Abide Training
Formed for life with God.
From feeling distracted and pulled apart → to becoming a steady apprentice of Jesus.
Abide Home PageWhat is Abide Training?
Abide Training is a three-week journey of teaching, practice, community, and reflection that helps young adults learn to walk with Jesus in their real, everyday lives. It’s a set-apart season to slow down, listen, and be formed for life in God.
Upcoming Program
We are pausing Abide Training offerings, if you are still interested in the Abide Discipleship content, we encourage you to check out our three 2026 offerings of Abide Week.
Why It Matters
Life moves fast and pulls your attention in a hundred directions. Even when you care deeply about your walk with Jesus, it can feel like the noise, pressure, and pace of life keep crowding him out.
Your spiritual life can start to feel thin or scattered—meaningful, but easily overshadowed by what feels urgent. You may find yourself wondering how to stay close to Jesus in the middle of real decisions, relationships, and responsibilities.
Abide Training offers a focused season of apprenticeship where you can slow down, pay attention, and learn a way of following Jesus that grounds your entire life in him.
Student Testimonial
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Who is the 3-Week Training for?
Abide Training is for young adults who long to follow Jesus in a real and sustainable way:
- You love Jesus, but life feels loud, fast, and full of pressure.
- Your spiritual life matters to you, but it often feels thin, scattered, or overshadowed by everything else.
- You want something more than “try harder” or “do more,” but you aren’t sure what that looks like.
- You’re hungry for a way of life with Jesus that can hold up in school, work, relationships, and everyday decisions.
A Simple, Guided Path into Apprenticeship
- See what life with Jesus can look like.
Daily teaching and conversations give you a clear, grounded vision of apprenticeship to Jesus in the world you actually live in.
- Practice rhythms that help open you to the work of the Holy Spirit.
Engage in guided spiritual disciplines, shared meals, community life, and a quiet mountain retreat that create space for the Spirit to form you deeply.
- Carry it home with a simple plan for discipleship.
Discern next steps and shape a personal Rule of Life so you can bring these rhythms into your everyday relationships, responsibilities, and decisions.
What You'll Experience
- Weekly Teaching and Conversation: Receive biblical teaching on apprenticeship to Jesus and process it together in a small community.
- Guided Practices and Reflection: Try on spiritual disciplines such as silence, Scripture meditation, study, and Sabbath, with space to reflect on what God is doing in you.
- Shared Meals and Community Life: Eat together, laugh together, and build relationships that make God’s love tangible and real.
- Mountain Retreat: Step away for several days in the quiet of the Blue Ridge Mountains, deepening your attention to God and integrating what you’ve been learning.
- Rule of Life Discernment: Craft a simple plan for your discipleship to help you keep walking with Jesus once you return home.
What You'll Leave With
Participants leave with a deeper grounding in life with God, a shared language for discipleship, practices that sustain faith over time, and a clearer sense of vocation and faithfulness.
Student Testimonials
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Dates & Location
Abide Discipleship Training is currently paused as we prepare for a future cohort, tentatively planned for 2027.
Training typically takes place in Peachtree City, Georgia – we spend two weeks living with the Peachtree City Church and one week spent on retreat in the Blue Ridge Mountains. Specific dates and locations will be shared when applications open.
Start Discernment Now
Not sure if Abide Training is the right next step? Download the program overview to get a simple, one-page look at what the training is, how it works, and what to expect.
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The Invitation
Frequently Asked Questions
Abide Discipleship Training is designed for young adults who regularly attend the Apostolic Christian Church and desire to inwardly become more like Jesus so that they can faithfully represent him in the world.
The training is a three-week journey that combines teaching, spiritual disciplines, Scripture, reading and discussion of selected texts, community life, and extended time for prayer and reflection.
Days include teaching, Scripture, prayer, shared meals, discussion, guided practices, and margin for personal reflection and rest.
The training takes place over three weeks, primarily in Peachtree City, Georgia, with one week on retreat in the Blue Ridge Mountains.
Cohorts are intentionally kept small, typically around 20 participants, to foster relational and attentive formation into Christlikeness.
Registration includes lodging, meals, program materials, and retreat costs.
The cost for Abide Discipleship Training is $1,200, covering lodging, meals, materials, and leadership for the full experience.
Participation requires an application and a reference from the applicant’s local church elder. After application submission, we will email the elder an online reference form.
Participants should bring a Bible, journal, and a readiness to engage fully in the training.
Yes. Dietary and accessibility needs are gathered during the application process.
If you have questions or would like help discerning whether this training is a good fit, contact us at [email protected].