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A series of posts about MTS

Saturday, 13 January, 2007

This is something I've been meaning to write about for ages—not just because I'm editing the MTS handbook but because a number of my friends (like Pakman, Elsie, Haoran [and Sarah by association] and Jo) are either just starting out with MTS or currently engaged in MTS. I starting thinking about blogging stuff about MTS ever since the day that Jo and I had coffee at BerkelouW's—not because I am the authority on MTS (because I'm certainly not that—I only ever got roped into MTS because Ben was doing it, and Ben did it because he had always had notions of doing something in ministry—becoming a missionary, being a minister, etc.—and by the end of his third year of Uni, MTS was something he really wanted to try). I wanted to write some stuff on MTS partly to reflect on what MTS was like for me, doing it part-time at the University of Wollongong with the Evangelical Christian Union alongside Ben, and partly to preserve my memories of what it was like (without breaking confidentiality or being too specific) because I don't think I blogged much about what it was actually like. For, among other things, this blog functions as a mnemonic—an external repository for the things I want to remember.

But I want to write the posts as if I'm giving my advice, which probably fits better with where I am now, two years out from when I finished MTS. Memory is faulty and I know that I've probably forgotten a lot of things, and yet some things have stayed with me which I think are useful and important for green trainees to know. That said, my experience is only one of many, and it is coloured by bias and the character of what happened during 2003-2004: take what helps you and disregard the rest.

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