History.

During the early years of the Members in Christ Church, potential pastors were called to the Training Centre (Prayer Home) for an indefinite period of time for training. The former Moderator and founder of the church, Past. C. J. Prinsloo, with the assistance of other pastors such as Jaap Steenkamp, Dries Botha, B. M. J. Van Vuuren, would conduct the training. Later in the time of Past. G. J. Du Toit as Moderator, the training system was improved and training was done on an ad hoc basis by himself, Pastors D. P. Du Toit (Finance), J. P. Van Den Berg (Sunday School) and others that would serve as training staff. There was however, the need already to compile a proper and effective Pastoral Training Course, which also later realized through Pastors Hannes Kapp and Otto Marx. In 1990, a training team was established with Past. T. I. M. Jooste as the Principal, J. P. Van Den Berg as Secretary, D. Steynvaard, J. J. Marx and G. M. J. Ferreira. A formal Pastoral Course was developed and  the first group of eleven (11) pastors attended and received pastoral training in November 1990 in the Church at the Helderberg congregation in Pretoria. From then onwards organized training was conducted on an annual basis and attention was also given to special courses such as Interpersonal Effectiveness (1995), the EE3 Evangelism course and so on. A course for twenty-nine (29) vice-pastors and their spouses were also offered in Dec 1994. Annual courses were also implemented for the black pastors.

This paved the way for the establishment of the Gamaliel Bible School that later changed to Gamaliel Bible College. In 1997 the doors of the Gamaliel Bible College were officially opened as the Official Theological Education Centre of the Members In Christ Church by the Moderator Past. W. R. Frisby. Several of the lecturers have since then qualified themselves and Dr. J. P. Van Den Berg (Dean) and Professor. W. R. Frisby (as Moderator) did pioneering work, along with others who have participated and later became part of training. At at time cooperation was also established with the Apostolic Faith Mission Theological Seminary, Christian Life Training (C.L.T) College, and Trinity International Bible University. Other lecturers such as Pastors J. S. Vosloo, J. J. Marx, M. B. Erasmus, M. Erasmus, P. J.  King, J. J. Deysel and J. Grobler have since participated in training programs.

In April 2010, Dr. M. Erasmus was elected as Moderator, who viewed Theological Training as a very important phenomenon in his vision for the future of the Members in Christ Church. Dr. J. J. Deysel was appointed Director of Theological Training and the Chairman of an effective training board (Prof. J. Grobler, Dr. J. P. Van Den Berg, Pastors G. M. J Ferreira, P. J. King, J. S. Vosloo, S. Batohi, M. B. Erasmus, J. J. Marx, R. Cilliers, Past. J. M. Jansen van Vuuren and Me. A. Deysel).

Dr. T. I. M. Jooste was the first Principal of the former Gamaliel Bible School and was succeeded by Dr. J. P. Van den Berg in May 2001 as Principal of Gamaliel Bible College. In April 2010 Dr. J. J. Deysel was elected during the general election as the Director of Theological Training of the Members of Christ Church Theological Seminary. In May 2017, Dr P.J King was appointed as the new Director of training. In 2021 Past Herman Van De Venter followed him up as Director Training

The Pastoral Course has been upgraded. Students can enroll for the assistant pastors certificate course, diploma in Pastoral leadership, Diploma in biblical Counseling and woman in the ministry certificate course.