Youth With A Mission

The following testimonies are from different YWAMmer’s from around the world. Though many of these testimonies are recent, we’ve included some older ones because they make reference to what the person is doing now and how their time in YWAM influenced where God has them serving today.

If you are a YWAMmer and would like to submit a testimony of some of the amazing things God did during your DTS or outreach click here.

Jesus loves the little children
DTS outreach to south Thailand
It was lunchtime at the school we were teaching at in Hat Yai, Thailand and I had just finished eating. I went outside with a guitar and sat down on a bench under a tree. Immediately about 40 little kids surrounded me, so I got out the team worship book.
We were not allowed to share the gospel with any one there unless they asked us about our religion. I knew the kids couldn't speak or understand English so I decided to play a worship song. I got out the book and played "Good To Me".
The Holy Spirit was right there from the start. I have never seen such a wonderful sight. I could see God just shining through each little face.
They just stood there and loved every second of that song. It wasn't until afterwards that I realized that I had just shared God with forty little children. Even though I don't know what will amount from that, I shared God and saw how much He loved each one of those kids.

HAROLD
George K. - Mercy ships M/V Mercy outreach at Papua New Guinea
Harold. Harold? "Harold" is such a big-man name for such a little 4-year-old boy. Harold was born in Alotau, Papua New Guinea, and lives there with his parents. His parents love him and are very generous with the sweet lollies, which they give him. Harold likes to eat lots of the sugar filled candy. Harold has many dental cavities. His upper front teeth were so badly decayed that two of them were abscessed. The puss formed in his gums was either absorbed into his system or drained into his mouth to be swallowed. This was not a healthy situation for the little tyke so his parents brought him to the M/V Island Mercy, a Christian Hospital Ship currently wharfed in Milne Bay at Papua New Guinea's eastern most tail.
Harold and his parents were on the landing at the top of the stairs, which led to the ship's dental surgery. From down below I could hear a little whimpering. I went up to see what was going on. When Harold first laid eyes on me, the little boy burst into tears and wailing. His mother explained that he was afraid of me because he had never before seen a white man. Harold and his family are Melanesian Pacific Islanders living on a small island off Milne Bay Province's eastern shores. I stopped on the stairs, waved at Harold, and chatted with his parents for a while. Finally I took out my surgeon's facemask and tied it on. With part of my face covered, the wailing quieted. Mama just couldn't do it, so Papa carried the boy down stairs to the dental surgery. We had the dental chair already reclined so that our young patient would not be frightened further by being suddenly let down. That is too much like falling to be comfortable. Harold kept looking back and forth from his daddy to me. We tied a surgeon's facemask on Papa too, so that he and I would "look just alike."

It was decided to remove all four upper deciduous incisors. Injections of local anesthetics would be used to minimize discomfort. At this time visitors descended the starboard stairs. It was Kiwi Ray W., the ships Captain, George, our Irish First Engineer, escorting a third gentleman whose most distinguishing characteristic was the cross which he was wearing on a long chain around his neck. This gentleman was Sir Desmond Moore, Bishop of the province.
I showed the three of them the problem with Harold's mouth and said, "Gentlemen, I think this would be a good time to pray to God for help." Both George and Captain Ray deferred to the Bishop to lead our small group in prayer. He spoke as a pastor well acquainted with The Lord. His earnest and heartfelt prayer was a blessing to us all. About two thirds of the way through the prayer I slowly raised the anesthetic injection syringe within sight of the visitors, but below the visual plane of the patient, lifted the lip, inserted the needle, and commenced injecting. I could hear the priest pause, take a deep breath and continue praying in the same earnest monotone that he had been using. Our dear little patient didn't even flinch. After injecting 4/10 cc of Lidocaine, I removed the needle, raised the lip on the other side and injected another 4/10 cc. With the shots and the prayer both finished the visiting group; the Captain, the Engineer, and the Bishop; moved on to visit the eye surgery where Dr. John Kearney was removing a Papuan's cataract. Saying good-bye I could not remember the priest's name, so said, "Good-bye Sir Bishop". He seemed to have a twinkle in his eye as he grinned and replied, "Good-bye". He knew that I knew that the Queen of England had knighted him a few years earlier. He also knew that I had forgotten his name. Oh well, you can't win them all.
The lingering effects of the prayer and the creeping spreading effects of the first two injections made the next six injections easier. Harold was a "big boy" now. The teeth were removed and the puss was thoroughly flushed out. That portable dental unit donated by the Rotary Club of Rolla, Missouri, and Rotary International had done it's part, too. With the surgery finished Harold bit on a piece of gauze to stop the bleeding and prepared to leave.
But what's this coming down the steps? It's not Santa Claus. I know that it's the middle of winter but this is July, and the uniform is wrong. It is all navy blue with 4 gold stripes on the sleeves. It's the Captain with a large toy panda bear -- a special gift for a special dental patient in a special ship, the Island Mercy, in a special land, Papua New Guinea, on a special planet, earth, in the heavens of a special God.

