When Loren Cunningham launched Youth With a Mission in 1960, his inspiration came from a vision he had received four years earlier while on a college summer break.
Cunningham found himself looking at a map of the world, alive and moving. He could see all seven continents and waves crashing into their shores. Then the waves turned into young people, some younger than him.
These energetic missionaries were witnessing to people outside bars and on street corners, and they were preaching as they went from house to house.
History would demonstrate its divine inspiration. Today, Youth With a Mission, known worldwide by its acronym YWAM, trains more than 25,000 short-term missionaries annually at its Discipleship Training Schools, then sends them out to places like this summer’s World Cup soccer competition in Brazil. Some of those disciples will return to Brazil for the 2016 Summer Olympics.
However, it isn’t just young people who make up YWAM, which numbers 18,000 staff members in more than 180 countries. Evangelists in their senior years have also joined this global force whose mission is to “know God and make Him known.”
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