For the past two years I've been a ministry apprentice as part of the Ministry Training Strategy. The MTS national director Ben Pfahlert is always encouraging people to refer to the position as an apprenticeship rather than saying "I'm doing MTS". Ben's reasoning is 'MTS' becomes an entity that represents more than it actually is - an apprenticeship; a formalised kind of one-to-one hands on ministry training.
I put forward another reason not to call it "doing MTS"; people are constantly confusing the initialism MTS to stand for the Ministry Training Scheme. Which just sounds dodgy.
[UPDATE: Someone at Moore College informed me they heard MTS actually used to be called the Ministry Training Scheme, but was changed because it "sounded evil". Can anyone confirm this?]
Also MTS is sometimes jokingly referred to as the 'Menial Task Scheme'
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