GOD'S STORY DTS SEMINAR
Learn how to train disciples with oral storytelling—and start a discipleship making movement in Europe
GOD'S STORY DTS SEMINAR
Learn how to train disciples with oral storytelling—and start a discipleship making movement in Europe.
“This is not just another school. It’s a movement.”
— Loren Cunningham (YWAM co-founder), on the God’s Story Discipleship Training School
There is a massive opportunity in Europe to disciple the nations. There is a mission field here on our doorstep… thousands of refugees and migrants and many of them are from unreached people groups, living here in our inner cities.
Come and take a fresh look at discipleship training in an “oral” context. In every continent God is multiplying, not just adding, gatherings of believers in ways that are currently described as “ Discipleship Making Movements”. Come and learn how to train disciples orally, and help to start a discipleship making movement in Europe.
In Mark 4:33-34, Jesus shows that when He teaches local people, He ALWAYS uses stories. The God’s Story DTS is discipleship training focusing on key stories in the Bible narrative and communicating them orally in order to make disciples of the Lord Jesus Christ.
God’s Story DTS in jungle village of Aqua Branca
Bengali men learning to retell the Bible story
Trainees on the Malawi God’s Story DTS learning and discussing a Bible story
Sharing oral storytelling with village families
SEMINAR TOPICS
You’ll be trained in an introduction to “God’s Story Discipleship Training School”, that is an oral Discipleship Training School. The curriculum is chronological, oral, easily reproducible and produces disciples who can disciple others. Your training involves modelling a full classroom week plus extra time for questions and processing.
The week’s schedule will include very practical hands-on experience in worship, being selfaware, being others aware, friendly accountability, bible story narratives, discussion and application practice and opportunities reproduce what you have learned as soon you have learnt it. The school is run in a simple church format.
Key non-negotiables for a Discipleship Training School in an oral context, that have been outlined by the International Discipleship Training School Centre which will be emphasised.
SEMINAR SPEAKER
Lynn Schall has served in YWAM for 43 years. In that time he has travelled and ministered in over 60 nations. From 2006-2016 Lynn and his wife Tarrie worked in China among a Bible-less people group called the Azhe people. They created 35 Bible STORY narratives in the Azhe language and saw 11 house churches planted.
In 2017 the International DTS Centre came to the YWAM Frontier Mission annual conference to ask us to partner with them in a part of what they were calling the DTS reframe. The goal of that partnership was to create an oral DTS.
Lynn was appointed the FM liaison for this cooperative effort which led to the creation of The Gods Story DTS (an oral DTS). Lynn was then appointed the International God’s Story DTS Core team coordinator. This core team is responsible for seeing staff trained and each school being overseen for quality.
The first God’s story DTS ran in September 2019 in Salatiga, Indonesia. Since that time this new University of the Nations approved and accredited Oral DTS has multiplied to 16 locations on 4 continents. The DTS program’s defining characteristics are that it is CHRONOLOGICAL, ORAL, HIGHLY REPRODUCIBLE, AND CREATES DISCIPLES WHO CAN DISCIPLE OTHERS
SEMINAR DATES
Seminar Dates: Monday, 22 April — Friday, 26 April, 2024
Location: YWAM Harpenden, Hertfordshire, England
Cost: £150 (tuition, housing and food)
For information on staff discounts, email admissions@ywamharpenden.org
CONTACT US
If you have any questions regarding this seminar, please email: admissions@ywamharpenden.org