Worship DTS Elective | YWAM San Diego Baja
Worship Elective
Unleash your creativity to reflect God’s beauty and make an impact through worship at YWAM San Diego/Baja’s Worship DTS
apply
Worship DTS Elective | YWAM San Diego Baja
Worship Elective
Unleash your creativity to reflect God’s beauty and make an impact through worship at YWAM San Diego/Baja’s Worship DTS
apply
Engaging Worshipers to Express God’s love!
We were created to worship, and every worship leader is first called to be a worshiper. The Worship Elective is designed to help you cultivate a lifestyle of worship while equipping you to lead others into the presence of God. As you grow in intimacy with Jesus, you'll discover that leading worship is about far more than music- it's about pointing hearts toward the King.
Throughout the school, you'll gain hands-on experience serving on worship teams, either leading worship, running sound, preparing chord charts, playing an instrument, all while developing the practical skills needed to serve with excellence. Whether you're on stage or behind the scenes, you'll learn how every role can serve to lead others to have an encounter with God.
Worship Elective
DATES:
Sept. 17, 2026 - Feb 12, 2027, at our Ensenada campus
Jan. 7, 2027 - May 28, 2027 at Ensenada campus
COST: Lecture Phase: $3,995 USD (Partial scholarships available for students from Developing Nations)
OUTREACH: $3,000 - $4,500 USD. Outreach Locations may include Southeast Asia, Latin America, or Africa.
LANGUAGE: Bilingual in English & Spanish
God is worthy of our very best. Come discover the joy of using your gifts to glorify Jesus and help lead others into a deeper relationship with Him.
What is worship Elective in the DTS?
YWAM San Diego/Baja’s Discipleship Training School is an accredited university-level course through the University of the Nations that is five months long. You and your fellow students will participate in a three-month Campus Phase, including life-impacting teaching, daily devotionals, and powerful worship ministry and prayer times with our YWAM community. Our campuses are located in the beautiful Baja region of Mexico, just south of San Diego and the U.S. border.
After the 3-month Campus Phase, you are sent out on a 2-month international outreach trip equipped with newfound effective and assertive communication. In the Outreach Phase, you will use your God-given passion for adventure to bring God’s unending love to new communities across the world. A new DTS starts every fall and winter on either our San Antonio Del Mar or Ensenada campus. Both DTS are offered in English and Spanish, with locations only a few minutes walk from the beach. We can’t wait to see you there!
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Campus Phase
Our DTS starts with a three-month Campus Phase where students discover more about God while surrounded by God's beauty in beautiful Baja California, Mexico, just south of San Diego. The core of our DTS is our elective offerings, which you can choose from for a unique opportunity to learn more about your specific passions through God.
When you choose the Worship DTS Track, you’re setting a path to be a lifelong worshiper. Depending on your natural talents and worship passion. Each track is designed to help musicians and artists develop their worship-leading skills and get creative. Both tracks will also collaborate on projects and events throughout the DTS.
We want to create worship from a place of identity, understanding how God has uniquely gifted and wired each one of us to become creative worshipers. Students will live in a close-knit community with one another and encourage one another to grow in their walk with the Lord. There is also time to meet in small groups, and the opportunity to be personally mentored, encouraged, and discipled by our YWAM staff.
Our Worship DTS Track overarching themes include:
God’s Nature & Character: Who God is and What He is Like
God’s Intention for Individuals, People, and Creation: Seeing Life From God’s Perspective
God’s Redemption: Sin & The Cross: Seeing Jesus as Lord
God’s Family: His Children & His Church: Becoming More Like Jesus
God’s World: His Call & His Commission: Doing the Works of Jesus
Our Response to God: Knowing God, Making Him Known
Weekly Topics will also include :
The Father Heart of God
Maintaining Godly Relationships
Hearing God’s Voice
Evangelism
The Fear of the Lord
Spiritual Warfare
How to Study the Word of God
Worship
Destiny & Identity in Christ
Outreach PHASE
We seek to have our creativity come from knowing and worshiping God. From that point, we will give you the tools to Make Him Known across the globe in the Outreach Phase. You’ll take what you learn about leading worship in the classroom and put it into immediate real-world practice.
During this 8-week missions trip, you’ll travel to an overseas destination to apply the concepts you learned during the Campus Phase and use your worship ministry talents to communicate God’s love and serve communities untouched by his story.
When you lead worship in these communities, you’ll experience the deeply personal endeavor of sharing your inner faith in God with the world through your music or art. Our other outreach activities will include home building, feeding the houseless, ministering to orphans, and praying over red-light districts.
Cost of the DTS
The cost of YWAM San Diego/Baja’s Campus Phase is $3,995, which includes tuition, food, housing, and learning materials. We offer partial scholarships to students from developing nations.
The cost of the Outreach Phase can vary depending on the destination and the airfare, but lodging, food, and transportation for the 2-month trip typically costs between $3,000 - $4,500.
Apply for the DTS Today!
Fill out our online application and submit references.
Submit your application deposit of $45 U.S.
Once we receive and review your completed application, a member of our registrar team will reach out and walk you through the rest of the application process. In the meantime, get answers to all of your DTS questions from our DTS FAQ.
How Does Creative Worship Leading Fit Into Discipleship?
Psalm 33:3 says, “Sing to him a new song; play skillfully on the string, with loud shouts.”
Worshiping God has always been intrinsically linked to creative pursuits. Both music and art are powerful tools for expressing God’s story across diverse spheres of society. Making music or practicing an art form are also effective community-building tools that can enable you to lead worship in any setting with any group.