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This month we hear an old message from Loren Cunningham, about street prayer in Auckland, New Zealand, get some news from YWAM in the Philippines, hear an update from the YWAM Ship the Koha in Fiji, find out about Create International Vision 2033, see what YWAM Transform is up to in Sweden, get an invite from YWAM Nicoya for teams to join them in Costa Rica, hear YWAM Lancaster’s initiative to launch 10 teams in 10 years to reach the most unreached people, and more …
Thank you for downloading this, the 158th episode of the Youth With A Mission News Show Podcast, I’m your host, Bill Hutchison.
You can contact us, subscribe to future episodes, leave comments, and find links to all the stories we talk about on the show notes for this podcast at ywampodcast.com/158 …
Stories:
Message from Loren
I wanted to start this month’s YWAM News with a message and a challenge from Loren Cunningham that YWAM Muizenberg recently shared on their YouTube channel.
YWAM Zion New Zealand Street Prayer
YWAM Zion in Whangarei, New Zealand recently partnered with Peter Kim on the streets of Auckland City. Peter Kim has been faithfully praying in the streets of Auckland for as long as they can remember.
Partnering with him is something that YWAM Zion has done on previous occasions, and they consider it an honour to do so when their teams make it to the big city of Auckland.
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YWAM Philippines Conference
Last month YWAM Philippines came together for their national conference:
You can head over to ywamphilippines.org to find out more about their different ministries happening around their nation.
Gathering together as YWAMers is important as we continue to minister around the world. Whether it’s gathering locally with other believers, or nationally or internationally as YWAM, if you have the opportunity to attend, I would recommend it. You might make some amazing connections, and find some interesting connections during those times.
Impact Campus Philippines
To give you an idea about some of the ministry that YWAM is doing in the Philippines, we have a video from Impact Campus …
You can watch the full video in the show notes at ywampodcast.com/158. They share with you some of what they are doing in the areas of Team Extreme, Lifebears, Compassion and Justice, Origins Basketball, Music Immersion, Prayer and Missions, Dental Collaboration, The Send, Impact Campaigns and Camps, Bible School, and more …
You can also visit ywamph.com to find out more about their ministry.
YWAM Balut Heartline Seminar
Also from the Philippines, we have an update about the Heartline Seminar run by YWAM Blut
We praise God for the opportunity to hold our very first HEARTLINE SEMINAR at the base from June 2 to 6, 2025!
Thirteen young people from our Student Sponsorship Ministry joined us, and it was a meaningful time for them to be ministered by the Lord and to discover more about who He is in their lives right before a new school year begins.
This seminar is truly an answered prayer. We’re grateful for how God orchestrated every detail to make it happen.
We desire to see more hearts opened to God, healed, and restored through this Heartline Seminar.
Follow the link in the show notes, to find out more about YWAM Balut.
YWAM Ships Aorearoa Update from Fiji
We have an update from the YWAM Ship, YWAM Koha, in Fiji
Visit ywamshipsaotearoa.org.nz to find out more.
Create International Vision 2033
Create International has been developing media to help spread the Gospel for decades. This year marks some major milestones for them, and the beginning of new vision with this update from them.
After completing the 20/20 Vision—producing over 250 indigenous gospel films for the least evangelized mega people groups (each over one million)—we celebrated a major milestone. God had moved powerfully, bringing the Gospel into the heart languages and cultural expressions of many of the world’s largest unreached peoples. As a result, nearly 75% of all Unreached People now had access to a clear gospel presentation in their own language.
As we rejoiced, we sensed the Great Shepherd’s ongoing burden—25% still had no indigenous gospel film in their mother tongue. In prayer, we heard Him ask, “What about the 25?” We replied, “That’s hundreds more groups… how can we do this, Lord?” His response: “You can’t; but they can.”
In the months that followed, God showed us what He meant. The resources were in the harvest. He was raising up new believers within Unreached Peoples to finish the task. Our role: equip and empower them. “From the Harvest to the Harvest” became our call and passion. From this revelation, Vision 2033 was born.
The year 2033 marks 2,000 years since the Great Commission—a milestone in redemptive history. While the date isn’t our focus, its symbolism reminds us of Christ’s unfinished mandate: to make disciples of all nations and proclaim the Gospel to the ends of the earth.
Vision 2033 is a ten-year strategic initiative uniting our commitment to the Least Evangelized Peoples list with a focus on partnering with emerging movements of believers within Unreached People Groups.
This vision echoes Acts chapter 2, when the Holy Spirit was poured out and people from many nations heard God’s wonders in their own mother tongue. The gospel wasn’t first preached in a trade language but in heart languages—God’s way of showing that every tongue and culture matters to Him. Vision 2033 carries the same conviction: the good news must be communicated in the language of the heart. That’s why we’re committed to producing innovative, indigenous gospel media shaped by each people group’s worldview and voice.
