There is nothing so secular that it cannot be sacred, and that is one of the deepest messages of the incarnation.
                                                                                      -Madeleine l'Engle 

8 months to give birth to a vision for cities :

8 months to become rooted in God

8 months to become rooted in yourself

8 months to become rooted in the city


Every year from October 1 to May 31

The next URBAN CULTURES DTS will begin October 1, 2012.
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Please take the time to read this introduction to the Urban Cultures DTS. This is not a school where most of your time will be spent in class. In fact, you will be interns just as much as students throughout the eight months of this training program. This school will be unique for each participant depending on their choices regarding volunteer work, internships and research projects. The Urban Cultures DTS has both academic as well as practical application dimensions; come with the idea of not only wanting to deepen your faith but also to question it. We’re looking for student-interns who want to be active, who are ready to think through issues and who are interested in other people. Because of the nature of this school, we’ll probably be accepting only four to eight students.

As you can probably already see, URBAN CULTURES is a totally unique school amongst the Youth With A Mission schools around the world. It was created by YWAM Montreal with several objectives in mind. First of all, we want to give students the time to be involved in practical ways and over a prolonged period of time in various ministries and community organizations operating in the city. The second is to give them the time to discover and understand the city, its identity, its culture, the ways in which it functions and to learn how best to serve, and thereby contribute to its transformation. With this in mind, Montreal really becomes a laboratory for student-interns. The third objective is to permit students to better grasp and integrate the teaching of the DTS. We do this by spreading the courses over the eight months so that there is time for reflection, discussion and practical application, as opposed to twelve weeks of intensive classes generally at the beginning of the school.

URBAN CULTURES is a training school that wants to be relevant and practical at the same time. It’s founded on the principle of incarnation, and is designed to give students the needed time to get involved body, soul and spirit in the life of the city. We hope to train people who, at the end of the school, will have the know-how to initiate new ministries here in Montreal or elsewhere in the world with YWAM, their church or other missionary organizations.


Montréal (and Québec) find themselves caught up in the purely western world reality of post-christendom. The québécois people, and even more those living in the city, are for the most part uninterested with religion as such. So how are we to live out and interpret our faith in such a way that it can become real and relevant once again? In this school, we want to emphasize that there are no short-cuts to sharing God’s love with the world. The only way that Jesus has proposed for us to accomplish our calling is the following : « As the Father has sent me, I also send you into the world ». (John 17.18 and 20.21)

URBAN CULTURES offers each student the possibility of choosing one or two internships in which to commit themselves for either a part of or the duration of the school. These internships will be developped with YWAM staff or in partnership with other city ministries with whom we have close relationships. Please consult the list of internships found in the Urban Cultures pages under TRAINING. Additionally, every student will also be asked to serve as a volunteer in one of Montreal’s community organizations.


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