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TSM is for anyone hungry for more of God and passionate about seeing God’s Kingdom come wherever they go. It is for people from all stages of life (18+). So far our youngest student has been 18 and our oldest student has been in her 80’s. TSM is a perfect training opportunity for anyone taking a gap year before heading to University.
TSM meets every Thursday evening in term time and includes some Saturday’s.
On the Thursday evenings we open doors at 7pm for refreshments and we start at 7.30pm. The evening finishes at 10pm.
If you apply to do TSM evening school, we ask that you pay your fees in full by the 30th October. Fees include a £50 non-refundable deposit.
Early Bird applications close after 31st July
TSM starts with a Friday evening and a Saturday on the 9th & 10th October 2020. (this is subject to change as we haven’t planned the year yet).
You will receive a document with all the dates for the year once you are accepted on the school and you can find some more dates in our blog post.
We are keen for students to attend as many sessions as possible so that they can get the most out of their year with us. However, students do not have to attend every session to graduate. Our absence allowance is as follows:
8 Thursday evenings & 2 Saturdays
Once we have received your application form and your reference, we will be in touch with you to arrange an interview slot. Our interviews are informal and last approximately 30 minutes. You can either be interviewed at King’s House or over the phone, via Skype or on Facetime.
Note: Please make sure you fill in your referee’s email address accurately on your application form. This helps to speed up the interview process.
In one respect the whole focus of TSM is discipleship. We want to equip students to be all God has called them to be and to do the stuff that Jesus did. We have an amazing team who are excellent at getting alongside students and cheering them on. However, we don’t have the capacity to do much 1:1 input.
Each student is asked to find a mentor for the year, preferably from their home church. Our pastoral team is then the connection point between TSM and mentors.
Yes, we love having visitors! People can visit up to 4 times, starting from October. We ask visitors to pay £10 each evening they come. To arrange to visit simply fill out the form on our Visitors page.
Team as family is really important to us. We want to have a culture of honour, not treating anyone as common. We realised that we need to constantly remind each other to pursue this culture. Last week we spend time honouring each other as team, such a beautiful time as family. Maybe stop someone in their tracks today, push through the awkward and boast about them for a couple of minutes. That would be fun!
“Holy Spirit is key. He helps us to understand who the Father is and He helps us understand who we are.”
We are launching a new school in January for only 35 people. Check out TSM Lead: www.tsmbedford.org/lead
Our identity and how we behave as sons and daughters has to be rooted in the message of the cross. Before we talk about supernatural gifts, we talk about the amazing gift of grace.