God's provision for outreach
Outreach to Camboriu, Brazil
Mondays were our day off. But one Monday a girl from our team, who lived close to Camboriu, asked the teammates, "My church used to have a great service on Mondays, and the pastor invited us to come and perform today. Would you guys give up a little of your free time and come to my church today?"
Everybody agreed, and so we went to the church and performed our dramas, and it was a real blessing. When the service was almost finished, the pastor said to the church, "I’d like to give this group an offering. If you want to help this young people, who are preaching the gospel all around, feel free to give!"
They raised an offering and gave it to our leader. On the way back, our leader, almost crying, told us, "As you know, there are at least 2 more presentations scheduled. But what you don’t know is that we didn’t have the money to rent the bus and go to the places. I had decided to ask you guys to help us to afford it. But I felt God say, 'No, don’t ask them for the money'. So I waited. I didn’t tell the pastor about it, he raised the offering by himself. Each day of bus rental cost us $60. And how much did the church give us?
-Exactly $120 !!!!!!"

Indian man helped by a YWAM Health Care team tells his story
German YWAM short-term outreach to Manali, India
Listen to what Chottu Ram says about one of the teams that came from Germany to work in north India:
"I am 22 years old. I have seen these types of people in the TV only. I was astonished to see them personally here in this least and backward colony where I live. It was a great surprise for me to watch as these people were washing the wounds of others and giving them treatment and care more than a Doctor does.
As I stood behind the crowd watching these things, one of them saw my wounded leg and asked me to sit down. Then he washed my wound and applied ointment on it. After a few days I was healed. They also asked me to close my eyes for prayer. I was so nervous and kept my eyes open. I felt very happy when I saw their love and concern for my individual life.
As I went to bed that night I was unable to sleep due to certain questions that puffed up in my heart. I was thinking what made them to do such things in my life. Again on the next day I saw them coming in my place and doing the same things to others too. I understood that they were doing this because of the love of Jesus Christ. They also explained to me about that wonderful love. Then I decided to know HIM.

Team Unity is important
David B., DTS outreach to Russia
During our time in Nizhny Novgorad, Russia, we often went down to the same spot in a public square near the center of the city. There we would perform dramas, sing, preach and the talk to people.
After a couple weeks a member of our team was across the street from the square when a lady selling flowers began to ask questions about what we were doing. She was very interested in hearing about Christianity even though she could not hear anything we were preaching about from across the street. But she said, “I have been watching your group during these past two weeks and I can tell that you all love each other.”
”By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.” – John 13:35

We can have Christ's compassion for the lost
Thomas J. - Summer 1989 outreach on the "Good Samaritan."
I was introduced to YWAM during the summer of 1989. I was a nursing student at Point Loma Nazarene University and signed up for a class in trans cultural nursing. My instructor wanted me to go with 7 other students. We flew to Dominican Republic and were transported to the "Good Samaritan" in the southern coast of the island. We set up a medical clinic and over 600 people showed up the first morning. After two long days the people continued to pour in. A few of the nursing students started to complain about the heat, goal of what we were doing, lack of water, etc.... I took a moment and placed my head on the table, closed my eyes for a few minutes when out of no where I heard a flute playing "How Great Thou Art", the Holy Spirit impressed upon my heart that Jesus loved each one of us so much that he went all the way to the cross and bared all of our sins. I repented for complaining and I was filled with compassion for lost souls, the sick, and those in need.
A great song that YWAM taught me while I was there in Dominican Republic, "People Need the Lord" by Steven Green, Praise the Lord for YWAM. Those three weeks with YWAM changed my life forever. I have been a Registered Nurse for 10 years now and have been serving in the U.S. Navy. I have been sharing Jesus, praying with patients, and assisting those in need.
Also, a word of encouragement for those out on the mission field; "Verily I say unto you, in as much as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me." Matt 25:40.

