“It was near the end of the GLF meetings, we were praying and sharing communion when God gave me a picture.

”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.

“Some painted in small groups, some alone. My job was not to control what the children painted. My trust was that the Holy Spirit directed their painting.

“My job as a leader was to help the room be a happy and safe place for the children to express their creativity. So I was like a parent with a bunch of children. That meant sometimes helping the bigger children realise if they were crowding or overwhelming some of the smaller or less confident children. It meant encouraging the children to learn from each other but not to feel they should copy each other. It meant sometimes helping the children see new ways or techniques of painting. It meant sometimes helping pull together some bigger joint projects so that a number of different children could join in with one another if they wanted. And sometimes it meant stopping one of the children if they were painting another child or painting over someone else’s work.

“The room was a buzz of activity and the canvas a riot of colour. In some corners the picture ‘made sense’ and was complete in itself. Other corners looked like a confused mess where some children painted abstractly and other children came, painted just for a short time, and then moved on to another room.

“But my job was not to make the whole canvas make sense as one picture – that would have been way beyond me, and most likely counterproductive since ours was just one of many canvasses being painted in the region.

What does it mean?

Applying this to our GLF meetings I could see why, if God is calling us to lead more as an eldership supporting many different self governing teams, then it becomes important to reassess and change what our leadership structures and activities look like to reflect what God is telling us to do/be.

It feels scary to walk in to the future with even less structure than we’ve had. But my panic has moved to excited anticipation and expectancy. I can also see that, if God were to begin pouring out massive growth upon the mission now, it would soon overwhelm the more traditional ways we’ve been doing leadership.

As we walk ahead in these things I foresee some important changes to YWAM :

1. I think we’ll see more releasing for people to pioneer in new and innovative ways. Part of the process for this to happen will be to disappoint those who consider themselves the doorkeepers over certain pieces of geography or types of ministry activity.
2. There will be greater connectivity and collaboration as people and teams belong to multiple circles or forums which all serve different aspects of who they are and what they’re doing.
3. We’ll develop recognition of the active ministry of many YWAMers involved in the spheres and a blurring of the lines between what is a YWAM activity or what’s not. This will help combine the best of those ministering in the sphere with the best YWAM staff or elders also have to offer by affirming, convening and collaborating with those YWAMers that are no longer full time staff but are ministering “out there.”
4. It will create a less stressful role for leaders as they recognise again the Holy Spirit’s role in making their teams successful, and their role in serving and teaching into that. It will also broaden the leadership input our staff can get. This will help YWAMers take unreasonable expectations off their leaders and create a broader sense of parenting and grand-parenting into the mission while still reaffirming the leadership roles and responsibilities at the team level.
5. We will fulfil our goal of building a structure that is more in line with how God is leading the Body of Christ. I believe we are called to model how an organisation or mission can function and grow in this way.

In conclusion, maybe it’s time to run into what God is saying, holding on to nothing and leaving ourselves no way of return. That’s quite scary, but I think I am actually at a place of peace and excitement about the future of the mission that I have not been at for some years.

I really like that picture! It is a picture of chaotic creativity but the first chapter of the Bible reveals that 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.

In the 1960s and early 70s, most everyone in YWAM knew everyone else and it was easy to think of ourselves as a family. When very rapid growth began in late 1972, Loren sought council from mature men and women of God and chose a few others to join him in a leadership group known as the International Council. These seven or eight people were not chosen because they represented a certain part of the world or a particular group of people; they were the leaders who clearly had the respect of the YWAMers and had exercised international leadership in some measure even at this early stage of growth. Most of all, they were godly people. In Biblical terms, they were elders (1 Timothy 3, Titus 1, etc.).

For many years, YWAM’s leadership structure, such as it was, was built around relationships and ministry gifts. Gradually, some years later, we began to describe ourselves using organisational terms and concepts.

The words we use to describe ourselves are very important because they will shape who we become and organisational terms led us to think more organisationally.

I am not intending to say that organisational concepts and terms are bad or wrong. They just don’t describe who we are meant to be. We are not a business. We are a part of the worldwide Body of Christ, the Church, and God uses family language to describe His people in both the New Testament and the Old Testament. We are all brothers and sisters, not bosses and employees.

