YWAM
Youth With A Mission (YWAM) encompasses thousands of people and hundreds of ministries in almost every country of the
world. In every case, our passion is to know God and to make Him known.
We are a mixture of people from all over the world, from 149 countries in fact. In many of our locations, people from a
wide variety of nations serve side by side. We come from numerous different Christian denominations and speak hundreds of
languages. Nearly half of our staff come from "non-western" countries, such as Brazil, Korea, Indonesia, India and
Nepal.
In addition to our full-time staff, many YWAM locations host short-term outreach teams made up of individuals, youth
groups, families and churches who get to participate first-hand in "making God known" through both words and actions. We
send out over 25,000 short-term missionaries each year.
Youth With A Mission is an international movement of Christians from many denominations dedicated to serving Jesus
throughout the world. Also known as YWAM (pronounced "WYE-wam"), our calling is to know God and to make Him known. Back when
we began in 1960, our main focus was to get youth into short-term mission work and to give them opportunities to reach out
in Jesus' name. Today, we still focus on youth, and we also involve people of almost every age (even many people who
choose to spend their "retirement" in active service). Our many ministries fit into three main categories: evangelism,
training and mercy ministry. We are currently operating in more than 1300 locations in over 149 countries, with a staff of
nearly 20,000.
outh With A Mission (YWAM) is an international movement of Christians from many denominations dedicated to presenting
Jesus personally to this generation, to mobilizing as many as possible to help in this task, and to the training and
equipping of believers for their part in fulfilling the Great Commission. As citizens of God's kingdom, we are called to love,
worship, and obey our Lord, to love and serve His Body, the Church, and to present the whole gospel for the whole person
throughout the whole world.
We of Youth With A Mission believe that the Bible is God's inspired and authoritative word, revealing that Jesus Christ
is God's son; that people are created in God's image; that He created us to have eternal life through Jesus Christ; that
although all people have sinned and come short of God's glory, God has made salvation possible through the death on the
cross and resurrection of Jesus Christ; that repentance, faith, love and obedience are fitting responses to God's
initiative of grace towards us; that God desires all people to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth; and that the
Holy Spirit's power is demonstrated in and through us for the accomplishment of Christ's last commandment, "...Go ye into
all the world and preach the gospel to every creature" (Mark 16:15).
