Training with no frontiers, no walls and no fees since 1985. 5000+ pages of free resources in 27 world languages.

Welcome To The DCI Pages

Les and Pilar Norman the founders of DCI say, “Since 1984 we have been serving in this movement for prayer, mission and justice for the poor across the developing world. We help to train believers on all five continents to become disciples and grow into being leaders who follow Christ in their home, small group, church, …

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Our Discipleship Training Is Free

The DCI School if Mission is first of all free and follows the training methods of Jesus and Paul. There are no walls, no frontiers and because it is not traditional Bible School there are no fees, exactly as you find in the New Testament. Since 1987 we have been making these materials available on …

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A Free Book to Download

Les Norman, the founder of DCI in 1985, says click here to download a free copy of my book of 365 true short stories from our forty years in Christian ministry in mission, training and establishing churches. Click here to go to Amazon Kindle buy a hugely  discounted copy of my book of 365 unique …

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WHAT HAPPENED WHEN PEOPLE LAID EMPTY HANDS ON MY EMPTY HEAD

  It all began with the pointed question, “Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed.”  Well, I didn’t, not that I know of. Over the next year a lot of empty hands were laid upon my empty head. And still nothing. Until one night all alone at home, the Holy Spirit came, so …

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IT WAS ONLY A BLINK OF THE EYE AND ALL THIS HAPPENED

  Today’s story comes from our very good friend Keith Smith in his own words, looking back on half a lifetime following the call of God to a very unreached people in the desert Sahel of West Africa.  We have known Keith since the 1980’s and our paths have often crossed both in Burkina Faso …

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HERE’S A MAN WHOSE FEET DO WHAT HIS WORDS SAY

  Effiong Okon is a pastor in the exotically named city of Calabar on the coast of Nigeria, almost touching Cameroon. He also leads a School of Mission and an amazing weekly Friday night of intercession.  On his Facebook page, Effiong says this, echoing words that we were saying some forty or more years ago: …

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MONSIEUR MONET PAINT ME SOME PEACE S’IL VOUS PLAÎT

  The story is told of a wealthy man who invited competition between two artists to paint a picture that would bring peace to his soul.   The first artist painted a beautiful pastoral landscape of green meadows sprinkled with wildflowers leading down to gently flowing water with sheep quietly grazing under a cloudless sky, …

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SOMETHING IS MISSING HERE, WE TELL YOU WHAT IT IS

Last week, Jennifer in South Africa seemed to be at death’s door with sepsis and complications yet five days later she was sent home. Not to die but to live, because astonishingly, Jennifer had recovered.  At exactly the same time on the other side of the continent in Kenya, our friend James fell seriously ill …

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HE THOUGHT THE WATER WOULD NEVER STOP FLOWING

  The people go somewhere else, the good staff move on, financially you see the bottom of the barrel and the uncertainty of it all gives you restless nights and you ache in places you can’t even scratch. I know, we have been there, and more than once. Which is why these wise words from …

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HE’S LOOKING FOR SOMETHING PAINLESS TO GIVE UP FOR LENT

  So my feet began to hurt and not long after so did my left knee. At that point it would have been quicker and less painful to climb Mount Kilimanjaro than to climb the stairs in our home. The doctor said hospital, the hospital said Orthotics, who said doctor, who said physiotherapist, who said …

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SOMEONE JUST FOUND OUT THAT HE HAS A SELL BY DATE

Not every pastor knows that he or she comes in a package stamped with a ‘Sell By’ date. No-one has ever told you this before, but there it is. One of the least known (or most disregarded) verses in the Bible is Numbers 8:24-26 which was written for every pastor, preacher and leader in God’s …

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