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What is a YWAM DTS?
A Discipleship Training School, or DTS for short, is a six-month program that blends classroom learning with practical...
The first part of DTS is the lecture phase, or teaching/training phase - it can be called different things, but it's the first half of DTS and it's all about the mind and the heart.
Lecture Phase takes place at YWAM's training center in Nuremberg, Germany. These three months are packed full of great learning and serving opportunities that will allow you to grow into deeper dependence and relationship with Jesus.
Grab your passport, pack your bag and head to the airport with your team! It's time to GO and put all that you have learned into action while sharing the love of God around the world.
All or Nothing
This DTS focuses on equipping Gen Z to share the Gospel to their own generation and disciple them in the process.
Dates: September 25, 2023 - February 27, 2024
Lecture Cost: 2,400€
Outreach Cost: 2,500-3,200€
Language: English, German
Do you believe the power of the Holy Spirit is at work today? Explore the impact of the Holy Spirit in your daily life, understand who He is and how He wants to partner with us, and see how this partnership blesses you and those around you.
Learn more about how the Holy Spirit works today
Discover how to experience the gifts of the Holy Spirit
Understand what to do with the gifts of the Holy Spirit
Holy Spirit & Revival is a track within the All or Nothing DTS Fall 2023.
Do you believe you have a message to share that can impact and transform this world? This track is made to help you grow as a communicator, leader, and influencer.
Gain confidence in your voice
Learn how to develop and communicate a message
Learn how to activate and lead your generation to Jesus
Say Less is a track within the All or Nothing DTS Fall 2023.
Do you believe women can be catalysts for change? We stan women of passion, bold in identity, and secure in purpose. Discover what it means for women to own their calling and take their place in the kingdom.
Gain confidence in your voice
Learn how to step into your unique role
Learn how to activate young women into their purpose
We Stan is a track within the All or Nothing DTS Fall 2023.
Dates: March 18, 2024 - August 9, 2024
Lecture Cost: 2,400€
Outreach Cost: 2,500-3,200€
Language: English, German
Besides playing a lot of soccer, you will learn and grow in how to use soccer as a ministry tool to share the love of Jesus. You will have opportunities to participate in, and help run, youth soccer camps, soccer programs, and tournaments. Soccer is a universal language spoken everywhere! You will travel to different locations and share Jesus‘ love in the nations through soccer.
Soccer is a track in our Spring DTS
In addition to the Bible reading in corporate times, this track will help you deepen your understanding of Scripture and give you helpful tools to study God’s word effectively. We will practice teaching others how to study the Bible and look at ways the truths of the Bible help shape and transform societies.
Bible is a track in our Spring DTS
Learn leadership principles that will help you pursue your God-given calling. Our heart is that you discover your own strengths as well as your growth potential. And we want to equip you to be able to lead others more effectively.
Leadership is a track in our Spring DTS
Dates: September, 2024 - February, 2025
Lecture Cost: 2,400€
Outreach Cost: 2,500-3,200€
Language: English, German
As tracks are added to this DTS, we will keep adding them here :)
God wants to speak to you! - crazy as that might seem. But communication is a central part of any relationship and to grow closer in relationship to God, you have to learn and grow in hearing His voice.
But what are my own thoughts and which one's might be God's? In DTS you will get better at identifying God's voice and learn how He speaks to you.
There is no one else like you, you are created in the image of God and God has put so much inside of you! DTS is a time to give God space and begin unpacking those passions, talents, and skills that God put in you.
They don’t call it the "good news" for nothing! It’s actually REALLY good news! Through Jesus the whole world has the opportunity to not just have a personal relationship with God, but also to experience healing and wholeness.
Jesus told us to go teach everyone, everywhere what it means to follow Him. DTS is a time to learn and practice how to actually do what Jesus told us to go and do.
Like any relationship it’s the time you spend together that helps you to understand the other person more - their interests, thoughts and intentions.
DTS is a time set apart to do exactly that, to spend tons of intentional time with God. Getting to know God better happens all sorts of ways in a DTS.
It happens through reading and wrestling with the Bible, through teachings, through the experiences and stories of your classmates, in discussions, prayer times, worship times and of course in personal one-on-one times with God.
There are not many programs like a DTS. It is a wild time where you live and do life as part of a community of people who are crazy about God. DTS students come from all over the world, from different cultures, different Christian traditions and together go deeper with God.
A Discipleship Training School is an official program run by YWAM and has curriculum requirements. Here are the elements of the YWAM DTS program:
The schedule will vary from school to school, but your schedule will look pretty close to this example schedule below:
Nuremberg is awesome! It's the city that many of our former students and staff move to because they enjoy it so much.
The YWAM facilities are located directly in the heart of the city right next to the main train station, which is awesome news because you will never be far away from a German bakery, a cup of locally roasted coffee, and there are of course plenty of schnitzel options!
Martin Luther called Nürnberg the "Eyes and ears of Germany" it’s not only a great city to live in but has played key roles through out the history of Germany. We think you will really like it!
Practically, it is an incredibly easy city to get around in. Very few of the YWAMers own or use cars because biking and walking are the main modes of getting around. If you’re not into the whole bicycle thing, there are buses, trams, scooters, underground trains, overground trains… you name it, we have it!
Well, that is a challenging question. Here is an example of what a week of outreach could look like. A typical outreach week is pretty untypical.
This depends on where you go, what is possible there and what missionaries and churches your team is working with. Here is a list of a bunch of things your team could do on outreach:
teach and mentor kids in schools
share a sermon during a church service while half your team is teaching the kids and teens in Sunday School
speak in a youth group encouraging teens to share their faith
host a Jesus Film event for refugees, followed up with weekly Bible studies for further discipleship
partner with a new church plant to help them connect with every person in their neighborhood
and a whole lot more!
There are not many programs like a DTS. It is a wild time where you live and do life as part of a community of people who are crazy about God. DTS students come from all over the world, from different cultures, different Christian traditions and together go deeper with God.
A Discipleship Training School is an official program run by YWAM and has curriculum requirements. Here are the elements of the YWAM DTS program:
The schedule will vary from school to school, but your schedule will look pretty close to this example schedule below:
Nuremberg is awesome! It's the city that many of our former students and staff move to because they enjoy it so much.
The YWAM facilities are located directly in the heart of the city right next to the main train station, which is awesome news because you will never be far away from a German bakery, a cup of locally roasted coffee, and there are of course plenty of schnitzel options!
Martin Luther called Nürnberg the "Eyes and ears of Germany" it’s not only a great city to live in but has played key roles through out the history of Germany. We think you will really like it!
Practically, it is an incredibly easy city to get around in. Very few of the YWAMers own or use cars because biking and walking are the main modes of getting around. If you’re not into the whole bicycle thing, there are buses, trams, scooters, underground trains, overground trains… you name it, we have it!
Well, that is a challenging question. Here is an example of what a week of outreach could look like. A typical outreach week is pretty untypical.
This depends on where you go, what is possible there and what missionaries and churches your team is working with. Here is a list of a bunch of things your team could do on outreach:
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