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Contents|in this issue02 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Editorial

News from our national leader Carl Tinnion

03 . . . . . . . .Ways to get involvedHow could you engage with missions?

04 . . . . . . . . . Bringing Inspiration Bristol

05 . . . . . . . . . Hope follows Terror

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06-07 . . . . . . . . Change for Growth YWAM England

08 . . . . . . . Impacting Education

Serving the Children

09 . . . . . . . . . . Moulding Society The truth about Arts

10-11 . . . . Training for Innovation

Uganda

12 . . . . . . . . . . . Fresh Expression Networking

13 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Staff Stories

Samy Mansour

14 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Training

15 . . . . . . .Devotional and Prayer

He longs to make our paths straight, even if it sometimes feels impossible.

In this edition of Advance, we will be looking at how the mission field is changing. It is not always a geographical concept but it is also found in the different spheres of society. Michael Green will be taking us through what he is learning and how God is revealing Himself and His ways in the realms of business. We will also look at how new churches are being planted around the world every day under the banner of Fresh Expressions, new forms of church are being birthed amongst unreached people groups in long lost places (like business perhaps?)

We will also look at some of our new expressions of YWAM ministry in cities such as Canterbury, Bristol and Bradford. May you be encouraged by what God is doing in this historical moment of time in which we are fortunate to live. May your faith be expanded, and most of all, may you too would be able to say in your own life, I will trust God with my whole heart and trust He will always make my path straight……

G Welcome to the latest edition of YWAM England Advance.

It has been a year full of changes and transition. For me personally, but also for YWAM in general. I will go into this in more detail on pages 6 and 7 but for now, I am sad to say this is my last editorial as the National Leader. I will probably write again in this magazine in the future but in a different capacity and with a different hat!

The world itself is indeed changing and it is sometimes hard to keep on top of everything, whether it is technological development or political, or within our own fluctuating economy. What will the world look like in 10 or 20 years? No one knows, but God surely does. In fact He says to us in Proverbs 3:5 to trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding, in all of your ways, acknowledge Him and He will make your paths straight. I have always meditated on this scripture whenever I find myself in places I do not understand, or if I have unanswered questions that plague my mind. Do you ever feel like that?

Well I know I have felt that way once or twice in this last year! Everything changes, but God never changes and He remains a constant in our lives.

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alone. We need you! There are many ways to be involved in YWAM England:

Go! — Take six months to dive in deeper with God, knowing Him intimately and making Him known throughout the world with a Discipleship Training School! There are also opportunities to join us on short-term activities during the year. For more information on DTS or any of these activities, visit our website www.ywamengland.org or contact us at the address below.

Give! — We need your help to make an impact in the nations. If you could support us just £10 a month it would make a huge difference. You can give to YWAM online at www.ywamengland.org/donate where a Gift Aid form can also be downloaded, or send a cheque to the address below.

Pray! — Use the prayer points given in this magazine to assist you in praying for the work of YWAM. If you are not already on our mailing list, please send us your contact details by e-mail to [email protected] or to the National Support Team at the address below.

Would you prefer to receive communication from YWAM in electronic format? If so, get in touch with your email address and we will add you to the email list.

Advance Team: Helen Barrios, Shelly Brennan, Terry Elphick Rachael Howson, Michelle Russell, Carl Tinnion, Keith Whittaker

Contributors: Kevin Colyer, Deborah Cruz, Michael Green, Kyle Henderson-Begg, Andy Kennedy, Becky Mehaffey, Else Tarbett

Advance is published by YWAM England. © Copyright exists on all material in Advance and nothing within it may be reproduced wholly or in part without written permission.

Youth With A Mission England & Wales is a registered charity number 264078.

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E arly in January 2015, France experienced one of its worst security crises in decades. Three days of terror began with an attack on the

offices of a satirical magazine, and ended with two sieges and twenty people dead.