In 2002, God began to bring correction to us—to call us back to our roots and to prepare us for growth. Loren describes what that means in an article that is posted on ywamlife.com. This is a very important message to help us understand what God is doing amongst us.

But this was not just a word of correction from the Lord, He was also saying to us, “Get ready for growth!” From several reliable sources we had the same message, “Growth is coming if you will get ready.” I heard that message from several people whom I knew heard from God, but I wondered, “How do we get ready?”

Over the past few years, some of the answers have become much clearer. God was calling us to return to a Biblical understanding of who we are and how we organise ourselves. We are not an institution with an international hierarchy and we don’t have a headquarters. We have leadership teams in regions, in nations and in various ministries, but they are servant leaders and mutually accountable, not “directors” or “bosses”.

We function as body. Everyone can and should hear from God for themselves.

We know that some of the Biblical terms don’t communicate well to others, so we are still grappling with terms. The idea of “elders” for example, will be understood by some, but will not work in other contexts. In other languages, there will be terms that work perfectly well. We must keep working to find the terms that communicate well in our language and setting.

This does not mean that we are doing away with all organisational characteristics, especially at the local level. We have to be accountable to governments and to law, so in any location we need legal boards, proper accounts, policies and procedures as the law mandates. These are essential and good, but must be developed in a way that encourages loving relationships and the opportunity for each person to obey God in a team or community.

So, we are constantly changing so we can make room for:

• Extraordinary growth
• Apostolic anointing
• Freedom for all to hear and obey God and the protection afforded by mature, servant leaders.

Now, how does that work where you live?

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?

YWAM’s global elders (formerly known as Team 3+) recently recorded a discussion they had about these issues. Some of their thoughts are contained in this article.

Back to the Beginning:

First and foremost, this shift is motivated by a desire to return to the way of doing things that God showed us in the early years of YWAM. During that foundational period, there was clearly a functioning eldership. As Lynn Green says, "Then, for several years, we became more organisational in our language, but God began to pull us back to eldership."

These leaders are keen to emphasize that eldership being the focus of the discussion does not imply that other forms of leadership are not valid, or necessary. As John Dawson points out: "We understand that the local level – a training school for children, for instance – needs to have a leadership team, a legal board, all those things. But even at that level, we want (to encourage) the principle of a gathered eldership." Lynn Green underscores this, saying: "We know we need policies and procedures at the local level. Though we must be servant leaders everywhere, we need appropriate organisational structure at local levels, but not beyond that."

Those who were members of Team3+ form a group of mature people that John Dawson describes in this way: "We love one another, are mutually submitted to one another, aligned with Lord, aligned with the YWAM values, and we take a priestly, prophetic, and pastoral position in prayer." This is the sort of eldership group we would love to see more of throughout the mission.

Loren Cunningham develops this thought, saying that one characteristic of elders is that, "They have greater corporate memory than one who has not been around as long. They have a role in passing (those memories) on to the next generations, so that they will keep the integrity of the DNA of what God started in the first place. They have that protective role for our values, vision and corporate beliefs."

Expectations of Leadership

In addition to this desire to return to something that was foundational to our beginnings, the leadership discussions are also motivated by a desire for our language to more truly reflect how YWAM functions, so that we do not create wrong expectations by using inappropriate language.

Lynn Green explains that, "We want to use Biblical terminology where ever we can–more family language, as opposed to business or government language." Jim Stier elaborates: "We’ve never had anything other than relational authority so it’s time we stop using language which implies that we do." John Dawson adds that, " YWAM has many institutions and at the level of those institutions, we need (appropriate) language: the language of education is appropriate for when we run a school, for example, and we’re not dismantling or criticising that."

The reality behind this motivation is clarified by Loren Cunningham, who says "YWAM is a spiritual movement, not an organisational hierarchy." Lynn Green adds that, "To use terminology which implies a legal structure (beyond the local) is misleading … it creates an expectation that certain people have the authority and responsibility to make everything run smoothly, but we know that we can’t do that. Rather, we call on God, obey Him and He will act."

