This special edition of the YWAM Teaching Podcast is a celebration of Loren Cunningham's final ministry focus with his final book, No Boundaries Within God’s Will. Loren Cunningham, founder of Youth With A Mission (YWAM) went to be with Jesus on October 6, 2023 at the age of 88. Continue reading →
In this talk Loren is challenging the idea that you need to see your home reached before you can go out into the nations. Using the Bible as a foundation and lots of examples he shows that God calls all of us to go, even young people, into all the world. Continue reading →
In this teaching Loren Cunningham shares with us about Relinquishing our Rights. Loren shares with us about what it means to relinquish our rights. We are challenged with the question, "Are you willing to give up everything, including your freedom?". Mark 8:34 reminds us that Jesus said, “Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me.". Continue reading →
In this teaching Loren Cunningham shares with us about Ruling with Jesus. In this inspiring talk, Loren Cunningham talks about what it means to serve God and “inherit the earth”. Through stories of God’s miraculous favour, provision, and grace, he inspires us to humbly serve God in whatever capacity He has placed us. Continue reading →
In late 2017 Lynn Green sat down to discuss Leadership and Eldership in Youth With A Mission, and to answer some questions that people around the world had about the changes and development of it in YWAM. Some of the questions discussed are about plural leadership, what is an Elder, what is the role of conveners in YWAM, why was there the need for the significant organisational change for YWAM in Singapore in 2014, how does YWAM's flat leadership structure work cross-culturally, what is the importance of relationship over hierarchy Accountability structures, and more ... Continue reading →
In this episode of the Youth With A Mission Teaching Podcast Loren Cunningham shares with us a teaching about The Cross. Loren Cunningham is the founder of Youth With A Mission (YWAM) and the co-founder of the University of the Nations (U of N). He is also a leader at the YWAM, U of N Campus in Hawaii, and a member of the YWAM International Eldership. In this teaching Loren invites us to stop at the cross and consider God’s love for us. He shares that though we don't have to understand all the technicalities of atonement to experience salvation, it is good to understand and appreciate it more fully. Loren describes how through the Cross, God meets the conditions of both justice and mercy. We see the horror of sin and the reformation of the sinner. We see the law upheld and the welfare of the community considered. In the cross we see the evidence of God's incredible love for us. Continue reading →
In this episode of the Youth With A Mission Teaching Podcast Loren Cunningham shares with us a teaching about being The Spiritual Leader. Loren Cunningham is the founder of Youth With A Mission (YWAM) and the co-founder of the University of the Nations (U of N). He is also a leader at the YWAM, U of N Campus in Hawaii, and a member of the YWAM International Eldership. Loren speaks on this teaching about leadership and draws a parallel to the shepherd: “Know well the condition of your flock and pay attention to your herds” (Prov 27: 23). He emphasises the great responsibility of leadership and discusses the different roles that a leader must carry. He speaks of the leader’s responsibility to obey God in action, and submit to God and others, in heart. Continue reading →
Tom Bloomer shares with us about his conversion testimony and also about how we should pray for the salvation of people we care about on this episode of the YWAM Teaching Podcast. Tom Bloomer has served as the International Provost of the University of the Nations since 2001. Tom lives at one of the UofN’s mini-campuses in French-speaking Switzerland, and is committed to teaching and mentoring students and staff. Lots of us pray for our loved ones, often without success. Often we pray wrong without thinking seriously about it. Tom Bloomer shares with us in this podcast about some Biblical strategies of effective prayer ... Continue reading →
Loren Cunningham shares with us a teaching about The Great Commission. Loren shares with us some exciting stories from the early years of Youth With A Mission. You will get to hear about when some of YWAM's leaders joined the mission and how many of Loren's views about leadership developed. The teaching was recorded in the early 1990's while Loren Cunningham was writing his book Why Not Women, so we get to hear some of his thinking about Women in Leadership, and stories about some of the women who have been released into ministry in Youth With A Mission. Continue reading →
Loren Cunningham challenges us with a teaching about Finding our Ministry on this episode of the Youth With A Mission Teaching Podcast. Loren Cunningham is the founder of Youth With A Mission (YWAM) and the co-founder of the University of the Nations (U of N). He is also a leader at the YWAM, U of N Campus in Hawaii, and a member of the YWAM International Eldership. In this teaching Loren asks us the question, "Is it that God has never called us, or have we never heard His call?". Continue reading →
In this episode of the Youth With A Mission Teaching Podcast Loren Cunningham shares with us a teaching about what might cause a Hold Up to Finances. Loren CunninghamLoren Cunningham is the founder of Youth With A Mission (YWAM) and the co-founder of the University of the Nations (U of N). He is also a leader at the YWAM, U of N Campus in Hawaii, and a member of the YWAM International Eldership. During this teaching from Loren he talks about hos God will teach us in three ways: - His Character - His Ways - His Will Loren challenges us to ask ourselves, “Do you want to learn God’s message, more that you want the material need met?”. Continue reading →
