DTS WEEK 12: Outreach Preparation

Here at Youth With A Mission in Colorado Springs, we care deeply that our staff and students can be as prepared as possible before heading out to the nations. We want to send and sustain our people so they are well cared for and able to invest fully into their ministry. During OR Preparation week, our students hear from all kinds of people with different overseas experience. Some of the topics covered during this week include: emotional and mental health, the purpose and goals of OR, spiritual warfare, communicating God’s story, functioning as a team, and laying down your rights. We had speakers who are going to school for counseling and some who have lived on the field for 20+ years. With the diversity of experience, our students received a well-rounded look on how to enter the nations prepared and healthy with tools to sustain them!

Our campus implements check-in people for our OR leaders to speak with once a week, midway pastoral care visits to debrief the team and leaders halfway through and set them up for success for their second half of OR, and has weekly OR leader preparation times for our leaders to be sent with tools to help them nurture, disciple, and keep themselves and their team healthy. We love sustainability and are consistently looking for ways to better care for our teams, OR leaders, and long-term frontliners.

Keep a look out for some testimonies and stories from our DTS teams out in the nations at this very moment!