Getting Ready for Growth

By wrestling with what leadership should look like in YWAM, we are also seeking to position ourselves for huge growth, both in the numbers of missionaries serving through YWAM and in the number of YWAM locations. Many leaders throughout the mission share the sense that in this next season we are to expect unprecedented expansion. What sort of leadership will be required to facilitate multiplication and effective mission on a larger scale?

Preparing for Hardship

In addition to trusting together for massive growth, many YWAM leaders acknowledge that growth will not come without persecution. Already there are stories around the world of growing persecution in certain places; preparing for this is another motivation behind the process of change. As the global elders shared their thoughts about leadership, Loren Cunningham expressed his sense that persecution will increase and that, "When the persecution comes, we should not be in a high profile position, we will be less vulnerable as we are more grassroots”.

So we see that many considerations are contributing to a desire to dialogue about leadership in YWAM. What sort of leadership has God called us to, so that we fulfil His purposes for us as a movement of missionaries? How can we avoid expectations that we are unable to meet, or that are inappropriate for us? And how can we prepare ourselves for this next season, with both growth and persecution? The discussion is not without its challenges – but we can be assured that it is motivated by a genuine desire to follow God’s call on YWAM as we enter the next season.

Read more about what YWAM’s global elders are thinking about the structure at www.ywamlife.com – search the resources section for “Eldership.”

Jim Stier: The word “elder” implies long experience and trustworthiness. 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.

How are eldership and prayer linked?

John Dawson: Great spiritual authority is gained by the followers of Jesus if they pray in unity. And by unity, I don’t mean intellectual agreement about everything. What I’m talking about is affection and respect and friendship. Do you really know one another? Have you taken the time to deeply listen to the stories of your fellow believers?

A true eldership joins with others in taking up a loving concern for the wellbeing of all the people within a larger group, and intentionally gathers to pray for them.

How has God led YWAM towards an eldership model?

John Dawson: Several years ago in China, the Holy Spirit began speaking to the YWAM’s leaders about a new season of innovation and growth supported by New Testament principles of eldership. As YWAM seeks to both pioneer new initiatives and develop loving communities, this has led us to question how we meet as international leaders and the quality of our relationships with one another.

We realised that we were confronting a fundamental question: Is Youth With A Mission a movement guided by common relational history, vision and values or are we an organisation governed by delegates to a legislative body?

We have become convinced that we are a movement of allies, not an institution. This has been in our DNA from the beginning. So in December 2011 we changed the name of the Global Leadership Team to the Global Leadership Forum, seeing ourselves as simply one of many forums of senior YWAMers.

Can young people be elders?

John Dawson: Good question – after all, YWAM is a movement dedicated to youth and largely consisting of young people. At first glance it would seem that “elder” is a role served largely by older believers, however in the New Testament the term is used in relation how recently the church in question came into being. In Acts 14:23 we see reference to Paul appointing elders mere months after conversion in some cases.

When we look at the New Testament (e.g. 1 Timothy 3:1-7), we see that in a typical list of qualifications for this function, almost every virtue is mandated elsewhere for all believers. Only two things stand out as distinct. First this person must not be a novice, and secondly they must be able to teach.

Being able to teach, although benefiting from age and experience, primarily presupposes a growing grasp of the Scriptures and the ability to communicate the Gospel well. Above all, the members of a gathered eldership must excel in the qualities expected of all believers.

Why should we worry about the words we use?

John Dawson: When understanding and describing ourselves as the family of God, the Word of God is a great gift to us. We want to use the primary language of biblical metaphor and story. If we lose touch with this gift, we could drift into imitating the institutional thought and practice of the common society and cease to be an agent of transformation. Having said that, we may not use the term ‘elder’ much when we describe our roles and gatherings. Appropriate terminology needs to be developed in the languages and cultures in which we operate. The importance of this discussion is that we anchor our language and practice in the meaning imparted by God’s Word. The Word of God is our foundation.

Read the entire copy of John Dawson’s latest letter to YWAM about the global structure at the YWAM Life web-site.

