About YWAM International

Founded in 1960, YWAM (pronounced "why-wam") is now one of the world's largest interdenominational Christian ministries, with 11,000 volunteer staff based in nearly 650 locations in over 130 countries.

Youth With A Mission draws people from a variety of backgrounds to work in a vast spectrum of evangelistic activities. Young people, families, retired persons, recent high school graduates and Ph.D.'s are among our ranks. People from over one hundred nations and many denominations are included, from the new babes in Christ to church leaders and missionaries with many years of experience.

YWAM embraces three methods of action - ways which we believe God has given us to be a part of the goal of taking the gospel to all the world:
Evangelism - spreading God's message.
Training - preparing workers to reach others.
Mercy Ministries - showing God's love through practical assistance.

If you are interested in knowing more about Youth with a Mission, we encourage you to read the book Is That Really You God? by Loren Cunningham with Janice Rogers.

YWAM Statement of Faith

Youth With A Mission (YWAM) is an international movement of Christians from many denominations dedicated to presenting Jesus personally to this generation, to mobilizing as many as possible to help in this task, and to the training and equipping of believers for their part in fulfilling the Great Commission. As citizens of God's kingdom, we are called to love, worship, and obey our Lord, to love and serve His Body, the Church, and to present the whole Gospel for the whole man throughout the whole world.

We of Youth With A Mission believe that the Bible is God's inspired and authoritative word, revealing that Jesus Christ is God's son; that man is created in God's image; that He created us to have eternal life through Jesus Christ; that although all men have sinned and come short of God's glory, God has made salvation possible through the death on the cross and resurrection of Jesus Christ; that repentance, faith, love and obedience are fitting responses to God's initiative of grace towards us; that God desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth; and that the Holy Spirit's power is demonstrated in and through us for the accomplishment of Christ's last commandment,

"...Go ye into all the world and preach the Gospel to every creature." (Mark 16:15)

For More Information

Check out the YWAM International web page at http://www.ywam.org.

It was a challenging summer through which God showed me what it truly means to love and serve others.