Assignments

Hey again everyone! Well, week two is over, but there is still homework to complete this weekend. Yes, I said homework. The teacher has become the student once again, but I am actually enjoying it because I am learning so much. Since DTS is a school and I will earn 20 college credits through the University of the Nations (part of YWAM) once DTS is over, we are required to do assignments. The assignments are not meant to be busy work, but to challenge you in your walk of faith.

So, here are the assignments that we are required to complete during the lecture phase of DTS.

1. Book reports – we are required to read 5 five books (that are based on YWAM Beginnings, Relationships, Character, Prayer, and World Missions) and do a report for each book. Every other week a book report is due.
2. Meditations – each week we are given a different passage of scripture to meditate on and to write our personal insights / what we learned from the scripture.
3. Weekly Tests – each week we are tested on the previous week’s lectures.
4. Velvet Elvis – a book by Rob Bell that we are required to read a Chapter a week (starting week 3 of school and concluding week 12) to discuss during small group times.
5. Quiet Time Notes – we have a weekly journal that we are to fill out that is more or less to get or keep you in the discipline of having a quiet time with God.
6. Creative Presentations – we are assigned 2 presentations based on character traits and each presentation has to be a different method of delivery whether song, skit, dance, teaching, etc. (I have already done my first presentation which was FAITH vs. PRESUMPTION, and I used the teaching method, so next time I have to do something different)
7. Final Test – a major test given at the end of the lecture phase, in which we will be required to recall 2 major points from 10 of our speakers and apply each point to our lives.

It seems overwhelming at first, but it’s really not that bad. We actually have an optional study hall for 2 hours every Tuesday and Thursday night to work on assignments is we want, and plenty of time on the weekends.

Well, I pray God’s blessing upon each of you, and will update you soon on what God taught me this week in “Father Heart of God.”