In the aftermath, faith communities that had existed relatively peacefully were gripped by mistrust and even fear of one another. But a young YWAMer has built genuine friendship with an African immigrant family, and is considered by them to be “one of the family”. This immigrant family all came from the same ethnic group, and retain their strong community identity even in Paris.

The YWAMer, who we shall call Daz, learned that, during the attacks, one member of that community was among the killers, and another a hero. Daz said,

Many of them feel threatened, both from extremism within the community and from retaliation from outside. They fear that if they do not teach their young the traditional ways, they will lose the peaceful values of their community’s homeland. As a speaker of their “mother tongue”, Daz is able not only to speak to their hearts but to share written and audio materials in their language. Pray for Daz’ interaction with this community, that they may hear the good news of Jesus in a culturally appropriate and understandable way-

“discovering through accounts of the prophets that Jesus is the straight path that brings us close to God. Pray that God would use this tragedy to show Daz’ friends their true identity in Him. Pray also for France, that this event will bring solidarity rather than division.” Becky Mehaffey

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According to a report by the CIA world factbook (2014) the total population of migrants in France is 6,680,000, of which 46% are Muslim. These may make up around 5% of France’s population, with another 5% being non-migrant Muslims.

Pray for the French people, especially believers in Jesus, to extend hands of genuine friendship to these minority peoples, opening their hearts and homes to them.

During our season of exploring Bristol, we were drawn to an area called Bedminster, which is located centrally, but south of the river. It is a great area for YWAM to be, there are many opportunities to serve and reach out. We are exploring what God has for us here and have already started a weekly drop-in for young people in Bedminster with the Salvation Army and Beydde Community Church. Soon we hope to start a regular worship and prayer night for local Christians as well as a regular youth worship night.

We are heavily involved in some Christian networks and serving other ministries and outreaches. We are constantly struck by the great need for mission in our nation. Everywhere we look we see people in need, physically; emotionally and spiritually. Kyle Henderson-Begg

B ristol really is, in our humble opinion, the best city in the world! A city of beauty, culture, boats, music, arts and festivals.

Bristol is also a city of innovation, Godly heritage and graffiti! It is such a privilege to be called by God to work in such a wonderful place. There has been a YWAM team in Bristol in the past, but not for many years, now we are here again and excited to explore what God has for us.

After three years of praying and visiting, Kyle and Rossie moved to Bristol in June 2013 but rather than coming with a master plan, they wanted to create an environment where ywamers could come, encourage each other and together explore what missions looks like in an urban context. Over the next 13 months God brought the rest of the team along. Now there are six of us working together, oh, and a baby. Kyle and Rossie’s.

When we first arrived God spoke very clearly, “Don’t do anything, but get to know the city, find out what I’m doing and where, also get to know the leaders of Bristol.” And so that is exactly what we have done, and it’s been brilliant. We have received such a wonderful welcome in Bristol with many Christian leaders saying “I don’t know if I have the authority to do so, but on behalf of the churches in Bristol, YWAM is welcome here!” It was so encouraging to hear that time and time again.

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“My friends are incredibly proud of the one who

saved people, but say of the killer that he is not true

to their culture or faith.”

These leaders saw themselves as servants or cultural leaders who led through the power of influence rather than the power of force. People chose to follow them as opposed to being made to follow or obey.

It is hard to find the centre of an organisation with such an approach. The title of this book suggests that a centralised leadership structure is rather like a spider; it dies if you take out the head. The starfish, however, has no centre and operates as a collaboration of cells. Each leg has all the DNA needed to be separate but chooses to operate as one. If you chop off a starfish’s leg it simply grows another one! Even more radical to comprehend, the cut off leg grows another starfish around it! The starfish is a network of networks.

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YWAM is not a Corporation, it doesn’t operate like a business, or a military system. We are a family of people on a journey of mission, we are a movement, and in many cases a movement of movements!! Having around 25,000 full time staff that do not get paid and training over 40,000 trainees every year all around the world, it is a pretty complicated organisation to manage. According to the word of the Lord given to us in the early days of our inception, the ‘glue’ that was to hold us together was a clear overarching vision, shared values and relationally orientated accountability amongst leaders.

