Combatting Human Trafficking in South Africa

The US State Dept and UN agencies were estimating that around 30,000-100,000 people would be trafficked into South Africa for the 2010 World Cup. This was one of the most shocking discoveries as we researched and prayed into South Africa for our DTS Outreach. Human Trafficking is basically modern-day slavery, people are tricked and trapped into [...]

November Update

We are trying to keep everyone as up to date as possible with the time we have, we recently sent out our November update email and have included an excerpt below.

November Update 2009
Well we can’t believe it, but our lecture phase of the DTS is half way through. We have been putting into practice everything [...]

We’ve been busy!!

Well, We first need to start with a bit of an apology, we realise we have been a little slack with the blog even though we endlessly encouraged you all to read it before we left, so here, on paper (kind of), is a commitment to be more regular with updating you on all that [...]

And it Begins

We have arrived! As you can tell from our last post we have quite an adventure, but we are delighted to be here. We have had a pretty hectic week and a half, we began by going through our induction processes, paying our fees, getting campus badges made, which was followed by a formal hawaiian [...]

A Short Video Update from our last flight

Our LAST flight, almost arrived at Kona from Liam Byrnes on Vimeo.

Our Journey to Kona

We have arrived and already have some pretty incredible stories to tell. We had a great week seeing friends and family in Cornwall and our leaving party at Grace Community Church was a really good time, we were joined in it by our friend Katherine Gillespie who is also studying DTS at the University of [...]

Leaving Service at GCC – Tues 15th

Our Friends at Grace Community Church in Morval are putting on a leaving service for us and a few of our friends who are going off into Missions on Tuesday 15th.
There will be food provided, John Gillespie the pastor at Grace Community Church will be speaking for a few minutes and then we will all be [...]

Leaving Party 5th Sept

We are having a leaving party for all our Scottish friends and family on Saturday the 5th Sept at 7.30pm, hosted at IBC, in Cults, Aberdeenshire. We’ll be serving drinks and dessert, taking lots of photos, tell you a little bit about what we are going away to do, and generally have some fun hopefully!
We have [...]

Community Transformations Ministries

In 2009 we took part in a YWAM (Youth with a Mission) DTS which was linked to a great ministry our friends Jeff and Beth Reid run called Community Transformations.
Community Transformations train and send out short term missionaries to focus locations (currently Cape Town, South Africa, Boulder ,Co.  and New York City), engaging with long [...]

What is a DTS?

DTS stands for Discipleship training school, here is a bit more information about the one in Kona that we will be attending