quarter21 said:
But should I go through YWAM or will I need to go to seminar instead? I know they have some offers after you complete the course. what are those like? does anyone know? will I need to come up for the funds for the offer after the course or... well. This I am sure is a very confusing question I am giving since I am sure many of you do not know about YWAM.
ok i will try it one more time - this time without chating on other sites.
i don´t know what i wrote the first time, just that it was good, toke me a while and was lost, but anyway - i´ll start all over again.
i´ve always known that god called me into mission - and since 4 years i know that god wants me to go to somalia. since i´m 13 i have been to a local kings kids (youth work from ywam) group and to some training camps at the local base. when i was about 15, all my friends - including me - sayd they would go to ywam and make a dts. but then i learned so much about discipleship that i thought i would´nt need it.
last summer i finished my 3 year internship at a goverment office, where i was trained to be a commercial clerk. i had already arranged with a mission office in south africa that i would help them with administrative duties beginning in january 04. then i thought about how i can fill the gap, and asked the ywam base - where i´ve been often before - if i can work for them. so i worked for 3 months as the secretary from the base leader. during this time god spoke again to me about joining ywam. and so i planned to do a dts and sofm after the year in south africa.
when i´ve been in south africa i did some serious mistakes and i had to go back home in may. i was devasteted. it was my dream to go to africa since i can remember and lost everything. the base leader asked me to work for them insteed. but i couldn´t. i knew i had to get right before i could even think of going to mission again. so i tried to find a normal job - but god hasn´t given me any. and by now i know that there is always a second chance and god still wants me to go. next year i´m doing my senior high school certificate and than - ...i dont know. (but possible will join ywam, cause i just can´t hide from god - i´m not even interested in a normal job anymore.
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ywam is good, it´s one of the best orgas when it comes to frontier mission and pioneering. when it comes to reach the liturally ends of the earth. but the office i worked for was good as well and out of church context. and god didn´t tell us to build mission centers but to build church. so i´m wondering about that point.
ywam has no paid jobs - even the founder loren cunningham lives on funds. you have to get people behind you, who will support you for years. but it works, god really serves the financial needs of the people who trust him. ask someone who is into ywam for a long time - they all can tell you testimonies.
you don´t have to go to training - but like someone mentioned before ywam has a whole university, where you can study, whatever your interest. and the '"normal" bible collegues don´t really prepare for frontier mission.
as there is a university and people with all different experiences, interests and knowledge join ywam, there are thousand of possibilities what you can do. ywam works into almost every area and aspect of life you can think of, so thats really about where you are talented. of course its same like in any other company or orga - you wont become f.e. a base leader right after finishing your dts.
so i hope that answered your questions - and mayby we will be working together one day. be blessed and rellay on him!
