YWAM News Podcast

This month we hear how YWAM is responding to the conflict between Cambodia and Thailand, learn about the YWAM location in Milala, Malawi, hear about the 10,000 Bible’s distributed by YWAM in Lyon, France, check out how YWAM in Barbados is using the Go Africa film to fight local gang culture, we get some other stories about gross foods had on outreach, and more … Watch the Video on YouTube Thank you for downloading this, the 164th episode of the Youth With A Mission News Show Podcast, I’m your host, Bill Hutchison. You can contact us, subscribe to future episodes, leave comments, and find links to all the stories we talk about on the show notes for this podcast at ywampodcast.com/164 … https://youtube.com/live/hHXNT9ib-_0 Watch the News on YouTube Merry Christmas to you all! Unfortunately for us, but fortunately for Lidia, she is actually in Brazil right now visiting her family for Christmas! So we wish her the best, and that she has a great time there, and in the mean time, you are stuck with me! Stories: God is the Great Moblizer I wanted to start this month with a reminder from Bevin from GlobalCAST Resources about how God is the Greatest Mobilizer… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6USKuRCbQiY Watch on YouTube To find out more about GlobalCAST Resources, and Missions Advocacy, head over to their web-site, globalcastresources.com.  MV YWAM PNG back in Papua New Guinea The MV YWAM PNG has returned home to Papua New Guinea following a successful maintenance work, marking a major milestone in the vessel’s extension project and ensuring she remains strong, safe, and ready to serve the nation for years to come. With dry dock and initial maintenance works completed earlier this year, the MV YWAM PNG is sailed back to Western Province for its final outreach of the year, the first since returning to service. The outreach supported the Provincial Health Authority to provide a full range of essential health mainly to remote and disadvantaged communities, and training services with a particular focus on maternal and child health, disease prevention, and community health education, delivered in close collaboration with local health professionals. Volunteers from 13 different nations joined the ship this week for the outreach. Since 2010, YWAM Medical Ships – Australia and PNG has partnered with the National Department of Health and provincial health authorities, delivering over 2.3 million of healthcare and training services and providing hands-on training opportunities for Papua New Guinean health workers. The ship’s return home marks a renewed season of service, partnership, and hope for the decade ahead. You can find out more about the work that the MV YWAM PNG is doing on the YWAM Ships Australia web-site, ywamships.org. YWAM Ships Aotearoa Year End Update While the MV YWAM PNG runs their final outreach in Papua New Guinea, the YWAM Ship Koha wrapped this this year with a video update. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmEoF6BmLoE Watch on YouTube Visit ywamshipsaotearoa.org.nz to find out more. Cambodia / Thailand Conflict Relief Work The border conflict between Cambodia and Thailand continues, despite international effort to end the conflict. Earlier this month the number of displaced civilians on the Cambodian side of the boarder was reported as at least 400,000 civilians, and the Thai side at more than 258,000 people. On the Cambodian side of the border, Youth With A Mission (YWAM), has brought relief with much-needed supplies for the displaced civilians – such as rice, eggs, and mosquito nets. A volunteer from Singapore, Heather Lim, reported: “We just want to help them (the displaced), support them and stand with them. Just our presence being here and just being with the people, being able to listen to them and talk to them, that’s the difference that we can make,”. YWAM also has volunteers in Thailand who are helping similarly affected people on that side of the border. All lives are “precious”, so “we need to be kind and compassionate to help everyone,” she added. (source) Please pray for the families who are displaced living in harsh conditions. Pray this battle will end. The trauma is so deep including the children. Filipino Response to Typhoon Tino Last month we shared a bit about YWAM Philippines response to the multiple cyclones that hit their nation, here is some more information about what they are doing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d67_xHDm64c Watch on YouTube Visit the YWAM Philippines’ web-site, ywamshipsph.org, to find out more. Tai Po Fires in Hong Kong Last month when Lidia and I were putting together the news, reports of the fires in Tai Po had just started to filter in. We were unable to report on it last month, but since then it’s confirmed that the fire raged for 43 hours, with 161 people dying, and about 80 people injured. The YWAM location in Hong Kong is only about 30-minutes away, and they have been active in providing relief after the fires. YWAM Tuen Mun is providing essential items to those in shelters in the Tai Po community. They delivered the bags filled with necessities, festive food, and special bags for the children to the hotels where families are temporarily staying. They are making plans to help provide an “incredible” Christmas for the incredible community from TaiPo. You can find out more, including how you can help, on their web-site, ywamtuenmun.org. YWAM Milala Now I thought we could take a look at one of our other locations in Africa, Milala in Malawi. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVYXPDM4U9U Watch on YouTube Head over to milala.ywam.ws to find out more! YWAM Lyon 10,000 Bible Distributions Since 2010, YWAM Lyon has been active sharing true light with Lyonnais and tourists during the Festival of Lights in Lyon by offering them the Bible! This year, 20205, they gave away 10,000 Bibles: a big challenge that they met! They are convinced of the necessity and urgency of offering the word of God in their country more than ever. Every year they see the spiritual needs of the new generation who have often received no religious education and are searching. This year, they will exceed the mark of 70,000 Bibles offered since the 2010, they they launched the Bible distribution project for the Festival of Lights! This year again, together, we will share the true light with thousands of people from all over France. You can visit ywamlyon.com to find out more, and to donate so they can continue to distribute Bibles next year. YWAM Bad Blankenburg Refugee Circle YWAM Bad Blankenburg in Germany updates us on their ministry to refugees. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQMgpIArQoo Watch on YouTube Visit ywambb.com to find out more. Pray for Sri Lanka Earlier this month we received this message from YWAM Sri Lanka Sri Lanka is facing a very difficult moment right now. Heavy rains have caused severe flooding and landslides, especially in the central and western regions. Many families have lost their loved ones, homes, and everything they owned. Many are still missing, and thousands are suffering without food, shelter, and basic needs. In this painful time, I invite you to stand with Sri Lanka in prayer and support. How You Can Pray: Pray for comfort and strength for families who lost loved ones. Pray for the safety of those still missing and those trapped by floods and landslides. Pray for protection over rescue teams and volunteers. Pray for quick recovery, resources, and relief for the affected areas. Pray for God’s peace, mercy, and healing over the nation. Let us lift our voices together and pray for Sri Lanka. You can follow what’s happening in Sri Lanka over on their Facebook Page. YWAM Turns to Film to Fight Gang Culture YWAM in Barbados is turning to film to fight local gang culture … https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2mnrJqxjU0 Watch on YouTube You can head over to their web-site, ywambarbados.org, to find out more, and find links to their social media accounts, where they share more about their showing of the film “Go Africa”, and the other ministry that they are engaging in. 30 Days of Prayer for the Muslim World 30 Days of Prayer 2026 is coming soon. This year – from February 18 to March 20, 2026 – we are pleased to introduce a special prayer booklet comprised of stories from Muslim background Jesus-followers who are, themselves, sharing Jesus with friends, co-workers and in far-away places. To get your copy of the prayer guide, head over to pray30days.org. AniMissions Online Seminar If you have a heart for the unreached, and an interest in art and animation, then you might want to check out the AniMissions online seminar, beginning on February 2, 2026. Create AniMissions produce animated short films that communicate the gospel story to people groups using their own language, culture, and worldview, specifically honoring their art and music. They find that this practice breaks down barriers that the audience may have and portrays the good news in a way that makes them more likely to accept and embrace it. To encourage people to get involved in the AniMissions ministry they are actually giving away the first course of their seminar for free! If you head over to the Campfire Creatives substack, you can find out more, and find links to sign up for the free introductory course. YWAM Albania School of Prophetic and Worship The School of Prophetic and Worship being offered by YWAM Albania is a Transformative 3-month training school for students who would like to grow in their walk with the Holy Spirit, practicing and growing the gifts, and developing a spirit-led worship on earth as it is in heaven. The purpose of the school is to train students to become catalysts of transformations by training them how to receive and deliver prophetic revelations, visions, and insights, how to “Translate” them practically for people to be able to understand God’s heart and respond to him. The program includes teaching & application, worship practice, inter

This month we will update you on the Hurricane that hit YWAM in Jamaica, YWAM’s relief work after the typhoons that hit the Philippines, what happened with the Go Africa screenings around the world, hear about some unique ways that YWAM is using technology around the world, if you hang out until the end you can hear some gross outreach food stories, and more … Thank you for downloading this, the 163rd episode of the Youth With A Mission News Show Podcast, we are your hosts, Bill Hutchison and Lidia Hugentobler. You can contact us, subscribe to future episodes, leave comments, and find links to all the stories we talk about on the show notes for this podcast at ywampodcast.com/163 … https://youtube.com/live/v8DtKTOfBsg Watch the Video on YouTube Stories:  In the full show you can see the as yet unreleased Fruit Break video (exclusively released on our podcast!). For now however, you can checkout the previously released video. Watch the Fruitbreak over on Facebook Check out more of what is happening at YWAM Rogaland on their Facebook Page and Instagram Page. YWAM Deaf World Jamaica Hurricane Damage Last month as we were recording the last podcast YWAM Deaf World Jamaica was awaiting the landfall of Hurricane Melissa. Thankfully, everyone from the YWAM centre was safe, but the amount of damage to their case was substantial … https://youtu.be/SWTcB7z5Pdo Watch the Video on Facebook. Because of the significant damage that their location suffered they are needing to raise $500,000 to rebuild the campus and assist with supporting the community of Montego Bay. You can find more updates on their Facebook page, facebook.com/YWAMDeafWorld, and find links to their fundraising pages. YWAM Surigao Relief Work after Typhoons While YWAM Deaf World Jamaica was being battered about by Hurricane Melissa, on the other side of the world the Philippines were hit by a series of deadly typhoons which has left many villages devastated and thousands homeless. YWAM Surigao now sent a team to help with the recovery work in Cebu, where one of the typhoons made landfall. https://youtu.be/WHG32joy2Hw Watch the Video on YouTube If you are only listening to the podcast it would be worth visiting the show notes to watch the video showing some of the work that YWAM Surigao was doing. YWAM Surigao continues their relief work, and you can see a bit of what they have been doing on their Facebook page, which is linked to at ywampodcast.com/163. Go Africa Premier The Go Africa video was shown in over 250 locations with an estimated attendance over 25 thousand for the global premiere event! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7dCy-ycGc4&pp=ygUOeXdhbSBnbyBhZnJpY2E%3D Watch the Video on YouTube You can download and stream the full movie now by heading over to thegomovie.org. YWAM Asheville Now we will look at a story from YWAM Asheville, in North Carolina. One year ago YWAM Asheville received a food truck that helped them respond to Hurricane Helene. They shared how food has been a central part of their ministry for more than a decade, and how they continue to serve meals downtown to support the ongoing recovery of the community. They also give thanks to Operation Blessing for providing the food truck, to everyone who donated toward disaster relief, and to their staff, students, and volunteers who have been part of this work. Find out more about YWAM Ashville’s ministry on their Facebook Page. South Sudan Teacher Education The education system in South Sudan is in crisis. Only 25% of teachers have formal training, and 1.8 million children are currently out of school. YWAM Kona recently visited Sudan to talk with Jaco, a missionary educator investing in the future of South Sudan by equipping teachers across the nation. This year alone, his team has trained 346 teachers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLdahOEMdXs Watch the video on YouTube YWAM Lusaka Football ministry Next, we head to YWAM Lusaka, in Zambia for an update on one of their growing ministries that’s making a real impact among local youth. It’s called ‘Inspired for Christ Football Academy’, a soccer-based discipleship program started just last year by a staff member. And in such a short time, the ministry has already become a place of growth, encouragement, and community for many young people in the surrounding neighborhoods. The Inspired for Christ Academy is serving age groups – under 12, under 15 and under 20. What began as a staff-led initiative has grown into a flourishing ministry that’s helping young people develop character, confidence, and football skills, all grounded in God’s word.  If you’d like to be updated you can follow along on their Facebook page at Inspired for Christ football academy or for more information and ways to partner you can get in touch through their base email at ywamlusaka@gmail.com. YWAM San Diego 2025 Ministry Overview YWAM San Diego has delivered us this overview of their ministry from this year … https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFQybZbjOWo Watch this video on YouTube You can visit ywamsandiegobaja.org to find out more. God is Bringing the Nations All around the world we are seeing immigrant populations grow in traditionally “Christian” areas. If  we are unable to visit the nations, it seems that the nations are coming to us … https://vimeo.com/1111053945 Watch the Video on Vimeo To find out more about reaching the nations through global gateway cities, you can check out globalgates.info. SD Card Bible Countless people live without access to the Word of God. YWAM Kona has found a rather unique way to help get it to more people … https://youtube.com/shorts/ZPq7DvYardE Watch the Video on Facebook You can find out more ways that YWAM Kona is reaching out to the nations on their web-site, ywamkona.org. Game Development Foundations Seminar The Game Development Foundations Seminar starts in January! The course is a 5-week seminar designed to equip Christians with the language and foundational understanding of game development, to be able to engage in that field in a holistic and biblical way. https://youtu.be/dxWqyLQ9kbA Watch the Video on Campfire Creatives You can find out more about the course on their web-site. YWAM Gamers Discord Server As Jason mentioned in the video, he has also created a Discord server for YWAMers that have an interest in gaming. He set it up as a place together together to connect, encourage one another, and maybe even dream about how gaming could be used for community and missions. On the Discord server we can: 🎧 Hang out in voice chats 💡 Dream about how gaming can be used in missions 🙌 Encourage & pray for each other 🎮 Maybe even play casual & competitive game nights? I’ve already seen some great interactions on the server, and been able to find some other people on there who want to develop games and who stream over on Twitch and YouTube. The link to the Discord Server is discord.gg/Tn93qDpu. YWAM Grimerud Minecraft Build In the theme of gaming, YWAM Grimerud did their first ever Minecraft live stream. They spent about 6 hours live streaming, interacting with people online, and worked as a team to build their YWAM location on a self hosted Minecraft server. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRZeP20nLpA Watch the Full Minecraft Build over on YouTube It looks like that had over a dozen people working together to build their base in Minecraft, and during the live stream they interviewed a few of them and also connected to many of their computers to show them hard at work. You can find out more about YWAM Grimerud on their web-site, grimerud.no. Oceania Hui One Year Later Last year YWAMers from all around Oceania gathered in New Zealand for a Hui ,,, https://youtu.be/mPktMiz1NiE Watch the video on Facebook Oceania often gathers together to encourage, worship, pray, and launch missionaries. I was actually at a Hui outside of Aukland back in 2000, when Frank Naea, a New Zealander of Maori/Samoan descent was named president of Youth With A Mission. I’ve had the privilege of being at many national and international gatherings of Youth With A Mission, and they have always been encouraging … YWAM Costa Tropical Hotel Project YWAM Costa Tropical is undergoing some exciting developments with their location … https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYfDnyrchV0 Watch the Video on YouTube This year they had to turn down 49 short-term volunteers for lack of housing space, and their upcoming DTS is beginning next February which is already filled and with a waiting list.  Like they have shared they just need $839,000 by January 2026 to complete the sale. We actually got an email from Justin just yesterday letting us know that they managed to secure a matching donation for the month of December, which is very exciting for them, and we pray will help them to achieve their financial goal by January! If you’d like to find out more or have any questions I recommend visiting their web page at ywamct.com/hotel-project where they give a really good overview of how its going so far and share more about their vision for this building. Leadership Development Course The first one is the Leadership development Course in YWAM Muizenberg, South Africa. Starting on the 8 Jan – 22 Jan 2026. If you’ve been leading in YWAM for at least 5 years and are in need of being revived, renewed, refreshed, developed and equipped then this would be nice to look into. It is an advanced Leadership course of 6 weeks of life giving community and training.  For more information you can visit their website at ywammuizenberg.org School of Transformational Business The School of transformational Business is offered by YWAM San Francisco. The SOTB will offer teaching from experienced business owners from different parts of the world and those who have been involved in Business with A Mission and how to use business to reach people of different cultures. It is 6 weeks in total starting on July 13th 2026. This is a great opportunity to look int

