faithactionreconciliation

So some of you reading this may not be part of YWAM and some are but wouldn't call yourselves leaders, but I guess I wanted to add a paragraph on an upcoming event that I'm helping to organise. YWAM was founded by youth, zeal, vision, perserverance, and a simple call from God. Any organisation or club started in such a way faces the challenge of becoming institutionalised. Amazingly often the successes of the past can imprison the future. The many buildings bought in the 70's and the strategies and programmes initiated by YWAM back in the day, can in some ways restrict a new generation of leaders now.

In April about 200 seasoned and un-seasoned leaders of YWAM in Western Europe will be gathering in the Netherlands for a 4 day 'consultation' on how we are doing as YWAM on this continent today and what we have still to do. It promises to be a time of enlightenment, sorrow as we reflect on some of our failure and hope as we look to a bright future, a future of returning to the roots of what YWAM was founded to be...a bunch of slightly reckless pioneers, going where others had never dared to go.

If YWAM is to prosper it will be as we continue to release new waves of young pioneers, free to wander as they are led, and free to find God in the daunting but at times beautiful maze of post modern consciousness, and free to bring many others to the light that they find at the heart of the maze.