Eliana, Mitch and one of our translators, Eline, were out inviting people to our evangelistic movie night in the community of Trambioca. They spotted a papaya tree with ripe papayas and went to ask the owner if they could pick it. The owner, Solangie, was very hesitant to open the door, and simply nodded in approval. While trying to lean on the tree to pick the fruit, the base of the tree snapped, and the team propped it up with a stick. When they walked by later, the tree had come down with a crash, so the team went and apologized to the “Papaya Tree House” owner (Solangie), who asked them to come back the next day to hear about why we were here. At the movie that night, the children of that house came, but Solangie refused to come. While she was getting ready for bed, she felt like she needed to go and check on the kids at the movie. She came at the end of the movie and was moved by both the speaker and the translator, feeling like these “strangers” we’re much more like family.

The next day, the team stopped by the house that was very bare and met Solangie, her husband and their 5 children that were severely malnourished. As they shared with her family, they learned that this family was very poor and at one point, the husband was catching nothing (a fisherman by trade), she had had a stroke and they had nothing to eat, so she had tried to poison the whole family with a local root. However, a neighbor intervened, and she had felt a huge burden of shame and guilt for the past years. The team spoke encouragement, life, and specific words of knowledge over the family. The whole family ended up giving their lives to the Lord and were freed from the burdens of sin, guilt and shame.

They found out later that although many many missionaries had come by (including Jehovah’s Witnesses), our team that she had welcomed in. Her reason? Even from a distance, they seemed like the first ones that might actually have an answer and a hope for the lives of their family.

She said, “yes”. He asked if she needed to use special words or do anything and she said, “No, I’ll just ask God to heal you.” So, she did and then asked him how his back felt and if he wanted to see how badly it hurt now. He moved his back around and he said that “I’m trying to make it hurt like before, but it doesn’t hurt at all any more.

God is up to something that is rooted in the foundational years of YWAM with His call to establish universities & ships. One of the key words that has stayed with us over several decades is the call to be ‘twins’. Even now, we don’t understand all that God has meant in this word for YWAM, but we are feeling a resurgence of its importance as we have prayed into our next place of operation.

In Orange County last year, we were based out of a spacious home in Huntington Beach which we had outgrown by the time we left. From there we went on to start our training school on Catalina Island enjoying the quiet, wide open spaces, then onto the busy campus at Kona.  Now teams are dispersing to various YWAM ship locations for outreach. Our goal has been to find a location in Orange County to continue growing once they all graduate. Several places have been options but none of them have seemed right. As we continued praying into ‘where’, we were surprised by what God indicated to us. We believe we are to continue in two places, both Orange County & Kona, for a longer season.

One of the reasons we sense the Lord is directing us to remain in Kona for a longer season relates to the twins concept mentioned earlier. Twins, as unique siblings, naturally have a deep relationship and when looking at them, they are often indistinguishable from each other. If God intends the UofN and ship ministries to resemble twins with characteristics that are identical, then developing together in this foundational season has great meaning for us as a ministry. There is a lot we can learn from the way UofN Kona has developed and operates.

So our next season is taking shape. Initially we have around 12 staff remaining in Orange County, with the rest returning to Kona to run our School of Navigation and Seamanship in June, then two Island Adventure DTS courses September 2012 and January 2013. All these schools have plans to spend time in both locations. So with staff moving back and forth, we remain committed to see our team grow in both places. Overall, we anticipate spending most of our time in Kona over these next 3 quarters and in the process we hope to learn together and discover more of what God has for universities and ships working together in YWAM.

Brett, Karen & Crew

Psalm 65:5 You answer us with awesome and righteous deeds, God our Savior, the hope of all the ends of the earth and of the farthest seas.

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On this page you will be able to find how to contact us, dates of upcoming DTS course, locations of outreaches and cost details. Once you fill in some basic info at the end we will get you additional details.  Welcome!

Contact us +1 949 444 2131, registrar@ywamships.net

When can I start?

Currently we have 4 intakes.
January, April, June and September

Contact us Now, so we can help you to find out more about our Ywam Discipleship Training School.
Who knows, you might be able to join us in only a couple of months?

