Global Equip Ministries

Our Global Equip Ministries (GEM) partners closely with Frontier Missions on a global scale, reaching out to the unreached across the world. These ministries are dedicated to spreading the love of Jesus to those who have yet to hear the Good News, regardless of specific groups, countries, or regions. We warmly welcome new volunteers and staff to join us in this vital work, offering an incredible opportunity to engage in frontier missions worldwide!

Media4Movements

Media4Movements empowers national believers and field workers with indigenous media, advancing ministry among unreached peoples through innovative technology. Our teams partner with movement leaders and cross-cultural teams to explore effective methods for strengthening Disciple-Making Movements using media, technology, and indigenous arts. By providing simple, affordable, reproducible, and multilingual resources, we leverage smartphones, Bluetooth speakers, audio Bible players, AI, ethnic arts, and other tools for effective evangelism and discipleship among all peoples.

You can contact us using the form below or explore various opportunities to serve in media, arts, and technology at our Create International site.

Prophetic Prayer Movements

Our vision is to globally spread prophetic prayer movements, uniting region and country conveners by the Holy Spirit’s power.

You can get in touch with us using the form below for more information. Our network aims to:

– Unite intercessors, partners, and workers.
– Provide strategic prayer to overcome obstacles.
– Intercede in difficult situations.
– Prepare for the end times by discerning them.
– Listen to God’s heart and pray accordingly.
– Tune into God’s current and future plans.
– Stay alert to the evil one’s schemes, engaging in spiritual warfare.
– Support leaders with prophetic words and intercession.
– Multiply intercessors by training them to train others.

Hebrews 11:1 “Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see.”

Disciple Makers Increase

As part of YWAM Frontier Missions, Disciple Makers Increase (DMI) is dedicated to equipping ordinary believers worldwide to multiply disciples and catalyze new movements. Our action-focused online training, follow-up coaching, and onsite training empower disciples to make disciples who make disciples. With a heart for reaching the least, the last, and the lost, DMI mobilizes believers to share the love of Jesus and multiply disciples among unreached people groups.

Refugee Circle

The Global Refugee Crisis has grown exponentially, with over 110 million people forcibly displaced. YRC (YWAM Refugee Circle) is engaging this crisis with the compassionate love of Jesus!

Well over 50% of the global refugee population come from a Muslim background, making outreach to unreached Muslim refugees a primary focus of YRC.

With thousands displaced and thousands more on the move, the refugee crisis is far from over. YRC’s mission is to mobilize the YWAM family by facilitating teams eager to respond to a harvest that is ready.

You can contact us via WhatsApp using the link below.

Multipliers

From zero to thousands. Multipliers run Harvest Multiplication Training (HMT), where trainers can come to your location or provide online sessions to equip and mentor you in developing movement-making practices in the field. Our website offers many free resources to support your journey. We partner with the Lord to launch movements of multiplying disciples of Jesus among the most unreached.

You can get in touch using the form below or by visiting our site.

Oral Mother Tongue

YWAM is committed to making the Bible accessible to oral learners of all languages. In YWAM FM we recognize the importance of scripture in multiplying disciples among the unreached and so we are committed to seeing the Bible accessible in every oral language.

YWAM FM has commissioned a GEM to focus on equipping our teams across the globe in the fulfillment of this vision.

Member Care

Member Care is doing whatever it takes to ensure that YWAM staff feels cared for and supported. Our desire is to continue to equip, empower and prepare workers for effective ministry. You can find out more at our site.

God Story DTS

The God Story DTS is Chronological, Oral, and Reproducible. Graduates, equipped with essential biblical DTS truths through the memory of stories, are well-prepared to produce disciples who can disciple others. The entire classroom experience is set in a simple church format, with a vision for Disciple Making Movements (church planting) at the heart of this DTS.

The God Story DTS was created in partnership between YWAM Frontier Missions, the International Discipleship Training School Center, and The University of the Nations.

Circles

Within YWAM, and FM, we have what’s called “circles”. These are communities of people that come together regularly to discuss and fellowship over a specific subjects.

Mobilization Circle

The Mobilization Circle exists to equip you to be a more fruitful and effective missions advocate, enabling you to help your community become more aware of and effectively engaged with their part in Jesus’ Great Commission. We focus on Connecting, Equipping, and Resourcing local church and missions organization influencers!

Training Circle

This worldwide circle exists to serve YWAM FM members involved in equipping workers for the harvest through both short and longer-term training seminars and schools. It’s a learning community committed to serving the lost by raising new generations of harvest workers equipped with movement-making skills, with excellent biblical and contextual foundations.

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A Mentor’s Life-Changing Impact

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