TRAC held yet another edition of the Jeremiah School for school leavers after Form Five and Six. Held over six weeks in January and February, with a break for the Chinese New Year celebrations, this year saw 18 participants – nine guys and nine girls. They represented ten TRAC churches from around the peninsular.
 
The aim of this programme is to lay the building blocks that will help “build and raise a generation of God-fearing, faithful, persevering and selfless young leaders who will be of a different spirit.” To this end the programme was put together to give an experience not only of learning, living, and serving together but also to cultivate a deeper personal life with God.

This programme is structured towards a varied approach through learning and experience. Classroom learning is combined with small group interaction facilitated by a mentor. The classroom sessions are also varied in their content, from basic doctrinal and biblical topics to life and ministry issues like spiritual disciplines, leadership, spiritual warfare, sexuality & holiness and gender development, freedom in Christ, discerning God’s will, EQ profiling, understanding your mind & emotions, personal mission & core values, to learning skills like quiet time, meditation, conversational ministry, and preaching.
 
In addition, the youths are also exposed to different churches during the weekends. They gain experience in sharing their testimonies or at speaking at youth meetings. But they also get to meet the pastors and leaders of these churches and see the different ministries run by them. The last ten days of the school was a mission trip to Kampar in partnership with a Wesley Methodist Church there. The youths practiced prayer profiling that they learnt, focusing on the UTAR campus students. They went on hostel visits and planned for a one night event of fun, sharing and drama. The visits resulted in more than 120 contacts made, and the opportunity to share the gospel with about 25 of them. The night saw about 90 students from the campus and high schools attend the event. 

The school celebrated its graduation with a commissioning service by the District Superintendent of Perak, Rev. Ashok Amarasingham. As the participants parted ways it is hoped that their development will continue as they build on their learning and also through future mentors who will come their way.