Our DBS (Discipleship Bible School) outreach was a fantastic time of going on outreach with a team of people who had been on outreach before. Because they loved it so much, they were eager to do it again. As a result, we could truly focus on ministry. This allowed us to apply what we’d learned about God’s Word and bring it to people who had never had access to it.
Ministry in Batam, Indonesia
We began with two weeks in Batam, Indonesia, where we shared our Bible overview presentations with youth and village communities. Many of these teens had never heard basic Bible stories that we often take for granted from Sunday school. I shared my overview in two parts to a group of village teens, watching them engage with stories that revealed the nature and character of God.
We believe that knowing God begins with knowing His Word. As we shared Bible stories, we gave people the opportunity to grow in relationship with God for the first time.
Audio Bibles for the Penan in East Malaysia
In the second half of outreach, we also traveled elsewhere in South East Asia to deliver audio Bibles to villages, many of whom are illiterate or don’t speak Bahasa Malaysia. They had never had access to the Bible in a way they could understand.
This lack of access — what we call Bible poverty — opens the door for false teachings to take root. One local pastor, Pastor Sammy, told us how people were initially skeptical of our presence because of things false teachers had said. But after just a few days of serving in children’s ministry and going house to house, their hearts opened to the love of Jesus.
Why DBS Outreach Matters
As Paul writes in 2 Timothy 3:13–17, Scripture is our safeguard against deception. On outreach, we saw that firsthand — communities transformed when they heard and understood the Word of God for themselves.
This is what DBS outreach is all about: training people in the Bible, then sending them to bring that living Word to the nations.
Want to be part of a life-changing DTS or DBS outreach? Join us this September for our DBS.
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