and then putting it into practice the next day in the workplace and in my ministry. This was challenging, encouraging, frustrating and exciting, and I’m so glad I did it!
Steve
I really enjoyed my form year because it gave me the tools and the time to invest myself in other things – both inside and outside church – in a way that wouldn’t have been possible if I’d been in full-time work or study. I loved the variety of input that we had and the structured teaching was helpful, but beyond that there’s loads to be learnt simply from spending time with other people learning to follow Jesus. Expect God both to grow good fruit in your life and to cut away the deadwood. I learnt things about God during my form year that I’m sure will stay with me for the rest of my life.
Lois
For me form was about learning how to live a life of discipline and of grace, learning what it means to really love God and those around me, learning that who I am and what I do are not the same, and that the first is not defined by the second. Form teaches you about community and His awesome provision. So don't worry if you think you can’t afford it because He can, and He provided for us over and over. God seemed to meet everyone wherever they were at - for me there were no bolts of lighting or huge changes but just a steady consolidation of the truth and freedom I have in Christ. It's also a lot of fun!