A beautiful smile from the Ecole Maternelle Lumière du Monde at Jeunesse en Mission – Guinea

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In the last edition of the IY, we promised to share more insight gained from recent meetings on the topic of YWAM’s leadership structure. John Dawson addressed the issues that were discussed at the Global Leadership Forum meeting in December, and we asked you what you thought about his summary. Since then, some of the YWAM leaders met and looked at the themes you brought up. That meeting included Loren and Darlene Cunningham, Lynn Green, John Dawson and Jim Stier.

Through email, Facebook and the IY website we received some comments suggesting that there is a desire for more information to discuss at a local level. In response to the question, “What do these changes mean for grassroots YWAM teams?” the answer is, “different things to different locations”. We hope these articles will help you work through implications where you live and work.

Any local changes will be dependent on factors such as legal requirements, cultural expectations and existing relationships between ministry leaders. At this point, perhaps the key factor is for YWAMers to pray, discuss and seek to understand the principles and purposes behind the idea of eldership.

In this issue we present a little more understanding, with an article by Lynn Green and a question and answer session with some of YWAM’s leaders and a picture that God gave a member of the GLF to help describe the future of YWAM – after all, a picture is worth a thousand words!

Stories

• A Picture of Leadership in YWAM
• Some Background Understanding
• Towards an Understanding of Leadership: What is Motivating the Discussion?
• The IY Asks Some of Our Leaders, “What is Eldership?”.
• A Moment in YWAM

Dear Ones,

Several YWAM leaders have invited me to upcoming regional gatherings in light of the recent Global Leadership Forum (GLF) meetings. Because I am aware of my own physical limits and the vastness of the world, I have struggled with these invitations. I may be able to come to be with some of you, however I felt led by God to take the time to write a summary of what we learned together in order to serve all of you in the months to come.

We began the first day of the GLF with the house build. What a wonderful experience. What a wonderful ministry. It is indeed an honour to be associated with the worldwide ministry of Homes of Hope, to participate personally in what they do and to become champions of this cause in the parts of the world in which we minister. Our actions became a living prophecy, a reminder of the word that YWAM’s Mercy Ministries coordinator, Steve Goode, continually brings to us: “Remember the poor.”

The Belief Tree – turning values into action

One of the first things that we did together was to revisit the foundational teaching of the Belief Tree. As Darlene and Loren and David Hamilton laid this foundation for us, a valuable tool was put into our hands that helped us in all subsequent discussion.

Using the metaphor of roots, trunk, branches and fruit we began with our understanding of world view. In a biblical world view we believe that God is infinite and personal and that humans are finite and personal and truth is constant and knowable and that choices have consequences. Upon this foundation we begin to develop beliefs – statements about what is true, statements about what we believe to be moral imperatives. In this we rely upon the teaching of God’s Word. Then we develop values. What is good? What do we prioritize? What foundational behaviours have become essential to our calling? This leads to the development of principle-based decisions and policies. These are the implied or stated social expectations or covenants with one another, which rise from our values. Our actions and programs are the fruit. These are the things that are doable, the things that we create together that will bring loving transformation. It was pointed out that the seed is in the fruit. In each seed lies world view, beliefs and values that will lead to a new set of trees that replicate original qualities.

Circles, Circuits and Cycles

We then went on to listen to Loren’s teaching on circles, circuits and cycles. He referred to the circles of influence that are part of the social responsibility of a ministering leader. He referred to the circuits that come with the geography of any social inheritance and he referred to the cycle of events on our calendars that help us integrate the other two.

His underlying point was that we needed to continually expand the circles of eldership in order to give covering to a huge ingathering of new believers who will be discipled and sent out to serve within the spheres. He pointed out that there is a need to continually expand leadership at every level, to adjust expectations, job descriptions and responsibilities as the needs of the extended family change and to always create a place of impartation, the role of eldership, the senior body of spiritual grandparents that give covering to the whole in a particular ministry or community, yet overlap with their peers through their understanding of the circles, circuits and cycles appropriate to their own calling.

Loren stressed the informality of these social arrangements through contrasting the idea of an altar and a tower. He taught us that even our arrangement for the deployment of elders can become rigid and institutional unless we understand the way God works. Altars are made out of stones. Stones are always unique in shape, a unity of diversity upon which the presence of God falls. The Tower of Babel was built of bricks that are uniform and rigidly joined together with grout. Such towers are often portrayed as a winding staircase toward heaven through which human authority exalted itself and attempted to gain divine sanction for rigid position over others.

