A Typical Day of COAT

You may be wondering what a typical training day looks like. At 8:00 we meet as a group (50 something of us with office staff and COAT people) for devotions and announcements. Then from about 9:00 to somewhere between 3:30 and 5:00 we are in workshop-like sessions from Monday to Friday. These can include presentations from various divisions of NMSI (Short Term Projects, Finance, HR, Publications, etc.).

At the end of this week we will have been introduced to each of the divisions and completed the "Orientation" part of our training. Then we can officially affiliate and get NMSI e-mails and fill out insurance papers, etc. The workshop-like sessions that we attend are on various things from a short discussion about Spiritual Gifts, to trianing in Thinking Skills/Processing, Spiritual Formation, Global Perspectives, Purpose and Planning, Life Stewardship, to book/article discussions. Each day's schedule is a little different and each week we have "chores" or "community work" to do to help keep the campus clean.