We would like to share the following with you: A new dimension in the ministry – which includes the positioning of Creare Training Centre in the ministry.

How can I get trained?

FULL-TIME:

About 22 years ago, in 1994, we started off as "MDK" – "Musiek, Drama en Kunsskool", where weekly classes were presented.

After approximately a year-and-a-half, Dance was added, and the full-time programme was launched.

Our name then changed to "MD2K" – "Musiek, Drama, Dans en Kunsskool".

In the next phase (1 year later), full-time International students started to arrive, and we became

• – "MD2A" – "Music, Dance, Drama and Art School".

During that time, we started with weekend courses, called "Creare Training Seminars" (Creare means to create, to bring forth).

"Holiday schools" were introduced for people from other parts of the country – they would come for 1/2 weeks of intensive training in subjects that would normally have been presented over a 3-month period.

This grew into 7 Training Conferences, presented during 7 weeks of annual school holidays.

We then started the August National Tours, which ran every year.

During this tour, 1 week of intensive training was presented to different churches and schools in local communities in specific towns. (1 town per week)

That ministry has grown into a 9-week tour in the third term of the year with 7-10 teams that would minister intensively into nearly 100 towns/cities/informal settlements all over the country and Namibia annually.

Multimedia subjects were added, so the school became the "Creare School" in Music, Dance, Drama, Art, and Multimedia.

Soon after that, we started to develop full-time students for full-time ministry – in more facets than simply the arts and worship teams.

Subjects in Bible Studies, Prophetic Ministry, Church Planting and Missions, Worship Ministry, as well as practical skills were added. We became "Creare Training Centre" in Music, Dance, Drama, Art, Multimedia, Word, Prophetic, Skills, Worship, Church Planting, and Missions.

Each facet developed into a focused Academy, where students could choose a unique combination of subjects from more than one.

Academy as they followed a developmental programme. (Full-time or part-time)

Currently, Creare runs a programme where full-time students come for 1-5 years. A separate curriculum is compiled for each candidate according to his/her unique calling, vision and purpose for coming to Creare.

In addition to this, weekly classes are presented to part-time students, as well as Training Conferences in the holidays. Progressively through the year, 9-week tours in the 3rd term as well as Full-Time Tour Teams brought training to people nationally and internationally. 5000 candidates were reached annually with different subjects.

The need for more weekly training in different towns expanded to the point where there were 7 such Full-time Teams touring for more than 4 years, reaching 1300 students weekly in 40+ towns. (As part of the 5000 students)

Since the full-time programme at Creare started, this intensive, life-changing, discipleship process has brought a different focus in the programme.

In the light of this progressive road, to serve the body of Christ with greater impact, God led us into a new definition of the ministry for the stature (authority) needed in every unique calling.

The Creare Training Centre

The Creare Training Centre will still focus more practically on the development of candidates trained in:

• Weekly classes (Bloemfontein)
• Training Conferences (Bloemfontein 7 weeks +)
• Training Weekends (Bloemfontein and National)
• Weekly classes in different towns
• Third term tours (9 training weeks)
• International outreaches

Formally, these candidates were referred to as "part-time candidates" as per definition in the constitution.

Full-time Leadership Programme

The full-time candidate programme will cease to exist as part of the Creare Training Centre. A full-time leadership programme was launched in January 2014, which has brought a new “cutting edge” dimension to the full-time programme.

More clarity, definition, and accuracy in our purposes, communication, and destiny will be facilitated in this programme. "Candidates" will be treated and developed as leaders in their own lives, their circumstances, emotions, thought patterns, etc. Later, they will lead other people into the Godly destiny that God has for them.