Loren gave us rich teaching and we spent time processing around the tables and praying into the implications of what he shared.

Following times of worship, we moved into times of prayer in which the Holy Spirit directed us to deal with several of the family matters before us. We began with Kobus and Rika Van Niekerk and the family story of YWAM Africa. One of the great themes in Loren’s teaching was from the book of Acts in which he repeatedly emphasized that one of the things that most quickly makes an eldership ineffective is if the people involved are waiting on tables (in other words, involved in the daily management of a ministry) rather than giving themselves to prayer and the Word: see Acts 6:1-7 and Acts 15:1-29. Loren emphasized the dignity and worth of the role of deacons but suggested that when the very same people take on the role of participating in a gathered eldership, the responsibility for practical matters must be delegated to others in order for a gathered eldership to fulfil its unique responsibilities.

What is an Elder?

At the Lausanne gathering of the GLT in 2010, we saw that the Bible calls for small gatherings of mature leaders who form a circle of covenantal love. Together they provide a place for the presence of God to “dwell” as they minister to God in the inner court. Godly character, tested unity, revelation with agreement and the declaration of God’s Word with faith, produces protection, release and increase. To summarize, the duties of an eldership body are listed below.

• Minister to the Lord
• Wait on the Lord in unhurried, humble listening together
• Cultivate heart unity with each other
• Move in a spirit of adoption (parental love and compassion) in prayer and action toward spiritual and natural children

Loren also taught on the types of authority appropriate to the seven spheres. He warned us about difficulties ahead and the need for great wisdom, suggesting that legal jurisdiction, corporations and trustees, are limited to the local. Above the local level, the social structure of YWAM becomes a network, a movement, held together by vision, values and common history and served by praying grandparents, the informal overlapping relational structure we see modelled in the New Testament Church.

Back to Loren’s point about waiting on tables versus being given to prayer and the Word. His teaching helped us process some of the remaining operational tasks managed by this group such as the protection of trademarks, benevolence funds and the stewardship of commonly held instruments of communication.

In all cases the subcommittees recommended that the responsibilities of the GLF be delegated or “assigned” as Jim Rogers put it during our Kona meeting. We are not to administrate, however we can recognize leadership, teach and model values, protect in prayer and honour and thank those who steward such things as the Go Manual, ywam.org, trademark registrations, and financial aid funds.

Perhaps the highlight of our time together was when we moved from concept to action. We put YWAM Africa’s Regional Leadership Team at one round table and stood tightly around them as they applied what we were learning to their situation. With love, tenderness and humility they ministered to one another and arrived at wisdom. The rest of us became the praying “midwife” to a new season in our African family.

We commissioned a new field alignment. We tenderly prayed for the personal circumstances of fellow leaders and set aside four couples as an initial eldership for YWAM’s ship-equipped ministries (see reports at www.ywamlife.com). We revisited foundational words and obtained new insight and agreement. Among them were the metaphor of twins for ship and campus initiatives from 1977 and the “new apostolic season with eldership” word written into the Nanning Covenant. We dealt with principles of restoration as we dealt with a story of restoration and we took our position on the mountain like Moses, Aaron and Hur (Exodus 19), in order to bless and protect the whole mission in our prayer from the place of unity.

In spite of the fact that we scattered to the ends of the earth at the end of the Forum, that is where we still now stand, unified, attentive, worshipping and watching with great love for the people of our mission and gratitude to Jesus for His works in our day.

I hope that’s helpful. This is a personal letter, not minutes, not an official document. I know I have just touched on the many subjects and moves of God that we experienced but it’s all I can do for now.

Bless you all. You are greatly loved. It is a privilege to call you my friends.

John Dawson

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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If you missed the three reports from the GLF, you can still read them at www.ywamlife.com. Click here to find them. http://ywamlife.com/News/Archive/YWAM-Global-Leadership-Forum-Begins-with-Home-Building

Enthusiastic YWAMers head out for evangelism and prayer at the Paris 2010 Summer of Service.