In this episode of the Youth With A Mission Teaching Podcast Michael Berg shares with us about the Father's Heart for Missions. Michael Berg has worked in Youth With A Mission since 1979. He was part of the pioneering team for YWAM Miami. While in Miami he served as the Training Director for nearly 10 years. In his Leadership Training School God clarified the vision that became YWAM Orlando. Michael, his wife Darla, and their family arrived in Orlando in 1995 joining with Walden and Beverly Owen to co-pioneer the training campus and ministry in Orlando. He currently serves as the Base Director for YWAM Orlando and is a lead convener for Eastern North America. Michael has a deep desire to see leaders trained and released into missions. Continue reading →
In this episode of the Youth With A Mission Teaching Podcast Loren Cunningham shares with us a teaching about The Dominion Mandate. Loren CunninghamLoren Cunningham is the founder of Youth With A Mission (YWAM) and the co-founder of the University of the Nations (U of N). He is also a leader at the YWAM, U of N Campus in Hawaii, and a member of the YWAM International Eldership. Continue reading →
In this episode of the Youth With A Mission Teaching Podcast Loren Cunningham shares with us a classic teaching about Why the Innocent Suffer. Loren Cunningham is the founder of Youth With A Mission (YWAM) and the co-founder of the University of the Nations (U of N). He is also a leader at the YWAM, U of N Campus in Hawaii, and a member of the YWAM International Eldership. Understanding why the innocent suffer is often one of the biggest challenges that people have with understanding God and Christian faith. C. S. Lewis described it as "The Problem of Pain" and Loren Cunningham dives into this challenging topic in this Youth With A Mission Teaching Podcast episode ... Continue reading →
In this episode of the Youth With A Mission Teaching Podcast we get to hear a classic teaching about True Repentance from Loren Cunningham. Loren CunninghamLoren Cunningham is the founder of Youth With A Mission (YWAM) and the co-founder of the University of the Nations (U of N). He is also a leader at the YWAM, UofN Campus in Hawaii, and a member of the YWAM International Eldership. Citing some stories from the Gospels, Loren explains what it means to truly repent of our sins. He gives practical steps for examining our own sins and seeking true repentance. His central message is that real repentance means death to self and selfishness. Continue reading →
This teaching about “Understanding God’s Justice” was shown, by Joy Dawson’s request, the 2009 University of the Nations Workshop. Despite being an older message, Joy felt that it was still very relevant to Youth With A Mission. Joy Dawson states that we’ll only successfully navigate the roughest storms of life’s trials and testings when we’ve taken the time to study God’s Justice. It is paramount in knowing and understanding God and His ways, and an essential message for every believer. Continue reading →
In this episode the Youth With A Mission Teaching Podcast Corrie Ten Boom brings us a teaching entitled “Field Under Heavenly Cultivation”. Her teachings are coloured with stories and poems inspiring us to live radically, daily aware of the ways the spiritual realms intersect with our earthly lives. If you want to bear fruit in your life this teaching will help to provide you with tools to ensure “the wilderness of your heart is transformed into a garden”. Corrie Ten Boom was an inspiration to many, including YWAM Staff and Students. She stood up against the Nazis during The Second World War in Holland. Her and her family hid many people from the Nazi regime, but they were eventually betrayed and put in Nazi concentration camps. Corrie was the only one in her family to survive the war. During her time in one of the concentration camps, after spending four months alone in a cell, Corrie came to the understanding that she was a field being plowed and weeded by God. This realisation lead to this teaching that we will share with you now about how we are fields under heavenly cultivation. Continue reading →
In this Youth With A Mission Teaching Podcast we will hear from Brother Andrew as he shares about “Challenges of the Impossible”. Based on the story of Gideon in Judges 6, Brother Andrew emphasises that God has faith in people, and man has faith in God. Throughout the teaching that was recorded in 1976, Brother Andrew uses life illustrations which are still relevant today. Continue reading →
In 1999, on the 900 year anniversary of the sacking of Jerusalem by Christian Crusaders, The Reconciliation Walk finished at an event in Jerusalem. Unlike the destruction brought to the city by the Crusaders in 1099, the Christians that came to Jerusalem with The Reconciliation Walk came with a message that says the Crusaders: … betrayed the name of Christ by conducting themselves in a manner contrary to His wishes and character. …(By lifting up the Cross) they corrupted its true meaning of reconciliation, forgiveness, and selfless love. Continue reading →
Storytime sessions is a series that highlights some of Youth With A Mission’s values. In the first session that we offer you on the YWAM Teaching Podcast, Lynn Green shares about Opium, Emperors, and Missionaries. Lynn Green is a Global Elder in Youth With A Mission and is currently living in the United Kingdom where his desire is to take the good news of Jesus to everyone, with a currently focus on China and the Middle East. About this specific Storytime session Lynn says … We usually underestimate the role that history plays in shaping nations and relations between them. So it is with China and its view of the West. Every Chinese person I have spoken to has a detailed knowledge of events that stretched from the 1830s to the 1930s, in which “the Western nations oppressed us and kept us poor”. To understand is to empathise and empathy is a powerful factor even in international relations. Continue reading →