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Exciting New YWAM Communication School

Bill Hutchison — Wed, 25 May 2011 16:52:07 +0000

The School of Mission Communication being offered by the YWAM International Communication Network in Denver Colorado later this year really excites me with the possibilities. I’ve written before about the importance of telling our stories in YWAM and have talked about it a lot on the YWAM Podcast as well. This school looks like a great way for people called to be “Missions Communicators” to get started.

Lynn Green, one of YWAM’s elders and a veteran of 42 years in Youth With A Mission, has this invitation for people to get involved in this school:

The School of Mission Communication will be covering many different topics, including:

Writing
Photography
Design
Campaigns
Video
New Media
more…

The training will be presented from a mission context, rather than a journalistic, entertainment or business context. Unless you are in the field it’s hard to appreciate the difference, but this course should do well in helping missions communicators to present their stories in ways that will have the greatest impact with their audience.

After the three months of classroom training the students will have the opportunity to join of YWAM’s Regional Communication Teams for 3 – 6 months, or other communication initiatives around the world.

You can find out more about this great new school for mission communicators on the YWAM ICN web-site.

Outreach Opportunity to India for YWAM Discipleship Training School Teams

Grassroots News Training Seminar – Full Videos

Bill Hutchison — Sat, 09 Apr 2011 18:27:15 +0000

At the end of March Grassroots News ran a week long training seminar in eight different locations around the world, including:

Hawaii, USA
Florida, USA
Tijuana, Mexico
Pichilemu, Peru
London, UK
Lausanne, Switzerland
Perth, Australia
Townsville, Australia

In addition to live web-conferencing sessions to these eight locations they also had a live video stream for people to watch. The live streams were captured and are available online, but I found them kind of hard to navigate.

Below in this article is the full week of training for Grassroots News, in the order it was presented:

Training Videos

Grassroots News Training – Day 1, Session 1

With David Cunningham and Tamara Neely

Grassroots News Training – Day 1, Session 2

With David Aikman

Grassroots News Training – Day 2, Session 1

With Stan Jeter

Grassroots News Training – Day 2, Session 2

With Wally Nell

Grassroots News Training – Day 3, Session 1

With Debra Buenting

Grassroots News Training – Day 3, Session 2

With Diane Becker

Grassroots News Training – Day 5, Session 1

Grassroots News Training – Day 5, Session 2

I’m not sure what happened to day 4 of training as there is no video for it, but I have included all of the videos that are on the Ustream channel for the Grassroots News Training Seminar.

If you are interested in finding out more about Grassroots news, including future training opportunities, check out their web-site www.grassrootsnews.com.

Outreach Opportunity to India for YWAM Discipleship Training School Teams

Upcoming Support and Friendraising Workshop

Bill Hutchison — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 16:28:14 +0000

On May 31- June 4, 2010 Terry Sherman will be hosting the “Train the Trainers in Friendraising Workshop”.

The workshop is a four day workshop on friendraising and support raising for people in YWAM. It will be hosted at the YWAM Heidebeek centre in Heerde, the Netherlands.Terry has been developing training in the area of support raising and friendraising for the last 8-years and has run these workshops successfully in previous years.

The first three days will be spent learning about how to raise support. The fourth day will be dedicated to looking at how the participants can multiply that teaching on their own YWAM Centre.

The training is very interactive and includes homework before the workshop, lots of group discussion and assignments during the workshop.

If you are after more information about the friendraising and support raising workshop you can contact Terry Sherman through her Facebook page here.

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Worship Training Video Ideal for New YWAM Students

Bill Hutchison — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 07:50:16 +0000

I come from a church that has fairly conservative / traditional style worship, at least compared to the worship I experienced at YWAM Reef to Outback in Australia. Recently I was sent a copy of a training video on “How to Worship” that is geared towards people going into a Pentecostal flavour of worship, which is what I experienced in Townsville. I think that if I had been given the chance to see this video before attending my YWAM DTS I would have been much better equip for the worship experience…

What do you reckon, would this have been helpful to you when you came into YWAM or could this video possibly help new students at your Youth With A Mission location enter more easily into worship?

