The YWAM Christian Teaching Podcast

This special edition of the YWAM Teaching Podcast is a celebration of Loren Cunningham's final ministry focus with his final book,  No Boundaries Within God’s Will. Loren Cunningham, founder of Youth With A Mission (YWAM) went to be with Jesus on October 6, 2023 at the age of 88. Continue reading →

In this talk Loren is challenging the idea that you need to see your home reached before you can go out into the nations. Using the Bible as a foundation and lots of examples he shows that God calls all of us to go, even young people, into all the world. Continue reading →

In this teaching Loren Cunningham shares with us about Relinquishing our Rights. Loren shares with us about what it means to relinquish our rights. We are challenged with the question, "Are you willing to give up everything, including your freedom?". Mark 8:34 reminds us that Jesus said, “Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me.". Continue reading →

In this teaching Loren Cunningham shares with us about Ruling with Jesus. In this inspiring talk, Loren Cunningham talks about what it means to serve God and “inherit the earth”. Through stories of God’s miraculous favour, provision, and grace, he inspires us to humbly serve God in whatever capacity He has placed us. Continue reading →

In late 2017 Lynn Green sat down to discuss Leadership and Eldership in Youth With A Mission, and to answer some questions that people around the world had about the changes and development of it in YWAM. Some of the questions discussed are about plural leadership, what is an Elder, what is the role of conveners in YWAM, why was there the need for the significant organisational change for YWAM in Singapore in 2014, how does YWAM's flat leadership structure work cross-culturally, what is the importance of relationship over hierarchy Accountability structures, and more ... Continue reading →

In this episode of the Youth With A Mission Teaching Podcast Loren Cunningham shares with us a teaching about The Cross. Loren Cunningham is the founder of Youth With A Mission (YWAM) and the co-founder of the University of the Nations (U of N). He is also a leader at the YWAM, U of N Campus in Hawaii, and a member of the YWAM International Eldership. In this teaching Loren invites us to stop at the cross and consider God’s love for us. He shares that though we don't have to understand all the technicalities of atonement to experience salvation, it is good to understand and appreciate it more fully. Loren describes how through the Cross, God meets the conditions of both justice and mercy. We see the horror of sin and the reformation of the sinner. We see the law upheld and the welfare of the community considered. In the cross we see the evidence of God's incredible love for us. Continue reading →

In this episode of the Youth With A Mission Teaching Podcast Loren Cunningham shares with us a teaching about being The Spiritual Leader. Loren Cunningham is the founder of Youth With A Mission (YWAM) and the co-founder of the University of the Nations (U of N). He is also a leader at the YWAM, U of N Campus in Hawaii, and a member of the YWAM International Eldership. Loren speaks on this teaching about leadership and draws a parallel to the shepherd: “Know well the condition of your flock and pay attention to your herds” (Prov 27: 23). He emphasises the great responsibility of leadership and discusses the different roles that a leader must carry. He speaks of the leader’s responsibility to obey God in action, and submit to God and others, in heart. Continue reading →

Tom Bloomer shares with us about his conversion testimony and also about how we should pray for the salvation of people we care about on this episode of the YWAM Teaching Podcast. Tom Bloomer has served as the International Provost of the University of the Nations since 2001. Tom lives at one of the UofN’s mini-campuses in French-speaking Switzerland, and is committed to teaching and mentoring students and staff. Lots of us pray for our loved ones, often without success. Often we pray wrong without thinking seriously about it. Tom Bloomer shares with us in this podcast about some Biblical strategies of effective prayer ... Continue reading →

Loren Cunningham shares with us a teaching about The Great Commission. Loren shares with us some exciting stories from the early years of Youth With A Mission. You will get to hear about when some of YWAM's leaders joined the mission and how many of Loren's views about leadership developed. The teaching was recorded in the early 1990's while Loren Cunningham was writing his book Why Not Women, so we get to hear some of his thinking about Women in Leadership, and stories about some of the women who have been released into ministry in Youth With A Mission. Continue reading →

Loren Cunningham challenges us with a teaching about Finding our Ministry on this episode of the Youth With A Mission Teaching Podcast. Loren Cunningham is the founder of Youth With A Mission (YWAM) and the co-founder of the University of the Nations (U of N). He is also a leader at the YWAM, U of N Campus in Hawaii, and a member of the YWAM International Eldership. In this teaching Loren asks us the question, "Is it that God has never called us, or have we never heard His call?".  Continue reading →