What is the 'Training Ordinary Apprentices to Go' Internship?
       The acronym (pronounce it “tow-ag”) defines our purpose “Training Ordinary Apprentices
       to Go.”  Since her inception in 2000, more than 200 interns have been trained for effective,
       long-term living overseas. Each year, 10-20 new interns band together to cross cultural
       barriers and welcome others into the Kingdom of Heaven. The 14 hours/week
       after-hours internship allows them to keep their full-time jobs or attend school. To view a
       schedule of a typical TOAG week, click here.

      Where is the apprenticeship held?
       The internship is based in the Phoenix, Arizona metropolitan area, but TOAG has satellite
       internships in Atlanta, Iowa City, Sacramento and Detroit, Michigan. Internships in Canada
       and Arkansas may begin soon. Churches and organizations wishing to use the TOAG
       curriculum in their own setting are encouraged to first send someone through TOAG.
       In addition, we provide three day, 3T Workshops (Training of Trainers) when needed.
       Click here to send an email inquiring about the next TTT.

      Why do I need training before serving overseas?
       How many zealous Christians have made the costly decision to forgo family and friends to
       head overseas …only to discover too late that they lack both the skills and the passion for
       apostolic living in difficult places around the world? Without a driving passion for Jesus,
       we become ‘salesmen’ for our foreign religion rather than lovers of the Kingdom of God;
       without a commitment to advance righteousness and justice along with reconciliation
       between God and man we often end up recruiting for mere western Christianity rather than
       sharing the Good News of the Kingdom.
       TOAG is blood-earnest about three core passions: a passion for Jesus, a passion for His
       Kingdom, and a passion for going strategically to places where Jesus Communities are not…
       yet. Previous generations might have been afforded the luxury of promoting “church and
       Christianity.” Today’s unreached have often been so wounded by Colonial Christianity and
       so oppose the western church, this next generation of Jesus' followers simply must return
       to the ways and message of Jesus, the Good News and the power of the Kingdom of God
       (Matthew 4:23, 9:35). During TOAG, interns learn to be a Jesus Community without
       Western structures that often hinder movements. They experience life-in-community
       with other believers, something more akin to the Book of Acts. By taking a short sabbatical
       from present church structures, which include powerful (& professional) music, well crafted
       homilies (by seminary trained clergy) in safe, comfortable surroundings (church buildings),
       interns experience first-hand what is and is not required for believers to be a “Jesus-
       Community,” building simple, organic ‘structures’ capable of reproducing into movements.
       Working in teams, interns learn to ‘gossip’ about Jesus with others, while always striving
       themselves to become like the One they so joyfully represent. These are just some of the
       reasons why many Americans benefit from the hands-on learning experience of TOAG. More...