Global Mission Network

The Global Mission Network includes those who have a heart for and/or involvement with:

The unreached peoples
Cross cultural ministry
The world’s poorest
Those of other faiths
Communities of unreached within Europe

All are welcome to come to our first network meeting, proposed for 11 May, convening in Harpenden. This is a re-launch of what has been called the Overseas Missionary Leadership Team in days of yore! People from all across the UK shall be invited.

This will be a “big picture” event- sharing vision and expertise, finding out what is happening in and from the UK, and looking forward to what God has for us in the future. Opportunities for further involvement/ exploration shall be presented.

Updates from Overseas Missions:

BRITCARE

There is now a team of 4 who help sustain British YWAMers working overseas. They offer prayer and correspondence, debriefing, advice, and acting as a UK headquarters for the 300+ people on our list.

DEBRIEF TRAINING

Around 20 trained in Derby last year to be prepared to debrief those who have returned from the field on furlough or long term. This included trauma debrief training, as events like the Japanese tsunami and Arab world uprisings inevitably affect YWAMers.

MISSIONS TRAINING

It was good to meet with DTS staff at the Cardiff DTS gathering- lists of teachers and other resources are available for school leaders preparing the missions content for their schools. We have again reached the benchmark of the “Code of Best Practice in Short Term Missions” which all of our schools and programmes will review next year.

Our former Beijing to London staff members Mel and Nat are now running missions courses to see more Brits from African / Caribbean backgrounds released into their calling to the nations! Those of us who spoke in their first course found the group amazing!

COURSES

Our School of Frontier Missions (SOFM) trainees in Scotland are now on their 2 year placements.
A new course, Foundations in Community Development (FCD), will launch in the UK in September at Harpenden.
The School of Islamic Studies (SIS) will begin once again in Harpenden in April 2012.

THE LEAST REACHED

The 4K Omega Zone scheme is being developed again, this resource shall equip us to identify where the greatest spiritual and physical needs of the nations are, and share resources with others who have these locations in their focus.

Let’s renew our commitment to those unreached people to whom God has called us- if we are only doing what is possible we are not being all that God has called YWAM to be!

Info: Becky Mehaffey bmehaffey@ywam.org.uk