Jesus’ Great Commission was to go and make disciples (Matt 28:19). One of the roles of the Ephesians 4 ministries of Apostle, Prophet, Evangelist, Pastor and Teacher is to ‘equip the saints for the work of ministry’ (Eph 4: 12). So, within a year of Terry forming a team we launched a full-time training programme, although even by then we had held Young Men’s Training Days which gave way to Young People’s Training Days.
Year of Training
The YoT was launched in September 1981 with a pilot of two young men, Chris Wisdom 
and Mike Thompson. They moved weekly to live with a trainer as we had no base at that stage. The purpose of the programme was to cover four main areas: Biblical, Doctrinal, Practical and Pastoral, Church History.
By September 1982 we had acquired and furnished a property, Coastlands House in Hove, the Virgo family’s former home. Liz Holden had had a vision while praying one day in which she saw this property with 
‘Coastlands House’ over the front door and then, as she walked into the house, she saw students studying in every room.
In that second year (the first in Coastlands House) we had nine students. It was fathered by ‘Professor’ Henry Tyler and was based in Hove with visiting lecturers. It also included an overseas visit to India where each of the students was thrown in at the deep end and asked to preach!
Eldership Training – ‘What does the Bible say?’
The next programme to be launched was Eldership Training in 1983, later to become Equipped for Ministry. ET was first led by David Brown from the Coign Church in Woking (now Welcome Church), and then Arnold Bell from the Vine Church, 
Odiham, who took it over as EFM in 1987 and led it for many years. Several of our current elders and more senior (now ‘long in the tooth’?!) leaders went through this formative programme which was for 2 days per month plus ‘home-work’ over 2 years.
New Life Teams
This was the next initiative, started in 1985. 27 young people joined in Year 1 to be trained in evangelism. They were based in Brighton, led by Mike Sprenger, and Sidcup, led by Mike Hewett. It was envisaged that the fruit of this initiative would not only be the equipping of these young people but also the creation of a ‘pool of converts’ around which churches could be planted.
In due course these teams were retitled Frontier Teams with several additional centres. They also gave birth to special short term initiatives such as Outreach Teams.
Training has continued throughout the last 40 years, many of them being of the ‘year out’ variety immediately pre- or post-tertiary education; Frontier Year Project, the Impact Project etc. There have also been programmes in other nations, such as the Year of Training in Goa, India, for which funds were raised to build a special facility.