OPEN SEMINAR WEEKS – SCHOOL OF FRONTIER MISSIONS

School of Frontier Missions (SOFM): Equipping for Long-Term Impact The School of Frontier Missions (SOFM) at YWAM Harpenden is designed to train and equip believers for long-term ministry among the least reached. Over the course of 12 weeks (September–December), participants are immersed in practical teaching, spiritual formation, and strategic preparation for cross-cultural mission. Whether you’re called to pioneer in remote regions or disciple in urban centers, SOFM lays a foundation of faith, resilience, and Kingdom vision. To make this training more accessible, we’re transforming four of our core teaching weeks into dynamic, stand-alone seminars. These three-day intensives offer the same depth and DNA of SOFM — focused on topics like sharing the Gospel in Muslim communities, making disciples, and living a lifestyle of love, truth, and power — but in a format that fits your schedule and calling.

Check out the dates below and come be equipped, inspired, and released to go where the Gospel is least known and most needed

1. DISCIPLE MAKING MOVEMENT (DMM)

This training goes back to scripture to look at what undergirds Disciple Making Movements (DMM), asking questions like, ‘What expectations should we have about multiplication and movements from scripture?’.  Once we have something solid Biblically to stand on, the focus turns to learning principles and skills in evangelism, discipleship, and church planting that foster multiplication.  There will be stories and case studies to inspire and challenge, time will be given to allow the Holy Spirit to free us from fears that paralyse and hinder us, plus we’ll dig into God’s Word to get more of God’s heart for the lost.  

Joel Harri

Joel is married to Caire, who is from England, and Joel is a dual Finnish/Australian citizen. They worked in Central Asia from 1995 until 2021, doing church planting. Currently, they are in Bradford, reaching out to the Muslim community.
They have three children, two of whom are married.  God is great, give him all the praise.

2. GOD’S STORY IN MISSIONS

There is a massive opportunity here 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 said, “When I teach local people, I ALWAYS use stories”. 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

Andrew and Connie Taylor

Andrew and Connie Taylor have been serving in YWAM for the past 40 years in evangelism and discipleship. They are passionate about seeing the next generation set on fire for God caring a passion to reach the ends of the Earth. They have recently been running a church-based God’s Story discipleship training course for asylum seekers in Coventry.

3. KINGDOM ENCOUNTERS: REACHING MUSLIM COMMUNITIES

From SOFM to the streets — three days to ignite your calling and multiply disciples. Join us for a powerful three-day seminar at YWAM Harpenden, drawn from a full week of School of Frontier Missions (SOFM) teaching. This condensed yet immersive training equips believers to share the Gospel and make disciples in Muslim communities through love, truth, and power encounters, storytelling, and simple, reproducible tools like Discovery Bible Study. Rooted in the message of the Kingdom rather than religion, you’ll learn how to reach families and communities with spiritual clarity, relational wisdom, and bold compassion. Whether you’re preparing for the field or seeking fresh vision, this seminar will inspire and empower you to live a lifestyle of Kingdom impacTitle: Kingdom Encounters: Reaching Muslim Communities

Mike Jones

Mike and his family spent 15 years living in the Muslim world, where their team had the privilege of starting house churches and walking alongside local believers as they learned to begin their own groups. During that season, Mike also co-authored a book for Muslims called Understanding Dreams from God.

Now back in the UK, Mike serves as Co-Director of Frontiers He loves helping others step into God’s mission—whether by training and mobilising people for evangelism, leading short-term teams to unreached towns overseas, or welcoming asylum seekers and refugees in his own community.

4 . ROOTED AND RELEASED: LIVING THE EVANGELISM JESUS MODELLED

This immersive course reframes evangelism through the lens of Sonship—the way Jesus lived and loved. Through storytelling, scripture, prophetic insight, and practical activation, participants will explore themes of identity, intimacy, compassion, and spiritual authority. Each session builds toward a lifestyle of mission that flows from knowing we are loved and sent. From baptism encounters to visions of faith-filled fishing, James shares powerful illustrations that stir heart and spirit alike.

What to Expect:

• Identity-focused teaching rooted in Matthew 3 and Romans 8
• Practical tools for hearing God and loving boldly
• Activation challenges for everyday outreach
• A call to legacy: being sent as sons and daughters

James Tyson

James Tyson is a cross-cultural adventurer, missionary, and storyteller with over 20 years of frontline experience—including 13 in China. From skateparks to the mountains, his stories are real, raw, and deeply rooted in God’s love. With a fiery passion for intimacy, identity, and spiritual impact, he equips pioneers for bold, authentic living. He’s married to an inspiring woman from India, and together they raise two amazing kids who know God’s voice like family

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