AMT
What is AMT?
Advanced Mission Training (AMT) is a course designed to practically equip believers with the skills necessary to make an eternal and sustainable impact in the nations. The program consists of numerous subjects that are a mixture of classroom learning taught by veteran missionaries and practical field exercises.
AMT Phases
Zambia
The first six weeks of the program, which we refer to as Phase 1, will be spent in Zambia, Africa on Rapid 14, our flagship international base. Rapid 14 serves the international team at large and is the launching point for all of our missionaries.
Selected Region
The second six weeks, Phase 2, can be spent in Zambia or on one of our outlying international bases. Depending on the time of year, you could spend this second phase on the Amazon River of Brazil, the jungles and cities of Southeast Asia, amongst Muslim people in the Middle East, or along the Eastern coast of Africa in Zanzibar or Mozambique.
Why go with Overland?
Our Mission
Overland Missions is a global movement of bold, unwavering pioneers dedicated to reaching the most remote and neglected corners of the world with the life-changing message of Jesus. Guided by the power of the Holy Spirit and the belief that everyone is worthy of hearing the Gospel - we navigate tough terrain, build lasting relationships, and make long term disciples, who have been transformed by the finished work of Jesus.
How to Apply
Submit An Application
During your time in Advanced Missions Training, you will work alongside our veteran missionaries in order to bring the Gospel to remote or neglected people in nations with limited or no Gospel presence, as well as build the foundational skills necessary to make an eternal and sustainable impact in the nations. Submitting your application is the first step into being part of a class that will do just that. Once submitted, a member of our AMT Staff will contact you directly.
Provide A Reference
Once your application has been submitted, you will be asked to submit a reference from a leader, pastor, or mentor in your life. This individual cannot be a family member. This reference must be submitted before the next step in the application process can take place.
Interview
After your application and references have been submitted, a member of our AMT staff will contact you to schedule your interview. The interview is an opportunity for the AMT Staff to get to know you, hear from you, and talk through expectations for your time in AMT.
Fundraise
Fundraising is a key part of preparing for your expedition. You’ll invite others to partner with you in prayer and financial support, giving people the opportunity to invest in what God is doing through you in the nations. Our team will walk with you through the process and provide tools and guidance along the way.
Select a Phase Two Region
Once you have raised $3,000 towards AMT, you will have the option to select a Phase Two location. While all of your classmates will attend Phase One with you in Zambia, many of you will continue on to another location to finish out your time in AMT, all while learning to minister in different cultures and contexts.
Are you ready to take part in seeing remote and neglected people reached with the Gospel?
What Are The Most Frequently Asked Questions?
We require all AMT students to complete both phases within the same AMT class. AMT is considered one 3 month training program with 2 phases that all students attend.
Yes! During your AMT there are three different week long expeditions where your class will specifically focus on reaching the lost. Outside of those three separate weeks, ministry happens in various ways, but you will primarily focus on your training curriculum to prepare to become a missionary with Overland.
Whether in Zambia during phase 1, or at one of our varying phase 2 country options, you will have a bed provided for you in a guest home on one of our bases. Sleeping arrangements will vary slightly depending on the country, but each base has incredible and comfortable facilities.
In the May and August AMT, there will be an option to spend a phase 2 in a different region of the World that Overland Missions is ministering in. The purpose of this is to give our mission training students an opportunity to get their feet on the ground in locations that they may want to become missionaries long term to. You could spend your second phase in a predominantly Muslim nation, on the Amazon river in South America, within the cities of Buddhist and Hindu nations, or at our international headquarters in Zambia, Africa. No matter where you choose you will find that our staff in every nation carry the same message and readiness to take the Gospel to the ends of the Earth.
Yes, children are a blessing to the ministry, not a burden. There are many families in Overland Missions and plenty of support to help you navigate being a family on the field.
During AMT, you will have the opportunity to sit down with senior leadership individually to discuss your passions and the current career options.
Yes! After graduation, we help you create a budget that will sustain you in the field and allow you to thrive for a lifetime of ministry. This all begins after AMT and MPD, where we will teach you how to raise up a team of financial partners that will walk alongside you during your career in missions.
Not sure yet? Try expeditions
Short Term Trips
Overland’s reach into multiple different regions are all spearheaded by one movement - expeditions. These trips, led by Overland’s evangelistic arm, Expeditions, work to both connect the western church to the ministry happening overseas, and accelerate the work that our long term missionaries are doing.
