Ministry and Business Training Participant
Join a three-month, intensive, residential training programme with an additional three-month internship component working with a coffee roastery business.
Length: 3-6 months.
Time of year: Starts in September.

Café volunteer
Serve at our Café on the island, help organise and take part in open mic nights and art exhibitions as well as developing your barista skills.
Length: Various.
Time of year: Various.

Barista trainer
Help train local believers, students and ministry leaders in coffee-making skills. Experience in coffee-making is required.
Length: Various.
Time of year: Various.

Location
An island in the eastern Mediterranean Sea.

People Group
Turkish speakers, international students and migrant workers from Central Asia, the Middle East, and Africa.

Culture
The south of the island is Greek-speaking and is a member of the European Union. The north side of the island is Turkish-speaking and predominantly Muslim. Only Turkey recognizes it as an independent nation. The rest of the world considers it to be occupied territory. Still, it has its own borders, for which you need a passport to cross. The official population is approximately 400,000, but that figure doesn’t take into account the large numbers of tourists that come and go throughout the year.

Team Vision
The vision is to ‘make disciples of all nations’ as the team use a coffee roastery company to help the church to grow on the island and beyond.

Team Strategy
The World Horizons team in the eastern Mediterranean are committed to doing ministry training with a focus on the Muslim World in the context of community. They have developed a ministry training programme which receives students from this region and beyond. The programme is a three-month, intensive, residential training with an additional three-month internship component. It is hosted on the Karpaz Peninsula on the Mediterranean coast at a hotel with a small organic farm.

The ministry training has a business training component that helps sustain the work of the growing community and gives students a way to support themselves in ministry wherever they go. The team have a coffee roastery business. Students will learn skills related to coffee roasting as well as barista skills. Cyprus is a coffee consuming culture, but there are no roasters focusing on high quality coffee, so the community hope to take advantage of that opportunity.

Cost
The approximate cost of the training programme is £273 per week per person plus flights and insurance. Costs include accommodation, food, mobile phone costs, transportation, ministry travel expenses, language lessons, toiletries, and a small admin fee towards the eastern Mediterranean ministry fund.

Application Requirement
Those under 18 will need to apply and come with an adult who is responsible for them.

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