![]() ![]() Loren Cunningham was the son of two Assemblies of God itinerant preachers. The mission would emerge from and reflect the spiritual roots of the founder himself. ![]() YWAM would grow to become one of the largest Christian movements in the world, attracting many thousands of students and missionaries, both part-time and full-time, united by shared ethos and vision. YWAM recruited young people (most of whom had no formal university education) as well as non-Westerners, and formed a highly decentralized and innovative movement. However, his mission was anything but traditional, as its very purpose was to construct a new model. Cunningham was attempting to paint Youth With A Mission-which he had started nineteen years earlier-as a credible Christian ministry. “We’re a mission organization that is traditional in every sense,” declared Loren Cunningham in a television special celebrating the birth of YWAM. From Short-Term Missions to Discipling Nations ![]()
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