This month we will update you on Hurricane Melissa in the Caribbean, talk about what is happening in Northern Nigeria and YWAM’s story there, we introduce our new co-host for the show, hear about the PNG Peace Workshop that YWAM is involved in, see more unrest happening in Haiti, hear what’s involved with refitting the YWAM Ship MV YWAM PNG, and more … Watch the Video on YouTube Thank you for watching, listening, or downloading this, the 162nd episode of the Youth With A Mission News Show Podcast, we are your hosts, Bill Hutchison and Lidia Hugentobler … You can contact us, subscribe to future episodes, leave comments, and find links to all the stories we talk about on the show notes for this podcast at ywampodcast.com/162 … https://youtube.com/live/t-88OrbXlXE?feature=share Watch on YouTube Stories: We wanted to start this show with introducing our new cohost, Lidia Hugentobler from YWAM Rogaland… Fruitbreak Shorts from the YWAM Rogaland BCC https://youtube.com/shorts/I_L8NIi5TL8 Watch on YouTube If you want to see future *Fruitbreak shorts, and see what else Lidia is working on, head over to the YWAM Rogaland Facebook Page, which is linked to at ywampodcast.com/162. Nigeria If you have been paying attention to social media recently, you probably would have seen some of what is happening in Northern Nigeria. I was hesitant to repeat some of the recent reports about the devastation without confirmation, but some of our YWAM workers have confirmed how horrendous the actions of Boko Haram continue to be in the area. YWAM has been active in Nigeria for decades, with some amazing stories and testimonies coming out of the teams that have worked there. The film Go Africa is a real and fascinating story of child soldiers in Nigeria coming to Christ, and the healing of widows of Christians who were martyred by Boko Haram terrorists … https://youtu.be/8V5hNjgN6uc?si=44UvJHN5UFtm6Bsp Watch on YouTube When the Go Movie was originally announced the plan was to make it a story about three different experiences that YWAM has had around the world. With everything that is going on in Nigeria, they chose to focus on that nation and ministry, and out of that was birthed the movie, Go Africa. The movie has real stories of survival and redemption in the origins of the YWAM mission in Port Harcourt. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-c3vy7bbIHQ Watch on YouTube I remember being told that story about Paul and how God used him in the nation, with over 3000 militants reformed in YWAM, and 2/3rds of YMWA Port Harcourt’s staff being reformed militants. I can’t wait to see the full movie, and to share with others. If you head over to thegomovie.org you can find out how you can host a showing of the movie, and where you might be able to see the movie for yourself. PNG Peace Workshop Now we will go to Papua New Guinea, where tribal fights between Enga and Kompian have been an ongoing issue. These conflicts have escalated in the last 10 years with the use of more sophisticated weapons, leading to significant violence and death tolls.  We will look at a recap of the third peace workshop in Enga, Papua New Guinea.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnobauiBUk8 Watch on YouTube That video that we watched was part of a larger 2-hour documentary that the producers are working on about this story of war and healing in the Papua New Guinea Highlands. You can read more about the story, and see how the rest of the film is progressing, over on their Go Fund Me page. Hurricane Melissa Yesterday we got an update from our YWAM Location in Montego Bay, Jamaica that they were starting to feel the advance impact of Hurricane Melissa with violent winds, and the sudden loss of electricity to half their campus and city. At the time of the update they did not have heavy rain yet, but if the early winds were a preview, they need our prayers. The best place at the moment to get updates at the moment, as long as they don’t completely lose power and Internet, is on their Facebook page. Haiti Update Also close to the path of the Hurricane, but looking to be outside of the strong winds, is the nation of Haiti, where YWAM has a few different operating locations. The situation in Haiti has been rough for as long as I’ve been doing this news program, and unfortunately right now they are entering a time when things are getting progressively worse. The team out of YWAM Saint Marc has this update for us, as well as some of what they are doing in their part of Haiti. https://youtu.be/yTQsn7ZPI0U Watch on YouTube You can follow along with updates from YWAM Saint Marc on their Facebook page. They have said that with the security concerns they might not be updating as regularly as usual, but when they can, they will be updating that page. Burundi Fire Unfortunate news from YWAM Burundi, in August their storage containers caught fire. This incident resulted in the loss of a lot of valuable items, school supplies, construction tools and materials, and over 30 sewing machines. This was a big setback as they were 5 weeks away from starting the school season. Thankfully, no one was hurt.  In an amazing example of God’s provision, a month later they received an amazing gift from their partner, World Health and other generous individuals – most of the lost equipment and materials were replaced.  They also received mattresses for their guest house, allowing them to accommodate more missionaries, pastors, youth groups, and new chairs & desks for the school and books for their new library, clothes and a sound system, where they can offer better quality of education and comfortability.  (source) Vanuatu We have shared before about YWAM Vanuatu and the Teouma Christian Academy school that they are operating outside of  Port Vila City, and the significant impact that they are having not only for the students ,but the entire community around the school. Last month they saw some exciting upgrades to their facilities. At the beginning of the month they finished adding their newest classrooms, which will help to provide quality education for the children of Teouma Valley. Earlier this year Vanuatu was hit by a massively destructive 7.4 earthquake that caused significant damage and claimed many lives. The YWAM V2Life Centre, where the school is located, in the Teouma Valley was quite isolated after the earthquake due to the bridge into town being damaged, and they also had a lot of their own infrastructure and power systems damaged. This month the school had a new solar system installed, which will allow them to reopen immediately after disasters like the earthquake earlier this year, or cyclones like hit them in 2023, instead of waiting for the power company to have to come and repair lines and transformers. It means they can provide safe, clean drinking water to the Teouma Valley community, and education for our students straight after major events. (source) YWAM / JOCUM Marromeu Celebrates the Older People In the beginning of the month, YWAM Marromeu had a wonderful day celebrating “o dia do Idoso”  , the Day of Older people. They started the day at the outdoor square in Nensa where the program included preaching, children from YWAM dancing, theater plays, and other performances. Following the performances, they shared lunch and distributed capulanas and shirts to the elderly at the YWAM base. In all they had almost 300 people attend! (source) YWAM Juba South Sudan Outreach to Orphanage Around that same time, YWAM Juba in South Sudan had a wonderful time at the orphanage together with the outreach team and the youth from the Pentecostal Brethren Church Centre. They said that the day was filled with joy – singing songs, playing games, and sharing the story of Jonah.  One of the children said with a big smile: “I feel so happy to receive a gift from the team. It makes me know that I am loved.” Moments like these are so special. And remind us of God’s care for every child.  As Christmas is coming along, they would love to continue blessing these children. If you’d like to be part of this through prayer or support, you can find their phone number on ywam.org or their facebook page – YWAM Juba, South Sudan.  End Bible Poverty Now Bible Distribution in Karamoja region, Uganda In the middle of last month YWAM Uganda sent out a team to the Karamoja region, specifically in the district of Kaabong. Bibles were given to a number of people and leadership training to the church leaders, pastors, as well as church members. The team reports that the region of Karamoja really needs the Word of God for transformation to take place in the land. Their team later in the month also visited Bakasa Island in Kalandala District for 2 days of Bible distribution in the surrounding islands. (source) YWAM Samoa Oral Bible Translation YWAM Samoa has committed to translating 50 languages in Papua New Guinea through Oral Bible Translation — bringing God’s Word to people in their own mother tongue. For the cluster that they are working with, there are 8 languages — mainly from Madang Province in Papua New Guinea, and they are currently in the community check stage before the final draft. Their staff on the ground continue to faithfully move the project forward, ensuring every community can hear and understand God’s Word in the language of their heart. (source) YWAM Ships Kona Manam Island Outreach YWAM Ships Kona recently completed their 5th outreach of the year, this time to Manam Island, an active volcano off the coast of Papua New Guinea. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufClIE8lvzc Watch on YouTube There are many ways that you can possibly help with outreaches like this one to Manam Island, including joining a team, partnering financially, or praying. You can learn more on their web-site, ywamshipskona.org. YWAM Saterland Germany Pioneering If you have done a Discipleship Training School and are looking for a base to staff, I have exciting news just for you, YWAM Sat

This month we hear how YWAM is responding to a massive fire in Manila, find out about two YWAM locations in Africa, check out numerous medical missions in the Pacific and Americas, hear about how Oral Mother Tongue is changing Bible translation, learn about an upcoming seminar about Jesus, Justice, and Gaza, and more … Watch on YouTube Thank you for downloading this, the 161 episode of the Youth With A Mission News Show Podcast, I’m your host, Bill Hutchison. You can contact us, subscribe to future episodes, leave comments, and find links to all the stories we talk about on the show notes for this podcast at ywampodcast.com/161 … https://www.youtube.com/live/Vv12rQN13Pw Watch on YouTube YWAM Balut Response to Barangay 105 Fire A massive fire in Barangay 105, Happyland, Tondo, Manila, in the Philippines, on Saturday, September 13, 2025, displaced approximately 2,184 families. This is the second fire in the area, with 4500 people, or 1500 families, displaced by a fire in Tondo in August. YWAM Balut has been reaching out to the victims of both of these fires, and providing relief aid, and sharing the hope that comes through Christ. To find out how they are reaching out, and the progress of their relief work, you can visit their Facebook Page, or their web-site at ywambalut.com. YWAM Marromeu We last spoke about YWAM Marromeu in Mozambique back in April of 2023 on episode 132 of the YWAM News Show. At the time they were working with the local community still recovering from Cyclone Freddy. I thought now would be a good time to revisit them, and see what they are up to now … https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3db4XHPTeXc Watch on YouTube YWAM Marromeu is currently looking at adding a high school to their already existing primary school. To do that they are looking to add 6 more classrooms, more bathrooms, a laboratory, soccer field, and basketball court. In addition to the construction, they are also needing to complete the administrative block, and equip all the new rooms with resources and eqipment. You can head over to ywamjocummarromeu.org to find out more about their ministry, and the school building project. YWAM Saint Marc, Haiti School Graduation This month YWAM Saint Marc’s Liberty Academy Professional School graduated their 2025 students. This is the update from their event: It was an amazing night celebrating our students and teachers. We had live music, a meal prepared by our culinary arts graduates, a dance choreographed by Tiff, Mendjina and Fafane and beautiful decorations put together by our staff and many students who came to help. Shoutout to Tiffany and Mendjina who led the decorating team. It was a ton of work, but was so beautiful and worth it when it all came together. (source) The Liberty Academy provides training opportunities for hundred’s of Hattians every year in various trades. This year they had 550 students enrolled in 16 different classes. They are continuing to grow their school, and are looking forward to even more students going through the academy next year. Check out ywamstmarchaiti.org to find out more. YWAM Mzuzu, Malawi After spending many years in Central and Southern Malawi a team from YWAM felt the call to move into Northern Malawi to pioneer a new ministry centre: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZEDnEr2bog Watch on YouTube If you want to find out more about their ministry, you can visit their web-site, mzuzu.ywam.ws. YWAM Lusaka Hosting Japanese Team This month YWAM Lusaka in the Philippines had the privilege of hosting a mission team from Japan at their location. For two days they ran a program with the kids that included a feeding program, outreach, games, and times of teaching and sharing the gospel. YWAM Lusaka is grateful for opportunities like this where visiting teams can serve alongside them and bring the love of Jesus to their community. After the team from Japan’s time in Lusaka, they continued their journey to South Africa to carry on with their ministry there. One of the things that YWAM Lusaka does at their location is to provide a place for local and international teams to serve through community outreach, children’s programs, discipleship, and sharing God’s Word. They find it a realjoy to see lives touched through these partnerships. If you’d like to know more about what they do or how you or your team can partner with them, visit www.lusaka.ywam.co or reach out to them through their Facebook Page. Oral Mother Tongue is Changing Bible Translation Revelation 7:9 gives us a picture of God’s grand plan – that every language would be represented around the throne of Jesus Christ. But, 98% of the world’s languages do not have the full Word of God in their heart language. Oral Mother Tongue, or OMT, is an initiative to overcome that challenge and translate the full Bible into every language and ignite discipleship movements in every tribe, nation, and peoples … https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVbxC3Ksnpk Watch on YouTube The full video can be found in the show notes, including a case study of how they are doing it right now in Nepal. You can head over to everylanguage.com to find out more details about how they do it and how you can get equipped to help reach the over 3 billion people that do not yet have a Bible in their language. Marine Reach Mexican Coast and Amazon Outreach This month more than 1,000 children received corrective lenses during Marine Reach Global’s Mexican coast outreach. Having corrective lenses opens new paths for learning and growth for those who received the lenses. Helping the blind to see and lives turn to Christ, is one of the goals of Marine Reach Global. In addition to the work they are doing helping people to see, they are also providing dental care. Did you know that in some rural parts of the Amazon, the nearest dentist is 3+ days away by boat? M/V Pacific Hope brings dentists within reach to all who need them. They are looking for dentists and dental assistants to serve with the while in Grand Bahama. If you want to help make someone smile, or help them to see, you can get in touch and find out their latest news on their Facebook Page. YWAM Medical Ships Australia PNG Dental Outreach Now we get to hear about a father’s experience with the YWAM Medical Ships School Dental Program that is operating in Papua New Guinea. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmeUgcj32Gg Watch on YouTube Head on over to ywamships.org to find out more about the School Dental Program, and all the other ministries that they are involved in. Jucum/Ywam San Salvador Dental Outreach This month JUCUM / YWAM San Salvador had a dentistry day on their campus, serving families and individuals from different communities. This initiative was possible because of a partnership with their brothers from Shalom Family Medical Center, who with love and excellence put their gifts at the service of those who needed it most. They were deeply grateful to each doctor and Shalom Clinic for being a part of this effort and together bring health and hope to our communities. Head on over to their Facebook Page to find out the latest with their ministry. YWAM An Cuan – Rostrevor – Jesus, Justice, and Gaza On Saturday, October 25 YWAM An Cuan – Rostrevor is hosting Jesus, Justice, and Gaza: A Palestinian Perspective with Anton Deik as their in-person guest speaker. This one-day seminar (10:30am–3:30pm) will explore biblical themes of land and identity, and wrestle with questions of justice and hope in the midst of ongoing violence in Gaza. Through two lecture-style sessions, Anton will offer insight into “Promised Land and God’s Chosen People” (10:30–12:30) and “Hope in the Face of Genocide” (1:30–3:30). This event is free to attend with registration and space is limited. An Cuan Cafe will also be open selling lunch and baked goods from 12:30-1:30pm. Anton is a Palestinian Christian from Bethlehem, Palestine. He is married to Sara Améstegui, a Bolivian, and they are the proud parents of Nour Sofia. Since he committed himself to Christ in 2010, Anton has ministered in different capacities in East Asia, England, Palestine, and Bolivia. He currently serves as the associate director for Bethlehem Institute for Peace and Justice and an assistant professor in Biblical Studies at Bethleham Bible College. Anton was the Director of Online Education at Bethlehem Bible College and served with Operation Mobilization onboard MV Logos Hope. Previously, he had worked on large-scale computer science research projects with Birzeit University and the Palestinian government. You can find out more about the seminar on their Facebook Page, the Facebook Event Post, and the Eventbrite ticketing page. Can Celebration and Reverence Coexist in Worship? – YWAM Dunham YWAM Dunham did an interview with John Shone about “Celebration”. I’ve listened to some of it, and wanted to share a clip of it with you. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rq4amylyDQI Watch on YouTube The full podcast interview is embedded in the show notes at ywampodcast.com/161, and I reckon it’s well worth a listen. 40 Years of Niko My first experience with YWAM was a Niko back in the Rocky Mountains in Alberta, Canada. NIKO comes from the Greek and it means, “to subdue, conquer, overcome, or get the victory.” This year is their 40th year of operations, and they are celebrating! As we talked about in episode 156 of the YWAM News Show, there have been various celebrations around the world to celebrate 40 years. In that episode I also shared a bit about my personal experience with Niko, and also someone else’s testimony about participating in Niko. It really is a great experience to learn in the classroom of life by “doing” instead of only listening. It will challenge you in your personal walk with God and others, through hands-on experiences. On November 1 at 13:00 UTC Niko International is wanting to gather as many Niko staff as they can, from everywhere in the world, for a Zoom gathering. The details fo