You can imagine this is a very difficult thing to work out and maintain, but that is our calling. I have been the national leader for the last 5 years and it has been a profound learning experience for me and an unbelievable privilege as well. We are now moving to more of an ‘eldership’ approach in how we lead within a nation or a region. Not one person, but small groups of senior leaders that share leadership together, functioning like an eldership. Elderships bring cover - they are relational, they protect DNA, they train and coach new leaders. They do deal with issues but not in a transactional, top down manner. Elders make decisions together and decide who might be the best leader for the specific job in hand - whether it is conflict management, or public convening of meetings - leadership is therefore shared.

The other reason for change, and perhaps more importantly, is we believe God is preparing us for unprecedented growth all over the world. If we are to grow, we need a leadership structure and culture that will be able to carry this growth, to cope with it and to enable it to grow in a healthy way.

Y WAM, internationally has gone through a number of changes in the last few years and these changes have had a significant

effect on how we operate in England & Wales. I am going to try to give you the headlines of these changes and what that has meant for us.

Let me start by giving you an analogy from the book ‘The Starfish and The Spider’ (Brafman & Beckstrom 2006). It compares and contrasts two systems of leadership in South America. Both comparisons were during the Spanish Conquistador invasions in the 1500’s. The main strategy in bringing down the Aztecs was to target the main Chiefs of the tribes, by conning them into meeting and then mercilessly killing them. Their whole system of control and social order would immediately crumble with the removal of the main leader. When the victorious Spanish moved north to New Mexico, they adopted the same approach of killing the Apache Indians’ Chief but, to their surprise, another Chief simply stepped into the role. No matter how many times they removed a leader, another one appeared. The Apache had a culture of leadership ascendance within their tribal system. More than that, the tribe actually organised itself in a more decentralised fashion.

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So that is where we have arrived. I have stepped down from being the national leader and we have not replaced my role with one person but with a group of senior leaders that carry the work and share the load. It is rather like how a family might operate. We recognise there are not many models for us to look to but we believe this is the word of the Lord to us and we are doing it. Our leadership structure will reflect itself on our website and you will be able to contact the right person for the right job, whether it is for church discipleship, or youth work, or overseas missions.

Please feel free to dialogue with us if you have any questions. We appreciate your prayers as we enter this new season in YWAM’s journey. Carl Tinnion

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“YWAM has around 25,000 full time staff that do

not get paid, and trains over 40,000 trainees per

year internationally. ”

“We are a family of people on a journey of mission,

we are a movement, and in many cases a

movement of movements.”

“We believe God is preparing us for unprecedented

growth all over the world. If we are to grow, we need

a leadership structure and culture that we will be able to carry this growth, to cope

with it and to enable it to grow in a healthy way.”


Schools ask us to tackle all sorts of themes in Assemblies. Recently, I talked about the Plumb Line from Amos as part of their series on

“Messages from the Prophets”. At another school we took two assemblies based on the theme of ‘Creativity’. The young people loved exploring the concept of God who creates ‘ex nihilo’, that is ‘out of nothing’. Another school asked that we look at

“The Bible - 66 books, one author”.

In RE classes, we have taught on hearing God’s voice and had the youngsters practise! We often teach on what prayer and worship mean in the lives of Christians, dispelling many myths with YouTube clips from around the world. During the build up to Christian festivals we teach on the Trinity, Holy Spirit, the real meaning of Christmas, Jesus and the Resurrection and much more!

The Emmaus Roadshow, located at YWAM Kings Lodge, is our most developed programme, lasting 90 minutes for each school group. At one end of the 40ft trailer is a 3D cinema showing a film about the life and times of Jesus. The Cybernet cafe, with specially designed software, allows children to explore the Bible overview, characters, the tabernacle and centre of Jewish worship, the Temple. The last exhibit is a beautiful large scale model of the Temple. We share many New Testament stories which took place in and around the Temple. There is a large screen where a 6 minute film narrates the history and significance of the Temple and its origins from the desert tabernacle. The kids love building their own temple with Lego pieces and wooden blocks. Many children tell me at the end, “that was the best RE ever!”!