God cares about the little things too
Felicia C. DTS Outreach to Fiji
There were two of us leading a team to Fiji. I was having my quiet time in the middle of a soccer field near a sugar cane factory. I was quite far away from the road. While I was praying, reading my Bible and talking to God, I noticed that the gums in my mouth were sore and I said under my breathe that I could really use some gum to chew to make them feel better.
Not thinking anything really about it, I saw a large truck come to a halt on the road far in front of me. A man threw a large pack of gum at me under the tree and drove off! WOW! What a God! He even cares for our wants and desires.

God protects us
Felicia C. DTS Outreach to the Davao City, Mindenau in the Philippines
I led a team with another to the Philippines. One night we had been out in ministry in the streets. It was late and I was leading the group back to the base. I felt a strong prompting of the Holy Spirit NOT to go down a certain alleyway that we had gotten used to using as a short cut. I told the group that we were not going home that way. They did not understand and they began to whine, but they were obedient.
The next day, we learned that a murder had taken place in that alley way just around the time we were to come through there. I know that this an example of what God means in Galatians when He says we must walk by the Spirit. He is our protector.

Don't despise the day of small beginnings
Steve C. - outreach to Uleberia (near Kolkata) to start the first DTS in India, January 1983
When we think of the very first DTS in all of South Asia, which started in January 1983 in Kolkata, it is easy to think that it was started in a glorious, powerful, awesome way!! Think again!
At that time there was no DTS’s in YWAM all the way from Singapore over to Cyprus in the Middle East. One of our first goals in seeing YWAM start in India was to see a DTS begin so that we could see Indians joining the mission and working together with other nations to see God glorified and made known in India, South Asia and the world.
So how did this awesome, powerful, glorious DTS start? Let me tell you and try not to laugh too hard. With just two days to go before the school was to start we lost our proposed place. It is hard to run a DTS with no place! Even if it is the first one with that added anointing on it! But then God provided a property in Uluberia, about one hour out of Howrah train station on the SE line.
As we went to Howrah station to go down to Uluberia to start the school and get setup, we only had four students and we did not know if anyone else would be arriving! We got to the station and as usual the train compartments were packed nose-to-nose. The train was leaving so we jumped in one of the compartments, only to find out that it was the fresh fish one! Everywhere around us was fish, staring at us with their frozen, dead eyeballs. I remember thinking, what a way to start the first DTS!!! I do love fish (especially in West Bengal) but I did not want them all looking at me. It was as if they were all saying with their fish mouths, "what do you think you are doing, starting a DTS here??"
By the time we got to Uluberia we all smelled like fish (of course) and that was how we walked on to the mission compound in Uluberia.
That night we had our first ever DTS meeting in the chapel. We were such a small group that we put the benches together and tried to worship. It sounded very bad and I remember thinking, "What are we doing-maybe we should just cancel this school and start again in a few months." Then one of the staff, a little Singaporean brother, (who was having his birthday that day-it was 8 January, 1983) said that the Lord was giving him a scripture. It was from Zechariah 4:10, "Who despises the day of small things (or beginnings)?". That really hit me- as I know I was despising the day of small beginnings! We began to thank God for this small but wonderful start.
Could we have ever imagined that night in Uluberia what God would have done over the next 20 years?? We did not cancel that DTS but we carried on and in the next few days we had another 14 students arrive and ended up with 18 students, 17 men and one woman! Some of those students are still in YWAM today. God truly is faithful!
So no matter what kind of start you have, never give up and you will see God's dreams (and yours) realized!!!!!" - Steve C.

Recovery from bad sickness due to intercession
Jill U. - Operation Year in Derby (September 2000 until June 2001) Overseas outreach in Argentina.
Towards the end of the outreach we worked in a new YWAM base in a place called Corrientes. We spent a lot of time helping to build an extension and visiting local house churches. On one such evening visit, we had to walk for 45 minutes to get to the house and I couldn't take the humidity. My head was thumping and I just cried all the way there.
The service was fine, but I couldn't concentrate. I was just getting hotter and hotter. Once back home my friend, who had a First Aid Certificate, came to check on me. She took my temperature again and it went off the scale!! (Over 104 degrees F.) My head was thumping, I was crying and screaming.
Then came the panic. My limbs began losing feeling. Firstly, my hands went numb and then I couldn't feel or move them at all. It spread up my arms, to my knees, my face and them most concerning to me, across my chest! I began struggling to breathe. Many times I almost told the people at my bedside to tell my Mum and brother that I love them. I was convinced that I was not going to make it. I prepared myself to move on to a higher place.
Outside in the communal area, my team was praying for me and at my bedside was the base leader's wife, who I had not met until this moment. She prayed with such authority in Spanish. She commanded that the devil has no hold over my life and then immediately my condition improved. I calmed down, could breathe and feel my limbs again. My fingers took a little longer to recover, but after one day's rest I was fully fit and doing practical work again!!

