FUSION DTS

English / Spanish

Fuse your heart with God’s

FUSION DTS

English / Spanish

Fuse your heart with God’s

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Your Discipleship Training School (DTS) is a 5-6 month missions experience where you get to know God and make Him known in the nations. 

Be transformed as you fuse your heart with God’s, join with young people from many nations and use your gifts to glorify Jesus. The heart of our DTS is facilitating intimacy with God, embracing all the nations represented and for us all to become bridges connecting different languages and cultures. One way is by having our morning classes in English & Spanish.  

JANUARY 2027

Arrival Date: Wednesday, 6 January, 2027
Departure Date: Saturday, 26 June, 2027

Training Phase Cost: £3070 + £195.00 activity fee
*Outreach Phase Cost: £2500-£3,000 (On location costs such as food & accommodation)

NB The cost of flights and visas will be in addition dependent on location

 

 

TRAINING PHASE (3 MONTHS)

Harpenden, England

Go deeper in your relationship with God, explore your calling, and get training from leaders with years of experience in missions.

Each week focuses on topics such as:

  • Hearing God’s voice
  • Nature & Character of God
  • How to preach the Gospel
  • Reading the Bible and Biblical worldview
  • Power of the Holy Spirit
  • International Missions

OUTREACH PHASE (2-3 MONTHS)

The Nations

Travel to the nations with your team to share the love of God, and meet needs in practical ways.

What your outreach can look like:

  • Sharing the gospel on the streets
  • Partnering with local churches and ministries
  • Preaching, teaching, leading worship
  • Children’s ministry
  • Supporting communities with practical skills
  • Giving out Bibles

Our DTS teams often go to the same focus nations or similar regions. This is so you build on partnerships with people and ministries who are on the ground. Your outreach location is announced during the first few weeks of DTS, but in the past we have sent teams to the Latin America and the Middle East. 

 SKILLSET TRACKS

Your track time is two hours weekly in Training Phase where you grow in skills in an area of your passions or calling. These times are a combination of workshops and opportunities to put your learning to practice.

Choose a track and develop your skills and passions:

🎨 CREATIVITY & ARTS

In this track,you explore your own creativity. We’re created to create and here you have time to feed that part of you. The track includes coaching and mentoring in your creative project until you take risks and have an impact on the Lord that you never thought you could. (Exodus 31:1-5).

You’ll be encouraged and mentored to approach your creativity as an act of worship. Content of technique training depends on which artistic discipline you want to explore.

✈️ CROSS-CULTURAL

You learn how to be effective in reaching across cultures. You will be exposed to different faiths and religions and how to practically love like Jesus to those considered “foreign” or “outcast”. (Phil 2:2–9)

⚽️ FOOTBALL (SOCCER)

We believe sport can be an avenue for building relationships, discipleship, and sharing the gospel. In this track, we will spend time playing the game and learning to glorify God specifically on the soccer field and team environments.  

We will explore areas such as how sports can train us in self-discipline, perseverance, fostering positive team environments,  competing well, and honouring God with our physical bodies.  We will hone our individual football abilities, and learn how to facilitate matches and coach training sessions.  

Whatever language you speak, football brings people together, and we will learn to use the sport to reach people for Jesus.  

📲 MEDIA

The attention of our generation is at your fingertips, and we want to teach you how to reach them for Jesus.

The purpose of the Media Track is to learn how to create content to impact nations. How are you going to learn that? You’ll learn fundamental skills of making a plan that works, and using easy tools to execute that plan so that you can reach a global audience.

In the Media Track, you’ll grow in your ability to make great content, but more importantly, in understanding how to use global social platforms effectively. Come be trained to understand how to utilize them to impact as many people as possible for Jesus.

 
YOU ARE WELCOME HERE

Prepare to be transformed and receive a life-changing boost from God to equip you for the rest of your life.

SCHOOL LEADERS

Sandro and Deborah Cruz

Sandro and Deborah Cruz

Colombia and England

Sandro and Deborah Cruz are a Colombian/British couple who met in Colombia and have been living and serving in YWAM Harpenden since 2013. They pioneered the Fusion DTS from about 2018 and also serve in our wider Training teams. They love to invest in young people, to see their leadership, their ministry and their belief in who God says they are grow. 
A fine artist, Sandro enjoys drawing, painting and sculpture and you can see his work around the base. Deborah dances and teaches many kinds of movement, often leading to outbursts of social dance fun! Sandro’s DTS: 1995, with outreach to Cuba and Deborah’s…? Oooh, even longer ago (like last century!) Outreach to Gibraltar & Greece. 
They are a fusion of cultures, making room to celebrate the people they lead, which makes this DTS quite a fun place to hang.

CONTACT US

If you have any questions regarding this school, please email: admissions@ywamharpenden.org