Join us for a YWAM DTS with a difference

Have you ever dreamed of adventure, doing something that counts with your life, helping people, seeing your life change, learn new skills and develop deep friendships along the way while encountering your faith with God?

During your Discipleship training School you will receive life-changing teaching from a variety of international Ywam speakers that fly in to join us during the lecture phase. You will also have the opportunity to put your learning into action as you help in our ministry, relate to those serving longterm in Ywam, experience new cultures and meet with people along the way.

Not your average classroom

On your Ywam DTS, training happens both outside and inside the classroom. Lectures will open your heart, challenge your mind and inspire you to act.  With lecturers from all around the world, every week will be an adventure of it’s own. You will rub shoulders with Ywam staff and leaders from around the globe who will encourage you and broaden your understanding of missions.

Where do you wanna go?

Head out on adventure with us and you’ll find yourself face to face with images from the pages of National Geographic.

Taste the rainforests of the Amazon, or Papua New Guinea the cyrstal blue waters of the Caribbean or isolated villages down the Baja Penisula of Mexico and the South Pacific.  Sail on board our training vessel EL ENCUENTRO a 60 foot sailing ketch down the Baja

Outreach (your feild assignment) is where you live out everything you heard during the lecture phase and put it into practice.  You will get to choose least one of these locations and have the chance to bring hope and life to those who are in great need.

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El Encuentro is a 50 foot ketch yacht built by Jim Pollard from Zeeland MI, USA and his Organization READY ABOUT.  She was designed with the vision and purpose of training young people in the ways and disciplines of the sea and a perfect platform envisioned to have her student crew ministering in port cities around the world in discipleship and evangelism.  El Encuentro is almost completed and close to being ready for deployment.  Once her rigging, sails and a windlass anchor system has been installed she can be commissioned and on her maiden voyage.

How did YWAM come to receive such a gift?  Jim who has become ill is unable to complete the final stages of her commissioning has generously donated the yacht to YWAM Ships.  Worth $200,000 – $250,000 she will require $16,000 to ship across land from Michigan to California, then $38,000 to be completed.

This wonderful vessel, our first addition to YWAM Ships Orange County, will undergo completion in California and be deployed between Orange County, Catalina Island and Mexico.  It is perfect the students of our YWAM course called the School of Navigation and Seamanship (SONS) – June 4^th 2012.  This vessel will be used for practicing skills learned in the classroom.  She can then be used year round for outreaches in the region.  Sleeping nine and carrying twenty five day passengers she is perfect for our needs. Our deep appreciation goes out to Jim Pollard and READY ABOUT INC for this most generous donation.

The SONS course is a second level school within the University of the Nations open to DTS graduates.  However if you are interested in sitting in on a week or two of this school you are welcome.  For the curriculum of the course click here.  Contact us by emailing registrar@ywamships.net or going to www.ywamships.net/train/

Click on the flier above to download the file and print for your base, office, church.

For details on the school click here

The Next Wave is a sea-going sail training ketch owned by Youth With A Mission (YWAM). The vessel serves YWAM in its efforts to raise up, train and disciple the next ‘wave’ of missionaries. This is achieved by equipping and releasing young people, and the young at heart, to work in many different types of community and missions projects around the world.

The Next Wave offers adventure, personal growth and a place to encounter God.
During each year the Next Wave hosts the lecture phase of a YWAM Discipleship Training School, short-term mission’s trips, as well as being the floating base for several months of YWAM community work.

We need new sails!
Over the last two years the Next Wave has been sailing in the Mediterranean. It was an amazing time! But all the sailing has left our sails worn out and damaged. This slows us down and increases fuel costs. With your help, we want to completely replace all five of the sails and make our operation more financially and environmentally sustainable.

How to help
Over the winter we want to raise £ 30,000 to buy the new set of sails. You can help us by sponsoring the Captain who is running the Marathon in Liverpool on the 31st of December this year. Check out our promo at www.sy-nextwave.com to see the preparations for that!