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by Bryan Bishop

We are focusing this issue of the International YWAMer on the Global Leadership Forum (GLF) meeting which just happened in Mexico in December, and I’m writing this guest editorial because I had the privilege of being there for the whole thing. I had the chance to build houses with the staff of YWAM Tijuana and the GLF members. In the photo, below, that’s me on the right, along with Steve Goode, YWAM’s ambassador for mercy ministry, and Alma, the young mother who received the house we built.

Lynn Green, the global elder who oversees communications, asked me to attend the GLF to provide communications support. I work as part of YWAM’s international communications team who serve YWAM by providing and maintaining resources such as www.ywam.org, www.ywamlife.com and the IY. I used to edit the IY when it was a paper edition, so some of our readers may remember me from then! You can read the reports that were sent from the GLF by clicking the link in the last article.

In this issue of the IY, we want to give you a bit more information on that important meeting. As you may know, since at least 2002, YWAM’s senior leaders have been moving toward more of an eldership model and less of an administrative one. What does that look like? What does that mean for all of us in YWAM? The 2011 GLF provided some fascinating glimpses of this new direction.

John Dawson, who helped to facilitate the meeting, has written personal observations of what took place. He walks us all through the meeting in his letter below.

One of the key elements of the GLF was a presentation given by Loren Cunningham, YWAM’s co-founder. As John Dawson explains, Loren has had a sense that God is showing him a new way to steward the future growth of YWAM. It happened one morning right after the YWAM 50th anniversary celebrations of 2010 ended. Loren and his wife, Darlene, had traveled to over 40 YWAM locations all over the world to rejoice with many YWAMers about all God has done in these five decades of YWAM’s existence. The year culminated in a huge gathering at Kona, Hawaii, where Loren and Darlene reside. Shortly after these December meetings, the Cunninghams began a well-deserved vacation. The very first morning, Loren awoke and became aware that God was giving him a picture of how to envision the ministry of YWAM Kona. As he wrote down these thoughts and then shared them with others in Kona, he began to wonder if this picture wasn’t for the whole of the mission.

At the GLF, Loren shared these thoughts not as finished ideas, but as a glimpse of God’s direction that he wanted to submit to other YWAM leaders.

After hearing from Loren over several days, and after receiving additional insights from Darlene and from David Hamilton of the University of the Nations, the GLF members had a chance to discuss and deliberate about what Loren had presented. At the end, they admitted they still had many questions, but they sensed this direction was of God. They gave to Loren the confirmation he asked for, and they entrusted to him the task of further unpacking the ideas. They looked forward to their next time together, in Sept 2012 in London, to take these concepts further.

John Dawson’s report contains a brief summary of Loren’s message, in which Loren introduced the terms “circles,” “circuits” and “cycles.” Loren spoke about circles of purposeful relationship, which could include existing groupings within YWAM, such as mercy ministry or frontier missions, but could also include YWAMers working within the spheres, such as in the area of education. He also talked briefly about circuits of geography, and cycles of time. He said this three-fold model could allow for tremendous expansion of YWAM’s ministry.

Kevin Sutter, head of YWAM’s Church Planting Coaches, said this faith aspect of Loren’s message excited him. “The circles and circuits and cycles, they’re going to enable us to multiply greatly,” Kevin commented, “and that’s what I’m praying for.”

In a prayer time about Loren’s message, Ricardo Rodriguez, YWAM’s regional leader for the Southern Cone of South America, mentioned the expansion of YWAM into the spheres. He said, “Thank you, God. We have the opportunity to expand for your glory and your Kingdom, to put our mission together with spheres of society, to be salt and light in the world.”

As the GLF members did, you will undoubtedly have many questions about what all this means for YWAM. Please pray for Loren, Darlene, John Dawson, Lynn Green, and all the GLF members as they continue to seek God’s wisdom on these matters. Stay tuned for more reports as YWAM’s leaders continue to develop these ideas further.

Stories

• A Letter from John Dawson: A Summary of the GLF Meeting
• What Do You Think?
• A Moment in YWAM

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- Bryan, guest-editing for the IY team