Changes for Jason & Justine!

There are some huge changes in store for us. No, we're not pregnant. We've had to clarify that with everyone that we've told this news to.

Our job positions are changing this season! For the past year and a half, as you all know, we've been working with the Justice ministry of YWAM San Francisco (human trafficking, as well as working with immigrants through ESL). We've loved it and grown so much in this ministry. God has heightened our awareness of social justice issues and it will always be a priority of ours in whatever ministry/field we find ourselves in later in life.

After a lot of prayer and advice from our leaders this summer, both of us felt like God was leading us back into staffing YWAM's Discipleship Training Schools. Let us give you a little overview on what the DTS is, in case you aren't already aware:

YWAM San Francisco runs DTS twice a year for young people ages 17-29 years old. We combine classroom learning and hands on experience in knowing God and making Him known. Students are given the opportunity to develop their relationship with God, in creative and innovative environments.

The first portion of the DTS is spent at our training facility just blocks away from the hub of the city, located in the Tenderloin neighborhood. Surrounded by urban needs and challenges students are encouraged to dig deep in pursuing God through lectures, small group discussions, reading assignments, and personal reflection. In this significant location students experience God in extraordinary ways. God reveals himself through the life and people of the city.

DTS students spend two months in target nations doing daily ministry with a strong emphasis on evangelism and mercy ministry. Fall schools focus on SE Asia while Winter schools focus on Italy and one other country. Outreach enables students to walk out what they've learnt through practical, hands on involvement. Previous outreach teams have been involved in the following: ministered in Thai slums, built a school in Morocco, visited university campuses in Rome, worked to reach those caught in sex-trafficking and used performing arts in the famous piazzas of Italy.

Both of us have staffed Discipleship Training Schools in the past. We love working with young people and seeing their faith grow and their relationships with God deepen. Many students experience healing from emotional and broken pasts. It's incredible to see them respond to God's love and the community that DTS provides as well as to grow in their own gifts and personalities as they discover the long-term vision that God has over their lives.

Our YWAM leaders have asked us to lead the next January DTS together. This is a new experience for us! We've both staffed before, but this will be our first time leading the school. As school leaders, we will be responsible for all of the planning of the school, appointing teachers, overseeing ministry and staff, as well as planning the focus of and leading the overseas outreach. Please be praying for us as we take on this new role of leadership. We can't wait to share with you all how God is encouraging the students as well as how he's growing us. Pray that we allow Him to teach us and lead us in this time.

For more information on our DTS, or if you know any young person that would be interested in attending a DTS, follow this link: http://www.ywamsanfrancisco.org/dts