LDC Overview  

Curriculum
Week 1 - knowing yourself, your gifts, your personality. (using DiSC, Myers Briggs and spiritual gift assessments). Looking at how you respond to other personalities, and how you can understand your co-workers and ways to improve your effectiveness, especially in a YWAM team leading setting. (This is the foundation for the rest of the whole course. ) Understanding hospitality - as a lifestyle

Week 2 - how God develops a leader. Biblical character studies. Looking at your own life and how God has used your life experiences to shape you (the time line). What are your deep values that you live and minister from? Developing a vision/ mission statement.

Week 3 - Jesus’s model of mentoring. The character needed and the strategy for building up others and releasing them to God’s intentions for their lives. Multiple levels of mentoring - how to identify your needs for growth, and find different people to give it to you. How to bless others by mentoring them.

Week 4 - Inner Healing week. Biblical teaching and ministry to deal with past hurts, situations in your past life which affect who you are today and rob you of who God really intends you to be. Looking at roles and goals and how to set them.

Week 5 - Team leadership principles : Apostolic, operational and pastoral giftings working together on leadership teams. How to develop intercession, business and ministry as part of every staff and leadership team meeting for growth and unity. Conflict resolution principles. Organising your life to maximise the amount of time you spent on the important but not urgent issues.

Week 6 - Looking at different Leadership styles. 2 days of question and answer sessions, with Lynn Green (Field director -Europe and M.E. & Africa), on whatever issue you wanted insight on!

A manual on almost every course topic is given out. Bring a big suitcase!  Seriously, do allow for about 3-4 Kg of manuals to take home at the end of the course. 

Student Overview of the LDC
The school is designed to cater for people with at least 5 years experience in YWAM, and currently involved in leading others in ministry. It is U of N accredited (6 credits). A good working knowledge of English (written and spoken) is necessary for the UK course.

The school has a set curriculum (see below) but the application of the material is greatly enhanced by the following factors built into the school. These are all designed to model ways of leading and developing others.


Factors built into the school
1. All staff sit in on every class

2. A ministry night every week - praying for one another to receive God’s spirit.

3. A teaching night every week on practical aspects of leading in the anointing of God. -topics covered are: overcoming the fear of man, working with the Holy Spirit in prayer, practicing prophecy, growing in boldness through proclamation, stepping out of comfort zones in applying God’s power.

4. Students mentoring one another in groups of three - (1 session a week) to review teaching, hold each other accountable, openness with struggles, repentance, prayer for each other, encouragement.

5. Small group mentoring times (1 session a week). 5-6 people, with a staff member leading, teaching and evaluating progress.

6. A weekly evaluation of teaching each Friday, by the whole class - good and bad, by open discussion.

7. Weekly writing of a personal pictorial journal - highlighting the areas where God has impacted us and the application we have done or plan to do. Evaluated by staff.

8. An in-depth time where each student is individually prayed for by a small group, to hear from the Lord on their behalf and bless them, confirm direction, exhort etc.

9. A presentation by each student, on a deeply held value, to the other students, with evaluation (eg holiness, unity, teamwork)

10. Alternative forms of worship modelled and enjoyed!. Family worship (with Kings Kids staff) every other week. Students leading worship

11. One to one mentoring times by staff on any issue, personal or ministry related. Staff are fully available for this.