We have a link to their full message in the show notes, ywampodcast.com/158. They talk about some of the significant stories from the past few years, and ways that people could get involved moving forward, include staffing opportunities, training opportunities, and more. You can also visit their web-site, createinternational.com, where there are fantastic media resources and ways that you can get in touch with them.
YWAM Transform Update
Now we get to hear an update from YWAM Transform in Sweden.
Visit ywamtransform.se to find out more.
Invite for Teams to Costa Rica
YWAM Nicoya in Costa Rica is sending out an invite to YWAM groups, individuals, and other teams to join them at their location.
We invite church, high school, young adults, YWAM and family groups to join us in missions in Costa Rica!
Short-term mission trips are a help, a blessing and an encouragement for our long-term mission work.
Teams that visit us get to join in our regular ministries, seen and learn what missions in this part of the world look like and serve alongside our long-term staff team.
Team members join an intercultural and intergenerational missionary community, have the opportunity to hear the stories and testimonies, make friends with long-term missionaries, students and volunteers, getting a glimpse of life in the mission field.
We’ve seen God transform lives of youth and adults that come on mission trips! Sometimes God has to take you and your people far to speak in a new way to grow your compassion to teach you or to call you. Our prayer is that a mission trip with us would ignite sparks that set whole churches and communities on fire for God and global missions.
Visit ywamnicoya.org to find out more about connecting with YWAM Nicoya.
YWAM Lancaster – Ten Teams in Ten Years
YWAM Lancaster is starting an exciting initiative to launch 10 teams in 10 years to reach the most unreached people on the planet …
Visit ywamlancaster.com to find out more.
Place of Springs Expansion
Place of Springs is a retreat centre in Spain for people working cross culturally in North Africa and the Middle East. After operating out of their current building for a number of years, they are now looking to expand, so serve more missionaries, families, and teams …
I had the privilege of working with Miranda for a few years in my role with YWAM Global communications, and her heart for people and YWAMers is extraordinary, so I would love to see the expansion of Place of Springs to happen. You can visit their web-site, placeofsprings.net, to see how you can help.
From Bars to War Zones
YWAM Asunción recently interviewed Keith Wheeler about his journey walking a 12-foot cross through nearly 200 nations for 37 years …
That was just a short clip from the full interview. You can watch the full inspiring interview on YWAM Asunción’s YouTube channel, or in the show notes at ywampodcast.com/158.
School of Intercessory Prayer Seminar – YWAM Chico
In September YWAM Chico will be running their School of Intercessory Prayer Seminar
The practice of Intercessory Prayer is at the heart and foundation of YWAM and many visions have been birthed during those times. The prayer school emphasizes hearing God’s voice and praying His will. Our goal is to walk alongside you as you grow in your understanding of intercessory prayer, worship and spiritual warfare. We want to see you become the man or woman that God has called you to be. Growing in intimacy with Jesus is absolutely foundational to whatever ministry God may call you to.
In this school you will:
- Grow in hearing God’s voice
- Experience God’s heart in prayer
- Become a fervent & effective intercessor
- Learn to lead others in creative corporate prayer
Visit ywamchico.org to find out more.
Breakthrough with Rudi Lack
When I was in Switzerland in 1999 I was blessed to hear Rudi Lack speak about some of his journey “taking the Gospel across forbidden borders” when I was doing a GENESIS School with Youth With A Mission in Lausanne. His stories were challenging, exciting, and very gripping.
Rudi Lack passed away back in 2010, and this is what I wrote about it then:
Rudi Lack was YWAM’s first member from Switzerland and Europe. He joined Youth With A Mission in the winter of 1969 after translating for Loren Cunningham, the founder of Youth With A Mission, in a German speaking church in Switzerland.
The ministry that God had Rudi involved in spread across the world. He was the first person from YWAM to minister in East Africa, South Africa, China and many other regions and nations of the world.
Rudi’s ministry will live on the countless lives that he touched while serving in YWAM. He gained the nick-name “the YWAM Bumblebee” because he was known to “cross-pollinate and share vision that leads to great fruitfulness!”. He distributed millions of Christian books around the world and wrote two books, “Breakthrough – Taking the Gospel Across Forbidden Borders” and “101 Leadership Principles”.
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Unfortunately Rudi’s book, Breakthrough, is long out of print. Despite loosing the signed copy that I got from Rudi back in 1999, I was able to pick up a used copy recently. I’ve started to read the book on my personal podcast over at missionarystories.org, and have already read through chapters 1 and 2. To give you an idea about his book, this was his first paragraph.
A gray army truck roared into the missionary compound. Dust belching from its tires, it screeched to a halt beside my van and disgorged gun-toting African soldiers, all dressed in camouflage-combat uniforms. Accompanying them were three communist Chinese. Dr. Durrie and I stared in disbelief. “Hands Up!” roared a burly-faced African officer, brandishing his gun in my face. My arms shot up automatically …
I will be continuing to read through the book, a new chapter each week, so if you wanted to catch up on the first two chapters, and join me as we go through the rest of the book, you can head over to missionarystories.org.
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