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Life After YWAM
Last week I was asked to do some debriefing for 28 people who have just finished their time with YWAM and are now heading back to the real world. We talked about how to understand what happened and Plant it in the sjort term via the next place they were going. The second area was Growing through developing your identity over the medium term. Finally, we discussed how to Bear fruit that will remain into the next generation.
I recorded the sessions and afterwards one of the staff members mentioned to me that it was the best debriefing session he had ever been in. Taking the encouragement, I thought I would make it available to a larger audience and have created a page called Life After YWAM.
Please share this with people you know who have been through YWAM and may need a little encouragement in this difficult transition.
read more...Vocatio - Welcome to DTS 3.0
Vocatio is the latin word for calling. It’s the root of our modern term vocation, but it has a sacred aspect to it, namely, that God has given us callings that will work out into our sacred expression in the world. This lines up with our missional sense of reconciling all things back to God in every area of life.
The main objectives of Vocatio are:
- Improve the teaching in hearing God’s Voice
- Broaden the students understanding of the mission God is calling them to
- Develop a solid understanding gifts and callings through identity mapping
Money and Mission
We recently had a YWAM national leaders meeting where we spoke about support. I recorded the session and want to invite you into the conversation. You may be in YWAM or supporting people in mission or the church. Have a listen and tell us what you think.
Also, there are a few pdf’s to download which may be useful for you as well.
read more...Success
So who’s gonna change the world? Our 16,000 fire starters or the 3 million people who have gone through YWAM? If we measure our success by what we do (and yes, it’s pretty amazing world-wide), then we count people saved per year, students trained and food and aid given out from these 1000 locations. But if we shifted our focus on how effective our post YWAM team is operating, then the whole game shifts. Like Frank Naea said to me the other day, “What if those 3 million WERE our mission on the earth?” What if our calling was not to grow huge numbers and locations within YWAM, but to have a lean team around the world that was forging amazing people and sending them into every nook and cranny of the world, in effect; mission life after YWAM.
read more...Missing the Target
Most of the people we are designing our world changing courses for, are going other places to learn how to change the world. When they think of YWAM, they think pit helmet and bad food, or at least “Oh, those guys do evangelism and ‘mission’. I’m not a missionary, I just wanna redeem the field of advertising or make killer movies that change peoples lives…” And so most go on their way to some school that will give them the technical side of their future, but a crappy world view and a shaky foundation.
read more...Short Term Outreach, Long Term Disconnect
From my observation, 80 to 90% of the people that come to YWAM DTS’s do not stay with the mission longer than one year. Even though we would probably like more people to stay, it’s a good thing that we can help prepare them for extending the kingdom of God back at their homes and communities. Problem is, I don’t think our short term outreaches actually help them in this effort.
read more...You Can't Get There From Here...
Here’s the main problem for our rut as far as I can tell; Most of our DTS leadership have only been in the mission for about three to five years. That means, most of the day to day influence given to our incoming staff and outgoing ambassadors is coming from people who are sharing what they think mission should be. Their influences are largely based on their experiences before YWAM and a little inside of it.
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