Expand Your Disciple-Making Horizons

Over the past year we’ve been working rebranding our discipleship training under the new heading of “Expand”. Through Expand, we offer a series of training experiences to equip you and your team to effectively disciple young people.

Through our rebranding conversations we recognised that we offer our training experiences around two core themes:

• Firstly, we offer training to help youth workers to develop their own personal discipleship practice to become disciple-makers.
• Secondly, we are able to equip and come alongside youth ministries to work towards becoming disciple-making youth ministries.

Once we noticed this distinction in what we train, we recognised the need to change how we train. As a result you are now able to access our training in three different ways:

• Expand: Online
• Expand: Course
• Expand: Day

Keep reading to see the details of each!

What is Expand: Online?

With Expand: Online we aim to give youth workers the resources to confidently put discipleship into practice with their young people. We want to help them to go from talking about discipleship, to actually doing it. The low cost, combined with the flexibility of times and no need to travel, means this is ideal for paid and volunteer youth leaders alike.

An initial call with us will explore your heart for disicpleship and what it currently looks like within your context. You will be invited to sessions that cover topics to help you develop and hone your personal discipleship practice. You can sign up for just one 90-minute online session, or all three.

So far, we have covered subjects such as, ‘who to disciple’, ‘how to disciple’, and ‘ready to disciple’. We will continue to offer these sessions within Expand: Online, as well as exploring other useful topics for youth workers looking to engage more with discipleship.

Whilst we believe in the training that we are offering, we appreciate that training alone sometimes isn’t enough. We therefore offer on-going support as you aim to apply the content to your ministry setting.

What is the Expand: Course?

The aim of Expand: Course is for youth leaders and their teams to gather for one day every six months, over the timeframe of two years. These days are for dreaming, planning and to recieve input from our experienced team. You will do this alongside other teams looking to implement a disciple-making practice. As a team, you will be able to hear from us, from each other, and most importantly, from God.

Time together with the people who help deliver your youth ministry is so precious. Often when teams meet at home, time is taken up by the day-to-day, leaving little space to think about the bigger picture of a healthy ministry. Our aim is to provide you with that time and space. In fact, unlike at a conference or other training days, there will be more time allocated to you and your team. You will have more time to discuss the topics than there is for speaker to teach and train!

Each of these days covers one of the following topics: Discipleship, Leadership, Mission, and Legacy. Your team will recieve both input around these topics, and time to think as a team. You will have the space to relate the content into the context of your youth ministry. Our trained coaches are always on hand to help think through the best ways to implement a Disciple-Making Ministry.

Training days culminate in time as a team setting specific plans to put into place over the following six months. In order to move your focus as a youth ministry towards disciple-making, you will also be part of a monthly huddle. This huddle will give you on-going coaching to help you be successful in the goals that you as a team are being called to.

We recognise that while this may be an attractive training offer, there is a high level of commitment required. For those who are interested in developing a Disciple-Making Youth Ministry, but are reluctant to commit to the full two year journey, we have created a third training option: Expand: Day.

What is Expand: Day?

Expand: day is much the same as Expand: Course, with the exception that the team only commits to one day of training, rather than the whole two year journey.

Currently, Expand: Day is offered as one (or more) of the training days within the Expand: Course. This is provided without participation in the monthly coaching huddles. However, as we continue to explore the needs across the UK, we are open to running Expand: Day training days that stand alone from the Expand: Course.

Our hope is that more youth ministry teams will be able to join in and start working towards having a heart and culture for discipleship within their youth ministries.

We’re really excited about these new training opportunities. Our hope is that they offer increased ways for both youth workers and their teams to get involved in discipleship training. And in turn we hope to see a heart for discipleship increase within churches and organisations across the UK.

For more information about any of our Expand Training Experiences, or to register your interest, click the link below!

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