The stories of children around the world are staggering. Throughout the world millions of children are orphaned through war, through AIDS, through extreme poverty. Every seven seconds a child dies from a preventable disease. Drug addiction runs rampant. Children are sold into prostitution or forced to become child soldiers. They’re lost and they have no place to live. These children have no hope. And these are the ones that are on the heart of God.
The Children at Risk Discipleship Training School will focus on the needs of children around the world and the issues that put them at risk — sex trafficking, poverty, AIDS, abuse, child soldiers, and broken families. We will also focus on the heart of God who promises to be a “Father to the fatherless, who sets the lonely in families.” (Psalm 68:5,6)
For three months, we will examine strategies to help these kids and pursue ways to assist poor communities around the world. And then we will go, spending two months overseas. Past Children at Risk DTSes have gone to India, Thailand, Myanmar, Uganda and Kenya. On outreach, we will work with street kids, AIDS orphans, slum communities, sex slaves and refugees, as well as reach out to people of all ages through evangelism.
To learn more about the Discipleship Training School, visit the YWAM DTS homepage. (The Children at Risk DTS is everything that a DTS is, plus an additional focus on reaching kids and people in poverty stricken communities.) If you are interested in receiving additional information or attending, please contact dts@ywammadison.org.
For graduates of YWAM’s Children at Risk DTS, the possibilities really are endless. Around the world, there are over 1000 YWAM ministries working with children at risk. Every one of these ministries has one pressing problem: the vision and the needs outnumber the workers. Often, a ministry’s greatest hindrance to receiving potential workers is that people are unaware of the need and what can be done to help. Our goal is to bridge the gap between children’s ministries (like schools, orphanages, street kids ministries, etc.) and children’s workers.
Contained in these pages, you will find opportunities for networking, training or interning with children at risk ministries around the world. The opportunities highlighted here are just a few of the many who can receive workers and equip them with on-the-job training.
If you are interested in another location, please contact Paul Allen via Paul@ywammadison.org. We want to do everything we can to see new workers trained and sent to work with children at risk. We would also recommend joining us for Launchpad for 10 weeks following your DTS. In Launchpad, we will help you research, prep and plan for CAR internships or pioneering of new ministries.
Past Outreach Highlights:
Rescued from a Brothel Read the dramatic story of the rescue of two young children from an Indian Brothel.
Meeting Jesus Under the Mango Tree Read about a Ugandan refugee (forced from his home by the LRA) who crossed paths with our team and told us that we were the answer to his 25 year prayer for his clan.
