Top 10

Top ten reasons

Why people go on an SU Scotland Gap Year

You want to know some benefits of an SU Gap Year?

Here are the Top Ten (actually eleven because we couldn’t get people to stop...)

1. Grow deeper in your relationship with God
2. Have the opportunity to study the Bible
3. Learn and refine team-working skills as you do ministry work
4. Strengthen your faith muscles as you learn to persevere and depend on God
5. Learn how to live as a Christian in community (with our activity centre option) and work out Christian principles at work.
6. Gain lots of new skills and some formal qualifications (such as First Aid, Archery, Food Hygiene)
7. Opportunities to share your faith (in words and actions) in a variety of contexts to hundreds of children and young people from all over Scotland
8. The opportunity to harness a whole team of people willing to support you financially, prayerfully and personally throughout the year
9. Initial and ongoing training to prepare and equip you – practically, personally, and spiritually
10. Pastoral care and support both within and outwith your job placement
11. The opportunity to identify and use your gifts, and explore the possibility of future ministry