Training

YWAM Training and education aims to better equip Christians to serve others in everything from agriculture and health care, to drug rehabilitation and counseling. Through the mission’s degree-granting University of the Nations (UofN) with campuses at over 250 locations in over 110 countries around the world. staff can study in specialized areas such as science and technology, communication, the humanities, and Christian ministry. Each year some 10,000 students follow one or more of several hundred schools. Most YWAM schools combine classroom teaching with practical application. The basic YWAM school that is a requirement for applying as YWAM staff, and serves as a prerequisite to all other training programs, is called Discipleship Training School (DTS).


Mercy Ministries

YWAM mercy ministry teams meet some of the practical and physical needs of over 400,000 people each year. Caring for street children in South America; aiding in the recovery of drug addicts in North America and Western Europe; feeding and housing refugees and women in need in Africa and Asia, operating ocean traversing ships, and sharing the Good News are just some of the ways in which helping hands are extended.

More information on YWAM mercy ministries.




Evangelism

Evangelism (and frontier missions) is an indispensable part of both training and mercy ministries, but also an emphasis of it’s own. Drama, music, performing arts and sports camps are among the creative tools YWAM staff use to share their faith in a way that makes sense to their audience – whether it be teens, elderly, refugees, or an unreached people group. YWAM also engages in church planting, in coordination with churches and denominations, or on its own among people groups who don’t have churches among them yet.