This month we hear how YWAM is working to help villagers recover sight in Papua New Guinea, we get an update from the YWAM Koha, hear about The Send Mongolia, hear from two ministries in Malawi, YWAM Durban is expanding their campus, YWAM Hong Kong reaches out to those living in poverty, St. Vincent and the Grenadines continues to recover from the devastation brought by Hurricane Beryl, and more … Thank you for downloading this, the 160th episode of the Youth With A Mission News Show Podcast, I’m your host, Bill Hutchison. You can contact us, subscribe to future episodes, leave comments, and find links to all the stories we talk about on the show notes for this podcast at ywampodcast.com/160 … Watch on YouTube Recovering Sight in PNG The YWAM Ship MV YWAM Liberty is setting sale soon for PNG to restore sight to up to 200 people in some of the remote villages, but there is still more to do as they prepare for this mission … https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gabSPYuw-M Watch on YouTube Head over to ywamshipskona.org to find out more about the upcoming mission, their needs for the new medical devices, and to see how you can help and get involved. Urgent Prayer for Thailand We received this urgent prayer request from Thailand. PLEASE BE PRAYING FOR THE FLOODED AREAS IN THAILAND. We know the North and North east have been heavily damaged and people are in need. Let’s pray and if able help those in need. God is able! (source) So, when you can, please remember to pray for Thailand, and you can find any follow up news on the YWAM Thailand Facebook Page. YWAM Koha Tuvalu Update We’ve been updating you on the YWAM Koha, and their ministry to Tuvalu, well, here is the latest: https://youtu.be/X4bMum5IjDw Watch the video on Facebook. Check out the YWAM Ships Aotearoa Facebook page for the latest news on the YWAM Koha. The Send Mongolia We have previously talked about The Send happening in many nations around the world. Well, last week Mongolia had its first Send night. There were around 1500 young people, that came and experienced: Powerful Praise A call for hope Moment of responding to God They were joined at the Send even by Korean band “Isaiah6tyone”. https://youtu.be/VhE5b4pPc80 Watch some video from the event on The Send Mongolia Instagram Page. It was a very encouraging event, with the next event is planned to be a big one in 2026. Check out YWAM Mongolia’s Facebook Page for more about their ministry. YWAM Salima Now I thought we could hear about the exciting journey of starting a new YWAM base in Salima, Malawi. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuQF7Ti7BrQ Watch on YouTube Head on over to salima.ywam.ws to find out more. YWAM Mankhamba Village Another YWAM Ministry in Malawi is Youth With A Mission Mankhamba. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-_fjowhwic Watch on YouTube Visit mankhamba.ywam.ws to find out more. YWAM JUCUM Cancún Medical Brigade We’re just one month away from our upcoming 2025 Medical Brigade! this year the medical brigade will be held again where several specialists and doctors will offer their services at no cost to the families of these communities. This one will be taken just in: 02 /10-Old Dumpster Cancun 03/10-Three Kings 04/10-Cuna Maya You too can be part of this brigade! We still need medicines and finances to cover all the necessary expenses, if so you wish you can send your donation through. (source) Head over to ywamcancunmexico.com to find out about how you can get involved. YWAM Durban Expansion YWAM Durban has been serving diligently in Durban, South Africa since 2001. They are in a unique position right now to expand, and grow their ministry … https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OLMhOrT6Yg Watch on YouTube Visit ywamdurban.org to find out more. YWAM Hong Kong Poverty Outreach In Hong Kong, approximately 23% of the population live under the poverty line. Every month YWAM Hong Kong reaches out to over 14,400 people living under this poverty line. Each week they specifically reach out to over 400 individuals and families, including the local low income families and cardboard collectors. They are looking for donors who are willing to help sponsor food items for our weekly distributions! (source) YWAM Hong Kong is engaged in many ministries in their city, including a food bank, providing hot meal boxes, running food assistance programs, and much more. They have need for more staff, and are also able to host visiting teams to join with them in their local ministries. If you head over to their web-site, ywamtuenmun.org, you can find out more about their ministries, and the latest news can always be found on their Facebook Page. SBS International Video Channel The School of Biblical Studies has been a core school in Youth With A Mission almost since the beginning. SBS International has recently launched a new YouTube channel that includes some fantastic resources. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbSxHZ1Q5xU Watch on YouTube You can head on over to their YouTube channel to find out more, and to check out some of the videos that they have already uploaded. YWAM Mombasa Kenya SBS YWAM School of Biblical Studies is run all over the world, with multiple schools happening, and many different locations. One of the upcoming schools is happening in February 2026 in Mombasa, Likoni, Kenya. https://youtu.be/_57_-oQJihM?si=85mL8EToidDGO3SF Watch on YouTube The full School of Biblical Studies is an intensive nine-months school that you can find out more about at ywammombasa.org. YWAM AFL Outreach in Fiji Recently one of our YWAMers in Fiji, Waqa Baravilala, joined the AFL Fiji U17 boys and girls for a special chaplaincy session. Waqa was able to fuel their spirits, and prepare them mentally and spiritually. YWAM has a long history of involvement in sporting events around the world, from Olympic outreaches, soccer carnivals, hiking and climbing clubs, rugby teams and seminars, surfing clubs, skate boarding events, and more. If you have a search on ywam.org, you can find ways to connect to the hundreds of locations, programs, and events on offer. Ending Bible Poverty Now School In January YWAM Lausanne is running the Ending Bible Poverty School … https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAXM7jMSivk Watch on YouTube The End Bible Poverty Now (EBPN) School at YWAM Lausanne s an 11-week program dedicated to training and equipping people to multiply holistic EBPN projects, ministries, and initiatives within local contexts. The heart of EBPN is to see every nation, tribe, and tongue receive, engage, and be transformed by the Word of God. You can find out more at ywamlausanne.com/ebpn. YWAM St. Vincent and the Grenadines Rebuild Update About a year ago in July 2024 YWAM St. Vincent and the Grendines was devastated whey Hurricane Beryl pass through the Grenadine Islands and caused significant damage to YWAM SVG and the island of Mayreau. Since then the YWAM centre has been slowly rebuilding, with teams from around the world coming to help. They have been preparing foundations for new buildings, repairing old buildings, and are still, one year later, assisting to clear debris at their location and around the island. In the midst of recovering from the significant damage the team has also continued with ministry. In the last few months they have run a young adults camp, a children’s summer camp, and continue to help with local projects during their regular community outreach days. They have also been been working to distribute clothing, cleaning items, and children’s toys to local community members. YWAM SVG is still actively rebuilding and recovering. They are setup to host teams and individuals to help with the rebuilding and continued development of their campus. You can find out more at their web-site, ywamsvg.org, and follow their news on their Facebook page. Teachers Needed YWAM JUCUM Cancun Kingdom Academy is currently in need of teachers … https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qbk7gm4EheM Watch on Facebook Visit them on their Facebook page to find out how you can get involved. A Man of Hope – The Story of Sylvester Instead of a Meme or funny video at the end of the podcast like I normally do, I want to finish off with the inspiring story of a man named Sylvester: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJDEDDi2pcU&t=38s Watch on YouTube Little Lights Ministries is a non-profit organization operating in South Africa, associated with YWAM Worcester, that provides meals, education, and hope to hundreds of children in communities affected by gang violence. The ministry supports children by offering them resources and fostering transformation. You can find out more about YWAM Worcester on their web-site, ywamworcester.com. Feedback ywampodcast.com/160 Subscribe ywampodcast.com/subscribe If you liked the program, tell a friend. 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This month we hear how YWAM is serving in Lebanon during the current conflict with Israel, check out YWAM in Santa Cruz, see how YWAM Ships is delivering water tanks to Tuvalu, Pacific Island Leaders gather in Honolulu for three days, YWAM Philadelphia continues with their prayer station ministry, YWAM Paris and YWAM Berlin engage in street outreach, YWAM Ashville continues to provide free meals after Hurricane Helene, YWAM Haiti runs training programs at a few of their locations, we find out about a YWAM community in Maytown, Washington, we take a tour of YWAM Adelaide, and more … Thank you for downloading this, the 159th episode of the Youth With A Mission News Show Podcast, I’m your host, Bill Hutchison. You can contact us, subscribe to future episodes, leave comments, and find links to all the stories we talk about on the show notes for this podcast at ywampodcast.com/159 … https://youtu.be/_8nu-1lRv7I Stories: YWAM in Lebanon When Ben and Shannon Soh first heard the call for their family to serve in Lebanon there was no way that they could anticipate the rocket attacks, bomb blasts, economic crises, and political turmoil that they were entering into. The Sohs arrived in Beirut in 2021, a year after the YWAM Centre in Beirut was established, and only shortly after a massive explosion had hit Beirut, killing 135 and injuring thousands. In fact, when they arrived, the debris at the YWAM location was still uncleared. The team in Beirut runs a Discipleship Training School, and a School of Missions in English and Arabic. They will also be pioneering a Bible School and Community Counselling Training School within the next year to equip local and international believers. In addition to the schools, they also participate in a Skate Ministry, and a Soccer Ministry. In October of last year war broke out in Lebanon after nearly 12 months of conflict between Israel and Hezbollah. While the Sohs’ used to look out to the mountains, they now saw a land it by air strikes. Fighter jets hurtled past their apartment building breaking the sound barrier. They had to leave a gap in their windows, of the sonic boom would shatter the glass. One of the huge bombs dropped to take out a Hezbollah leader was just 10 minutes from where the Sohs lived. Because of the international makeup of the YWAM Team, finding flights out of Lebanon proved difficult to find after the decision to evacuate was finally made. Since finding a flight was proving to be so difficult, the team left for an ulu (remote) mountain shelter and hour and half drive from the city. For the next two weeks the group stayed in the mountain shelter by night, but then by day they drove back to the city to help the displaced by working at a food kitchen and distributing aid. When one entire neighourhood was bombed because one man may have been tied to Hezbollah, the YWAM team took the difficult and possibly dangerous decision to allow others to take shelter at their location. Despite the possible risk, the team took people in and served them food and welcomed them. One of the people given shelter was an Imam, who was “visibly shaken” after having his whole world fall apart around them. This proved to be an amazing witness as when He asked why would “you Christians” do this for us, they responded by saying “We just felt it was what Jesus would have done”. With the continued conflict in Lebanon, and with Israel continuing to occupy parts of Southern Lebanon, we are asked to pay for the volatility in the Middle East. This is a message from Ben Soh: How to pray for the volatile Middle East, by Ben Soh With a total population today of about 300 million (up from 38 million in 1955), the Middle East is one of the youngest and fastest growing regions of the world. Yet, it is also a region of persistent conflict and political strife as wars in Syria, Iraq, Yemen, Lebanon and Israel/Palestine in the past two decades have devastated many cities and its people. For many in the Middle East, and particularly in Gaza, life is a daily struggle of survival and against hopelessness. Here’s how the Church can pray. Pray for a ceasefire in Gaza Pray for effective international peacemakers Pray for those displaced by ware Pray for the Church and Christians serving in the region. (source) You can actually read the full story, get more detailed information about the previously mentionsed prayer points, and find out more information about the Sohs and the ministry in Lebanon over at the Salt & Light web-site, saltandlight.sg. YWAM Santa Cruz Now we are going to take a chance to check out YWAM Santa Cruz: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pueOlyoBOTU Check out their web-site, ywamsantacruz.com, to find out more. YWAM Ships Water Tank Delivery YWAM Ships Aorearoa last month visited Tuvalu in July. Tuvalu is one of the smallest on earth with a landmass of 26 square km, a tiny population of only 11,656, and is one of the most isolated nations on earth. During their visit they partnered with Engineers Without Borders New Zealand to deliver 126 water tanks to remote communities across the islands of Tuvalu. During their time in Tuvalu they are also operating medical clinics in partnership with the Tuvaluan Ministry of Health. Follow their outreach on their Facebook page. YWAM Ships Kona Outreach in PNG While the YWAM Koha is in Tuvalu, YWAM Ship’s Koha is outreaching in Papua New Guinea: During the recent outreach the YWAM Liberty teams visited 6 villages to bring primary medical care, health education, the Jesus Film, and the hope of Jesus! They were able to see 835 patients! Some pregnant moms got check-ups and an ultrasound at their community! 634 Primary Health Care patients 11 Maternal consults/ultrasounds 90 malaria tests with 27 positives who received treatment right away! 82 physiotherapy consults 108 patients received reading glasses More than medical care, the team encouraged the communities, engaging 1750 people with community outreach activities. Bringing joy and hope through Bible stories, worship, praying for 250 people, and showing the Jesus Film at Dylup community with 200 attendees. Dylup is one of the communities where God’s word has flourished in amazing ways! The pastor and his wife are national missionaries from a different area. The church has grown since the YWAM Ships teams started to partner with the local church. It is always a sweet time to visit this village and the people who were impacted by the previous visits. What a blessing to see them growing strong in their faith and walking with Jesus! You can continue to follow their outreach on their Facebook Page. Global and Community Health Seminar In September YWAM Ships Kona is also running the Global and Community Health Seminar. Prepare to serve in global settings with continuing education focused on cross-cultural clinical and community care. This course covers tropical diseases in a case-based format and highlights the provision of quality care through the application of global health guidelines while considering cultural context. This seminar will take place at the YWAM Ships Kona missionary base. If you have been interested in medical missions and how to use your skills for the gospel, this is for you! We will be offering an optional medical outreach following the seminar. You can find out more about the course at ywamshipskona.org. Three Days of Meetings for Pacific Islanders In July Pacific Islanders from Melanesia, Micronesia and Polynesia came together in Honolulu to gather together for three days to be aligned and unified as family for the next wave of missions from the Pacific into the nations. They heard powerful stories from islanders about their journey into missions, the culture shock, and the refining process that shaped them. They were reminded: Don’t raise leaders, raise sons. Sons and daughters who know the Father and carry His heart. They also looked back – honoring the generation who found the pearls hidden in the past. And looked forward – asking God to show what to look for now. Together, Gen Z and the generations before are uniting to advance the Kingdom. At the end of the three days they closed with the cost of discipleship – not a man-made platform but a God-breathed calling. Jesus doesn’t call the volunteers. He calls disciples. You can read the stories of this gathering on the YWAM Honolulu’s Facebook Page. YWAM Samoa Annual Gathering Also in the Pacific, YWAM Samoa had their annual general meeting. It was a time to reflect on the year that passed, celebrate what God has done, and look forward with faith and unity. It was also a special day where they selected their new YWAM Samoa Board officials. A heart of gratitude was shared by their former base director, Usufono Fepuleai, as he gave thanks to the staff and leadership of YWAM Samoa for their dedication, service, and unity through the years. Check out their Facebook Page to find out more about their ministry. Prayer Station – YWAM Philadelphia YWAM Philadelphia continues to run their prayer station … https://www.youtube.com/shorts/xvC4C6h3s0Q You can visit ywamphiladelphia.org to find out more, including how you might be able to join them at their prayer station. YWAM Paris Connect Street Sharing Meanwhile, YWAM Connect continues to share Christ in the streets of Paris. Paris plage sur les bords de Seine They are busy with public worship, testimonies, sharing the gospel, and praying with people on the streets. Head on over to ywamparisconnect.com to find out more. YWAM Berlin City Outreach Also over in Europe, YWAM Berlin headed out for a City Outreach Day. City outreach day is an opportunity for the YWAM Berlin staff to love on their city! While all their staff have their own ministries and focuses that the Lord has called them to, there is something beautiful about coming together for an intentional time of outreach for Berlin, and getting to partner with others. Visit ywamberlin.org to find out mor

This month we hear an old message from Loren Cunningham, about street prayer in Auckland, New Zealand, get some news from YWAM in the Philippines, hear an update from the YWAM Ship the Koha in Fiji, find out about Create International Vision 2033, see what YWAM Transform is up to in Sweden, get an invite from YWAM Nicoya for teams to join them in Costa Rica, hear YWAM Lancaster’s initiative to launch 10 teams in 10 years to reach the most unreached people, and more … Thank you for downloading this, the 158th episode of the Youth With A Mission News Show Podcast, I’m your host, Bill Hutchison. You can contact us, subscribe to future episodes, leave comments, and find links to all the stories we talk about on the show notes for this podcast at ywampodcast.com/158 … https://youtu.be/nSpVlsRkv34 Stories: Message from Loren I wanted to start this month’s YWAM News with a message and a challenge from Loren Cunningham that YWAM Muizenberg recently shared on their YouTube channel. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/7WN46E-Fc7s YWAM Zion New Zealand Street Prayer YWAM Zion in Whangarei, New Zealand recently partnered with Peter Kim on the streets of Auckland City. Peter Kim has been faithfully praying in the streets of Auckland for as long as they can remember. Partnering with him is something that YWAM Zion has done on previous occasions, and they consider it an honour to do so when their teams make it to the big city of Auckland. (source) YWAM Philippines Conference Last month YWAM Philippines came together for their national conference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xq_5auHLdM4 You can head over to ywamphilippines.org to find out more about their different ministries happening around their nation. Gathering together as YWAMers is important as we continue to minister around the world. Whether it’s gathering locally with other believers, or nationally or internationally as YWAM, if you have the opportunity to attend, I would recommend it. You might make some amazing connections, and find some interesting connections during those times. Impact Campus Philippines To give you an idea about some of the ministry that YWAM is doing in the Philippines, we have a video from Impact Campus … https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOb6gReBkEQ You can watch the full video in the show notes at ywampodcast.com/158. They share with you some of what they are doing in the areas of Team Extreme, Lifebears, Compassion and Justice, Origins Basketball, Music Immersion, Prayer and Missions, Dental Collaboration, The Send, Impact Campaigns and Camps, Bible School, and more … You can also visit ywamph.com to find out more about their ministry. YWAM Balut Heartline Seminar Also from the Philippines, we have an update about the Heartline Seminar run by YWAM Blut We praise God for the opportunity to hold our very first HEARTLINE SEMINAR at the base from June 2 to 6, 2025! Thirteen young people from our Student Sponsorship Ministry joined us, and it was a meaningful time for them to be ministered by the Lord and to discover more about who He is in their lives right before a new school year begins. This seminar is truly an answered prayer. We’re grateful for how God orchestrated every detail to make it happen. We desire to see more hearts opened to God, healed, and restored through this Heartline Seminar. Follow the link in the show notes, to find out more about YWAM Balut. YWAM Ships Aorearoa Update from Fiji We have an update from the YWAM Ship, YWAM Koha, in Fiji https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfsmUS6-XDc Visit ywamshipsaotearoa.org.nz to find out more. Create International Vision 2033 Create International has been developing media to help spread the Gospel for decades. This year marks some major milestones for them, and the beginning of new vision with this update from them. After completing the 20/20 Vision—producing over 250 indigenous gospel films for the least evangelized mega people groups (each over one million)—we celebrated a major milestone. God had moved powerfully, bringing the Gospel into the heart languages and cultural expressions of many of the world’s largest unreached peoples. As a result, nearly 75% of all Unreached People now had access to a clear gospel presentation in their own language. As we rejoiced, we sensed the Great Shepherd’s ongoing burden—25% still had no indigenous gospel film in their mother tongue. In prayer, we heard Him ask, “What about the 25?” We replied, “That’s hundreds more groups… how can we do this, Lord?” His response: “You can’t; but they can.” In the months that followed, God showed us what He meant. The resources were in the harvest. He was raising up new believers within Unreached Peoples to finish the task. Our role: equip and empower them. “From the Harvest to the Harvest” became our call and passion. From this revelation, Vision 2033 was born. The year 2033 marks 2,000 years since the Great Commission—a milestone in redemptive history. While the date isn’t our focus, its symbolism reminds us of Christ’s unfinished mandate: to make disciples of all nations and proclaim the Gospel to the ends of the earth. Vision 2033 is a ten-year strategic initiative uniting our commitment to the Least Evangelized Peoples list with a focus on partnering with emerging movements of believers within Unreached People Groups. This vision echoes Acts chapter 2, when the Holy Spirit was poured out and people from many nations heard God’s wonders in their own mother tongue. The gospel wasn’t first preached in a trade language but in heart languages—God’s way of showing that every tongue and culture matters to Him. Vision 2033 carries the same conviction: the good news must be communicated in the language of the heart. That’s why we’re committed to producing innovative, indigenous gospel media shaped by each people group’s worldview and voice. We have a link to their full message in the show notes, ywampodcast.com/158. They talk about some of the significant stories from the past few years, and ways that people could get involved moving forward, include staffing opportunities, training opportunities, and more. You can also visit their web-site, createinternational.com, where there are fantastic media resources and ways that you can get in touch with them. YWAM Transform Update Now we get to hear an update from YWAM Transform in Sweden. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwWEM4wvZrA Visit ywamtransform.se to find out more. Invite for Teams to Costa Rica YWAM Nicoya in Costa Rica is sending out an invite to YWAM groups, individuals, and other teams to join them at their location. We invite church, high school, young adults, YWAM and family groups to join us in missions in Costa Rica! Short-term mission trips are a help, a blessing and an encouragement for our long-term mission work. Teams that visit us get to join in our regular ministries, seen and learn what missions in this part of the world look like and serve alongside our long-term staff team. Team members join an intercultural and intergenerational missionary community, have the opportunity to hear the stories and testimonies, make friends with long-term missionaries, students and volunteers, getting a glimpse of life in the mission field. We’ve seen God transform lives of youth and adults that come on mission trips! Sometimes God has to take you and your people far to speak in a new way to grow your compassion to teach you or to call you. Our prayer is that a mission trip with us would ignite sparks that set whole churches and communities on fire for God and global missions. Visit ywamnicoya.org to find out more about connecting with YWAM Nicoya. YWAM Lancaster – Ten Teams in Ten Years YWAM Lancaster is starting an exciting initiative to launch 10 teams in 10 years to reach the most unreached people on the planet … https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYdwkZzwrFE Visit ywamlancaster.com to find out more. Place of Springs Expansion Place of Springs is a retreat centre in Spain for people working cross culturally in North Africa and the Middle East. After operating out of their current building for a number of years, they are now looking to expand, so serve more missionaries, families, and teams … https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=isS8aOc0beY I had the privilege of working with Miranda for a few years in my role with YWAM Global communications, and her heart for people and YWAMers is extraordinary, so I would love to see the expansion of Place of Springs to happen. You can visit their web-site, placeofsprings.net, to see how you can help. From Bars to War Zones YWAM Asunción recently interviewed Keith Wheeler about his journey walking a 12-foot cross through nearly 200 nations for 37 years … https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Z1s9Lx_AvHg That was just a short clip from the full interview. You can watch the full inspiring interview on YWAM Asunción’s YouTube channel, or in the show notes at ywampodcast.com/158. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5nLZrcQuMs School of Intercessory Prayer Seminar – YWAM Chico In September YWAM Chico will be running their School of Intercessory Prayer Seminar The practice of Intercessory Prayer is at the heart and foundation of YWAM and many visions have been birthed during those times. The prayer school emphasizes hearing God’s voice and praying His will. Our goal is to walk alongside you as you grow in your understanding of intercessory prayer, worship and spiritual warfare. We want to see you become the man or woman that God has called you to be. Growing in intimacy with Jesus is absolutely foundational to whatever ministry God may call you to. In this school you will: Grow in hearing God’s voice Experience God’s heart in prayer Become a fervent & effective intercessor Learn to lead others in creative corporate prayer Visit ywamchico.org to find out more. Breakthrough with Rudi Lack When I was in Switzerland in 1999 I was blessed to hear Rudi Lack speak about some of his journey “tak

