Discipleship Training School

YWAM Nexia: Truro Initiatives’s Discipleship Training School (DTS) is a place to connect with God, other followers of Christ, and the world. Come, spend six months immersed in a life-changing community – learn, grow and give in ways that you may have only dreamed of before! YWAM’s Discipleship Training School has been impacting lives and training youth for service for over 40 years! DTS students, staff, and guest lecturers come from around the globe to study, work, and play together. They seek to know God and to make Him known in every area of life among all people of the planet.

The first part of the DTS is a 12-week lecture phase.
Qualified staff and teachers share from the Bible, their own experiences, and invite you to experience God in practical and personal ways. More than just information, the lecture phase of the DTS combines “hearing”, “seeing” and “doing” in order to maximize learning and to “connect the dots” between what you know and how you live.
Lectures, reading, small-group discussion, worship, prayer, creative-processing and application times, assignments, and one-on-one conversations with staff, keep classes interesting and accommodate a variety of learning styles.

A 12-week cross-cultural field assignment follows the lecture phase
and provides an opportunity to take the gospel to the nations living out and practically giving away what you have learned. You get to see the transforming power of God’s love in the lives of many others around the world! DTS is an intense six months - living in community, discovering God in new ways, doing things you have never done before - even leaving the safety and comfort of home, all in order to come face to face with the needs of a desperate world. Be a part of a great adventure that changes the world!

Course Content

The DTS lecture phase covers many of these topics:

  • Intimacy with God
  • Relationships
  • Cross-cultural Communication
  • Sharing Your Faith
  • The Least Reached
  • Hearing the Voice of God
  • Salvation and the Cross
  • The Character and Ways of God
  • Biblical View of Justice
  • God’s Heart for Cities
  • Identity in Christ
  • Missions
  • The Father Heart of God
  • Spiritual Warfare
  • Orality and Storytelling

If you have any questions about our DTS, check out our FAQ page.
If you want to dialogue with someone about doing a DTS, please contact us: dts@ywamtruro.ca



Details

DTS begins: January 16, 2012
Approx. School cost: $8000CAD
Lecture cost: $4000CAD
Outreach cost: $4000CAD

Both the school lecture phase and the outreach phase are required to be completed in order to receive credit for this course with the University of the Nations. School tuition includes: room and board, required books, and tuition during the lecture phase and is required to be paid in full by the first week of the school. Travel costs to and from the school location are not included in the tuition. Outreach expenses are required to be paid in full before leaving on outreach.

We as a staff usually involve students and staff together in praying to determine the outreach locations for the school. We always travel to the least reached! We could be working with refugees, the poor, orphans, university students, people with AIDS, or those in danger of human trafficking.