- International YWAMer

At the December 2011 Global Leadership Forum meetings, one regional leader attended feeling quite concerned about the direction the GLF was heading in regard to processing YWAM’s global structure. During the meetings, however, he received a picture in his mind during a time of prayer that helped him feel more confident about the future…

“The picture was of a big room with a big canvas on the floor and lots of paint. The big room was my geographical area of responsibility. Any child with the last name YWAM was welcome to come and paint in that room on that canvas…”

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God began His creation with chaos. He then went on to bring order and harmony from the chaos. That’s a pretty helpful way to understand YWAM and leadership in YWAM: loosing creative initiatives and then working to bring harmony and some order to what has resulted.

At any given time, about one in every five YWAMers is someone who has joined the family in the past six to twelve months. For these, and many other wonderful members of our family who may not have followed the discussion about leadership changes very closely, I will try to explain briefly.

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As we explore new ways of leading YWAM, an obvious question to ask is ‘Why?’ What has motivated the changes to the way we refer to leaders and our understanding of the role they play?

We talked to Loren & Darlene Cunningham, Lynn Green, John Dawson, Jim Stier to get their answers to these questions to get a better understanding of leadership, and what is motivating the changes and discussions of leadership in YWAM.

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We get to hear from Jim Stier and John Dawson about eldership:

“An eldership is a group of people who are trusted because they’ve lived a life that inspires trust. They are chosen by the Lord to give loving help to people who look to them as a source of wisdom, stability, affection, strategy and understanding. Basically, the idea is of a covering group, that’s there to serve and minister; to wait on God and lead others into God’s presence…”

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A letter from John Dawson about the recent Global Leadership Forum (GLF) meetings.

John writes about the experiences during the GLF including building a house with the YWAM Homes of Hope ministry, the Belief Tree, what Loren Cunningham spoke about in regards to Circles, Circuits and Cycles and he also addressed the question about “What is an Elder?”.

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John has explained some of the new directions for YWAM and elaborated on some ideas that YWAM has been exploring for a few years. Future editions of the IY will go even deeper into some of the issues presented here and how they can be applied in your context.

We want to know – what do you want to know more about? What questions do you have? How will this look in your YWAM team?

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What are some of the obstacles to telling people about Jesus and the freedom that can come to their lives and communities?

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With new believers popping up all over the world what are the principles that we use for the multiplication of new believers?

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It’s always great to hear the stories from YWAMers working in different ministries and locations around the world.

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No one did hospitality better than Jesus. And no one did more to bring equality between host and stranger than Jesus…

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