Schools

DTS

Discipleship Training School

The Discipleship Training School (DTS) is an intensive 5-to-6-month experience that brings together teaching, community and mission. It is not just a school: it is a time to know God deeply, be transformed in your identity, discover your calling and truly live your faith. It takes place in Leticia, a border city with Brazil and Peru, with cultural diversity (Indigenous peoples, nations, languages), missionary experience, the arts, evangelism and work with communities, and a family life, not only that of students. In YWAM, one possible path is to begin with the DTS and then serve two years or more in a service community.

Duration

5 to 6 months: 3 of lecture phase and 2 of outreach phase.

Dates

To be confirmed.

EMI

School of Missions for Indigenous Peoples

The EMI is a school created by JUCUM Leticia: a contextualized version of the DTS for Indigenous people, so they too can be missionaries. That is why it takes place at the jungle base, in a setting that feels like their own. Its schedule makes room for developing skills such as fishing or workshops and offers many opportunities for them to go out and preach in their own communities, where they are most at home. And it does not stop there: they are also encouraged to go out to the nations. God has called everyone, without segmenting or conditioning them culturally.

Duration

Write to us and we will tell you how long it lasts.

Dates

To be confirmed.

OBT

Oral Bible Translation

The OBT expands missionary skills: it is not only about translating one word into another language, but about contextualizing God’s Word into each community’s language and culture, so it is better understood and we see how God has revealed Himself in every culture without erasing it. During the school, real translation work is carried out, because students share the same space with members of the communities whose languages are being translated. The latest edition took place at the Leticia base, with Emberá, Wounaan and Katío facilitators who prepared here and shared with the other students a hands-on experience of what translating the Word means.

Duration

About three months.

Dates

To be confirmed.

Pastors’ seminars

Through the seminars, the JUCUM Leticia base trains the pastors of Indigenous communities: it gives them new tools and strengthens their skills to share the Kingdom of God. They are held within each activity, such as the medical brigades and Explosión, and at other times of the year, at the base and in the communities themselves.

Duration

Write to us and we will tell you how long it lasts.

Dates

Throughout the year: within each activity (medical brigades, Explosión) and at other times.