Wave Maker DTS

Sail to the ends of the earth. Change the world.

about the course

This DTS is a 5-month journey created to help you know God deeper, discover your calling and use it to change the world! Hop aboard a former Antarctic ice-breaker, sail to isolated villages in Papua New Guinea and learn what it takes to become a world-changer. #url:www.ywammontana.org/wave-maker-dts#

Training Phase (3months)

Learn and grow in a missions-focused community.

The training phase focuses on developing your relationship with God, character formation, and biblical foundation. Teaching is combined with workshops, mentoring, and community feedback. Daily spiritual disciplines provide space for reflection and prayer, while team life offers accountability and encouragement. Training is reinforced through practical application in outreach.

Hearing God's voice

Identity in Christ

Biblical Worldview

Worship and Intercession

Father heart of God

Outreach Phase (2months)

Serve remote communities in PNG.

During the outreach phase, you'll serve remote communities in Papua New Guinea. This includes sharing the Gospel, serving local villages, and participating in medical outreach and Bible translation projects. Living on a ship, you'll travel by boat to ministry locations and work as a team. You'll serve in areas where the Gospel has limited reach.

Boldly sharing the Gospel

Serving local villages and ministries

Servant leadership in unpredictable environments

Letting the Holy Spirit lead

What makes us Unique?

Discipleship Training Aboard a Ship

Integrated Training and Outreach, Full Cross-Cultural Immersion, All on Board a Missionary Vessel. Wake up to the Papua New Guinea coastline, live and learn alongside your team, and apply everything you’re learning immediately in hands-on ministry—making God known in some of the most remote communities on earth.

Course Information

Wave Maker DTS

Dates

Arrival Day:

August 1, 2026

Departure Day:

Cost

Training Phase:

TBD

Outreach Phase:

Details

Email:

[email protected]

Prequisites:

>18

Want to know more?

FAQS

All of these schools are bible courses that will give you an understanding of God’s redemptive plan through the study of the bible, but they vary in length, focus, and intensity.

SBS is a 9-month school that focuses on deep study of all 66 books of the bible using the inductive approach, with a focus on interpreting and applying the bible to your life, then teaching others. It is the most intense.
BCC is a 3-month school that focuses on using the inductive approach to study 13-15 books of the bible, with the goal of giving you a really good biblical overview and the tools to continue studying the bible for yourself. You will have opportunities to study biblical themes and characters, and then learn how to teach others. Think condensed version of SBS.
DBS is a 3-month school that focuses on gaining a broad overview of God’s redemptive plan. You will read the entire bible together, identify biblical action principles, and apply it to your life; then you will learn to share with others. It is less intense.

We start the week by reading the book(s) that we will be studying in a group setting. Occasionally we will do that in some of the beautiful places around this island. We have guest speakers come in every week to teach us about the books that we are studying. In the afternoons there is plenty of time to work on weekly assignments. You should be expecting to spend 3-4 hours doing homework each day, to get the most out of the books that we study. On the last day of the week we take some time to share in small groups what God has been speaking to us through our study and the teachings. There are also corporate times of worship and prayer with our greater YWAM community here in Kona.