23 SEPT. 2026 – 27 FEB. 2027
IN COLLABORATION WITH NATIONS TO NATIONS (N2N)
Marketplace DTS: Discipleship Training School
What if five months could ground your faith, clarify your purpose, and prepare you to impact Germany, Europe, and beyond? How might your life look if you discovered God’s heart for this continent and your unique place in His story — while being trained in a historic 400-year-old castle in the heart of Bavaria, in the center of Europe? What would change if you learned to carry the gospel not only to the nations but also into the marketplace, your profession, and everyday relationships? In our Discipleship Training School at the YWAM Hurlach Castle, we invite you to ask the big questions, encounter God deeply, and grow in obedience to His calling. Are you ready to be trained, challenged, and sent out as a bold witness for Jesus wherever He leads—whether across borders or into your own workplace?
DTS is:
A unique opportunity to set everything else aside and to focus on knowing God and making God known.
During the DTS you will grow in intimacy with God, discover identity and purpose, and strengthen your faith by actively revealing God’s love to others.
The school trains you in hearing and obeying God, laying a solid foundation for the rest of your life.
In this Marketplace DTS we partner with Nations to Nations (N2N), a ministry of Youth With A Mission (YWAM) International that aims to mobilize people from all nations to impact other nations. It is a ministry focused on restoring the identity, dignity, and destiny of people and nations through spiritual, cultural, intellectual, and professional development.
THIS IS THE MOMENT
PURSUE GOD
LECTURE PHASE: KNOW GOD
The first 3 months of your DTS will be spent at the YWAM castle in Hurlach, Germany. We will be learning from experienced teachers on foundational discipleship topics like: The Nature and Character of God, Hearing God’s Voice, Identity, Relationships, Worldview and Missions, and so many more.
The goal of the lecture phase is to gain a biblical understanding of life that leads to a life transformation. We spend regular time engaging in worship, prayer, the bible, and peer discussions. All of this happens in a live-learn environment with people who are all running after the same thing – to know God and to make Him known.
GET GOING
OUTREACH PHASE: MAKE GOD KNOWN
The second phase of DTS is a 2-month outreach. We travel in teams to encounter new people from many walks of life and share the gospel cross-culturally in word and deed. This phase allows you to put into practice everything you learned in your lecture phase and to grow into it. Outreach will provide you with an immersive experience of missions as your team serves alongside local churches, existing ministries, and long-term missionaries in a cross-cultural context.
As YWAM Hurlach, our focus region is both Germany and Central Europe, a region spanning from Poland to Bulgaria and all the nations in-between, which is one of the missionally most unreached regions of the world. Outreach will be located partly in a German-speaking context and partly in another Central European context.
A YWAM outreach isn’t just an adventure – it’s a catalyst for personal growth, global impact and cross-cultural exposure to European culture. Are you ready to be part of something so much bigger than yourself?
AFTER YOUR DTS
DO A DBS – OR IMMIGRATE TO GERMANY!
Following this DTS, you can choose between two options:
(A) Either you can join our new 6-month German language (B1+B2 level) & integration course, preparing you to study or work professionally in Germany.
If you have completed your high school degree, after this German course most nationalities can apply for an apprenticeship in Germany (e.g. to become a nurse) or apply to study at universities in Germany. If you already have completed a university or college degree from your home nation, you can most likely apply easily to work in Germany, as Germany lacks yearly an extra half million skilled workers – you just need to have besides your completed degree also the German language passed in B2-level, which this special course offers you.
For this is important that before DTS you already start learning some basic German, so that you have completed German language A2 level before or latest by the end of your DTS to be accepted in our German language & integration course (B1+B2 level). You can start learning basic German professionally now immediately, e.g. via this FREE and well-made online program: https://learngerman.dw.com/en/learn-german/s-9528
If you are interested in this program, tell us in your DTS application, so we can issue your necessary 1-year visa and also place you already during your DTS in German language learning groups.
(B) Or you pick after DTS our 3-month Discipleship Bible School (DBS), in English language. The DBS is an introductory Bible course designed to help you understand the entire Bible, grow in your relationship with God, and learn to apply biblical principles to your life. Besides classes the program involves reading the Bible cover to cover, thematic studies, discussing themes in both large and small groups, as well as 1-on-1 mentoring.
Find out more here: www.ywamhurlach.org/dbs
DATES
Start:
September 23rd 2026
Ending:
February 27th 2027
FEES
Reservation Fee:
50€ (to be paid once with your application)
Visa Fees:
125€ (if you need a visa)
School Fees:
(Housing, Food, Tuition, Outreach)
Category A: 1200€/month
Category B: 1050€/month
Category C: 950€/month
Check your UofN category here: www.uofn.edu/nation-category-list
(10€/day housing, 10€/day food, 350-600€/month full tuition & outreach phase)
One-time Expenses:
2x 150-200€ School Trips (transportations & external accommodation)
Exclusive:
about 50€/month mandatory insurances: health insurance + private liability insurance.
(You book yourself, we can give you recommendations.)
REFUND POLICY
The Application Fee and Visa Fees (if necessary) are not refundable. The general School Fees have to be paid monthly with the start of the lecture phase.
LANGUAGE
The teachings will be in English. Outside of classes we will have weekly certain immersive German language days. For those who plan to continue with the German language & integration course after DTS, you will have also your daily Bible reading group in German language.
Contact us
We aim to answer you workdays within 24h!
dts@ywamhurlach.de
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