We are heading back to YWAM! We will be staffing the Classic Discipleship Training School (DTS) in Kona starting in July 2010.
What is staffing?
We will help lead the school as well as lead a team to a yet-to-be-decided location. Staffing seems like an amazing opportunity to view the Discipleship Training School from a different perspective. Instead of receiving teachings and discipleship, we will have an opportunity to pour into others. I’m sure we will learn and be discipled along the way. I really enjoyed seeing God’s radical transformation of my fellow DTS classmates. I get excited as I think about Camille and I being a vehicle that God can use to see transformation in the coming students.
How and why did we decide to staff?
We started thinking about staffing even before our DTS outreach. We looked into a few DTS’ we could staff and talked with some leaders. When we returned from outreach, we sat down with a campus leader that said as he prayed about the classic DTS school he thought to ask us to staff not even knowing we had been thinking about it. Camille said she felt excitement as he mentioned it. We prayed into it and felt peace about going. I really felt God say, “Yes, go” as I was worshipping one Friday—it seems I hear God’s voice most clearly when I am in worship and adoration towards Him.
We had a few conversations with the leader Andrew York (click his name to view his blog) and loved the vision for the school and saw the passion Andrew had for the school. It had a lot of the same goals as our Community Transformations DTS like living out a missional lifestyle flowing out of intimacy with God and targeting all spheres (Business, Arts&Entertainment, etc) with the Gospel. We’re excited to get to know Andrew more when we arrive on campus. We also have some other great staffers who we are excited to meet!
What is the Classic DTS (Summer)? (from University of Nations website)
The Summer DTS is the integration of all the very best things God has called the Discipleship Training School to be. It will propel you into the most radical movement of global transformation the world has ever known! A movement of people who are consumed with a passion to intimately know Jesus and translate His life into every setting they find themselves in.
The Summer DTS will include key elements such as:
Learn More: http://uofnkona.edu/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=175&Itemid=136&lang=en
Partnership and Prayers
We were really grateful for the prayer warriors who kept us in their prayers during our student DTS! In this next stage in following Jesus, we will need your prayers once again! We thank you so much for your prayers!
Although staffing is much less expensive than being a student, there are some costs. Camille and I want to give our whole heart and effort into this DTS, so we won’t be making any other income. We are relying on partnerships with friends who also have a heart for seeing hungry students transformed by the love of God and would be there next to us if they could. Here is our estimated needs:
Staff Fees including food & housing (4 months on campus at $700/month) – $2800
Travel (air) – $4900 ($1900 round trip to KONA and $3000 estimated cost for outreach tickets)
TOTAL: $7700
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My wife and I are part of the Awaken Community. We desire restoration and reconciliation in the broken and lost. We both love God and are committed to following his will. I enjoys taking photographs of my travels as well as blogging about awesome things God does or teaches me. To see more photos, visit our gallery. More about Calvin and Camille
2 Comments
Wow… this site is LEGIT.
I love what you’ve done with it. Can’t wait to hang.
Andrew York
4/21/2010
Andrew, thanks! Its actually built on the Wordpress blogging platform. I took a theme and modified it to my liking. We can hang out and talk about blogging when I get there :) We have the Staff applications filled out and will drop them in the mail today or tomorrow.
Calvin Hanson
4/21/2010
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