You are created for something more!
Do you want to discover it?
What is a DTS?
Discipleship Training School (DTS) is a 6 month adventure diving deeper into what it means to be a disciple as you learn, go and travel to new places together with new friends from all over the world.
Our greatest desire is that you will experience the love of God in such a way that you will never be the same again, and that you will discover more of His purpose for your life.
DTS consists of three months of community living and lectures in our beautiful city of Skien, Norway. After this, you will go for eight weeks of outreach!
Take a look at one of our former student's experience of the DTS
Timeline for Spring DTS 2026
*Dates may change
Lecture Phase
January – April
Lecture phase is designed for you to grow as a disciple, and contains two main ingredients: Getting to know Jesus deeper, and having community around you.
Every week of lecture phase has a specific theme with teachers who live out their message. Look forward to Biblical teaching that brings renewal to our minds and change to our hearts. You will also get to process the teaching in smaller groups and get personal follow-up. Lecture phase is also a time of worship, prayer, being practical, making new friends, talks around the table, fun, experiencing Norwegian nature and reaching out to youth and other people.
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Lecture Phase Tracks
We offer this Discipleship Training School with tracks you can choose between. Every week during the lecture phase there will be three hours with your track. With your track, you will learn more about God and about yourself.
Music & Arts
We are not made to express worship in the same way, but to be creative in our unique way. God doesn't want us to just copy each other, but to awaken our creativity and passion. That is the exciting journey we want to take you on! Dive deeper into the creative pars that God has put in you.
Living Bible
When you read the Bible, do you see it as hard to understand and confusing? Do you get lost in genealogies and traditions? In this track, we will go through different stories in the Bible and add historical and cultural context so you can see the amazing stories of the Bible and be able to share it in an engaging way for everyone!
Taste and See
The world has so many fun things to offer, but sometimes it's hard to know what we are good at or what we like. If you're one of those, you have chosen the right track. On this track, we will explore different activities every week, allowing you todiscover new passions. So what exactly are we exploring? Baking, a ski trip, barista and so much more!
*New tracks will be added soon !
Serbia
One week in February
In February of 2025, we in Youth With a Mission Skien are planning to send over 80 people on a mission trip to Serbia. The Spring DTS will be joining this exciting time of sharing Jesus to the people of this nation. The last two years we have gone to Montenegro and have seen God move so much in the Balkans! This is our first year taking a group to Serbia and we are very excited to see what the Lord will do. What if you could lead someone your own age to Jesus? What if we could be a part of seeing the Balkans coming one step closer to Him?
Turkey
Two and a half weeks in April
In past DTS's, we went to Israel for the two last weeks of lecture phase.
Due to the conflict in the region, however, we have decided that we will go to Turkey again this year!!
There we will have our two last weeks of teaching, about Jesus and Him being Lord of our lives. We will have possibilities to travel around, discover more of the country and the Turkish culture and explore Biblical sites. It will be a time for us to have fun and to spend good time together as a class, before being sent to the nations !!
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Outreach
April – June
After three months of lecture phase, we are ready for outreach! We go on outreach to give people Jesus and to practice what we have learned in the lecture phase.
We have the simple belief that God can use anyone, experienced or inexperienced, to show His heart and be His hands to anyone who needs Him. Our experience is also that in giving we also receive, and in going we keep on growing.
Outreach will go to one or two nations in a different culture, below on the map you can see where we have been since the start of our DTS.
Where we've been
Over the last years, we've travelled to many different nations to share God's love!
Exactly where we go for Outreach changes from school to school. In addition to the countries marked on the map, we've also been in the Middle East.
Meet the Staff
Macy Bergford
DTS Leader
Josh Håvik
Staff
Faith Rudder
Staff
Claire Spradley
Staff
Merysa Lewis
Staff
Alex von Castell
Staff
Photos from Spring DTS
Dates
Starts: January 21st 2026
Ends: June 25th 2026
Application for next year's school is open!
Price
84 000 NOK* (Appr. 7300€)
For each friend you bring, each of you gets a 2000 NOK discount!
* Included in the price: All accommodation, food and travels during lecture phase and outreach phase, including travels to and from Montenegro, Israel and outreach location.
Not included: Potential costs for necessary vaccines and visa for outreach. This amount can be anywhere between 0 and 7000 NOK, depending on the outreach location and which vaccines you already have. You need your own travel insurance. Flights to and from Norway at the beginning and the end of DTS are not included. We also recommend that you have spare money to use during DTS.
Visa Information
This is a visa free school*
* Some nationalities might need a visa to come to the DTS. Check if this applies to you here. If your nation isn´t on the list above, you will most likely need a visa to come to the DTS. If you are from one of these nations and you want to apply to our DTS, please contact us.