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YWAM Biblical Core Course Starting in January

Bill Hutchison — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:35:32 +0000

In January a new YWAM Biblical Core Course will be starting up at Reef to Outback, where I spent my first 11-years in YWAM and missions.

The Biblical Core Course (YWAM BCC) is a 5 1/2 month course that is broken up to be half lectures and half outreach. During lectures they’ll be covering topics like:

How to study the Word of God
Applying the what God says in the Bible to your life
Preaching and Teaching
Is the Bible still relevant today

After the lecture phase the Biblical Core Course will be heading over to Papua New Guinea again. The had a very successful outreach there last year when they ran the course and the staff are pretty excited to be heading back there again with the new school.

Jonathan Spainhour will be leading the school again this year. He just let me know this morning that another student signed up for it yesterday. He runs a great school full of practical and challenging teaching.

You can find out more about the school here.

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Communication Skills Workshop at YWAM Harpenden

Bill Hutchison — Tue, 19 May 2009 05:58:00 +0000

In July YWAM Harpenden is offering a two week workshop to help YWAM Staff to improve their communication skills. An experienced group of professionals will be teaching on the course and the workshop will include both instruction and practical application.

The workshop will cover written and verbal forms of communication. Written communication will focus on business and professional writing and the verbal communication will focus on public speaking.

Jean Hartley, M.A. Communication, will be the primary speaker during the workshop. He has 40-years of college teaching experience and is a YWAM Associate directing internet ministry for people with physical disabilities.

You can read more about the Communication Skills Workshop that is being offered by YWAM Harpenden here.

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YWAM Creative DTS Video from Aalesund Norway

Bill Hutchison — Wed, 06 May 2009 15:30:33 +0000

I debated long and hard about adding a video to this site, but I really liked this video that was put together by the YWAM Creative Discipleship Training School from Aalesund in Norway. It was made as a creative application of 2 weeks of teaching on their YWAM DTS.

I wonder which two weeks of teaching this was after.

You can read more about the Creative YWAM DTS in Aalesund Norway here.

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YWAM OneStory Seminar offered in Canada

Bill Hutchison — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 15:45:40 +0000

Starting April 29th YWAM Turner Valley in Alberta, Canada is offering a one week “OneStory” seminar, open to anyone in YWAM Canada (or beyond) who want to learn more about how to communicate God’s Word to oral people groups. The goals of the seminar are to help the participants understand better how oral communicators think and learn, understanding their worldview and gaining knowledge of cultural considerations.

The OneStory seminar is a part of the call2all strategy to raise the churches effectiveness in evangelism and missions.

You can find out more about the YWAM OneStory seminar here.

Contact the Turner Valley YWAM base here if you are interested in participating here.

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YWAM School of Field Journalism Completes Their Lecture Phase

Bill Hutchison — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 06:57:42 +0000

The YWAM SoFJ in Africa has just completed the twelve week lecture phase of their school. The covered topics such as Worldview with Landa Cope, how to design a magazine and recording a radio broadcast (Maybe one of the graduates can help me develop a YWAM News podcast?)

They are currently praying about the field assignments for the YWAM SoFJ students to go on, getting the last of their finances in and where to go from there.

You can read more about the completion of the YWAM School of Field Journalism here.

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A Unique YWAM DTS Running Over Two Summers Targets College and University Students

Bill Hutchison — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 14:00:08 +0000

Designed specifically for College and University students the “One DTS” offered by Youth With A Mission Colorado splits the traditional YWAM DTS in half to run over two summers. The first summer is spent in the lecture phase of the DTS. After the lecture phase the student then participates in a local church internship while studying or working. The following summer the students participate in an international outreach with the YWAM DTS.

You can find out more about this unique YWAM DTS experience here.

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