Now, in itself that is something amazing to Praise God for, but there's more. While my team was praying for me, one of the guys had Psalm 18 pop into his head. He didn't know what this said and didn't have a Bible to hand at the time, but looked it up later:
"The cords of death entangled me; the torrents of destruction overwhelmed me. The cords of the grave coiled around me; the snares of death confronted me. In my distress I called to the Lord; I cried to My God for help. From His temple He heard my voice; my cry came before him, into his ears...."
Not only that, but when I got back to England and told my story, many people then recalled having a burden to pray for me on that exact day. One lady was kept awake in the middle of the night!

Three Mary’s
LaRaine W. - DTS Outreach to the Philippines
During a group intercession time, God impressed me that I would meet three Mary’s - One religious, one happy and one depressed. I prayed for God to draw them all to himself.
Two days later I was walking past two girls when one seemed to call out to me, "Mary Jane!" I remembered the prophecy and introduced myself to her. Another girl walked up, and she called her own name out for no reason it seemed: "Mary Joy!" Then a third girl came up and her name was called: "Mary Chen!" - I met three girls named Mary at once!
I stayed with them during our open-air and waved to them during my performance. After the preaching I got an interpreter and went to them. Mary Chen had gone home but I did not worry about it - God was in control. I prayed for the other two in English, and the interpreter prayed the sinners’ prayer with them.
Through the interpreter I told them, "God has special plans for you. Two days ago God told me I would meet three Mary’s this week. Our team has been praying for you." Mary Jane told me that her mom had died and she was living with Mary Joy.
God then prompted me to tell them that He had told me that One of them was happy, one depressed and religious. They were shocked and amazed! They were excited and kept covering their faces and turning around in circles. They said that Mary Joy was happy, Mary Jane was depressed, and Mary Chen was religious!
I talked to them about works vs. grace. I told Mary Jane that God understands how she feels and that He is always with her to help her; she only needs to call out to Him. I told Mary Joy that God wants to use her joy to draw others to Jesus. She covered her face and cried for joy! She began to laugh and laugh - I believe she was laughing in the spirit.
Mary Jane also had tears of joy in her eyes. I told the interpreter that the word I had about works vs. faith was for Mary Chen. The interpreter said she would probably see Mary Chen the next week. I gave the two Mary’s a bible and my address. I told them to read the book of John first.
God used me to touch those girls dramatically - I was so awed and humbled at His mercy on me! God has given me such grace! This was one of the most incredible experiences of my life! Through prayer

God provides a team a key contact person - DTS outreach to Malaysia
Two girls on a DTS team were going out for street evangelism one afternoon and they prayed before setting out asking God where they should go and who they should talk to. God told them to go to a shopping complex, so they went to the ground floor of the shopping center they had seen as they prayed.
As they entered the shopping complex, a man named Alfred saw a cross around the neck of one of the girls and approached her and asked both of them if they were Christians. Alfred was a local Malay Christian who had been praying up on the 10th floor of that complex, and God had told him to go to the ground floor where he would meet some Christians.
Alfred turned out to be a key contact in the region and he was able to take the team to an island where illegal immigrants were allowed to live. No Christian group had ever been there before. The village was built on stilts over the water on the edge of the island. As the team walked through the village, they were able to pray and minister to the kids. They just laughed, talked and played with them and God touched many people's hearts that day.