This month we hear about flooding around Les Cayes Haiti, a YWAM Medical Shop outreach to rural PNG, Gleanings for the Hungry prepare for summer, B2B seminar runs in the Middle East, flighting malnutrition in Madagascar, V2 Life gets their water tank replaced. YWAM Lyon goes on a “Jesus Walk”, YWAM Experience Asia goes on a tribal outreach, and more … Thank you for downloading this, the 157th episode of the Youth With A Mission News Show Podcast, I’m your host, Bill Hutchison. You can contact us, subscribe to future episodes, leave comments, and find links to all the stories we talk about on the show notes for this podcast at ywampodcast.com/157 … https://youtube.com/live/8JlFcUpzsVE?feature=share Stories: YWAM Les Cayes Flooding! This month Haiti has seen significant flooding, adding the to already unstable situation to many people there… https://youtu.be/XRRJ0b8tf-c (source) YWAM Medical Ship Reaches Out to Rural PNG The mv Youth with A Mission PNG medical ship sailed out in early May to Western PNG, following a short period of maintenance and restocking in Port Moresby. A new group of volunteers, consisting of medical professionals, deck officers and crew, and general volunteers, joined the vessel, with at least 70 expected to be serving on board during the outreach. After strengthening connections with more than 50 villages over the last quarter, the current deployment – lasting nearly six weeks – will again bring vital healthcare and training to some of Papua New Guinea’s most remote communities, working hand-in-hand with local health teams. (source) Gleanings for the Hungry – Getting Ready for Summer Gleaning for the Hungry has started to get ready for the summer … https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpPvzJoStEg Visit gleanings.org to see more about what they are doing. B2B Seminar in the Middle East A few weeks ago, YWAM ELS Cluj had the privilege to be part of organizing a B2B seminar in a Middle Eastern country. It was an incredible time of serving 32 local workers—praying over them, encouraging them, helping them discover their gifts and skills, investing in their character, teams and ministries. (source) YWAM Lusaka YWAM Lusaka is serving local communities, transforming lives, and deepening faith in Zambia. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cd-6a05en0g (more) Full Nets Global Gathering YWAM Frontier Missions and OMT Movement are inviting all YWAM family and friends to the Full Nets Global Gathering 26-28 September 2025, at Kobuleti beach (near Batumi), Georgia. Let’s come together, believing God for: The Bible in every mother tongue Millions of believers, in thousands of new ecclesia movements Empowering a new generation to go Immediately after the gathering, they will be hosting two training workshops from September 29 – 30. 1. How to Launch a Movement from Zero to Thousands This interactive and practical workshop will enable you to start where you are at now. With stories and training from fruitful field people, you will gain insight through the book of Acts and be introduced to skills to take a movement from 10 people to 10 groups to 10,000 followers of Jesus. 2. Missions, Media and Artificial Intelligence Create, Connect, Multiply: Digital Tools for Movement Growth. Do you want to use media, AI, and tech to fuel disciple-making movements and amplify your ministry impact? This interactive workshop explores how Media for Movements (M4M) principles and practices integrate with cutting-edge technology to engage audiences, foster collaboration, and accelerate Gospel movements. You’ll gain hands-on tools to create impactful digital content, use AI strategically, and develop media approaches that serve and support movement leaders. Whether you’re a creative person, tech person, or passionate about missions, discover how emerging technologies can help you reach, disciple, and multiply more effectively. Visit fullnets.net/georgia/ to find out more. Fighting Malnutrition in Madagascar In this inspiring story, Andreas—a Norwegian missionary with YWAM—is partnering with local churches and agricultural schools to plant Moringa trees in Madagascar, provide training, and equip families with tools for long-term health and sustainability. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1kvkf_rdLM Find out more at moringareformation.com. V2 Life Association Water Tank With help from Atoll Aqua, YWAM V2 Life in Vanuatu have a new well, water tank, and upgraded pipes. This is one of many upgrades and repairs that are needed at their location because of the damage caused by the earthquake that we reported on back in January. (source) YWAM Lyon Jesus Walk YWAM Lyon had an extraordinary time feasting, praising, celebrating, and sharing the gospel in the streets of Lyon. They brought 2000 gospels, and they were all offered in a record time! Many people were blown away by the festive good vibes of praise on the street! The cops had the banana and marked the rhythm with their heads. They would like to see more demonstrations like this. (source) Tribal Outreach YWAM Experience Asia recently engaged in a tribal outreach in Asia to visit three tribes—strengthening the local church and encouraging believers… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cu0IpmZKYWg (more) YWAM Paraguay YWAM Paraguay in Ciudad del Este is located on a triple border with Paraguay, Brazil, and Argentina. Their mandate to reach the world begins in their community. Besides offering YWAM training schools to disciple followers of Jesus and prepare them to go into the world with the gospel, YWAM Paraguay also offers Biblical Worldview seminars, pastoral training, education, and community development for locals. They welcome volunteers who can help in many areas. From carpentry to construction, computer to graphics, maintenance to masonry, office to the website, cooking to hospitality, vehicle maintenance to general labor, your assistance makes it possible for the YWAM Paraguay team to fulfill their God-given calling. (source) YWAM Lynchburg Update about what’s happening at YWAM Lynchburg … https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=up-cmfaLubI YWAM Potch Online Training YWAM Potch in South Africa is offering a few online courses, starting in July. The first course is the Transformation Prayer Ministry (TPM) course. This course starts on 13 July, and runs for 12 – weeks. TPM is a ministry for those who desire to intentionally participate with God in the work that He is doing, refining their faith (belief), renewing their minds and transforming their lives. (source) The second course is the Online Prophetic School, starting 29 July, and running for 16 weeks, including 6 weeks of practice at the end of 10 weeks of online classes. The course is meant to help you discover your creation design, your Godly calling and your identity in Christ. Come and be connected to the Holy Spirit – teaching you in your individual destiny. Principles shared in the guidance of the Holy Spirit by an outlet of the biggest full-time mission organisation in the world. (source) Feedback ywampodcast.com/157 Subscribe ywampodcast.com/subscribe If you liked the program, tell a friend. If you didn’t like it, tell a friend anyway …

Welcome to the Youth With A Mission News Show for April 2025. This month we hear about the End Bible Poverty Now outreach in Uganda, YWAM Samoa school outreach, NIKO celebrating their 40 year anniversary, protests around David’s Tent in Washington DC, YWAM Kona turning a squatters house into a maternal home, a story about the impact we can have as missionaries to not only individuals, but entire communities, and more … Thank you for downloading this, the 156th episode of the Youth With A Mission News Show Podcast, I’m your host, Bill Hutchison. You can contact us, subscribe to future episodes, leave comments, and find links to all the stories we talk about on the show notes for this podcast at ywampodcast.com/156 … https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66UBAF6QY-M After the Storm: Juanita’s Story Te Karaka is a beautiful small town in the Gisborne region that was hit hard by Cyclone Gabriel in 2023. This video showcasing the resilience of the town, and the story of a young mother who received free dental care through our Trinity Koha Dental Clinic. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsBO0YqwSVc Find out more about YWAM Ships Aotearoa on their web-site, ywamshipsaotearoa.org.nz. Pope Francis Passing Pope Francis died on Monday at the age of 88 after 12 years as head of the Roman Catholic Church. Pastor Alejandro Rodríguez, president of Youth With A Mission (YWAM) in Argentina, referred to Jorge Mario Bergoglio as “a pastor with the smell of sheep,” because he was always among the people and their needs. Pope Francis had a long relationship with Youth With A Mission. The YWAM director, Alejandro Rodríguez, first met Francis more than 20 years ago, when Francis was called Cardinal Bergoglio and served the church as the archbishop of Buenos Aires. They had a continued friendship from that point, and often prayed together. In 2014 Loren and Darlene Cunningham had the privilege of meeting Pope Francis while they were in Rome. At the time Pope Francis had taken the unprecedented initiative to distribute Gospels of Mark to everyone in Saint Peter’s Square while proclaiming, “[Let there be] a Bible in every family! A Bible in every family! It mustn’t be hidden, not put on a shelf, but [we should] take it in our hand, to read it often, every day, be it individually or together, husband and wife, parents and children, perhaps in the evening, especially on Sunday. Thus, the family grows, walks, with the light and strength of the Word of God!”. One of Loren Cunningham’s final legacy messages, and final book before he passed away was to End Bible Poverty. In that we can see a meeting of God’s heart in their meeting. We can all pray that God’s Hand would guide the Catholic Church in their selection of a new Pope. (source 1, source 2) 5 Island Outreach in Uganda End Bible Poverty now in Uganda recently concluded their Outreach in 5 Islands on Lake Victoria. They did church seminars, outdoor crusades, door to door evangelism, children ministry and their heart ministry which is to see everyone have a Bible in their mother tongue. For 5 days their team, together with a DTS team from YWAM Kona, reached out to the islands of Labolo, Namiti, Kirewe, Makhalaga, and Lubia. After wrapping up their time in Lake Victoria the team continued for 2 weeks in the Western part of Uganda (Bushenyi) to make known of the good news of Jesus, and to continue distributing Bible. They ask that we praying in this busy season, that the Lord will help them through to the end of this mission. They are open to receive more teams that are willing to come work with them Uganda. You can check out their Facebook page for more stories from their outreach, and you can also send them a message to find out how you might be able to work with them. YWAM Samoa School Outreach Earlier this month YWAM Samoa was able to visit some schools to share the gospel and invite people into missions. Here is one of the stories from their visits: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbwiiu0F-2U Check out YWAM Samoa’s Facebook page for their latest news, and to get in touch. NIKO Celebrates 40 years! YWAM NIKO celebrates their 40th anniversary this year! NIKO comes from the Greek and is pronounced “nee-ko.” It means, “to subdue, conquer, overcome, or get the victory.” A NIKO lets you learn in the classroom of life by “doing” instead of only listening. It will challenge you in your personal walk with God and others, through hands-on experiences. Here is one persons experience with their NIKO. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFqf8XeNeIw <talk about my NIKO in the Canadian Rocky Mountains> Find out more at niko.international. David’s Tent Protests Unfortunately during pro-Palestinian protests in Washington DC in early April the David’s Tent ministry was targeted for protests. Here is a message from them about the incident: On Saturday April 5th there was Pro-Palestine activist protest against us, specifically for the Israel flag hanging inside of David’s Tent DC. The protesters group of about 50 people was a spin off of a larger Pro Palestinian protest on Pennsylvania Avenue. Over a dozen police vehicles and about 20 police responded quickly and stood guard, keeping the protest at a perimeter of about 30 feet from the tent. The protesters tried to dispute that. The Park Police held their ground (and our ground) as David’s Tent has a permit for that space for the cause of exalting Jesus and carrying out the planned programming of David’s Tent. David’s Tent is permitted as a 1st Amendment demonstration for the purpose of a “worship and prayer vigil 24/7 unto Jesus on behalf of America.” The protesters stood in a line shouting emphatically at the tent things like “Free Palestine” employing more explicit language often to underline their ire. Many of them were donning flags in support of their cause. The protest lasted about 2 hours until they peacefully began to disperse. This is the first time in the 3,494 day history of David’s Tent that an organized protest has targeted us like this. As protesters screamed outside the tent, inside the tent the worship team on watch kept right on singing to Jesus in a clear contrast and stark juxtaposition of attitude. After all was over, the tent staff took communion together and plead the blood of Jesus over all. The prayer meeting continued forward another watch! It all turned out to be not much of anything in the end. We want to thank the Park Police for their incredible response and service. Thank you all for your prayers. David’s Tent DC is a 24/7/365 musical prayer meeting, exalting Jesus, in the pattern of ancient Israel’s tabernacle of King David. (source) You can find out more about David Tent’s DC ministry on their Facebook Page, including news about their latest need to move locations, their 16th move in 9.5 years. Turning a Squatters House into a Maternal Home YWAM Kona was inspired by a local mother’s plight over housing to build a Maternal home … https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-d2fpQAv3Y If you head over to ywampodcast.com/156 you can watch the rest of the video, and you can find out more about YWAM Kona, their ministry, and how you might be able to donate and help with the Maternal Home if you click through to the video on YouTube. The Story Behind Era92 Sometime it can be hard to do missions in another nation, and not know what comes of our work. This story of Emmanuel Trinity is inspiring as we hear what God did in his life, and how an encounter with a missionary totally changed the trajectory of his future. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHJRf6qVS5M <cut video at 6:30> You can watch the full video in the show notes at ywampodcast.com/156, and you can also find links to Emmanuel’s era92 Group, and to YWAM Kona. The Send Belfast The Send UK & IRELAND is coming to Belfast on Saturday, 17 May to the The SSE Arena, Belfast If you or any young people you know want to be inspired by hearing more about their role in the Great Commission and joining with the family of believers as we worship, pray and get encouraged together then come to the The Send in Belfast! Check out thesend.uk for find out more, and to get tickets. YWAM Ships Corpus Christi Training YWAM Ships Corpus Christi looks to reach the isolated by bringing the love of Jesus and practical help in the form of Health Care to the Caribbean and beyond. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIU0dwP8Y6Q Check out ywamshipscctx.org to find out more. Bible Core Course in Lausanne, Switzerland In September YWAM Lausanne will be offering their next Biblical Core Course: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yE9_elM0hrQ Visit ywamlausanne.com to find out more. Global Health and Mission Conference The 2025 Global Health & Mission Conference will be happening from June 7–14th in Kona, Hawaii. This conference is about equipping healthcare workers to carry the two-handed gospel to the nations — bringing both healing and hope. Since 1983, YWAM UofN Kona has been training medical missionaries through Community Health, Travel Medicine, and Primary Health Care programs around the globe. https://youtube.com/shorts/_ffdxq0HphQ Find out more on the YWAM Kona web-site, ywamkona.org. YWAM Meme source Feedback ywampodcast.com/156 Subscribe ywampodcast.com/subscribe If you liked the program, tell a friend. If you didn’t like it, tell a friend anyway …

Welcome to the Youth With A Mission News Show for March 2025. This month we hear about the attacks in Christians in Syria, find out about YWAM’s ministry in Jakarta, hear some testimonies from Cambodia, see how we can support YWAM Belgium after a building fire, see how YWAM is ministering in and with Catholic groups, catch up on St Vincent and the Grenadine’s recovery after their location was destroyed by Hurricane Beryl, see some ways that sports are used for ministry, check out some short term volunteer opportunities, and more … Thank you for downloading this, the 155th episode of the Youth With A Mission News Show Podcast, I’m your host, Bill Hutchison. You can contact us, subscribe to future episodes, leave comments, and find links to all the stories we talk about on the show notes for this podcast at ywampodcast.com/155 … https://youtube.com/live/7Q7uu-CGQxg Stories: Support for Syria We have received numerous updates from Syria after the overthrow of Bashar al-Assad and replacement by an Islamist regime led by former terrorist leader Ahmed al-Sharaa. Here are some of the reports: Prayer for Christians in Syria – March 11 Members of Syria’s small Christian community on the coast are living in fear after attacks killed more than 1,000 mostly Alawite civilians, with Christians reportedly caught up in the violence. The number of deaths reported makes the two days of violence some of the deadliest since Syria’s conflict began 14 years ago. “Many innocent Christians were also killed” alongside Alawites. Minority groups, like Christians, have been targeted – and we pray for their safety and stand with all Christians who are vulnerable to persecution. (source) The Syrian Army burned a house church in the city of Aleppo. Christian friends from Syria reached out today for prayers and help. The family — father and three children — are now homeless. The mother died a couple of months ago. The Syrian Army shot the father for distributing Kurdish Bibles. Our team are trying to get him urgent medical care. And relocate the family to another city. (source) We need to be praying continuously for the people in Syria, and that there would be peace. YWAM Jakarta I thought we could take a look at YWAM Jakara in Indonesia and what ministry they are involved in: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXXl7w9bS0M Find out more about their work on their web-site, ywamjakarta.weebly.com. YWAM Montana International Testimonies A team from YWAM Montana was recently in Cambodia and have some amazing testimonies … https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czVrRIAwmrs Visit ywammontana.org to find out more. YWAM Belgium Building Fire We have received this report from YWAM Belgium… On the 6th of December, a fire broke out in our building in Brussels.  We are lucky to say that nobody was injured and that there is only damage to the building. The kitchen fire happened in the top apartment under the roof. The damage is substantial but not impossible to repair. Our fire insurance was in order, so they will reimburse a major part of the repairs that need to be done, but not all, of course.  The two weeks after the fire we had to pay about 12,000 Euros to get the heating and electricity restored and inspected so the bookshop, staff and renters could return to their homes. This is money that came from our account and the insurance is not covering this. We had savings but those are now depleted. Before this incident, the base’s finances were stable and we are able to keep up with the normal running / maintenance costs. Now, with the attic apartment empty, we realized that the last renovation was done over thirty years ago. In addition to replacing the burnt kitchen, we need to do some upgrades to the building like insulation in the roof, a safer fire escape ladder, and we would like to put solar panels on the roof to bring our costs down.  We want to ask you to consider donating to the solar panels. This would cost 9,000 euros to install. But this would mean for our bookshop a tremendous saving in running costs. Message Media has been running this year for 40 years and has had an incredible impact in the local community and the church community in Belgium. This is a place for Christians to meet, be prayed for and find books that they can’t find in other places. We sell in Dutch, French and English, and we sell Bibles on a daily basis. We’ve estimated that cost of the solar panels would be recuperated by savings to our electricity bill in only four years, and the lower electricity bills will continue to be a blessing to our ministries long-term. You can find out more about YWAM Belgium, their ministry, and how to donate towards their repairs at ywam.be. YWAM School of Worship Japan Outreach The YWAM School of Worship team from YWAM Furnace, New Zealand was recently in Japan, and here are some testimonies from the outreach. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQqO7hbsljg You can visit ywamfurnace.nz to find out more about the YWAM School of Worship, and the other schools and ministries run by YWAM Furnace. Spiritual Renewal in the Catholic Church For over 30-years Youth With A Mission has been ministering in and with Catholic groups through the Kerygma Network. Bruce Clewett is one of the pioneers of Kerygma Network and the European Network of Communities, and has been praying and working for spiritual renewal within Roman Catholic groups. This lead Bruce to be a conduit to and from the evangelical and charismatic worlds with Cardinal Christoph Schönborn in Austia. Bruce has also helped many from his own evangelical background recognise the work of the Holy Spirit among Catholics. The relationship with Bruce and Cardinal Christoph Schönborn led to the YWAM Discipleship Training School being adapted, which resulted in “Follow Me“, a training course for Catholic young people now operating on five continents and several European countries including Austria, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain and Italy. Follow Me! is a training programme designed to Assist young Catholics 16 years and older in discovering God’s call on their life Help them grow in their relationship with Jesus Equip them with practical tools to aid them in their service as “missionary disciples” in today’s world. You can read more about this unique partnership in an article written by Jeff Fountain over at weeklyword.eu. YWAM Koha Tour We will take a tour now of the YWAM Koha, which is getting ready for deployment to Fiji. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROy8dat2ZXs Head over to ywamshipsaotearoa.org.nz to find out more about their work. YWAM St. Vincent and the Grenadines’s Huricane Update Back in September on episode 148 of the YWAM News Show, we shared about the destruction of the YWAM location in St. Vincent and the Grenadine’s by Hurricane Beryl. This then they have received a lot of support in the rebuild, and we have this update from their location. 9 Months. 12 Teams. 143 People. Hurricane Beryl on July 1st – the day that sent our world into what has felt like unending chaos – feels like a lifetime ago. We have been blown away by the response of those who wanted to come help YWAM SVG & the Community of Mayreau – our family, friends, churches and so many people who had never even met us. Both of our churches sent teams filled with friends, folks from our Missionary Support Team and family … Our family has felt so loved through the actions of all 143 people who came on a team in these past 9 months. This isn’t even counting the other volunteers we didn’t personally bring to Mayreau but who came wanting to partner with us. Not to mention the messages, phone calls, emails, prayers, donations, finances and support from countless others. We are so thankful. We have been so blessed. The Lord has done beautiful things in the hearts of so many of these folks. He has met us all here on Mayreau in a new way in this rebuilding and relief season. While we are so grateful, we are also thankful these 9 months have come to an end. We are exhausted. We need to process. We need to breathe. We need to spend time together as a family. We desire to get our personal home back together. Please keep us in your prayers as we now take some time to rest and do those things mentioned above. The Lord is GOOD in all things. The glory is His. (source) You can follow their rebuilding effort on their web-site, ywamsvg.org. Sport Outreach in YWAM Sports outreach has been a part of Youth With A Mission almost since the beginning. This has included World Cup outreaches, Olympic Outreaches, and more. Here are two different ways that YWAM is currently using sport and fitness to outreach in Asia. Sports and Missions: Impacting Lives in the Unreached – Trang, Thailand In Trang Thailand their sports ministry helps to create opportunities to share god’s love with those who’ve never heard it before … https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYs3OnREC9o ywamtrang.org Meanwhile, fitness activities are being used to help outreach into the Himalayas. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/U7CQoebjuHM You can find out more about those ministries through the links in the show notes at ywampodcast.com/155. Short Term Volunteer Opportunities We are going to highlight a few different short term volunteer options around YWAM. YWAM Restenas Volunteer with Mission Builders YWAM Restenas, Sweden, loves to welcome volunteers to one of the largest YWAM campuses in Europa, where young people come to plug into their community’s live/play training model to grow and prepare to go into all the world! They are restarting the location and their ministries after a period of standing still. The team is planning for a DTS at the beginning of 2026 and for camps, seminars, and conferences throughout the year. After 45 years of training and sending, this team of missionaries has initiated an inside/outside campus makeover to prepare for the many years of service ahead of them. They have over thirty different projects and tasks

