Transform Your Faith Through Missions & Discipleship
Unleash the True Power of Your Faith with YWAM Raleigh Missions & Discipleship Ready to transform your faith and make a real difference in the world? Welcome to YWAM Raleigh, a dynamic mission-focused organization that is all about developing discipleship and making a positive global impact. Whether you are new to the faith or looking to […]
A Covenant To End Bible Poverty
A Covenant to End Bible Poverty THE CONTEXT FOR A COVENANT TO END BIBLE POVERTY A Covenant to End Bible Poverty had its genesis in 1967 when Loren met the woman in the faded red dress in Mexico (see Legacy Word #4). At that time God gave Loren the vision of YWAMers distributing Bibles. This led […]
The Singapore Covenant
The Singapore Covenant THE CONTEXT FOR THE SINGAPORE COVENANT This covenant was entered into by the nearly 400 YWAM leaders coming from sixty-five nations who gathered in Singapore August 27-September 3, 2014 for the “Catch the Wave” Family Gathering. Their purpose was to meet with God and one another to consider how YWAM should move […]
The Jubilee Covenant
The Jubilee Covenant THE CONTEXT FOR THE JUBILEE COVENANT This covenant was signed by more than 30,000 YWAMers and associates. This document was introduced at the University of the Nations Workshop (held simultaneously in South Africa, Egypt, Switzerland, and the Ukraine) just prior to YWAM’s fiftieth anniversary year. It was a major element of the […]
The Nanning Covenant
The Nanning Covenant THE CONTEXT FOR THE NANNING COVENANT In August of 2002, the Global Leadership Team would meet in Nanning, China. The events leading up to this gathering had been troubling. There had been a sense, shared by Loren Cunningham a year earlier at our Global Leadership Team meetings in Nairobi, Kenya, that the […]
The Red Sea Covenant
The Red Sea Covenant THE CONTEXT FOR THE RED SEA COVENANT In April of 1992, about a dozen YWAM leaders, forming the International Executive Committee, gathered together in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. At that time YWAM had only a limited ministry among Muslims. A year earlier at the International Strategy Conference in Iguazu Falls, Argentina, God had […]
The Manila Covenant
The Manila Covenant THE CONTEXT FOR THE MANILA COVENANT In August, 1988 some 1,500 YWAMers gathered in Manila for an International Staff and Leadership Conference (ISLC). As the event drew to a close the participants signed the twenty affirmations made in this covenantal document. It was a fitting finale to a landmark gathering. Called by […]
YWAM’s Covenant Renewal Documents
YWAM’S Covenat Renewal Documents Six times over the first six decades of YWAM’s existence there have been key moments in which we as YWAM have felt it fitting and beneficial to recommit ourselves individually and corporately to God’s covenantal call upon us. These moments have been captured in documents which seek to strengthen us in God’s […]
How YWAM Began
How YWAM began The vision of the waves that Loren received as a young man has become the first Legacy Word and the Foundational Covenant which gave birth to Youth With A Mission. Loren was a few days short of his 21st birthday. He and his music band were to perform for a group of young people in the […]
YWAM’s, Foundational Values and Belief
YWAM’s Statement of Purpose, core belief & foundational values This document presents YWAM’s sincerely held purpose, core beliefs, and foundational values which have been compiled in response to specific directives given by God since YWAM’s beginning in 1960. They are recorded here in order to pass on to successive generations that which God has emphasized […]