English is a valuable tool for missions. TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages) will open doors for you and equip you with the skills you need to teach English cross-culturally.

Course Description

Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages is an intensive four week course that equips students to teach English cross-culturally. The course covers the theories and methods of teaching English, classroom management, learning styles, principles of language acquisition, and how to teach basic English grammar. The course includes a practicum in which the students have the change to practice what they are learning and receive feedback and assessments.

The course is open to non-native speakers, but they must be proficient in English in order to successfully complete the school. A YWAM-DTS is not required in order to take the TESOL. Upon successful completion of the school, students will receive a TESOL certificate from University of the Nations.

The LDC is a 6-week intensive, interactive course that was first started at the Seamill Centre in Scotland but is now in many locations around the world. If you have had at least 5 years’ experience as a leader and need some evaluation and focus on what the future holds, then this is the course for you!

The Couples & Family Counseling School is designed with a biblical perspective to help train and equip students in systemic theory, practice, and ministry for healthy lifestyle changes.

The course introduces at least seven systemic models of family counseling and therapy.

Topics Covered

• Systemic thinking & theory from individual to interpersonal
• Biblical worldview of marriage & family
• Systemic work with individuals
• The family life cycle, transitions, & change
• Family coordination through communication
• Emotions, attachments, & systems
• Different integrative models of family counseling & therapy
• Assessment skills & interventions that help facilitate recovery from dysfunction such as: addictions, eating disorders, abuse, violence, loss, boundary, gender and sexuality issues
• Reflecting teams and process

The English Language School is designed to equip students to successfully communicate in the English Language so that they can receive further training in missions, minister in English-speaking settings, and be better-prepared to fulfil God’s calling on their lives. The school is committed to seeing students grow and develop as individuals.

At the beginning of each 11-week-term, new students are placed in one of the 5 levels, from Beginner to Upper-Intermediate. The term includes class time, worship, intercession, weekly outreaches, outings, work duties and other activities to fully immerse in the language as well as develop a better understanding of the numerous cultures around them. With over 30 different nationalities every term, the YWAM Worcester base is an ideal place for growth and preparation to go to the nations!

The Troubadour DTS offers you the same curriculum as a normal YWAM-DTS. The primary focus is Discipleship, however, the school is run in a very creative way.

During the TDTS, Christian artists will be taught on discipleship and equipped to share the Good News in a creative and practical way, taking consideration of their personal gifts and talents.

Creative learning is facilitated and creative people are embraced and celebrated. The school also offers an artistic workshop to help students discover their God-given talents – the workshops vary according to the available personnel.

This is a great opportunity for people who love music, drama, and dance to receive healing, restoration and to be radical in knowing God and making Him known in a creative way.

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CDS provides you with tools to evaluate yourself and to assess the community you will be in. Having a deeper understanding of community development from a Biblical based world view will help you understand the difference between development and relief. By discovering more about the “Kingdom of God” you will begin to understand that “development begins with me”.

LECTURE PHASE

The curriculum is designed to help you develop a solid, basic working knowledge of development, scripture-based development values, fundamental skills, Godly character, and good relationships.

The twelve-week lecture phase includes:

• Principles of Community Transformation
• Role of the Local Church as Hope Centers in a Community
• Biblical Worldview for Development
• Cross-cultural Relationships and Skills
• Team and group dynamics
• Community assessment
• Church planting and multiplication
• Basics of Community infrastructure systems, such as sustainable agriculture, primary health care, business, appropriate technology, environmental stewardship, and micro-business enterprises.

This DTS offers you a time of reflection on the life Jesus lived here on earth while at the same time contemplating on what it means to be truly human and to flourish in the midst of a demanding humanistic culture.

In John 10:10 Jesus declares the following to the Pharisees, “The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full.” (NIV). The Lord Jesus Christ came that you may have life and have it to the full. Not that you would survive but thrive, expand and influence. He came so that we would flourish.

We explore the concept of human flourishing focussing on the questions – what does it mean to have life? What would it look like if we had it to the full?

Passion and Pursuit DTS is a 6-month YWAM Discipleship Training School creating a platform for you to step into a lifestyle of a wholehearted pursuit of God, seeking Him through teachings, prayer, and worship to establish a life of intimacy with Jesus.

God is awakening people all around the world who seek to follow Him in a wholehearted pursuit, refusing to follow the status quo of religion. We were created for relationship and intimacy with the people around us as well as with God, and He is raising up men and woman whose primary desire is to change the world through their relationship with Him: To be forerunners for the kingdom of God.

The FOUNDATIONS FOR FAMILY STUDIES introduces students to the study of family life dynamics through the foundational Biblical concepts, where all members of a family are taken into consideration.