To get to know how to donate for new sails, please go to
www.sy-Nextwave.com

God Bless,

Herman Barkmeijer
Captain s/y Next Wave
How to donate for New sails:
UK citizens:
1. Use our PayPal account at http://marinereachministries.com/?page_id=2054

2. Wire transfer directly to our UK account:
Sort code 60-06-20
Account type CBFM BUSINESS CURRENT
Account Number 31270344
Bank name National Westminster Bank
Currency GBP
Branch name CRAWLEY THE BOULVD
Alias YWAM LTD/NEXT WAVE
BIC NWBKGB2L
Short name YWAM LTD/NEXT WAVE
IBAN GB02NWBK60062031270344

After making the donation, please send an email to nextwave@marinereach.com to inform that there is a donation coming new sails.
3. Send a cheque payable to : ‘ Youth With A Mission UK‘ to:
Accounts Penny Griggs
Raising sails Next Wave
Youth with a mission
Highfield Oval
Harpenden – Hertfordshire
AL5 4BX United Kingdom

4. Come visit us in Liverpool and we’ll give you a ships tour!

EU citizens:

1. Use Paypal via the website: http://marinereachministries.com/?page_id=2054
2. Above options are possible, but in order to save us costs transferring money internationally we also have a EURO account to which you can wire transfer your donation:
Fortis bank
Account number 001-4290518-90.
IBAN and BIC (aka SWIFT reference) are:
IBAN: BE34 0014 2905 1890
BIC: GEBABEBB

Please let nextwave@marinereach.com know the funds are coming and are designated to raise sails for s/y Next Wave or something else.

The next morning, these pictures took on special meaning as the assembled leaders considered ship ministries within YWAM. Jesse Missa of Marine Reach explained that 80 percent of the world’s population lives within 100 kilometers of a navigable waterway. A ship can provide a platform for medical ministry, a place of training, and a home for workers. Jesse’s ministry alone provided over 7,000 dental surgeries in 2011 and ministered to 34,000 people. He said YWAM has a goal to operate 40 ships by 2020. He and others in YWAM ship ministries want to see three ships for Japan alone.

John Dawson recalled the leading of God in YWAM to create ship ministries as well as a university. He remembered the time in 1977 when two YWAM families had twins on the seventh month and the seventh day seven minutes apart. “This caught our attention,” John said. “These events within our family story were part of a prophetic confirmation that the birth of the university and the release of the Anastasis signified a family partnership between the siblings, in this case the University of the Nations and YWAM’s Ship Equipped Ministries. Over the years we began to see that there is a deep purpose that God has for this.”

The YWAM leaders commissioned an eldership for YWAM’s Ship Equipped Ministries: Jesse and Princessa Misa, Ken and Robin Mulligan, Brett and Karin Curtis, and Brian and Anne Sloan. They also took an offering for the medical ship Marine Reach New Zealand is trying to purchase for the Pacific Region. They have raised $300,000 toward the $1.2 million purchase price. The 47 leaders pledged a total of $12,000.

In the prayer and discussion, YWAM leaders expressed enthusiasm for the renewed emphasis on ships within the mission. This emphasis began way back in 1964, when Loren Cunningham led an outreach team in the Caribbean to help people suffering in the aftermath of a devastating hurricane. He had a sense from God that this small four-year-old organization would have a ship. Only a few months later, a man offered Loren a ship. In the prayer time now at the Global Leadership Forum in Tijuana, Christine Colby of the University of the Nations prayed, “Father, I thank your for mercy that you can again trust us with your dream. Help us steward this dream so it will look like what you intended for it.”

In other discussions, the Global Leadership Forum added the Middle East to the Central and South Asia Field, considered models for expansion, witnessed an offering taken in South Asia and given to Southern Sudan and pledged their involvement in Global Outreach Day.

The GLF also affirmed an addition to YWAM’s foundational values. The new value is “Communicate with Integrity” and states that, “YWAM affirms that everything exists because God communicates. Therefore, YWAM is committed to truthful, accurate, timely and relevant communication. We believe good communication is essential for strong relationships, healthy families, communities and effective ministry.”

The meeting ended with communion. The bonds of care that could be seen in painting crews on the first day of the meeting ended in words of blessing shared with each other. Said one leader from Nepal, “I appreciate being part of the eldership, how we emphasize family. We need family commitment and bonding with each other in order to move forward and grow.”