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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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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ON THE TWELFTH DAY OF CHRISTMAS YOU THOUGHT IT WAS ALL OVER

  Just in case you have lost count, today, Friday 5th of January is the twelfth and last day of Christmas. By now if the traditional Christmas Carol is to be believed your home should be filled with drummers, pipers, ladies, lords and maids, swans, geese, gold rings, birds, hens, doves and the bones of …

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OUR CHRISTMAS GREETINGS TO YOU

  Our thanks, best wishes for Christmas and a prayer of blessing go to all our readers who encourage us, to everyone who prays with us, and to all our friends across the developing world. You can see our year in photos here https://ow.ly/j7r050Qk8q3 source

WHAT HAPPENS WHEN A SOMEBODY BECOMES A NOBODY

  It is said about one of the most famous names in history that he spent forty years thinking he was somebody. He spent the next forty years learning he was nobody. In the following forty years he discovered what God can do with a nobody. We are still talking about him. That man was …

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BEEN SEEING SOME WORRYING MESSAGES? SO HAVE WE.

  Some of you are not having a good week, and actually neither are we. If it isn’t Covid, it’s a pain that will not go away or an infection that resists all treatment. For another it’s broken bones, or a child being rushed into hospital, and for one or two of you it’s a …

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WHY THE IMPOSSIBLE DOES NOT HAVE TO BE THE IMPASSABLE

Pilar was on the operating table, anaesthetised. I was at home pacing the room when the phone rang.  “Come for your wife and come now.” Several weeks earlier Pilar had begun to lose her voice and then lost it altogether. The doctor suspected a polyp, a cyst or something worse on her vocal cords and …

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