I would love to see a larger full-time Schools team emerge. The doors are wide open. The harvest is ripe. Please consider adopting us in prayer. Please pray about coming to help and lead this ministry forward. Andy Kennedy

A fter 10 full and exciting years with YWAM in Scotland, in 2002 Maged Kalta and The King’s Lodge leadership team invited to

me to come help them reach a lost generation of 5-14s in that part of England!

10 YWAMers from 10 nations; it really allows young people to get up close to someone from a culture they’d never otherwise meet. They learn Chinese or Korean script writing, do Tae Kwando, and even Latino dance grooves. Schools love the international flavours we as YWAM can bring to them. We have sent many DTS groups visiting or living at the Lodge into classrooms to share culture language, games and of course their expression of Christian faith. I love it when I invade a class of 30 with

Currently I am able to reach, with other staff at the Kings Lodge, around 1500 young people every month. We are regularly involved in Christian assemblies, Religious Education (RE) classes, multi-faith days, one lunchtime club, one after-school club and the Emmaus Roadshow. I love the gas leak effect we always get when entering a school hall as the young people emit a long “yessssssssss!”

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How many art forms have influenced you today? Have you listened to a song on the radio? Seen a photo, video or painting? Have you read a poem or novel? Watched a film or TV drama last night?

The quality of arts in public arenas is competitively high, being judged by a sophisticated society, used to being ‘wowed’ by special effects, costuming period dramas and highly produced sound. A song woos us, a painting captivates, a hero (or anti-hero) endears us, they all get to our heart before our guard is raised!

But what about the content and messages…? That, of course depends upon the “taste” and agenda of the director, choreographer or writer. It’s obvious that the majority of content we ingest is not in accord with Christian values. We’re more or less aware of that and a few of us do interrogate what we’ve seen, heard, and experienced through the grid of God’s reality to tease out truth and separate it from falsehood. Most of us just absorb it and become squeezed into the world’s mould, or live with contradictory messages inside of us, creating confusion. So, what if there were strongly artistic people who identified themselves with Jesus Christ? What if there were creative people, investing their God-given talents until they bring a multiplied return of powerful images, music, literature and movement? Well, God has been preparing the ground and from now on we’ll see more and more break out on the world in a rainbow of expressivity!

One thing still lacks – places for those Christ-centred artists in bud, to bloom. Whilst there is a growing number of Christian learning

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environments, whether courses, internships or apprenticeship schemes, we still need more; havens where artists are nurtured, so they’ll produce what you listen to, watch and are entertained by tomorrow. Arts ministries now up and running in YWAM England are:

Taboo Arts, based in London at YWAM Urban Key. They have seen tremendous growth with an arts internship and Arts DTS every year. They explore a diverse range of art forms and innovate at Notting Hill carnival. They have sights on Camden, one of the key artistic hubs of our capital.

YWAM Leeds: Their aim is to work with young people through creative projects/initiatives and see them grow creatively and in an understanding of their Maker. They want to see cultures mix, the voiceless heard, lives transformed and God celebrated in their community.

Awakenings, at YWAM Harpenden. In this high achieving town, they are pioneering an artistic community. They want to be bold in the free spiritedness of the Holy Spirit and excellent in their endeavours. Deborah Cruz

“The truth is the arts mould and shape us all

on a regular basis.”

We are amazed at all that has taken place in such a short period of time. Just over a year ago, we received an unexpected donation for “IT Training in East Africa.” The donor, a DTS alumni, knew that we weren’t currently doing this, but felt that we would steward the resources for maximum long-term results. Having the money before the project is a unique situation for YWAM! And God’s timing is amazing. A year earlier we lacked the experience to initiate and implement such projects, but in the last eighteen months we have seen several highly experienced IT professionals join us at YWAM Harpenden. So with this small and passionate team, we set about exploring what opportunities God would have us come alongside in East Africa.