God leads a team to a divine appointment
Joe R. - Hong Kong Far East Evangelism Team (FEET) outreach in China
We had an intercession time one day and we sensed the Lord telling us to go to a certain place and to tell the people who we met that there is a God and he loves them. So we walked onto a campus of a university and a girl came down the sidewalk to talk to us. We told her that there was a God and that He loved her. She was very interested and had many questions. Her roommate (a communist party member) was with her. The roommate said that this was very interesting because Mary had been asking all day long, "Is there a God?" Mary very quickly became a Christian when she realized that the One True God sent people to answer her questions on the very day that she was asking them. Healing in Hyderabad
Emma K. - DTS outreach to Hyderabad India - Summer 2002

I will always remember seeing a dear beggar woman sitting on the gravel road in a busy street area, surrounded by people busily buying and selling items. As I looked into her eyes I felt that we should stop and pay attention to her. We knelt down and worked out using hand motions that she could not walk. We laid our hands on her and prayed for her healing. We asked her if she would like to stand up and walk. With our help she stood up, and as her face lit up with a large smile and as tears streamed down her face she took a few steps.
We sat down next to her on a curb amongst a large crowd, which had developed to witness the miracle. Through a long process of speaking through a translator from English, to Hindi, then to Telegu, we were able to explain to her that God had healed her and that He loved her and wanted to come into her heart. As she prayed a prayer asking Jesus to come into her heart she looked upwards and gave thanks. It was an incredible moment.

Blind Lady Healed
Joe R. - Far East Evangelism Team (FEET) to the Philippines 1991
Before one of our open-air meeting one day, we asked the Lord what he wanted to do in that Particular meeting. As we waited on the Lord during our prayer time, we sensed that he wanted to heal people that afternoon. Among other things, we sensed Him telling us that there were some blind eyes he wanted to open.
After the preaching, we read the list of things that God had told us he wanted to do at that meeting. Then people started coming forward. I was praying that day with Wendy who was an 18 year old from Colorado. An older lady came over to us for prayer.
We asked the translator what was wrong and we found out that she was blind. We looked at each other and said "oh, no!" (It was a good thing that the lady couldn't speak English!)
We then prayed for her and soon the lady said something to the translator - she could see in her right eye! I asked Wendy what we should do next, and she said "I don't know." I said, "Why don't we pray for the other eye?" So we did. We prayed and asked God to complete the work.
The lady then began to squeeze our hands very tightly. The translator said she could now see out of both of her eyes!

Lame man healed
Perth Discipleship Training School (DTS) outreach to Indonesia, 1994
A DTS team of 5 were in Sumba working with a local church who were reaching the Merapu people - an anamist group on the island, who have very unusual rituals associated with death and the worship of demons.
Two of the pastors collected us in a four-wheel drive vehicle and took us out into the bush. On the way there the pastor told us about the village where we were going, and that the last two pastors who went in there were totally rejected. This was not inspirational!
We got to the end of the track and then finished the journey on foot and walked into the village. One of the pastors led us up to an old man who appeared to one of he village elders. He was sitting cross-legged and by the look of his calf muscles you could tell he had not walked in many years; they were just skin and bone.
The pastor asked us to pray for that man. The team leader first shared the gospel with the man using two interpreters - English to Indonesian to Merapu. This took a while, but the man understood it all. The team leader asked him - "Do you believe that Jesus can heal you here and now?", and the man replied, "Yes, I do."
So we all gathered around him a cried out to God to heal him. After 10 minutes of prayer the team leader felt led to say out, "In the name of Jesus get up and walk!" - and at that, the man got up on his own and began to walk. Walking slowly at first, and then quicker, he set off around the village with people following, laughing and pointing at what had happened in amazement!
After 10 minutes or so we invited the village to all listen to the gospel. So they got some mats and all sat down in front of the team as the gospel was preached and 77 people also gave their lives to the Lord that evening! God moved in power and the people responded. The pastors now have plans to have a permanent church in this village were there was none before.