Welcome to the Youth With A Mission News Show for February 2025. This month we hear about The Gather 25, a Global, online Church Gathering, the start of 30 Days of Prayer for the Muslim World, another story from YWAM Together, a prayer request from the YWAM Uganda Slum Ministry, last year’s review from YWAM Barbados, another earthquake hitting Vanuatu, and more … Thank you for downloading this, the 154th episode of the Youth With A Mission News Show Podcast, I’m your host, Bill Hutchison. You can contact us, subscribe to future episodes, leave comments, and find links to all the stories we talk about on the show notes for this podcast at ywampodcast.com/154 … https://www.youtube.com/live/hBBzXf-FTKg?si=TPQrPaMKA0n8dfri Stories: The Global Church Gathering – Gather 25 Every Believer. Every continent. Together across 25 hours. https://youtube.com/embed/xhAWr7mAMCA (source) It’s happening March 1, 2025 11:30am – March 2, 2025 12:30pm ACDT. Here are some more details. https://youtube.com/embed/eKyJ0lG1PCQ (source) Visit gather25.com to check it out and find out more. 30 Days of Prayer for the Muslim World 30 Days of Prayer for the Muslim World started today. For the next 30 days people from around the world will be praying for transformation to come to the Muslim World, during their month of Ramadan. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTg3v5zLZIc The most loving thing that we can do for Muslims around the world is to pray that they would be transformed by Christ. Every year Muslim’s are confronted by dreams, visions, and more during the month of Ramadan, and we pray that this would happen again this year. You can get daily updates and guides for your prayer on their Facebook, Instagram, or X page, as well as at pray30days.org. YWAM Together Stories Now we get to hear another story from YWAM Together. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0p-Cq5I-uz8 YWAM Uganda Slum Ministry Today we will discover some of what YWAM Hopeland in Uganda are doing, and what they are currently needing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nZ7YV1jjAI You can find out more about their ministry at ywamuganda.org. YWAM London Film and Acting School The YWAM, London School of Digital Filmmaking and School of Acting for the Screen is a three-month courses designed to equip aspiring filmmakers and actors for a missions life within the film industry. The courses are held in London, UK, and students have the opportunity to work on short films and gain practical experience in acting and filmmaking techniques. In December the two schools graduated, and since then the films that they recorded and acted in are being released on their YouTube channel. They have released five short films this year, and there are numerous films from previous years on the channel as well that you can check out. YWAM Saint Marc Trade School Start YWAM Saint Marc in Haiti is starting up another session for their Trade School. https://youtube.com/embed/NqoRh2EUd0E (source) You can follow along with the work that YWAM Saint Marc is doing on their Facebook page. YWAM Barbados 2024 Year Review Now we have an update about 2024 by YWAM Barbados. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zb9rxgi34Sg Visit ywambarbados.org to find out more about their ministry. YWAM Medical Ships Sets Sail for Newest Deployment THE YWAM medical ship, along with a team of 70 volunteers from 12 different nations, departed Port Moresby early Saturday morning for their first deployment of the year to deliver vital healthcare and training services to some of the most remote communities in PNG. (source) YWAM Ships Aotearoa 2025 Vision YWAM Ships Aotearoa has released their 2025 vision video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GDh-8YvWf8 Visit ywamshipsaotearoa.org.nz to find out more. Vanuatu Earthquake Special Appeal We have shared a few stories with you since Vanuatu has hit by a 7.3 magnitude earthquake in December. Earlier this month unfortunately Vanuatu was impacted by another earthquake that compounded the damage done back in December. Over 50 community (village) water tanks have been damaged due to earth movement and landslides, leaving thousands of families without access to clean drinking water and increasing the risk of waterborne diseases. Australian Mercy is working with Pasifik Village Development to restore essential water supply and rebuild hope in the villages. When they inspected the villages that they have served over the years they found that most water supplies have been compromised. To serve the villages they will be working in three ways. Provide emergency water supplies Support community-led water restoration efforts Repair or replace earthquake damaged water tanks. The earthquake caused significant damage to the roads and access to the villages, so a reliable 4WD vehicle to deliver water, teams and tank repair supplies into the outlying villages is the most significant tangible need right now. The dry season is less than six-months away, so the need is urgent. If you head over to australianmercy.org you can find out how you can give towards the purchase of a second hand 4×4 vehicle, and towards the 50 water tank repairs that are needed. YWAM Series 23 – 2025 Promo YWAM Series 23, an urban expression of YWAM in the city of San Pedro de Macoris, Dominican Republic. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkRuYxjvDmc You can head over to ywamseries23.org to find out more about their ministry. New Beginnings Homes We shared last year about the ministry of New Beginnings Homes in Washington State. At the moment there are opportunities to join the ministry there … https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=toGojhmrKKA (source) Head over to newbeginningshome.org to see how you might be able to join. YWAM Chico Rebuild Appeal After the horrible fires, and further flooding, YWAM Chico is seeking to rebuild their Hydro Power Plant that powers a community of people in Chico California. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfNPTrZ2wto If you would like to partner with YWAM Chico in this process go to ywamchico.org to find out how. Message from YWAM Dunham – Ask God for Help I watched a message from YWAM Dunham about Asking God For Help, and wanted to share that with you … https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b01hiUxRNlM You can go to ywamdunham.com to find out more about their ministry in Quebec, Canada, and if you click on the video in the show notes, you can find the full teaching about recognizing God’s voice on YWAM Dunham’s YouTube channel. Business as Mission If you have ever wanted to know more about Business as Mission, YWAM Nelson is putting on a 5-day Seminar exploring the role of business in missions and its biblical foundation. The teaching will cover what Business as Mission is and is not. What strategic role does it play in missions today, especially amongst the least reached? How is it being used in YWAM? What are some historical examples of BAM and what can be learned from them? What are some BAM best practices? They will also contrast aid-based development vs Business based development. At the end of the seminar, students will gain a better understanding of the BAM movement and its strategic role in world missions. The seminar will be running from 7 – 11 April, and you head to ywamnelson.co.nz to find out more. YWAM Lausanne Online Courses Going is a free resource from YWAM Lausanne, with content that is designed to strengthen faith in God and inspire and prepare people for any mission field. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_AxiN76sa8&t=7s They currently offer courses for before and after a DTS, a course about the Holy Spirit, and a paid course about studying the Bible for yourself. Head to goingcourse.com to see those courses, and others that they will be adding soon. Meme of the Month – YWAM North Cascades https://youtube.com/shorts/DpR6uajd1B8 (source) Feedback ywampodcast.com/154 Subscribe ywampodcast.com/subscribe If you liked the program, tell a friend. If you didn’t like it, tell a friend anyway …

Welcome to the Youth With A Mission News Show for January 2024. This month we hear about The Island Reach arriving in Madagascar, another story from the YWAM Together Gathering, hear about the outreach in Davos to the World Economic Forum, continued repairs in Vanuatu after last month’s earthquake, Home of Hope houses built in South America, new pioneering locations, get some more year end reports, and more … Thank you for downloading this, the 153rd episode of the Youth With A Mission News Show Podcast, I’m your host, Bill Hutchison. You can contact us, subscribe to future episodes, leave comments, and find links to all the stories we talk about on the show notes for this podcast at ywampodcast.com/153 … https://youtu.be/6EXu16nfTsY Stories: YWAM Together – Darlene Cunningham We will start this week with another story from YWAM Together, this time by Darlene Cunningham. https://youtu.be/zY_TOshUhBk?si=zB5K666LDkXfwZp8 YWAM Ships Switzerland Arrives in Madagascar https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_4o3MQb4nA Three years ago YWAM Ships Switzerland purchased The Island Reach, an ex navy tender, and began the renovations of the ship. On September 29 the ship refit was complete and they set sail from Conwy, Wales, bound for Antsiranana, Madagascar. I received an update from YWAM Ships Switzerland about the arrival, and it included this statement. Our trust and faith in the Lord has grown immeasurably during the transit. Time after time we saw God in the large and in the small details. While in Malta for example we met the son of the first ever captain of our little ship when she was commissioned by the British navy. We welcomed him on board and called his dad to tell him the news of her future mission. During the sail we gave thanks for the news that Island Reach would receive an exemption from import taxes in Madagascar from the government, and of their intention to work with us towards reaching the nation. Stories of missiles and pirates would take far too long to tell, but grab the ear of one of the crew and put up your feet for the afternoon – the sharing is rich and Gods grace evident. With much joy and celebration Island Reach arrived safely on December 2nd and after a period of transition was handed over to her new crew. The re-flagging and registering of the vessel are underway as well as the planning for her first mission after the hurricane season. Thank you everyone, for each and every part you played in this project. Words alone cannot capture and communicate the gratitude, the wonder and the joy of being able to deliver Island Reach for CHRISTMAS. (source) You can check out the video of the arrival in the show notes, ywampodcast.com/153, and follow along with the story at ywamships.ch. YWAM Makhamba YWAM Makhamba is a YWAM operation centre in the South of Malawi, Africa … https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkMcNZVrrCI You can find out more about their ministries including HIV support groups, farming God’s way, orphan support, kids, youth and family ministries, and more at YWAM Blantyre’s web-site, ywamblantyre.com. YWAM Lyon Outreach YWAM Lyon has again this year started engaging in evangelism around Lyon. They had a great afternoon at Place Bellecourwith about a dozen of them, set out in small groups of two, equipped with the Gospels and the New Testaments, to go meet people. They had some great conversations and they prayed for God to guide them to the right people, those who are seeking and open to dialogue, and He answered, with the groups having many great meetings. They had some amazing contacts during the evangelism, especially with young people: some vaguely believers, some agnostic, and even with young Muslims. They had an opportunity to share the gospel, give some truly inspiring words of knowledge that touched hearts, prayed for most of them, and offer the New Testaments. (source) The team from YWAM Lyon is regularly engaging in their community, and welcomes teams coming to join them. You can visit ywamlyon.com to find out more. YWAM Davos WEF Outreach YWAM Davos has been working with Stephan Maag doing outreaches to the WEF for over 10 years, with a desire to be “Salt and Light” to the attendees. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mC58fMLgeMA The idea of a “Salt&Light” during the Davos Meetings – WEF 2025, which took place from January 20 to 24, was to offer an exciting opportunity to bring Christian values and principles closer to a broad public in an inspiring and practical way. The aim was to bring the WEF audience and local people into contact with Christian messages through discussions, worship & prayer and street events. Find out more about Salt and Light, and see all the teaching and worship from their time, over at salt-and-light.ch/en. YWAM Pittsburgh in Liberia Last month teams from YWAM Pittsburgh traveled to Liberia. Their teams arrived safe and sound, and they had very busy and productive time. During their time 2409 people heard the gospel and gave their lives to Jesus. Check out ywampittsburgh.org for more information about their ministry and schools. YWAM Wylie 2024 Recap YWAM Wylie in Texas updates us on their ministry in 2024. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYDpPoMpStc Find out more about their ministry at ywamwylie.org. Mission Builders Inc need for Architects MBI’s Partner Architects ministry works with retired, current, or training architects so that they can use their skills to make a difference in the world. Partner Architects helps to “build the mission” by working with ministries to create places that support God’s redemptive work in the world. Partner also engages the nations by focusing their design services on underserved areas with low Christian populations. They have served over 55 ministries on six continents, have 20 years of experience, and have built 15 ministry projects—and counting! (source) Vanuatu Repairs Continue YWAM Pacific Waves is continuing their repair work in Vanuatu after the earthquake last month. https://youtube.com/shorts/YWQVuPS7fYc The water tank being repaired was built by a YWAM youth camp many years ago, and is the first water tank to be repaired after being damaged in the Earthquake. They are doing what they can to repair and provide some help for the community. With over 50 tanks needing a new life, it’s a race against time to repair as many as possible before dry season. Visit ywampacificwaves.org to see more about the projects YWAM Pacific Waves are working on. YWAM Guatemala Homes of Hope YWAM Guatemala’s Antigua campus started the year strong hosting Homes of Hope for a house build in Ciudad Vieja! They have been hard at work with home builds to start off the new year with new hope for families in their ministries and communities! It is amazing how God uses his people’s unique giftings and callings to transform communities and countries. (source) Visit ywamguatemala.com to find out more about their ministry. Ywam San Salvador Homes of Hope This week YWAM San Salvador in El Salvador delivered one more Home of Hope, to one more family, a worthy home that comes to give a push and transform the lives of a mother and her two children. The security of having a roof to protect them from the sun, to not get wet when the rain comes, and a place of shelter when storms come in. A home with which they can be encouraged to dream even more with God and walk in transformation and restoration. (source) YWAM Lighthouse New Location A new YWAM location will be launched in Muskegon, Michigan, an this is the team that is doing it … https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1BCkco8FS4 YWAM Cabo Pioneering Update YWAM Cabo is continuing to develop their location in Baja Mexico. This is their latest update: Pioneering a ministry brings joys and challenges alike. A lot of this season has been stepping forward with faith and obedience into the unknown. But it’s because we trust Jesus and see that He’s doing something here in the Baja! We want to be apart of His kingdom come! The last few months, we’ve been putting in WORK to further prepare the YWAM base💪🏼 Outreach teams, church groups, servant-hearted volunteers… we’re more ready than ever to host you and make an impact in the community You can visit ywamcabo.org to see the development of the location, and also to see how you or your team could join. David’s Tent Continued Prayer With a new administration coming into power in the United States, David’s Tent continues their prayers, and released this statement regarding the change. Yesterday, many were celebrating, others were grieving, as a new administration came to power. At David’s Tent, we transitioned our prayers “for kings and those in high position” from one administration to the next. Beyond that, we didn’t make a huge deal about the inauguration at the tent itself. The tent and all our platforms are meant to be consecrated space for vertical worship to Jesus. This isn’t meant to be dishonoring or unappreciative of those walking out their calling in the government sphere. It all comes back to Jesus for this particular intercessory ministry. When we are on watch, we purposely fix our eyes of worship directly on Jesus. It’s all about His Presence that we are seeking. We seek to minister directly to Him, giving hospitality to the Holy Spirit. This position has come with the faith that we will see God moving in the leadership of our nation if we hold steadfast to the posture that Jesus is THE KING and we seek first His Kingdom and His rule and reign. “No king but King Jesus!” Our hope is built on nothing less than Jesus Blood and Righteousness. So we praise Jesus another day. We let not our guards down, but keep praying with persistence, appealing to Jesus for the Salvation of our country, so we can give Him thanks and praise. (1 Chron 16:35). We want more breakthrough than anyone could imagine. May America worship Jesus, the worthy One. (source) They continue their 24/7 prayer vigil on the Nati

