discipleship training SCHOOL

Hello! Things are going well here. :)

In a week, I will be leaving for the Czech Republic for mini outreach. I am so excited!

So this YWAM thing that I am doing is called a Discipleship Training School. We have lectures during the week and read books and sometimes have presentations. Here’s a little bit about what’s up with my school: 

• Individually, we are reading the book of John once each week for the first six weeks. Then for the second six weeks of lecture, we will be reading the book of Acts once each week for a total of six weeks.
• There is a new speaker each week that gives lectures about a topic or two. Sometimes our lecturers are from the YWAM base, and sometimes they are from other YWAM bases. Our speaker this week was Mark Erickson from YWAM Finland. He spoke about intimacy with the Lord and intercession and used a story format. He is involved with YWAM’s mercy ministry, so he incorporated bits of justice as well. 
• For the justice lectures, the resources are the Bible as well as other media and books. There is a couple that is helping to staff my DTS (there are 5 staff people total), and they lead the justice portion. Right now we are reading Generous Justice by Timothy Keller. A friend of mine who is also doing the Justice DTS will be blogging about the content as we read it. You can check out her blog here: http://whereintheworldisapril.com/. She's pretty awesome!
• Throughout the lecture phase, each of us will be presenting at least one fifteen minute sermon. I did mine this week on community as it’s described in Acts. I definitely thought about emailing my pastor and asking for a few pointers!

Have a great week, friends!