Currently we have the privilege of partnering with two existing businesses in Uganda. We are working with Dr. Ian Clarke, who built two of the premier hospitals in Uganda (not to mention being Mayor of a Kampala district), on the foundation of business, not charity.


His numerous initiatives are run by Ugandans for Ugandans, despite him being a doctor originally from Northern Ireland. In the more rural context of northern Uganda, we are partnering with an existing business that focuses on vocational training and community businesses, to pilot an IT literacy course. Our aim is to help young people consider IT as a realistic vocation.

This raises lots of questions for us as YWAM; after all, we are not “in the business” of business. However, often the best models that we have seen for bringing long-term improvements to basic living standards, are self-sustaining businesses, not charities. Charities always require donors, and often these reside outside of the country being impacted, raising the potential for dependency. Businesses are, by definition, self-sustaining and provide a replicable model that engenders self-worth, a positive work ethic, and enables people to, in Jesus’ terminology, multiply the talents that they have been given. A survey of over 60,000 of the “poor”, sited that two of the main reasons that people gave for moving out of poverty were finding jobs and starting businesses. (Narayan, Pritchett and Kapoor, 2009).

As YWAM, we’ve been given an extraordinary wealth of cross cultural experience, understanding of the Kingdom of God, His nature and character, not to mention what seems like connections in every

N aomi dreams of developing a healthcare data analytics service for Uganda after witnessing her sister die in

childbirth due to lack of basic medical assistance. Kenneth is from war-weary northern Uganda and

“would simply like to be part of a life changing community”. Joshua has a dream of using smart-phone and breathalyzer technology, to create an affordable tool for use in the developing world to quickly and cheaply screen for tuberculosis. But it’s more than a dream; he’s already developed a prototype and just needs some help to turn it into a business. These are just three examples of the students that have just begun our “Advanced Certificate in Applied IT and Healthcare Leadership.” It’s a bit of a mouthful that we haven’t been able to reduce to a suitable snappy YWAM TLA (Three Letter Acronym). However, even though the course is part of the International Health Sciences University Kampala, it has been initiated, funded and guided by YWAM. It represents the tip of what we hope will be a transforming impact on healthcare in East Africa. We’re dreaming of an innovations centre, business accelerator, “Dragon’s Den” style funding, IT outsourcing, and all focused on the nexus of IT, Healthcare and East Africa.

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sphere of society and in every country. So given that we have been so blessed, how are we to be a blessing? What is our responsibility? As Marcus Steffen encourages us to expand the reach of the University of the Nations courses, we also believe that we are to be forming “Institutes” that sit alongside the U of N and provide a two-way bridge into the spheres of society.

If that sounds a little vague, it is. But, we are doing our best to flesh out what a Business Institute could look like. And in Uganda, that just might look like YWAMers teaching a university student who has an idea for foetal heart-rate monitors that combine a smart phone with a traditional listening cone, and a friend of YWAM providing seed capital to build a prototype, and a former YWAMer guiding it through clinical trials, and another YWAMer providing the link to the Ugandan Health Ministry to distribute it to rural health clinics. It just might . . . Michael Green

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culture of the people they are reaching, exploring discipleship with them and then letting a form of worship emerge.

Although it is early days, the stories that are emerging from the network capture it’s passion well. In Sheffield, David and Jennifer Fletcher told about the expression they started that reaches Polish people, who were originally rough sleeping but now have homes and are seeking work. A number have problems with alcohol but all are welcomed to Jesus, in a close and loving community.

