The benefits of this Training go far beyond the mere two years spent in Anaheim. Upon graduating from FTTA, those trainees who desire further perfecting to prepare for longer full-time service may continue to be trained in Boston for one year in the FTTA’s extension, FTTA-XB. In addition, a good number of FTTA graduates go on to serve the Lord full-time in His work in His recovery throughout the earth, and still others go on to graduate school or enter the workforce. But wherever the Lord leads them, we have the full assurance that the benefit they have gained in the training will affect their entire life. Brother Lee gave us the following assurance and encouragement in the book The Economy of God and the Mystery of the Transmission of the Divine Trinity:

I believe that after [the trainees] have been nurtured and equipped through the training, whether they stay to serve full-time or go to find employment, there will be no problem…They will have been trained and equipped, and they will have received the Lord’s burden. This will affect their whole life. I believe that after this kind of equipping, even if the trainees go back to their regular jobs, they will not be the same as ordinary people or even as they were before…No matter what they do in the future, whether taking care of a family, living, working, or operating a business, they will spontaneously be the Lord’s living witnesses…It will be a great thing if we can produce one to two thousand of this kind of people. (p. 137)

In the almost 33 years since it began, more than 5,000 believers have attended the FTTA, and more than 3,500 have graduated. Similar Full-time Trainings have been raised up in 16 other countries around the globe. All those who have been blessed to be under the edification of these Trainings have received a strong foundation in life, truth, and service that will enable them to meet the Lord’s present need by being produced as the overcomers in the local churches for the fulfillment of God’s economy in the present age.

This period of remote training allowed for an increase in the fellowship and coordination among the churches and the leading brothers across the United States and Canada both with the Training and the trainees themselves. As the churches received back those they had sent and were able to more closely observe and care for them during their training, there was an outpouring of prayer and shepherding and a deeper realization of the Lord’s work in the Training on each one. Additionally, the trainees were able to enter into the local gospel and shepherding labor of churches throughout North America, laboring alongside the saints and learning of them to care for man in many different situations. As the remote Training progressed, many young brothers and sisters were called by the Lord to be trained, and their consistent testimony was that while they may not have received the training they wanted or expected, the Lord was faithful to give them the training He knew they needed.

Throughout the Fall 2021 term the trainees have been enjoying in-person classes and corporate pursuit of the truth, and have slowly begun to participate in the church life and gospel and shepherding labor in the surrounding localities. Also, the trainees have been encouraged to continue to care for their friends and acquaintances remotely, praying together while seeking the Lord’s leading for each one. This has been a great encouragement and has resulted in many family members and friends believing into the Lord and pursuing the Lord.

Even though we do not know what will happen in the coming terms, we know the going on of the Training depends fully upon the prayers of the saints in the Body and the Lord’s blessing. We fully expect the Lord’s continued blessing on FTTA, that He might produce young people to meet His need and participate in the turning of the age.