Social and Cultural

There are literally dozens, if not hundreds, of distinct methods that you could grow to be a Christian Missionary. Rather than searching at present at how you can be a missionary in your home town or operate I'll appear at how you can turn out to be a cross-cultural Christian missionary through Youth With A Mission.

I am also going to stay away from for the moment the discussion about short-term missionaries and the value that basically comes from that. There are some good discussions and debates from each sides of that topic, so I will include short term and longer term opportunities via YWAM.

Youth With A Mission has a lot of approaches that individuals can come to be involved in Cross Cultural missions. Every single year over 200,000 mainly young folks go via YWAM missions programs about the planet. Here are a handful of selections that are offered:

• Mission Adventures
  
• Discipleship Instruction School
  
• Business enterprise as Missions
  
• School of Frontier Missions
  
• Joining YWAM Staff

Mission Adventures is a common rather short term missionary opportunity with YWAM. It is often a 1 - four week chance that is normally geared towards a youth group or school group.

There are two phases to a typical mission adventures system, the coaching phase and the outreach phase.

Training

The coaching phase of Mission Adventures contains worship, teaching and instruction on who God is and how to share about Him.

Outreach

The outreach phase consists of a cross cultural missions experience organised by the YWAM staff for the group. This phase gives chance for the individual and group to put into practice what they learned in the course of their coaching phase.

Lots of various possibilities are accessible in the course of the outreach. This might possibly include:

• Evangelism
  
• Prison Ministry
  
• Construction Projects
  
• Children's Ministry

The Discipleship Training School (YWAM DTS) is likely the cornerstone school for YWAM training around the world. Over a third of YWAM locations about the globe focus on delivering superior Christian training applications, and most of them would be offering the YWAM DTS.

20 - 24 weeks is the usual duration for a YWAM DTS. The 1st 12-weeks of so of the school is spent in lectures. The main topics covered throughout the lecture phase of the Discipleship Training School are:

1. The Nature and Character of God
   
2. God's Plan for men and women, nations and the planet
   
3. Sin and Redemption through the Cross
   
4. The Church
   
5. The Amazing Commission

A live & understand type atmosphere is employed at most YWAM places for the DTS. This indicates that not only are the participants mastering in a classroom, but by living with their staff and students they are getting to reside out what they are learning. It can be difficult, specially living with people today from other cultures and denominational backgrounds, but it is an exciting time.

After the lecture phase the final half of the school is spent on a cross cultural outreach. Like Mission Adventures there are a lot of distinctive opportunities readily available throughout the outreach, and because it lasts significantly longer, there is a considerably higher possibility to engage in much more of them.

My own YWAM DTS outreach experiences, as staff and students, have included:

• Rebuilding homes in Dili, East Timor
  
• Living in a Village in Mele, Vanuatu
  
• Praying for the sick in a hospital in Port Vila, Vanuatu
  
• Door Knocking in Nadi, Fiji
  
• Sharing my Testimony in a High School in Darwin, Australia

The YWAM DTS is the gateway to even more involvement in Youth With A Mission, such as the second level schools and joining staff.

Business enterprise as Missions

I've decided to consist of Business enterprise as Missions as an opportunity here given that:

1. One of my perfect mates is carrying out a course in it right now
   
2. It is a great opportunity for cross cultural missions

Organization as Missions (BAM) is a exclusive chance to study how to use a gift and calling to business enterprise and use it to open doors not available to "conventional" styles of Christian Missionary Perform. Running and setting up a organization can let access to locations in most cases out of reach to typical types of missions. Small business as Missions initiatives could appear like:

• Coffee shop in a Muslim Country
  
• Textile factory in a Communist Nation
  
• Import / Export Business in a Hindu Nation

There are unlimited possibilities of exactly where Company in Missions could lead somebody if that is exactly where God has known as them.

Youth With A Mission offers a Enterprise as Missions course that covers locations of home business as well as Christian character to assist many people interested in it. I've read some of the material put to use and it really is pretty exciting stuff.

School of Frontier Missions

Youth With A Mission offers dozens of "second level" courses at their a variety of places about the globe. To participate in any of these schools in YWAM the 1st port of call is the Discipleship Coaching School. Soon after that most of the other courses are attainable to be pursued.

The objective of the School of Frontier Missions is to equip Christians to live and work amongst those forgotten men and women groups who have had tiny or no exposure to the message of God's grace in Christ Jesus. This is pretty considerably THE course to take in YWAM if you are wanting to engage in lengthy term cross cultural missionary work. The course covers:

• History and Biblical Basis for Missions
  
• Understanding Planet View and Culture
  
• Church Planting Principles and Techniques
  
• Cross-Cultural Preparation
  
• Support Raising
  
• Language
  
• Prayer

Just after the lecture phase there is then the Field Placement. This is additional than a short term outreach as the aim is for lengthy term missions perform to be planted in the cross cultural setting.

Joining YWAM Staff

Joining staff with Youth With A Mission can be an amazingly rewarding experience in missions. It is various for just about every individual who does it and can be a three-month expertise, or a lifetime encounter.

If you can feel of a career, then you can almost certainly do it in YWAM. The pre-requisite for joining staff with Youth With A Mission is to full a Discipleship Education School. Right after that some places have introductory courses that you need to have to do ahead of becoming complete time staff (Standard Leadership School (BLS), Phase 2, School of Evangelism (SOE), etc), but the YWAM DTS is the launching point.

YWAM does not spend a wage and absolutely everyone in YWAM is responsible for raising their personal assistance for the perform that they do. This goes for everyone from a brand new staff member to the International President.