YWAM
Youth with a Mission
In
my mind's eye I could see a world map, alive and moving! recalls Loren
Cunningham. Waves crashed onto the continents, advancing inland until
all the nations were covered. As I watched, the waves became young people of
all races. They were my own age and even younger, talking to people on
street corners and outside bars. Going from house to house. Helping the
lonely and the hungry. Caring for people everywhere they went.
Suddenly the scene was gone. What could that be? I wondered. I was barely out of my teens when I experienced that mental movie of the waves. What did it mean? Then I remembered an experience that I had as a 13-year-old, when one day in church the words of Jesus had spoken very directly to me: Go into all the world and preach the good news to all creation. That was the vision. Young people fulfilling the Great Commission of Mark 16:15. An idea began to grow: God wanted to release the resources of youth for lay missions.
Others objected: Youth were unreliable, uncommitted and inexperienced, they said. But God had used Joseph, David and Esther as teenagers, and some of Christ's disciples were very young when He had sent them out on short-term missions in Luke 10.
Beginning of YWAM
So in 1960, Youth With A Mission began and the waves became reality. Hundreds of thousands young people went out. Today, because of God's power and grace, Youth With A Mission has become the largest Mission organization. We have more than 10000 full time workers all over the world. Each year tens of thousand young people, business people, retired people and whole families are joining us for short term programs in more than six hundred ministry locations in 135 countries.
Youth With A Mission believes that the Gospel is not only God's Word, but that it has to be put into everyday practice. Using different means and tools of evangelization, we go out and share the Good News.
You can find out more information on YWAM in Vanuatu by visiting www.ywamvanuatu.com or YWAM International at www.ywam.org
