Trainees spend their first months at the Gateway centre in beautiful British Columbia. They work through modules that are designed to produce a foundational understanding of the rationale and strategy of missions, inter-personal relations, team dynamics, missiology, cross-cultural adaptation, communications, and language skills. Growing in these key areas of understanding, attitude and skill development is the essential core of pre-field preparation. Modules covering cross-cultural evangelism and church planting also have extensive hands-on experience that brings theory into the realm of practicality. Courses in Bible are also offered in partnership with nearby Pacific Life College, Christ for the Nations and other schools.