The newly formed YWAM Canterbury have planted one café church already and have just started planting another in the Asda café on Saturdays. YWAM Carlisle continues to support The Way, a fresh expression for students. Matthew Firth of The Way says “The long and the short of it is that a new church has been planted and is beginning to show signs of growth in Carlisle, and it was all sparked off by the amazing people from YWAM starting up the Student Dinners project”

The network has plans to meet a couple of times this year in different parts of the UK. The network is open to all - not just full time YWAMers - and will offer encouragement, support and training. They aim to start a minimum of 25 expressions by 2020. Kevin Colyer

January marked the beginning of a new YWAM Fresh Expression Network. Kevin Colyer welcomed the first meeting in Reading with

the support of the YWAM Reading team. Twenty people came together to learn more about Fresh Expressions and how effective it is and to share what they are already doing

Fresh Expressions is a new movement of church planting across different streams of churches in the UK. YWAM has become a partner alongside The Salvation Army, the United Reformed church, the Methodist church and the Church of England.

Fresh Expressions of church care for and serve people outside of the church and adapt to their context. They listen to the people they serve and enter their worlds. They form disciples and journey with people to Jesus. They express church where life happens and are not a bridge to an existing church, but a form of church for others in the midst of their lives.

Some Fresh Expressions are cell churches, some meet in Cafés or Pubs, some are Messy churches. Some are modern monastic communities, others are simple churches meeting in homes. All are dedicated to forming genuine community in the


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Here is a bit about his life and story.

Samy knew from early in his adult life that God was calling him to reach out to people who were struggling in society. After studying sociology at university, then completing a YWAM Discipleship Training Course (DTS), Samy initially met people with drug addictions in his first job as a social worker in a hospital for the mentally ill. At that time, there was little known about how to support people with addiction; Samy volunteered, ‘I’ve got Jesus, I can help’ and his heart for this kind of therapy grew. After 5 years, Samy came, from Egypt, to England to further his studies. The need for a placement brought Samy to London and introduced him to YWAM in England.

Samy has cared for the broken in society in both Egypt and England in different professional capacities, often pioneering work: starting a centre for drug & alcohol prevention, then a rehab, a detox unit for addicts pre-rehab, a half-way house/ safe house for post-rehab, and, in partnership with Tearfund, as part of a team, a drug rehab centre as well as seasons of being a professional counsellor.

In Nov 2000, the Lord clearly said to resign, and continue to do the same work but this time without a salary. Without knowing why, Samy, along with his wife and 2 sons, followed God’s lead and joined YWAM fulltime reopening Earl’s Court Community Project (ECCP) in 2001.

With the recession 10 years later the reason became clear. Many agencies in the voluntary caring charitable sector struggled to survive. YWAM doesn’t rely on government funding and survived better than lots of other small charities, continuing and expanding in ministry - caring for the vulnerable and developing a community that people can join easily to find healing and restoration. In western society, particularly cities like London, life is fast and many people can’t cope with keeping up.

Samy believes ‘there is a need for Christians to offer working models in the West on how to reach out to the broken in society, introduce Jesus, and meet people’s needs in a holistic way (practical, emotional, and spiritual); this model can be replicated.’

On a weekly basis, ECCP runs from 5 locations, with 3 counselling centres, 2 drop ins, friendship clubs for women, food distribution, street evangelism, prison ministry, chaplaincy work in hospital, home visits, weekly feeding 100 people a 2 course cooked hot meal, run discipleship & bible study groups, and offer Christian Counselling Certificate and Diploma Courses to equip other Christians to reach-out.

ECCP, of which Samy is still the project leader, focusses on reaching people who fall outside of society: drug addicts, homeless people, ex-forces, ex-offenders, people who are struggling with mental illness; depression, anxiety, eating disorders and OCD. ‘We aim to ease the pain of the people – empowering them to have a choice to change their reality.’ They also seek to bring awareness and opportunity to the church, providing a way to channel church resources into areas where it is most needed.

Samy has a heart to see many more people cared for, loved and brought into healing and restoration. ECCP is doing a great job and there is still so much more that can be done. Rachael Howson

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I am beginning to understand the power of scripture afresh. It is powerful and effective to change the thoughts and attitudes of my heart but also to change the spiritual climate and touch individuals. All I need to do is read it! The Holy Spirit loves to work with the word of God and as I read it aloud He releases it to work in people’s lives. For me that is a fresh impetus to pray and read! Else Tarbitt

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Philippines and the first daily on-site intercession time. As I prepared I knew God had spoken that

we should read Luke’s gospel out loud. There were only 3 of us and it took 3 hours, with one short break. We prayed briefly at the beginning.