The FFS is a dynamic three months second level school with the University of the Nations (UofN), which introduces students to the Biblical foundations of marriage and family life. Both, spiritual and practical training in ministering to individuals and families are taught through a theoretical framework and worldview, enabling students to serve others with more confidence.

Lectures offer the students an opportunity to immediately apply principles learned to their personal lives and in the lives of their families; as well as to the lives of others.

The students will have a chance to develop team work skills, also experiencing the running of a full scheduled Marriage & Singles seminar. Following the lecture phase, we have an 8-12 week field assignment is an integral part of this course and students are expected to complete this practical application outreach.

The English Language School is designed to equip students to successfully communicate in the English Language so that they can receive further training in missions, minister in English-speaking settings, and be better-prepared to fulfil God’s calling on their lives. The school is committed to seeing students grow and develop as individuals.

At the beginning of each 11-week-term, new students are placed in one of the 5 levels, from Beginner to Upper-Intermediate. The term includes class time, worship, intercession, weekly outreaches, outings, work duties and other activities to fully immerse in the language as well as develop a better understanding of the numerous cultures around them. With over 30 different nationalities every term, the YWAM Worcester base is an ideal place for growth and preparation to go to the nations!

This is a different kind of Bible school. We start at the beginning of a book and go through it for as far as we get in twelve weeks. However, we have never finished a book in the four times we have done the school. That’s because the purpose of our study is not to complete a task, but to relate with the author.

Jim Stier, who leads the school, prepares questions beforehand to help the students slow down and really look at what is written. They will read the questions and meditate on the implications. Then they put the questions aside and ask the Lord what He wants to teach them, writing down the results. After they have spent about four hours on the text and questions we have class.

God’s desire for us is that we will have security and identity in who He has made us to be. He made each and every one of us unique. He delights in how He created us, and how we express our love for Him, for one another and the world around us. He created us for blessings.

His original intent was to lavish His love on His children. However, many times we still live with a sense of inadequacy, inferiority, and fear of not being loved by anyone, let alone God.

The xBCC is a second-level course registered with the University of the Nations College of Christian Ministries.

This 12-week intensive course equips students with tools to study the Bible inductively following the steps of prayer, observation, interpretation, application and proclamation. Leaving behind preconceived ideas, students approach Scripture as detectives – observing evidence that allows Scripture to speak to them, rather than imposing their ideas on the text.

In studying the Bible inductively, we recognise that Scripture was originally written to a particular audience – and that audience wasn’t us! The Bible was written for us, but not to us. As we understand more about the culture and history of the people to whom Scripture was originally addressed, and what the text would have meant to them, we can more faithfully apply Biblically sound interpretations to our own lives, today.

The Biblical Teaching and Preaching School (BTPS) gives students training and practical experience in ministering the Word of God in a variety of different contexts.
The aim of the school is to equip students who already have a thorough understanding of the
Scriptures for a ministry of teaching and preaching in churches or on the mission field. The students learn practical skills in effective communication, and they are given help in effective study and heart preparation.
The end result is the preaching and teaching of a message rooted in an accurate interpretation of the Bible, as well as in the power of the Holy Spirit.

The English Language School is designed to equip students to successfully communicate in the English Language so that they can receive further training in missions, minister in English-speaking settings, and be better-prepared to fulfil God’s calling on their lives. The school is committed to seeing students grow and develop as individuals.

At the beginning of each 11-week-term, new students are placed in one of the 5 levels, from Beginner to Upper-Intermediate. The term includes class time, worship, intercession, weekly outreaches, outings, work duties and other activities to fully immerse in the language as well as develop a better understanding of the numerous cultures around them. With over 30 different nationalities every term, the YWAM Worcester base is an ideal place for growth and preparation to go to the nations!

The Discipleship Training School (YWAM-DTS) is YWAM’s six month discipleship program that embodies YWAM’s mission “to know God and make Him known“.  Our utmost desire is that YWAM-DTS students will encounter Jesus Christ personally, learn to hear the voice of the Lord, and respond in joyful obedience!

For many, this is a time of discovery as they receive a revelation of God’s love for them and how God uniquely wants to use them to accomplish His command to “Go into all the world and make disciples of all nations” (Matthew 28:19). YWAM-DTS is a full-time, residential training course which consists of 12 weeks of classroom learning and an 11 week outreach.

Lecture Phase

Phase one is a three-month classroom segment which includes a review of and practice of counseling skills. Group and core functions of addiction will be covered. Students will also acquire and assimilate information on addiction and other addictive behavioral patterns, practicing process, support and change group techniques and learning to teach and conduct seminars.

Field Assignment phase

This phase gives students practical experience to strengthen what was learned in school as well as sharpen the students’ skills. The emphasis is on educational awareness, counseling individuals and families, facilitating family meetings, leading process and change groups, starting a support group, and teaching communities about addictions.