One of the real benefits of a MTS apprenticeship is the opportunity to experience being a full-time Gospel worker. You could describe the experience as “being immersed up to your eye-balls in ministry” – though always in safe way, under the watchful oversight of your trainer.
It is difficult for an apprentice with work commitments to fully experience being a full-time Gospel worker as the demands of ministry are such that that will continually be forced to choose between work and ministry – between say finishing the preparation for tonight’s bible study group, or getting to work on time.
To ensure an apprentice fully benefits from a ministry apprenticeship, MTS usually does not permit Team Leader or Team Member apprenticeships to be undertaken on a part-time basis.