At the end I asked God what we had achieved. In my imagination, I offered up my Bible and as I did it disintegrated into a myriad of silver swords flying in all directions. The scripture from Hebrews 4 came to mind:

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Discipleship Training Schools (DTS) Discipleship Training School …………………... London ………… Oct 2015, Apr and Oct 2016, Discipleship Training School …………………... Harpenden ……. July 2015 (with Next Wave) Sept 2015 Discipleship Training School …………………... The King’s Lodge . . . Sept 2015 Discipleship Training School …………………... Holmsted Manor . . . Sept 2015, Jan and July 2016 Discipleship Training School …………………... Carlisle ………… Sept 2015Year For God ………………………………… Holmsted Manor . . . Aug 2015 Feb and Aug 2016 Urban Discipleship Training School …………….. Wales …………. Sept 2015 DTS Revival & Reformation ………………….... Cambridge …….. Sept 2015 DTS Evangelism/Mercy Ministries ……………… London ………… July 2015, Apr 2016 DTS “Taboo Arts” Revolution …………………. London ………… Aug 2015, Jan 2016 DTS Crossroads……………………………… Harpenden ……. Sept 2015 DTS British Sign Language . …………………... The King’s Lodge . . . Jan 2016 DTS Encounter, all ages. ………………….…... The King’s Lodge . . . Mar 2016DTS Mission …………………………… …... Holmsted Manor . . . Sept 2015 Further Training Chronological SBS………………………….... . Cambridge …….. Sept 2015 TESOL ………….…………………………… Harpenden ……. Apr 2015School of Ministry Development . .……………… Holmsted Manor . . . Apr 2015/16 Leadership in Ministry Development……………. London ………… Apr and Oct 2015, Mar 2016 Bible Core Course ………….………………… London ………... Jan 2016 Foundations for Counselling Ministry …………... London ………... Sept 2015 SORJ Reconciliation Walk…………... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Luton …………. Sept 2015Directed Reading in Biblical Studies ……………. The King’s Lodge . . . Sept 2015 SBS 1 (Sept) SBS 2 (Jan) SBS 3 (Apr) ……………. The King’s Lodge . . . Sept 2015 Jan & Apr 2016 English for Missions ………………………….. The King’s Lodge . . . Sept 2015 Courses where DTS is not a pre-requisite: Arts Internships ……………………………… London Urban Key… June 2015, Jan 2016 Worship Internships ………………………… London Urban Key… July 2015 PCYM Internship: Principles of Children and Youth.. . London Urban Key… July 2015 Music, Media and Missions Internships…………... London Urban Key… Sept 2015 Breakthrough Internship………………………. London Urban Key… Jan 2016Various counselling courses …………………… London Earls Court Community Project Sept 2015, Jan, Sept 2016

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ray 1 Thank God for the way He is leading YWAM internationally at this time.

Please pray for blessing over the leadership of YWAM England & Wales, for grace & wisdom for the new groups of leaders and those they are leading.

2 Thank God for the many new partnerships that YWAM is developing: YWAM Harpenden with the University of Kampala, Uganda. Pray for the Ugandan students trained and equipped through the IT programme to

achieve their dreams and improve society around them. Bristol, ‘Fresh Expressions’ and King’s Lodge with local churches and schools. Pray for continued opportunities to network and minister.

YWAM Arts teams partnering with many artists to release their God-given creativity to influence society through many forms of the Arts with the Holy Spirit.

3 Pray for Hope. Hope for those affected by the attacks in Paris: for more workers to go to France and share the gospel of hope. Hope for all those who go through the doors of ECCP and experience the love and hope of Christ through that ministry.

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