Leadership Team
Cassie
WILLIAMS
Europe
Cassie grew up in the UK. Her first experience of cross-cultural missions was at the age of 19 when she worked with Jackie Pullinger’s mission to drug addicts in Hong Kong. After working there for a year, Cassie returned to the UK where she trained and worked as a speech and language therapist until 1996 when she did a DTS in Amsterdam. Eager to disciple people and see them mature in God, Cassie became involved in staffing and leading DTSs and has led schools in a number of locations in Europe.
In 2001 Cassie became the European Coordinator for IDTS with the aim to see teams set up in each region to resource, train and support staff and leaders of DTS across Europe. She believes that Europe’s role is key in sending missionaries into the nations and longs to see DTSs become increasingly effective in what they do.
Aimee has worked full-time with YWAM for nearly 12 years. She did her DTS at Holmstead Manor in England, and has ministered in over 50 different countries around the world. Aimee is all about creating life-changing experiences that enable people to discover more of God, discover more of their own call, and discover more of the nations!
Aimee has served as part of the International DTS Centre Leadership Team since 2001. While she has been with the Centre, she has helped birth the 80 Nations Project. Aimee is married to Darrin Haase, and has recently relocated from Budapest Hungary, to Seattle, WA.
Leopold
KIWANUKA
Uganda, Africa
I was born in 1959 and raised within a Catholic back ground. In my early days I was well taken care of by my parents. In my teenage years, I went astray along with my friends; my life went far from the norm. In 1980 I came to know the Lord and was even taken back to school at that time. I went on to study at University level in the field of Library Science. In 1987 I finished school and went on to do a DTS in Uganda. After the DTS I was involved in pioneering the work of YWAM in Uganda.
In 1990, I got married to Prossy and between us we have 4 Children. The first is 13 years old, a boy called Arthur. The second child is a girl named Angel, who is now 12 years old. Then we had another boy named Alan David who is 4 years old now. The youngest girl is named Deborah and she will turn 3 years old in November of 2004.
I have completed the following schools in YWAM’s University of the Nations
including: Communication Core Course, 1989 in Switzerland; Leadership Training
School in 1992; Foundations in Community Development in 2000; Applied Principles
of Communication in 2003. In between all of those schools I also attended
a lot of U of N Workshops in other U of N Colleges including Community Counseling
Seminar, School of Biblical Studies Workshop, Early Childhood Education Seminar,
Leadership Development Seminars and Basic Leadership courses.
I have been working with the DTS since 1988 and primarily serve in the East
Africa Region.
Claude
Bonjour
Madison, Wisconsin USA
Claude was born in Switzerland (French part) and went to Bible College in England after his training in banking. He joined YWAM in 1978 with his family and has been working in leading DTS's, involved in staff training as well as teaching on the topic of the Fatherheart of God in many schools world wide. He pioneered an Arabic/English DTS in Harpenden (England).
Claude joined the IDTS Center in 2003. His heart's desire is to see DTS participants getting a deeper understanding of who God is and how He can use them on the Mission Field.
Claude is a widower and has three children and four grand children. He served with YWAM England for 21 years (DTS leadership, administration, base leading, King's Kids, Middle East Training Coordinator and Pastoral Care). He moved to Cyprus to work in the Middle East, involved in setting up a DTS resource center for the region. He was there for four years and has relocated to the US, where he serves with YWAM Madison, WI. and will continue his teaching ministry.