What is DTS?

DTS – Discipleship Training School – is a course that offers people the opportunity to have their character and personality strengthened, in order to know God’s purpose for their lives. The emphasis of the course is to know God in greater depth, and to provide the student with favorable circumstances to mature in their relationship with the Lord and the people around them.

Encountering Jesus

Discover your next step in Him through five months of focused discipleship and missions experience – a Discipleship Training School. Jesus’ disciples grew and were trained through spending time with Him – observing what He did and following His lead. Their discipleship included intentional community, watching His example closely, discussing questions, extending compassion, taking the gospel public. Our live/learn approach is shaped by this model.

It is an intense, rewarding, and also fun 20-week learning experience, divided into 12 weeks of theoretical training and 8 weeks of outreach experience.

You not only study God’s Word, but you discover how to make it real in your own life, learning to listen to Him and letting Him change your heart.

DTS is your chance to seek the face of God intensely and know the joy of having intimacy with the Creator.

Notes: It is required that students be full time engaged in DTS period;

Each DTS may offer local, national, or international outreach opportunities;

We have 7 DTSs on our campus: Every DTS at YWAM AT offers the same core teaching and discipleship experience in our missions community, and each offers a specific focus to address a variety of needs and harness the potential of many approaches. From sport to community development, performing arts to seeking out the hard-to-reach, we aim to equip you to join in God’s global purposes.

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Purpose of the School

To equip the student to grow in relationship with God by providing a solid biblical foundation and encouraging the development of Christ-like character through application.
Challenge the student to get involved in the unreached missions in worldwide evangelism.
To impart the student an understanding of the Youth With A Mission International movement, its core values, and call to nations.
To prepare the student to serve in the church and local communities.

The Theoretical Period lasts 12 weeks. In the morning the student has a time alone with God, after that there will be 3 hours of classes. In the afternoons they will participate in base maintenance, theater rehearsals, evangelism, group study, discipleship, intercession, amongst other things. In the evenings, the student will enjoy a time of personal study, base worship, Perspectives Brasil or other alternative activities that are needed to complement the course curriculum.

The outreach period lasts 8 weeks. At this time the students are sent out in teams for a practical time on a mission field in Brazil or other countries. The emphasis of this period is on the application of the principles taught in the first 12 weeks, along with active participation in evangelism and discipleship.

Academic Information

For 12 weeks, we dive into learning and applying what it means to walk in authentic discipleship. We explore topics like hearing God’s voice, worship and prayer, missions and relationships. It’s more than just a classroom – you and your DTS live and learn together. You’ll grow as you encounter God in worship, in lectures, in small groups, as you serve others, as you share the love of Christ and more. And it all happens in the context of YWAM Perth’s international missions community, people from many nations committed to His purposes.

Personal study: Time set aside for your personal reading, activities, assignments, and week’s record.
Weekly Journal: This is a creative exposition of the week’s study, with the purpose of fixing the teaching through reflection and registering your growth during the school. The Weekly Journal will help you summarize the most important teaching points, events, and personal revelations of each week.
Literature: During the theory period the student will have some mandatory and some suggestive readings.

Then together you’ll launch out into actively reaching and caring for those who need Jesus. The next 12 weeks include projects like serving the poor and needy, sharing the gospel in various ways, and encouraging those who know Him already. God wants to bring His hope and healing to a hurting world. As believers, we are His agents of change! All we need to do is to walk in availability to Him – that’s when we see Him show up!

Required readings:

Is that Really You, God? ( Loren Cunningham )

Against All Odds ( Jim Stier)

Ropes course:

This program is a challenge to every type of team and individual. Through adventure, extreme sports, logic and strategy games, we intentionally work on skills such as leadership, communication, interdependence, trust, among other aspects, that a good team needs. The program aims to achieve 5 specific work points in the team and in the individual: encouragement, overcoming, safety, fun, and creativity. All of this in a dynamic and fun way.