Justice Focused Discipleship Training School (DTS) at YWAM Wiler - Switzerland

Do a Justice Discipleship Training School!

This Discipleship Training School (DTS) from YWAM Wiler (Switzerland) is focusing on Issues of Justice. The Bible, all the way through the Old Testament - and the New - makes it clear that it is VERY important to God how the vulnerable ones in the world are handled. We want to look especially at what He says about that in the Bible and also look at ways and means and places in our world in which we can act.

So, complementing the normal DTS themes, this course will have teaching intended to help us have a better understanding of the what is going on in the world and how we can get involved in very simple, practical ways – and be obedient to God’s commands to care for justice, to give a voice to those too weak to speak for themselves (whether they are single women in a society in which they are unprotected, or children, or refugees, or …).

The University of the Nations (UofN), part of Youth with a Mission, isolated 3 "Passion Points" a few years ago. We will look at those and what our response can be (they are "Issues of Justice", "Children at Risk", and "Pure Water"). We will look at the United Nations (UN) Millennium Development Goals and ask ourselves what our response as Christians could be to them.

Jesus said in Matthew 28:19, Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age." We believe that commission is for all Christians and includes every area of life. In this school we are focusing on areas of vulnerability and need in the world. While we recognize that not everyone is called to go to a nation/culture vastly different to his/her own, we still want to see each student who completes this DTS be a bit better equipped to be able to live out this calling which Jesus has given us - wherever in the world he/she is called and to whatever area of society.