My Youth With A Mission – Discipleship Training School (YWAM DTS) was an amazing experience for me, and many of the stories live on and continue to have huge impacts on my life.
Everyone who has done a YWAM Discipleship Training School has walked away with their own unique stories. I thought that it would be fun to gather some of those stories stories together in a “YWAM DTS Blog Carnival“.
So how does the YWAM DTS Blog Carnival work?
To participate in this carnival all you need to do is write your DTS story on your own blog, with a link to this post. If you already have a story written then you can just add a link to this post and you can submit it. After you have written your story make a comment below on this post to let me know you have written it.
On July 1 2009, I will close submissions to the carnival and start to put all the posts together. I will be linking to all the stories that meet the criteria (true stories from your own YWAM DTS) in a final post and highlighting some of my personal favourites.
Your story can be about any aspect of your school; lectures, outreach, finance, etc. Here are some story ideas from my own YWAM DTS that instantly come to mind:
- Falling off a cliff while running away from God’s conviction
- Camping in the middle of nowhere and digging our own pit toilets
- Getting high on paint fumes while painting an enclosed room in a Pastor’s house in Charters Towers
- Getting left at the airport when we first arrived in Vanuatu, and no one noticing you were missing for a few hours
- Getting forgotten for a second time while in Fiji, but this time at least knowing how to get to where we were meant to be
- Three weeks of dysentery while on outreach
- Being taught to dance in a small village in Vanuatu
- Experiencing amazing hospitality while door knocking in an Indian neighbourhood in Fiji
- Crashing a billy-cart while on outreach in the Sunshine Coast and driving over my passenger, breaking a few of his ribs
Those are some of my stories, but I would love to hear about some stories from your own school. If you don’t want to write them down, then how about recording it on YouTube or an audio file and putting them in a blog post? We can work with that as well.
So again, here are the steps to participate in the YWAM DTS blog carnival:
- Write your YWAM DTS story on your own blog
- Link to this post from your story
- Leave a comment on this post with a link to your story
- I will be closing submissions on the 1st of July, so do all the above before then
- Stay tuned to this blog to find out about all the submitted stories