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Vision
“The practical and spiritual lessons of this past year will be of use for a lifetime.”
Kairos GAP is more than a year out. It is a year of your life invested in service, training and mentoring.
Service
The gappers typically spend around six hours a day in some kind of Christian volunteer service capacity.
This could be serving the desperately poor living on the rubbish dumps of Manila or speaking to college students in Minnesota about Jesus Christ.
It could be helping with a youth outreach in Latin America or running a street mission in inner city Dublin.
Training
Over the course of the year, the average gapper spends around 400 hours exploring training from life skill topics such as self-management and intercultural awareness to more discipleship topics such as service and scripture.
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Given that a normal college class can take around 40 hours of your time, the GAP year is a bit like 10 classes over a year.
The high training input that goes on in the year is the reason why many gappers point to their GAP year as a foundational year of service and learning impacting the rest of their lives.
Indeed one of the most valued aspects of the year is the space to develop and think about longer term vision for life.
Mentoring
Mentors are a bit like coaches or guides who help you in the learning and serving. At the start of the year your mentor will meet with you to help you articulate your goals for the year and will continue to guide you throughout the year. In our experience, mentors are a crucial piece in helping gappers get the most out of the year and make a good contribution.
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