Welcome to the Youth With A Mission News Show for December 2024. This month we hear about the earthquake that hit Vanuatu, another story from the YWAM Together Gathering, National Evangelization Day happens in Argentina, get an on the ground report from the Paris Olympic Outreach, hear what happened at Oceania Hui, get some year end reports, and more … Thank you for downloading this, the 152 episode of the Youth With A Mission News Show Podcast, I’m your host, Bill Hutchison. You can contact us, subscribe to future episodes, leave comments, and find links to all the stories we talk about on the show notes for this podcast at ywampodcast.com/152 … https://youtu.be/Slhrfa5W3Bk Stories: Vanuatu Earthquake On December 17 Port Vila in Vanuatu was hit by a destructive earthquake. It affected some of YWAM’s centres there, and we have this report from our V2 Life location … Hello Everyone, As many of you would have heard by now, yesterday, Port Vila was hit by a shallow and therefore massively destructive 7.4 (or so) earthquake. Landslides and collapsed buldings have claimed lives. Hundreds have been injured. Critical infrastructure like water, electricity, phone networks and internet, but also roads and especially bridges are completely down or at least strongly compromised. One of our staff families is currently overseas and fine, our other staff family is well and staying on site. Our Australian volunteer family for the school is also safe staying off site. We have not been able to contact all of our local teachers yet. We have heard from most of our other YWAM staff that they are okay. We appreciate everyone’s prayers for our YWAM community and for the people of Vanuatu. Pray for search and rescue to be guided to survivors still in the rubble. Pray for families that have lost loved ones or have loved ones injured at the hospital. Pray for the government. Pray for the children especially, as many of them suffer from accute PTSD since yesterday with ongoing aftershocks every hour since the initial violent tremor. As our centre is outside town and the road to town leads over a bridge which has been damaged, we will stay out here for now unless there is an emergency. We are fortunate enough to be set up to live off grid, and therefore have clean water (although some parts are badly damaged), food, solar power (although some elements of the system are also badly damaged) and we have Starlink to connect to the internet. Our buildings seem to be structurally okay upon first inspection but more detailed assessments will have to be done. There is a lot of interior damage and breakage and a huge mess to clean up in just about every room of the centre. As our community here in the valley has suffered little obvious damage, it will take some time until we can identify ways we can help those in need. Clean water might be one of the ways. In terms of costly damage, we can already tell that our solar battery bank will need to be replaced as several positive and negative terminals connecting the individual cells have been torn out completely. There is also extensive damage to our water infrastructure such as tower, tanks, guttering, pipes, which will need repairs and parts. In addition there might be IT equipment and other office equipment that needs replacing. If you want to help us recover from this natural disaster, you can do so by making a donation at https://v2life.org/donations/ . Choose “V2 LIFE” as the donation option or the Australian/USA tax deductible link at the top of the page. (source) Another YWAM Together Story As I mentioned in the last few episodes, there are many stories that came out of YWAM Together earlier this year. I will continue to share them on the YWAM News Show, so here is another … https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RryHOSpeCBo We have more stories from that event, that we will be sharing with you in future episodes. Argentina celebrated National Evangelization Day At the initiative of Youth with a Mission (YWAM) and with the support of the Christian Alliance of Evangelical Churches of Argentina (ACIERA) and the Argentine Bible Society (SBA), among others, more than 400 cities across the country united to bring the message of hope in Jesus Christ to the streets of Argentina. As part of the effort, over 4,000 strategically located prayer tables were organized, where the Word of God was shared and prayers were offered for citizens who were open to embrace the gesture of love and faith. (source) Missions and the Olympics While we shared a bit about what happened with the outreach at the Paris Olympics, YWAM Kona has put out this on the ground video about doing missions at the Olympics. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTDMV0c1MVY  YWAM San Francisco Christmas Lunch Christmas Day lunch at YWAM San Francisco for 200 people. Besides a great lunch each person received a backpack with socks, scarf, gloves, rain poncho, a Christmas card and the teachings of Jesus. (source) YWAM Tema Christian Meals On Christmas Day, YWAM Tema shared over 100 Christmas meals and drinks on the streets in their city. They were thankful to bring the light of Jesus to their community. (source) YWAM Saint Marc Haiti Christmas Meals This Christmas season we were able to bless the widows in our widows ministry with bags of food. Some of our staff went out to deliver the food and pray for / encourage these amazing women. We also had our annual Christmas meals where thousands of people received a meal on Christmas Eve! We hope you all had a blessed Christmas with your friends and family. We are so thankful for the birth of our Savior. Thank you for all of your support and prayers this year! (source) Report from Oceania Hui 2024 We told you a few episodes ago about Oceania Hui, and here is a report from the event. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MdGkPekNSM You can find out more about YWAM in New Zealand over at ywamfurnace.nz. YWAM Lausanne 2024 End Of Year Report https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHa_1JMc9wQ Head over to ywamlausanne.com to find out more. YWAM Saint Marc, Haiti Update We have had an incredibly busy week! We had our soccer tournament championship- which we won!! We had buckets of Joy where over 200 kids got to take home food for their families. One of the pictures is 3 ladies holding up a bag of food and an envelope. We asked our staff and security who stays to wait for their children to make sure they get home safe after kids church and we were told that these 3 ladies wait every single week consistently. In our meetings with the parents we always share that love and care and security starts in the home. We were able to bless them each with an extra bag of food and some money to help with Christmas. We encouraged them to keep holding their kids close and making the sacrifices so they know they are safe and cared for. It was such a blessing for us to see! We also had our Radikal youth group graduation! We had 67 youth graduate and we are so proud of them. Now, today we have Christmas meals being prepared for 3500+ people and tonight we have a final championship soccer game before some much needed rest! Merry Christmas everyone!! (source) YWAM Ships Aotearoa 2024 Summary https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqX0kXTOquQ Visit ywamshipsaotearoa.org.nz to find out more about their ministry. YWAM Flotilla Two of our School of Navigation and Seamanship graduates, Mateo and Luke, sailed from French Polynesia with one of our yacht owners, Dale. They were at sea for 22 days before reaching Newport Beach, California. YWAM Flotilla is celebrating the success of their safe arrival! (Source) Overcoming War Mini Documentary Here is another mini-documentary from YWAM Kona, this one about a refugee from war in South Sudan. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdBxfKX2ufg YWAM North America Member Care Training 2025 Here are 3 options happening with North America Member Care! 1) Member Care Basics Seminar at YWAM Nashville | 26 Jan – 1 Feb 2025– 1 week seminar covering the basics of Member Care 2) Practical Intro to Member Care Online Course | 4 Mar – 8 May 2025– Online teaching with self study weeks and a chance to apply in your context 3) Member Care Foundations Course at YWAM Kona | 1 – 21 Jun 2025– A three week in depth course covering aspects of individual and corporate member care (source) YWAM Meme Best meme this month, in honour of the movie “Elf”, is the “YWAMers grumpy on outreach meme” … https://youtube.com/shorts/Uyf5ilPnaEk (Source) Feedback ywampodcast.com/152 Subscribe ywampodcast.com/subscribe If you liked the program, tell a friend. 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Welcome to the Youth With A Mission News Show for November 2024. This month we hear another story from the YWAM Together Gathering, hear a testimony about a healing in India, find out about YWAM’s continued work in Lebanon during the conflict, YWAM Liberty has set sail after a refit, we find out a bit about YWAM is doing in Mongolia and Hong Kong, get an update about the bus accident in Benin, and more … Thank you for downloading this, the 151st episode of the Youth With A Mission News Show Podcast, I’m your host, Bill Hutchison. You can contact us, subscribe to future episodes, leave comments, and find links to all the stories we talk about on the show notes for this podcast at ywampodcast.com/151 … https://youtu.be/vbjMJWamKFo Stories: Another Story from YWAM together We continue with stores from YWAM Together with this story from Dara from Cambodia. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cg92N8GrNWM I have at least two more stories from YWAM Together that we will be sharing over the upcoming months. David’s Tent DC Update YWAM DC’s main ministry is David’s Tent DC, a 24/7 house of prayer and worship on the National Mall in Washington DC. David’s Tent just celebrated 3,333 days or 79,992 hours of non-stop worship and prayer! God has supernaturally provided resources, teams, and finances to keep this vigil of day and night worship and prayer over America and the Nations. Truly a testimony of the grace of Jesus! Come, join the song and exalt the King of Kings and Lord of Lords in America’s capitol city while Amos 9:11 comes to life! Accepting outreach and worship teams! Find out more on the David’s Tent web-site, davidstentdc.org. YWAM Alblasserwaard Testimony of Healing Now we get to hear a powerful testimony from Impact World Tour Netherlands … https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPuYCO7uD-4 Head over to impactworldtour.nl to find out more, and you can hear more testimonies and stories on the YWAM Alblasserwaard YouTube Channel. YWAM Chico Flooding Concerns In episode 148 in September we reported about the fire that almost burnt down our YWAM location in Chico, California. Now, with heavy rains, there are new concerns about flooding and the only bridge to their location being swept away … https://youtu.be/4jVWZGTh1Dw (source) To follow the situation check out ywamchico.org. YWAM Deaf World Vision Let’s find out what the mission is for YWAM Deaf World Jamaica. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkiVpGQW3_Y Head over to ywamjamaica.org/deafworld to find out how you might be able to get involved. YWAM in Lebanon Christianity Today recently published an article about the war in Lebanon that included an interview with one of our teams who is serving there … Daniel Suter, a missionary from Switzerland, encounters both sides. His Lebanese friends blame Israel for every bad thing that happens; his friends in the West reflexively support everything Israel does. But with tears in his eyes, he said that 2,350 Lebanese had died since the war began, some of whom were relatives of his close friends. “It breaks my heart,” Suter said. “This is the country we love. It hurts.” The Youth With A Mission (YWAM) building he served in—until the roads became too dangerous for the 30-minute drive from his home—displays a sign proclaiming Jesus in English and Arabic, with a picture of a cross and a heart in between. It is located in Damour, a Christian village on the coastal highway from Beirut to Sidon, yet every route he could use to get there has been bombed. Damour was the site of an infamous massacre by Palestinians during the Lebanese civil war. The next village over is still home to some Palestinian refugees, and few Christians will ever set foot there, Suter said. Syrian migrants work the banana groves that stretch from the road to the seashore, resented for receiving aid from international agencies that is less forthcoming for disadvantaged citizens. YWAM’s community center somehow brings everyone together. When the war in Gaza began, the YWAM Lebanese leader asked Suter, Is this where God called you? If so, stay. Another foreign missionary left abruptly, citing the mental health of his children. Don’t Lebanese have kids, too? one staffer retorted. The challenging conversations strengthened Suter’s commitment, and he said his local friends were “chill.” They had lived through war before. After a visit back to Switzerland in the summer to visit their sending church, the family returned back to Lebanon on September 23. … as they waited at the airport gate on September 23, they received reports that the widespread Israeli bombing had begun. Hundreds of thousands of Lebanese were displaced, now also from Tyre, the Bekaa Valley, and the southern suburbs of Beirut. The war was no longer only in the south. The family moved into guest housing at the Damour center and joined in caring for the 300 people taking shelter at the village school. Their kids worked as hard as the parents, Suter said, learning the impact of war while still sleeping soundly at night. But when school started, they received the local YWAM office’s blessing to return home and shift their service to another center in Burj Hammoud, a Christian neighborhood in the capital city with many Syrian refugees and displaced Shiites. And in consultation with their church, they adjusted their evacuation trigger. When Israel began its ground invasion of Lebanon on October 1, local analysis suggested they would remain safe in their home in the foothills; however, if Israeli forces headed north toward Beirut, then the Suters would evacuate to Switzerland. “Now, I am assessing risk; before, I was ignoring it,” said Suter. “You can cowardly leave or cowardly stay. I want to be here for the right reasons, not the thrill of adventure or fear of boredom back home.” He hopes his story will encourage prayer for Lebanon, perhaps inspiring others to come and serve. Meanwhile, the missionary from Ohio anticipates the arrival of three new teammates who are already preparing to join her. Hamoud wants Gaza’s Palestinians to have their basic right to life restored. Botros wants concerned Christians, instead of just sending funds for emergency aid, to address the root cause of displacement and lobby their governments to end the war. You can read the full article over at Christianity Today. YWAM Family Ministries New Zealand YWAM Family Ministries New Zealand recently came out with a new video about the work they do … https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64amN1qcNsc Visit ywammatamata.co.nz to find out more. M/V YWAM Liberty Sets Sail WE HAVE SAILED! With great joy, we celebrate an incredible milestone nearly two years after signing the purchase of our YWAM Ships property in Kona, we’ve successfully completed the life-extension project on the M/V YWAM Liberty! We set sail! Just last week, our ship departed from Port Moresby, heading to Madang, our operational base port in Papua New Guinea (PNG). This marks a historic moment for us as we dock at the first-ever YWAM dock dedicated to our mission. We are filled with gratitude for everyone who has followed our journey, especially through the challenges of COVID-19, which brought so much to a standstill. To all who worked tirelessly to make this day possible thank you. Your support has truly brought this vision to life (source) YWAM Liberty is currently looking for Deck Hands, Engine Crew and General Hands to volunteer on the MV YWAM Liberty. You can contact them through their web-site, ywamshipskona.org. YWAM Nsanama Let’s hear now about YWAM’s ministries in Nsanama in Malawi. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FW9poXbZZS0 Visit their web-site, nsanama.ywam.ws/, to find out more. YWAM Mongolia Ministries I was excited to see these updates from one of our YWAM teams in Mongolia … https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPrKUclb30Q https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cVNuF95gk4 Check out ywamubmongolia.org to find out more. YWAM Benin Bus Accident Victim Passes Away It is with great sadness that we inform you that our dear brother Mathieu Tchando, mentor, facilitator, and trainer of the DBS at YWAM in West Africa, went to be with Jesus this morning, November 21, 2024.Mathieu was involved in the bus accident that occurred 19 days ago at the Nigeria-Benin border. He had been in a coma under medical care since the accident. Please continue to pray for his wife, family, and all of us who worked so closely with him. (Source) YWAM Asuncion Right now we will hear from YWAM Asuncion in Paraguay … https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9oJzPYGgMBI Visit ywamasuncion.com/en/ to find out more. YWAM Provence Seminars YWAM Provence will be running quite a few seminars in the first quarter of next year. January 15 – 26 will be the Foundations for Intercultural Studies Seminar January 27 – 31 will be the Basics and History of Islam February 10 – 14 will be looking at Different Approaches with Muslims March 3 – 8 looks at Discipleship Making Movements March 10 – 14 is the Word by Heart training April 7 – 11 they will be looking at God’s hard for transformation through Community Development Head on over to ywamprovence.com to find out more about the seminars, and other ministries that YWAM Provence in involved with. Who Is YWAM Gateway YWAM Gateway out of Hong Kong gives us this update … https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TGo9O0G3Ao Visit ywamgateway.hk to find out more. Building Discipleship Course YWAM Nelson is offering a Building Discipleship Course for those who desire to partner with God in a practical way, as He rebuilds and restores the hearts of His children. This eight-week course is designed to encourage discipleship while offering hands-on experience in building and construction. Do you desire to serve the Lord by learning a practical skill like construction? Does your heart resonate with God’s desire to restore and rebuild people’s lives as He ministers His love to their hearts? This course offers an opportunity to partner wi

This month we hear reports about the YWAM Benin Team Bus Accident, Hurricane Helene and Hurrican Milton, Typhoon Kristine also hit the Philippines, YWAM Saint Marc in Haiti helps after the massacre that happened at a local village, we hear stories and messages from YWAM Together, YWAM Samoa runs a Kings Kids Camp, we hear from YWAM Juba in South Sudan, get a ministry report from YWAM Ntaja in Malawi, and more … Thank you for downloading this, the 150th episode of the Youth With A Mission News Show Podcast, I’m your host, Bill Hutchison. You can contact us, subscribe to future episodes, leave comments, and find links to all the stories we talk about on the show notes for this podcast at ywampodcast.com/150 … https://youtu.be/cgPQz-PJV4c Stories: BREAKING NEWS – YWAM Benin Team Bus Accident(Current as of Nov 3, 2024) A bus accident with four vehicles has occurred between Lagos and the border of Benin near the town of Badagry. The incident involved 15 members of a YWAM team from Benin returning home from a regional gathering. It is with great sadness we report one fatality and two critical injuries. Local YWAM leaders and friends have been ensuring access to quality care and supporting family and friends. Over the last 24 hours, a global outpouring of love and concern has been received. Family and friends have been notified, and memorial arrangements are underway. When more information becomes available, another update will be made on ywam.org. Urgent prayer is still needed for the injured, and please continue to pray for everyone involved. Our hearts go out to all those who are impacted. Donations to help cover emergency expenses can be made at ywamkona.org/donate. YWAM Asheville Hurricane Recovery: Hurricane Helene devastated a lot of the South-eastern United States, with thousands of people missing or dead, and some entire communities simply wiped out. YWAM has mobilised to assist with the recovery. We have multiple reports from YWAM Asheville, including this first person report of when the winds and rain hit the city: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ot8-9nCShOE Swannanoa is a rural area west of Asheville. Areas like that one across western North Carolina were hit the hardest by Helene’s effects. YWAM Ashville’s staff and students are ministering to people like the woman in the video, sharing the light of Jesus amidst the darkness through serving others, prayer, and conversations. https://youtube.com/shorts/tWuAEHQOL7g They are serving the rural areas hit hard by Helene, helping churches acting as distribution centres to people in need and have so far created 1032 buckets of food for distribution, with each bucket feeding a family of 4 for 3 days. The team is also helping to provide free meals every day to people in downtown Asheville this week. The teams partnered with Operation Blessing with their work, and continue to help with the recovery in Asheville. You can follow the work of YWAM Asheville on their Facebook page. YWAM Orlando Hurricane Update Two weeks after Hurricane Helene devastated the Southeastern United States, Hurricane Milton made landfall in Florida … https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zz6IoGd2aCI Find more on their Facebook page. Typhoon Kristine Hits Philippines YWAM Philippines is putting out a request for prayer and support at this time. As the typhoon brings challenges to many across the nation, we are called to respond with faith and action. This is an opportunity for us to not only pray but also mobilize relief efforts, send outreach teams, and support those in need. Whether through prayer, practical assistance, or coming alongside local communities, let’s step in where God leads. Together, we can be the hands and feet of Jesus in this time of need. (source) Several YWAM bases have been directly impacted by the typhoon, including: YWAM KKI Philippines Ywam Albay YWAM Impact – Philippines Ywam Laguna YWAM Cavite YWAM Naga Haiti Massacre “Last week a gang attacked a small town just outside of Saint Marc. The people of this village had been defending themselves and standing their ground against the gang for a while, but they ended up being attacked early Thursday morning. At least 70 people were killed in this devastating masacre. This sent hundreds of people running to Saint Marc for safety. We were so blessed to see the city of Saint Marc come together to help these people and carry their burdens. We were able to do a distribution of clothing, shoes and blankets. We also prepared and delivered food to 200 people. Please pray as this has left everyone scared for what the future holds for our city as well as the villages surrounding Saint Marc.” (source) Personal Stories Shared at YWAM Together At YWAM together last month there were many stories shared, including this one by Alana … https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rce-Os1NPC4 Blessing from Loren Cunningham Also during YWAM Together this blessing from Loren Cunningham, who passed away a year ago, was shared… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KVOAgzEKmA YWAM Samoa Kings Kids Camp YWAM Samoa recently completed their latest Kings Kids Camp. During their time they had lots of time of worship, activities, lectures, and games. During the camp they ministered in the local Fugalei market and bus station, and were welcomed at Uniting Church of Samoa and Living Word Church. One evening the King’s Kids showcased a performance that included both acting and dance. Additionally, the Discipleship Training School (DTS) students presented a dramatization of God’s Story. They were also honoured to have special guests with them, the youth from the Protestant church community. To find out more about their ministry visit ywamsamoa.org, or their Facebook page. YWAM Ships Kona Cook Needed “Help wanted: We are looking for a chief cook to volunteer on the YWAM Liberty in Madang, PNG starting on November 4th. The cook will be responsible for a 60 person crew. Please reach out to 33in3@ywammontana.org if you are interested!” (Source) YWAM Ships Aotearoa Outreach Report Now we will get to see this month’s update from YWAM Ships Aotearoa… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCtpHORyPiQ Find out more at ywamshipsaotearoa.org.nz. YWAM South Sudan, Juba I had this update sent to me by YWAM South Sudan … “Yesterday, ywam Juba we were able to gathered with more than 50 pastors and bishop from different churches in heartfelt prayer for our beloved nation, South Sudan. As we united in faith, we lifted up our hopes and dreams for healing, restoration, and peace. Our conversations with God remind us of the strength and resilience of our people, and we trust that our collective prayers will usher in a brighter future. Together, we are committed to standing in the gap for our nation, believing that transformation is possible. Let’s continue to seek divine guidance as we work hand in hand for a prosperous South Sudan. “As we pray for our nation, we hold on to the words of Philippians 4:6-7: ‘Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God.’ May our hopes rise for South Sudan!” Keep praying for our nation South Sudan and Ywam Juba South Sudan our heart want to see the revival in churches And if you want to to know more what God is doing, and your love, to be part of our ministry, by supporting and prayer we love to invite thank you so much.” You can find out more about their ministry at ywamjuba.org, or on their Facebook Page. YWAM Ntaja YWAM Ntaja has recently released a new video about their ministry in Malawi. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvXTLlQZ9_o Find out more on their web-site, ntaja.ywam.ws. YWAM Meme This month’s YWAM Meme comes from a new Instagram profile, ywam_memes. (source) There are a few good memes over on their profile, so you can head over to Instagram to check it out. Feedback ywampodcast.com/150 Subscribe ywampodcast.com/subscribe If you liked the program, tell a friend. If you didn’t like it, tell a friend anyway …