Healings and a very good translator
Nancy V. - Nepal Far east Evangelism Team (FEET) 1990
Our FEET (Far East Evangelism Team) Evangelism team was working with a local Kathmandu church during a time when it was still illegal to evangelize or to convert someone to Christianity. However an amazing Christian missionary, who was known for being occasionally radical and being a risk taker, led this church. There was a town not too far away that the church had targeted in prayer. They offered us a bus, a driver and an opportunity to go to this village. They told us that if we felt led of God, we could go there and do drama and preach the gospel.
Our team prayed together and asked God if this was His will. We knew it was against the law, and if caught, we could even be thrown in prison. The majority of our group felt it was right! So, off we went with the loaned bus, a 14-year-old Christian boy named Peter who would translate for us, and a bus driver named Sunjay, a non-Christian.
We arrived in the village and were bombarded with people wanting to see the strange looking foreigners. After our drama, we preached the Gospel and asked if any believed. No one responded, but the Lord began giving us words of knowledge, which we called out over the microphone. Sick people and others began coming forward, responding to the words we were giving.
As we began to pray, the Lord began to heal! Deaf ears were opened and sick people were recovering! As they were being healed, they testified of what happened over the microphone. Soon, the healed ones rushed home to drag their sick family members to be prayed for by the people believing in Jesus!
It was incredible. We were overwhelmed and poor Peter (our only translator) was being pulled in twelve directions. We finally asked Sunjay to help us translate (although he was not a Christian, we needed all the help we could get.)
It was with great satisfaction and exhaustion that we drove out of the village the next day. We were all sharing our stories with each other, awed at God's power in that place.
That was enough right there, but...
Several days later, our team was waiting for our flight to board at Kathmandu airport. There was a stirring in the crowd at Immigration, and suddenly we saw the pastor we had worked with come through with special permission to speak with us before we departed. The pastor had been told of all that had happened in the village and was very excited to speak with us.
"I didn't know that Sanjay translated for you in the village!" the pastor exclaimed. "Yes," we said, "Sanjay did a very good job and we needed his help." The pastor smiled at us and said, "Sanjay does not speak English!" We all frowned and shook our heads, "Yes, he did, he spoke English all day. In fact, he translated detailed things for us!" The pastor laughed and said, "No, you don't understand. Sanjay can speak NO English."
Apparently, after returning to the church, Sanjay told what had happened. Not really a Christian, he had been amazed at the healing he saw. In the midst of it all, the Lord touched his tongue, and the young man who spoke not a word of English translated for us in perfect English all day long. He was so overwhelmed at what he had seen, he believed in Jesus!
We would not even have known of this wonderful miracle, had not this pastor come to share with us before we left Nepal.

God gives team leader a sermon in a dream
Ezra G. – DTS Outreach to Madras India
After a week in India I had a dream that I was preaching a sermon to a congregation in America about suffering and the reality of it and how we need to drink of the same cup that He did. I woke up still preaching this sermon (out loud) and I just forgot about it and continued on with my day. Later on that day I was reminded of the dream and started to write it down. I came up with a pretty powerful message, but my mind was to preach it in America.
The very next week we were on our way to a church (Grace Paul's) that I was preaching at. I had a message prepared (not the message in the dream) and I was telling James about it (a long term missionary friend ). I also told him of the dream that I had about the "suffering sermon". James told me that whenever God gives him a message like that he uses it the very next time that he was able. So I thought about it and thought he was right. However when we arrived at the church a miscommunication had happened and another preacher was there and I didn't get to preach.
So the very next week I came back to the same church and gave the message that God had given me in a dream a few weeks ago. I thought it went pretty well and I felt the Spirit moving through the words I was relaying to the Indian people. So we left and I didn't think anything of the message and went about the rest of the outreach.
Two days before we left Rhonda (a team member) was talking with Grace Paul (her name is Grace Paul because her name is Grace and her deceased husbands name was Paul). Now Grace Paul is the pastor of this church because her husband (the former pastor) had died a few years before
Grace Paul had told Rhonda that before hearing the sermon that I had given to them, she was ready to step down from the leadership in the village because she is being tremendously persecuted. A man in the village was martyred because of his faith, and she is being threatened because she is a woman leader. As she cried and told Rhonda that because of the "suffering" message she has the strength to carry on and is prepared to endure to the end. This was a great encouragement to the team, and myself to know that just our simple obedience to God gave this woman the courage to go on.
Are you ready to go and make a difference in the World?

A new convert from a Siberian tribe asked the Norwegian YWAMmers who had brought them the Gospel, "When did your people first hear this message?" They replied that it had been a thousand years. He was astonished and angry. "I am very grateful that you have brought this message. But why did my people have to wait a thousand years for it?" There are several thousand more people groups which are still waiting...

If reading through these stories has prompted you to want to make a difference, Do It! Instead of just thinking about making a difference, decide to do something. Contact the YWAM location(s) that God is putting on your heart and ask them how you can get involved. The first step to working long-term with YWAM is the DTS, and we are always looking and praying for God to bring us more people like you to serve with. For additional ideas on how to get started click here.

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