Welcome to the Youth With A Mission News Show for September 2024. This month we hear a report from YWAM Together, YWAM Kitgum in Uganda runs their Destiny Kids Club Holiday Camp, YWAM Lausanne’s expansion, an outreach to Hell Fest, YWAM Island Reach departs for Madagascar, YWAM Brisbane’s Boomerang Rural Ministry Teams, YWAM Nordland’s Arctic Praise, Bible Translation in Bangladesh, and more … Thank you for downloading this, the 149th episode of the Youth With A Mission News Show Podcast, I’m your host, Bill Hutchison. You can contact us, subscribe to future episodes, leave comments, and find links to all the stories we talk about on the show notes for this podcast at ywampodcast.com/149 … https://youtu.be/qgDVbZv8qbk Stories: YWAM Together Report Over at ywam.org this week they published a report from YWAM Together in Manilla. I’m going to read that to you know, so that we don’t miss out on any of the amazing experiences they had in the Philippines. You can read the article your self, head over to ywam.org. YWAM Lausanne, Switzerland Expansion The YWAM Lausanne campus has been training people from all nations to embrace ministry vision for their world since 1969. I have been blessed to have spent time in Lausanne Switzerland as a student, as school staff, and as a team leader with YWAM’s GENESIS project. They have undergone a huge expansion since I was there last, which is highlighted in this video … https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZM7V1DzJvrs If you head over to ywamlausanne.com you can find out more about the ministry that they are involved with, as well as the many training opportunities that they have. Ywam Kitgum Uganda Destiny Kids Club Holiday Camp The three-day Destiny Kids Club Holiday Camp at YWAM Kitgum, Uganda, ran earlier this month with over 80 children aged 3-12. Throughout the camp, they: Explored inspiring Bible stories Memorized impactful verses Enjoyed exciting games and activities Delighted in entertaining performances Savoured delicious food and refreshing drinks They were very thankful for: The children’s eagerness to learn and grow Their team’s dedication and hard work The support and prayers from our partners As the children return to school, they continue to pray for: The lessons learned to remain in their hearts Continued growth and curiosity Opportunities to apply their newfound knowledge YWAM Kitgum Uganda have a vibrant ministry that includes a sustainability project, where they had their first harvest in August, and more. Check out their Facebook page to find out more about their ministry. Outreach into Hellfest! YWAM Lyon participated in an interesting outreach in June 2024 in Clisson, France, when they joined with Metal Mission at Hell Fest … Every year, the Metal Mission meets at Clisson for the Festival of Hell, the Hellfest. Many religious institutions have openly attacked this festival, calling it Satanic. However, other Christians heard another call and rather than denouncing and condemning the festival and its festival-goers, the Metal Mission has chosen to proclaim God’s love and to announce the good news. What interests them is that metalheads can meet Jesus. And that is the main reason why they are here. And bring them the love of Christ, and that they can also taste it through their testimony. The Metal Mission live in the campsite with them, and they come every day see us, meet us, discuss, share with them slices of life. Sometimes they pray for them. Sometimes there are several who have accepted the Lord now, and who are even involved in churches, and even some who are now evangelizing themselves. And that is their greatest reward. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q33pYG0jNC8 You can watch the full video, with English subtitles, in the show notes at ywampodcast.com/149, and also find out more about YWAM Lyon on their Facebook Page. YWAM Island Reach Departing for Madagascar We have been following the acquisition and refit of the Island Reach, an ex-naval supply ship, with YWAM Ships Switzerland. You can actually read, or listen, to much more about the process in previous episodes of the news show. The ship is due to travel a distance of 6.834 km after departing on September 30 from Conwy Harbour in North Wales, and should be arriving in Madagascar before Christmas. A spokesperson from the project stated: “We will be blessed with a very international crew. “We believe that the time is right and we are trusting for safety as we go, but to accompany us, you can join the journey in prayer. “A weekly update (possibly more frequent) will be available with details of our passage for you to participate in the adventure. “If you would like to be a part of this prayer chain, please let us know by sending an email to info@ywamships.ch “We are so grateful to the many people who have given time, energy, expertise and finance to the project so far. Without you, we would not be where we are today. “We have almost all that we need financially. “There is a small portion of the costs that we still need to see come in, but we trust that this will happen over the next few weeks in order for us to complete the passage.” (source) If you head over to ywamships.ch you can contact them to receive updates on the vessel, and also find out more about their work. YWAM Ships Kona Dental Testimony YWAM Ships Kona is actively working with their dental clinics in PNG. Here is a testimony from one of the people working with them … https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijUwJRD5Ouo Visit ywamshipskona.org to find out more about their work. YWAM Brisbane Boomerang Teams I started my time with Youth With A Mission in Australia with a ministry that focused from Reef to Outback. We travelled through much of Queensland, and even into the Northern Territories of Australia, ministering in many small communities. This involved helping local churches, outreach centres, presenting at school, helping locals, and more. I loved it, and absolutely loved the people we met out there. YWAM Brisbane is continuing this type of ministry with their Boomerang Teams. YWAM Brisbane’s heart is to partner with outback and coastal communities here in Australia. They want to bring people from all over the world together in our country that we call home and bring hope of Jesus to our nation. Their aim is to create ministry opportunities for YWAM DTS Outreach Teams and to see these teams have God-filled experiences that brings growth in their journeys with Jesus. They are a bridge that helps international teams like YOU come serve and strengthen the local Australian body of Christ! Here are some testimonies from people who have been involved in these teams. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pn4F6ZrVhIM So, if you head over to ywambrisbane.com they will connect you to their amazing local outreach team, who will be your personal guides in ministry. They will help you connect with ministry contacts, churches and information about the locations and people to assist in all housing, food, accommodation, provide anything you need to have a successful outreach in Australia. YWAM Nordland YWAM Nordland in Norway released this new video about their ministry: https://youtu.be/7bJQXvZFY9k On October 26, 2024 YWAM Nordland will be running their yearly Arctic Praise October 26. The statement from their web-site is: On 26 October we have the pleasure of inviting you to Arctic Praise in Røsvik church for the fifth time! Everyone is warmly welcome across generations and church background. We collaborate with DNK and free church congregations in Salten, and want to stand shoulder to shoulder, praise God and pray for Nordland. We want to come as one and get closer to God, listen to what He has to say to us, and give Him all the glory! (source) Head over to the event page on Facebook to find out more. Bible Translation in Bangladesh YWAM Tyler has produced this video about a Bible translation project in Bangladesh … https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBAOoPLaZBU You can visit ywamtyler.org to find out more about this, and other ministries that YWAM Tyler is running. YWAM Memes This month’s submissions are from YWAM Memes on Instagram, and YWAM Oxford has joined the mix again. Both just happened to be about outreach staff … I could not choose between them, but will ask you to have a look at the memes and let me know which one you prefer. The Shek meme, or the Photo meme. Feedback ywampodcast.com/149 Subscribe ywampodcast.com/subscribe If you liked the program, tell a friend. If you didn’t like it, tell a friend anyway …

Welcome to the Youth With A Mission News Show for August 2024. This month we hear about the YWAM Together Gathering, New Beginnings Home program for women, the destruction of the YWAM location in St. Vincent and the Grenadines by Hurricane Beryl, the latest 520 graduates from the trade school at Saint Marc, Haiti, some ship updates, a few upcoming training seminars, and more … Thank you for downloading this, the 148th episode of the Youth With A Mission News Show Podcast, I’m your host, Bill Hutchison. You can contact us, subscribe to future episodes, leave comments, and find links to all the stories we talk about on the show notes for this podcast at ywampodcast.com/148 … Video https://youtu.be/GA2AVEuc6dg Stories: YWAM Together YWAM Together in Manila, Philippines welcomed over 4,500 people, from 110 nationalities, serving in 120 countries! Already we are hearing testimonies of how God moved, even to get people there … https://youtube.com/shorts/YMSYtRH5hpc?feature=share Source You can follow along with updates on their Facebook page. New Beginnings Homes – YWAM New Beginnings Homes, a ministry of Youth With A Mission has been providing housing & mentorship to women during pregnancy for 40+ years in Puyallup, WA. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZf4FZlBbko If you head over to newbeginningshome.org you can find out more about this fantastic ministry. YWAM St. Vincent and the Grenadines Destroyed by Hurricane We have this tragic update from the director of YWAM St. Vincent and the Grenadines after Hurricane Beryl passed through the islands last month … Ben from Mayreau – Today was rough, challenging, heartbreaking and so much more. You can prepare to go back to your home, campus and village after a hurricane but the reality was worse than the photos show. It looks like a massive bomb went off. The landscape is different. The trees are gone. Beautiful pieces Mayreau is known for…just gone. Driving through the village is heartbreaking. Stepping foot on the YWAM campus was a punch in the gut. Walking into our home, seeing all the water still in it and seeing almost all of our belongings destroyed by wind and rain…nothing prepares you for this. Jes’ 1st home at YWAM, our first home together and now KC & Kelsie’s home is destroyed. The roof of Jes & I’s home is worse than we thought but we still have walls to work with whereas other buildings don’t even have those. The photos don’t do it justice…it’s devastating. The trauma these beautiful people have been through, there are no words. I was greeted with hugs and some smiles but could feel the hurt and loss. Our police chief Owen Issacs not only lost his home but has been working tirelessly and sacrificially to lead the charge. We cannot thank him enough. The team from WeAre Mayreau Inc, we see your hard work and also cannot thank you enough. Our Mayreau community is strong and we will rebuild. But we can’t do it alone. We are so thankful for different relief supplies that have come in from neighboring communities and nations, yachties, and more. But this isn’t a short term project. We need more help. We need supplies, we need finances and we need volunteers. Jes is in PA doing what she can to work with our team and organize supplies to be sent. Once I get back to PA we’ll announce our plans for getting volunteers and small teams down here to help with clean up and rebuilding – keep an eye out for that but if you’re already interested please send Jes a message at 717-201-0430. Please keep praying. The Lord is with us, always. (source) The destruction in the photos is dramatic, and the rebuilding that will need to be done, massive. You can check their Facebook page for updates, as well as their web-site, ywamsvg.org, and can also to see how you might be able to help, whether finacially, or maybe even with a team to help rebuild. They really do need the help. YWAM Chico Fires Last Month the YWAM location in Chico, California was threatened by a massive forest fire. Thankfully, by the grace of God, the location was spared … https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIJwc5pWjyY Source Even though the fire did not burn down the hotel, smoke still did a lot of damage. They need help to clean and restore the 100-year hotel, it’s rooms, lobby, and gathering spaces throughout. They also lost critical infrastructure on the property to the fire. There are other building to restore, and plumbing and cabling needed to keep their ministry running. They also need help with their fire defences. There is still brush and trees that need to be removed that can easily be fuel for another fire. While dealing with the immediate issues, they are also assessing their long term needs. For YWAM Chico, it may not only be the rebuilding of their hydro-plant, but, may also be as simple as a new paint job, or replacing a refrigerator ruined due to rotting foods and an electrical fault. As they slowly return to normalcy they continue to update the situation through their web-site, ywamchico.org. There is also a full video interview about the miracle in Chico, and the ministry that they are doing in California, on the show notes at ywampodcast.com/148. https://vimeo.com/1002271496 The interview was by YWAM Virginia, who have been putting out some great stories, teaching, and testimonies. Stories from YWAM Virginia Here is a sample of a short from one of the podcasts that they have done. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APBNISOu_G0 Source If you head over to ywamva.org you can find links to the content that they are creating, including the podcast, videos, and articles. YWAM Saint Marc Liberty Academy Trade School Graduation Last month YWAM Saint Marc’s Liberty Academy Trade School graduated 520 students from their Liberty Academy Trade School. 520 people in their city now have a new skill set to better their lives. They had: Electrician, Plumbing, Welding, Refrigeration and Air Conditioning, Hair Braiding, Dread Locks, Sewing, Computer Science, Makeup, Nail Technician, Backhoe Loader Operator, English, Spanish, Tile Setting, Driver’s Education and Culinary Arts as class options this year. source In 2023 the Liberty Academy Trade School started with 200 students, and this year they graduated 520. To make the academy accessible for as many students as possible, they only charge a low $20 for the entire 4 months. They give God the glory for every single accomplishment because without Him, none of this would have happened. To find out more about this academy, including plans for the future, you can check out their web-site, ywamstmarchaiti.org. Satsangs – Fellowship in India Last month YWAM Organic released a video about fellowship in India. Satsangs are house churches in India that have a far greater impact among Hindu communities than traditional western style church plants. The result? Hindu’s are far more open to the Gospel than we think. https://vimeo.com/1002910159 You can watch that video, and other productions by YWAM Organic, on their web-site, ywamorganic.org. Love Beyond: YWAM Ships Philippines YWAM Ships Philippines has recently been in Palawan on outreach … https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHfhm_S6MEI You can read more about what YWAM Ships Philippines is doing in Cuyo, a remote village in the northern part of Palawan, in a news story that is linked to at ywampodcast.com/148, YWAM Ships Philippines brings lifesaving medical services to Cuyo. YWAM Ships Australia YWAM Ships Australia’s crew was hard at work installing two new generators on the MV YWM PNG, which is currently back in Australia for a refit. A partnership with YWAM Medical Ships Norway played a crucial role in bringing the generators all the way from Norway. (On the video version of this show I received an update from YWAM Medical Ships Australia informing me that the refit of the generators is being conducted in PNG, NOT in Australia as I had reported.) source During the last deployment of the ship from June to July in Port Moresby the crew and volunteers provided a comprehensive range of healthcare services. The current plan to have the ship back on outreach in PNG by October. The YWAM Ships Dental Team in PNG was donated two new vehicles to support the school dental program, and community engagement initiatives. The donation included a 25-seater bus and an SUV, which will be utilised to transport volunteers across NCD and Central Province. YWAM Ships Kona – Invitation to Mariner and Vessel Crew YWAM Ships Kona is looking to get more people involved with the M/V YWAM Liberty … https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48QpGEOj4Sc Head over to ywamshipskona.org/volunteer to find out how you can volunteer. YWAM Davos, Switzerland YWAM Davos, Switzerland recently released an update about their ministry … https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=El9mT4wDcqM Head over to ywamdavos.org to find out more about their ministry. Open Air Worship in Adelaide YWAM Adelaide joined with over 750 other people in open air worship in Adelaide’s Light Square on Saturday last week. YWAM was one of many groups coming together to worship and pray over the city, state, and nation. Visit ywamadelaide.com.au to find out more about their ministry, YWAM Suva New Centre YWAM has launched a new centre in Suva, Fiji … https://youtube.com/shorts/WC012ph6-rw Source Check out the YWAM Suba web-site, ywamsuva.com to find out more about the location and the ministry that they are engaging in. YWAM Phalombe YWAM Phalombe in Malawi recently updated their ministry video, which we will share with you now … https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8r1ZLzKt4Y It looks like the best way to get in touch with them is through their Facebook page, as it has the most up to date information, and you can also check out their web-site, phalombe.ywam.ws. SBS Testimony for YWAM Osaka YWAM Osaka recently completed their School of Biblical Studies course. From the stories from their students I pulled this testimony to share with you … https://www.youtube.com/wa

Welcome to the Youth With A Mission News Show for July 2024. This month we hear about YWAM Dzalek, three different Bible translation initiatives from around the world, a worship and prayer initiative in Washington DC, three ship ministry updates, a ministry to bring food to the needy in Guatemala, and find out about some amazing resources that Create International have created for ministry, and more … Thank you for downloading this, the 147th episode of the Youth With A Mission News Show Podcast, I’m your host, Bill Hutchison. You can contact us, subscribe to future episodes, leave comments, and find links to all the stories we talk about on the show notes for this podcast at ywampodcast.com/147 … Video https://youtube.com/live/zyJVOG86bgs?feature=share Stories: YWAM Dzaleka In the episode 135 of the YWAM News Show from July last year, we talked about Football Academy at the Dzaleka refugee camp. We have an update from their ministry now … https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7uRlbKBbSU End Bible Poverty – Kalaki Bible Distribution Last month End Bible Poverty Now in Uganda went on mission to Kalaki district in Eastern Uganda to provide the Word of God to the local church in the community, ensuring they have access to vital spiritual resources. This effort effort has brought hope and encouragement to many people in Kalaki… https://youtu.be/Znityjrv93o (source) Check out their Facebook Page to see more of what they are doing. Bible Translation in the Himalayas Anna is a missionary who has moved to the Himalayas to work with Bible translation … https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8m88YfIdLO0 Anna started her ministry, and did her first trip with YWAM Yosemite, which you can find out more about at ywamyosemite.org. Oral Bible Translation in Samoa Oral Bible Translation is working in Samoa … https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEyuMccOcVk The best place to follow the work that is happening with YWAM in Samoa is in their Facebook Page. Night Watch in Washington DC David’s Tent is a ministry in Washington DC with a focus on 24/7 worship and prayer. It’s a ministry that YWAM Virginia Beach has been involved with, and we have this report from them … https://youtu.be/xRMHwd1OduM (source) You can check out the rest of the ministry that YWAM Virginia Beach is involved with on their web-site, ywamvirginiabeach.org. Gleanings for the Hungry – Guatemala Gleaning for the Hungry in Guatemala provides food to families in the local communities. Hope of the Nations, visit this community once a month to bring each family enough food for the next month. The families work very hard looking after the cattle that live on the land, but they are paid very little. Before the Lord called Eric and Billy to go visit the families struggled with hunger and malnutrition. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5CbPgaWW-c Find out more about Gleanings for the Hungry ministry around the world, on their web-site, gleanings.org. Island Reach July 2024 Update This month we have another up from the Island Reach, and their journey to get the ship to Madagascar. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nZWGa-O9ig Check out ywamships.ch for more. MV YWAM Liberty Drydock Complete We have an update from the MV YWAM Liberty about the recent maintenance needed on their ship. We recently had an update from Brett Curtis from YWAM Ships Kona about the MV YWAM Liberty. The ship recently completed drydock in PNG. and are back in the water! If you are watching the video, or head over to ywampodcast.com/147, you can check out the size of the propellors. The screws are massive, probably twice the height of Brett, who is in the photos. Helps give some idea as to the big task that has been completed! They want to thank you for your prayers and for following their ministry. The medical teams and volunteers are standing by to make this their home again. (source)  NAV School outreach from French Polynesia Another part of the ministry from YWAM Ships Kona is the NAV School outreach … https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oD3XXx7rd2M Head to ywamshipskona.org for more information about the NAV School, and the MV YWAM Liberty. YWAM Costa Tropical, Spain Here is an introduction to YWAM Costa Tropical Spain … https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ej-rluLy8V0 Check out ywamct.com to find out more. IndigiTube Resources Create International has been working for decades developing resources to be used for ministry around the world … https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yku2QnO6ZHQ Go to Indigitube.tv to check out all the resources that they offer. YWAM Fernace Memez YWAM Fernace produced a good meme again this month … (source) SO ENCOURAGED: It has been revealed today that a YWAM-affiliated prophetic meeting has reached critical mass. 70 layers of interconnected prophecy were discovered after the team had waited on God for just five minutes. Feedback ywampodcast.com/147 Subscribe ywampodcast.com/subscribe If you liked the program, tell a friend. If you didn’t like it, tell a friend anyway …

Welcome to the Youth With A Mission News Show for June 2024. This month we hear about the upcoming Paris Games Outreach, we get some updates from YWAM Perth, hear about four different YWAM gathering from around the world, get an update from YWAM in Haiti, hear about some different training courses currently being offered, and we get an update about the Island Reach medical ship. Thank you for downloading this, the 146th episode of the Youth With A Mission News Show Podcast, I’m your host, Bill Hutchison. You can contact us, subscribe to future episodes, leave comments, and find links to all the stories we talk about on the show notes for this podcast at ywampodcast.com/146 … https://youtu.be/OoxjQoeUfr0 Stories: YWAM Games Outreach! The Games are coming to Paris from July 21 to August 11, and YWAM will be there to share the gospel and the love of Christ. YWAMers and the body of Christ both in France and around the world are invited to come to impact the nations in Paris this summer. Paris Je t’Aime will be three weeks of live open-air events, worship nights, and acts of service in collaboration with local and international partners to inspire believers, connect ministries and make known the love of God over Paris. YWAM has participated in Olympic outreaches almost since it began. Here is a report about some of the exciting things that happened during the 2012 London Games … https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q67OHoja1IA There is still an opportunity to join in, and be a part of the Outreach to the 2024 Paris Games. You can head on over to ywamparisjetaime.com to find out how you can be a part of this opportunity. Create International We have this update from “Create International”. Create International Mobile/Media4Movements training team in Malawi serving movement leaders from Mozambique and Malawi. The team in Malawi has finished the film training and is almost completed the major shooting for the four short Yao films! The team from Mozambique is also in Malawi taking part in the four short films that have been produced. The idea is to continue strengthening the discipleship movement in Mozambique through the media. (source) Find out more at createinternational.com. YWAM Perth Update Here is a quick update from YWAM Perth about their ministries … https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODn7Q8OW8DM Find out more about their ministry on their web-site, ywamperth.org.au. Gatherings Around The World! Story from the Tanzania Uniquip and Circle 18 Gathering In May, YWAMers from around 16 countries gathered in Tanzania for the Circle 18 gathering. There are many stories that have come out of it, including this one from Gift, from South Sudan… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkF8w-coE_I&list=PLWnQsAc_DUzUig25CykVbo5gJ8dYR6sBq&index=1 You can read more of the report from the gathering on the YWAM Facebook page. YWAM Together 2024 The next global YWAM gathering will be held in the heart of one of Asia’s megacities, in the capital of the beautiful and hospitable nation of the Philippines, Manila! This will be the first YWAM global staff gathering after the ‘Covid era’ and after the graduation of our founder, Loren Cunningham. We know we are in an important season as a mission and we are excited to be able to gather together as a YWAM family! Check out yt2024.com to register and find out more. Full Nets 2024 Global Gathering For two days before YWAM Together. YWAM Frontier Missions and OMT Movement are having the Full Nets Global Gathering in Manilla. The gathering it mobilise people to a new wave of pioneering in unreached people to finish the great commission. They will be converging around new youth movements, pioneering, and Loren Cunningham’s Oral Mother Tongue vision of the Bible into 13,000+ Bibleless languages. Head to fullnets.info to read more, and to register. Oceania Hui Staff and Students in New Zealand, Australia, and the Pacific are invited to the Oceania Hui from the 17th to the 22nd of November in Tauranga, New Zealand. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOdcXhSBxSA Like Josh said, you can head over to oceaniahui.com to register, and find out more. YWAM Les Cayes Facility Update YWAM Les Cayes does not have access to an electricity grid, and needs to be able supply their own power at all hours. They are setup with a solar system, but that does not provide any power at night. YWAM Les Cayes has a battery setup to provide them with power at night, but they are currently needing to upgrade their system and replace 16 of their batteries, at a cost of $250 each. In addition to upgrading their electrical system, they are also building a new building with storage facilities, service depot, hospitality area, and classroom. You can follow their progress, and watch a video about their construction, on their Facebook Page. YWAM Saint Marc Trade School Update Also in Haiti, we have an update from YWAM Saint Marc. The trade school has been running, despite the unrest still in the country. They are doing training in plumbing, tile setting, sewing, braiding, dread locks, and cooking. This year the trade school has over 550 students enrolled, in 16 different classes that will be offered throughout the year. The cost of the school per student is very low ($20 US) for four months of training. This is subsidized through donations towards the running of the trade school. You can find out more on the YWAM Saint March web-site, ywamstmarchaiti.org. YWAM San Francisco Showers One of the ministries that YWAM San Francisco provides to the homeless in the Tenderloin District in San Francisco is fresh showers. Steve will tell us a bit about the ministry, and some of the impact that is has for the people they serve. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHXbgUfVlLc This month they discovered water damage to the showers and they needed to repair them so they could continue to offer that service to the people. Thank fully they were able to raise the funds quickly, and the showers have been repaired, and started to be used again this week. Follow along with the YWAM San Francisco ministry on their Facebook page. YWAM An Cuan – Foundations for Christian Peacebuilding In January we shared with you about the Foundations for Christian Peacebuilding that YWAM An Cuan was running in Northern Ireland in May and November. The report from their May school is … Our first-ever Foundations for Christian Peacebuilding school has come to a close! What a fantastic 2 weeks of diving deeper into what reconciliation looks like with God, ourselves, and those around us. Together we wrestled with the question, what does the gospel say to the hurt in our world today? How do we find hope for our world through a worldview of peace? Some of the highlights of our time included a trip to Belfast to visit All Nations Belfast, our practical conflict mediation night, visiting Holy Cross Monastery, and learning about our humanity with Aleck Cartwright, the International Dean for YWAM’s University of the Nations. (source) The dates for the November school has changed from when we originally spoke about it, and is now running from November 10 – 22, and is described as “A 2-week mini-school exploring Peace, Justice, and Reconciliation. Find out more about the school, as well as the Introduction to Christian Peacebuilding 6-week Online Small Group, on their web-site, ywamancuan.org. Children’s Books for the Unreached While I was reading about the Create International Mobile/Media4Movements training team story for this episode, I came across a course that they offer called the “Children’s Books for the Unreached”. In this online course, student will learn how to write and/or illustrate high-quality, biblically-based, picture storybooks in a way that makes the Gospel of Jesus relevant and familiar to children in their own culture. This course is focused on producing illustrated storybooks for children among the unreached people groups of the world. Here is a story from one of the previous courses that they ran: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9UWpS_b4JQ The next CBU will be run in September 2024, and you can find out more over at createseeds.org. Hunting Discipleship Course – YWAM New Zealand YWAM Nelson is running their Hunting Discipleship Course from 14 October to 8 November. The course is tailored for people wanting to learn the basics of hunting while at the same time growing in their faith alongside like minded people! It also provides an opportunity to get amongst some of New Zealand’s most extreme wilderness, and to learn the skills of finding and stalking game in that environment. The hunting discipleship course is a 4 week course offering you a unique mix of discipleship, teaching and hunting. It offers the opportunity to grow in your walk with Jesus while at the same time learning how to identify, hunt and harvest wild game with like-minded friends. As part of the course each student will complete a HUNTS training course qualification which is run in association with the New Zealand Deer Stalkers Association. The course will be happening in Nelson, on the South Island of New Zealand, with the weekends spent deep in the hills and mountains of New Zealand. Find out more at ywamnelson.co.nz. Island Reach Medical Ship Update Last month we shared an update about the Island Reach vessel, which has completed it’s refit, and is almost ready to be deployed to Madagascar. Since that update we have received a further update from Elaine Leakey, the YWAM Ships Switzerland President, about plan for deploying the vessel. https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=mtnLuEznKVE With the Suez Canal opening back up YWAM Ships Switzerland is no longer considering needing to piggy-back the vessel around the Southern tip of Africa, and instead is planning on transiting the vessel under it’s own power through the Suez Canal, and onto Madagascar, via the Seychelles. This way of getting the Island Reach to it’s destination will save ove

Welcome to the Youth With A Mission News Show for May 2024. This month we hear about a Mission Builders International, the release of Loren Cunningham’s last book No Boundaries Within God’s Will, find out more about YWAM Philippines, hear what YWAM is continuing to do in South Sudan, find out about the campus project in Medellin, check out the sustainability model that YWAM is developing in Northern Uganda, see a new opportunities for teams to serve in the Domican Republic, hear about an opportunity for a hiking retreat in Scotland, and more … Thank you for downloading this, the 145th episode of the Youth With A Mission News Show Podcast, I’m your host, Bill Hutchison. You can contact us, subscribe to future episodes, leave comments, and find links to all the stories we talk about on the show notes for this podcast at ywampodcast.com/145 … https://youtu.be/I1G8Qj18hj4 Stories: Mission Building A couple of month’s ago it was recommended to me by a viewer of the YWAM News Show to have a look at Mission Builders, after he and his daughter had a great experience with them. https://vimeo.com/887010949 Mission Builders International has many opportunities for individuals and for teams. You can check out some of the work that they have done recently on their Facebook Page. You can head over to their web-site, missionbuilders.org, so explore some of the options that are available. No Boundaries Book Released Loren Cunningham’s last book, No Boundaries Within God’s Will, was recently released. It is described as: No Boundaries tells Loren Cunningham’s climactic experiences in global travel that reveal essential elements for your own all-or-nothing path. Each story is fused with key Biblical principles, inviting you to escape boxes of fear, doubt, or confusion. Clear examples and practical steps will help you find and follow God’s vision. (link) You can get a free copy of the first chapter of the book on Loren’s web-site, lorencunningham.com. You can also listen to the first chapter for free on the YWAM Teaching Podcast at ywampodcast.net. We will embed the audio version of the first chapter in the shownotes to this podcast at ywampdocast.com/145. https://youtu.be/HvZQQx7OgPY You can purchase the full book on the YWAM Publishing web-site, ywampublishing.com, where you can order a physical copy of the book, or get it as a downloadable file. YWAM Norway Centre Tours Hanna from YWAM Norway is currently touring all of the YWAM locations in Norway, and there are some amazing centres that she has visited so far … https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G63tmwsEX0U So far Hanna has visited 4 locations, and you can watch all of them on the YWAM Norway YouTube page, www.youtube.com/ywamnorway. YWAM Sunset Country in Jamaica YWAM Sunset Country in Ontario, Canada, recently had a team at YWAM Montego Bay in Jamaica. While they were there they worked to support the local ministry with their local work, and also helping with some of the infrastructure at their centre. Armour Bearer Ministry was developed to support others in the mission field to better equip them to the calling God has for them. For their ministry trip to Jamaica the brought a team of skilled workers to help with a bunch of much needed electrical upgrades and repairs! This is a huge blessing for the local ministry, and allows the team to fulfil the calling that God has on them. You can find out more about YWAM Sunset Country, and their Armour Bearer Ministry on their Facebook Page, facebook.com/YWAMSunsetCountry. Bayanihan – The heart of YWAM Ships Philippines Bayanihan is a Tagalog word meaning “hero of the community”. It lies at the heart of Filipino culture and is a core value of the ongoing work of YWAM Ships Philippines. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95A5OrWhP2w You can find out more about YWAM Ships Philippines on their web-site, ywamshipsphilippines.com, YWAM South Sudan Despite all the continued unrest in South Sudan, where ongoing conflict, food insecurity, and poor health outcome continue, YWAM continues to operate different ministries in the region. The YWAM Outreach Centre Magwi continues to serve the people in Eastern Equatoria. They run Sunday services, do local outreach, and run a children’s ministry. Last year they also started translating the Bible into the local Lokoya language, which is spoken by the Lokoya people in Central Equatoria and Eastern Equatoria in South Sudan. They have translated the book of Ruth into the Lokoya language, and they have the hope and faith that another book will be translated in the future. Many love the translation and they wish the whole bible would be translated, and this could be a complete light to the Lokoya people. (source) YWAM Yei in South Sudan continue their Discipleship Making Movement (DMM)/ Harvest Multiplication Training, and haves seen some baptism come out of the ministry. They are planning for another training of the couples on trauma healing, since they have come out from war zone, and many are still traumatized. YWAM Yei is also running a football / soccer ministry in the tri-state boarder area of South Sudan, Uganda, and Eastern Congo. It’s run among the marginalized youths of the three nations. (source) Campus Project YWAM Medellin Now we will take a look at what’s happening at YWAM Medellin. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5WCZsrSRBI You can find out more about the campus project on their web-site, jucummedellin.com. YWAM Kitgum Uganda Sustainability Model Agriculture in Northern Uganda is a thriving sector because of fertile land, favourable climate. YWAM Kitgum had a vision for more sustainable model that would help both the farmers, and the organization to thrive. They as that we would be praying with them to see this vision go forward. So far they have planted: Maize Cassava Soya bean Next season they are wanting to move ahead with planting Beans and Sim sim. They are also planning to expand their operation to include animal rearing. You can follow along with their journey and ministry on their Facebook page. YWAM Grimerud: A Call to the Great Commission Now we get to hear any encouraging update from some of YWAM Grimerud’s field workers, Mario and Mariann. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYtqTJBcU-Y If you would like to find out more, or partner with Mario and Mariann, you can head over to grimerud.no, YWAM Series 23 Team Opportunities YWAM Series 23 ministry in San Pedro de Macoris has some new opportunities for 2024. New for 2024, they are pioneering a new team based program called One Home – One Family, where your school, Church, youth group or business can come to the Dominican Republic and impact the life of the family. One Home – One Family is where your team is not just provide an opportunity to build a home for a needy family, but and an opportunity to to see a family restored. While the home is being built you will also be working alongside of our local volunteers in marriage and parenting advice, kids program and understanding the real day to day needs the family has to help them be equipped for the challenges they face. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4NL9hYWylI Head on over to ywamseries23.org/teams to find out more. Hiking retreat, a partnership with YWAM Scotland Place of Springs is a ministry to help long-term missionary leaders be fruitful over the long haul. They have teamed up with YWAM Seamill to offer special times of guided spiritual reflection, paired with mountain walks and wild camping. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b47AlO8eNVk The next retreat starts 9 June, with another one running from 21 – 27 September 2024. Visit placeofsprings.net to find out more. Island Reach Deployment Delayed We have been following the overall of the newest YWAM ship the Island Reach since December 2021 when it was first purchased. The ship’s overhall is complete, with the accommodation and medical facilities being complete, as well as all mechanical and electrical updates done. Unfortunately, with the unrest happening in the Middle East, the costs to deliver the vessel to Madagascar has increased drastically. The ship will now have to piggyback on a much larger ship to go to Durban, South Africa, and then sail to Madagascar from there. It is estimated that another £200,000 is needed before it can set sail. You can find out more about how to donate and get involved on the YWAM Ships Switzerland web-site, ywamships.ch. Update! The information published about the newest YWAM ship is not current information – and it’s not information that a decision by the board of executives for YWAM ships. As a board we are in a prayerful process deciding on transport and delivery of the vessel. This week the Ares Sea route has opened and we are investigating a departure in these next couple months. Piggy-backing the vessel was something we looked into. But for now this stayed and option and we are trusting the Lord for safe passage this summer. Elaine Leakey – YWAM Ships Switzerland President (source) YWAM Norway Leadership Training School – April 2025 One of the YWAM schools that I did while I was early on in my 25-years with Youth With A Mission was a Leadership Training School. I felt like it was a very beneficial school for myself, and it looks like YWAM Norway will be running an LTS next year … https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccrqi9rb2zQ Head over to ywamaalesund.com to find out more about the school, and to consider if it’s something right for you. Meme of the Month YWAM Fernace Memez has won the Meme of the Month for May … You can visit YWAM Fernace Memez on Instagram to check out their memes, which they tend to update a few times a month. Feedback ywampodcast.com/145 Subscribe ywampodcast.com/subscribe If you liked the program, tell a friend. 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