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YWAM Nordland is here to serve those around us. Below are several ways we work to contribute to our community and society as a whole.

Youth Work
One of our main focus is to invest in children and youth. A safe atmosphere allows them to be themselves and make good friends. We do this through camps and youth clubs in the community.

Local Ministry
We involve ourselves in our village and nearby communities by helping in schools, doing practical work, helping with events and encouraging local Christians who might be the only ones in their area. 

Café Nordlys
In October 2020, we opened a café to serve our neighbours. The name of our café means "Northern Lights". We want people to see God in a new light and be awestruck by who He is. Our goal is to build relationships and create a place that brings life to our village. 

Pioneered in 2011 by Mark Anderson, this base is strategically located in Kansas City near the International House of Prayer as a product of nearly two decades of planning for the joining of missions and prayer to fulfill the Great Commission. Here at YWAM Kansas City, we offer three different schools with different emphases to train you in evangelism, the Bible, church planting, and more! YWAM KC also hosts numerous seminars and events throughout the year to build up those hungry to know God and make Him known.

Châtel is a 5-acre training center and Christian community providing training for students desiring to minister through an integrated approach to wholeness in counseling and who desire to bless the nations, especially in the developing world, using these skills. Our second objective is to be a community where restoration can happen.

Each of us is involved not only in our area of specialty, but also in the day to day operations of the community. This draws us together and provides an environment where living and learning are interwoven. Through hospitality we provide a place of rest and meditation. The beautiful setting has ministered to many visitors.

There are always opportunities for short term volunteers who would like to come spend a few weeks to a few months with us!

YWAM Ensenada is one of the ministries pioneered by YWAM San Diego/Baja (founded in 1991). The Ensenada campus is nestled on the coast of Baja, Mexico, just an hour and a half south (75 miles/118 k) of the U.S. border.

We offer schools such as the Discipleship Training School (DTS), Bible Core Course (BCC) and the School of Worship (SOW), as well as the Mission Adventures and Homes of Hope programs. We also host international conferences as well as local events such as concerts, skate board and graffiti competitions. YWAM Ensenada recently acquired new property toward the beach front and to the south, enabling us to host more programs simultaneously.

YWAM Yosemite's mission is to equip visionary leaders to reach the nations.

Our base is located in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada mountains, just 20 minutes away from the entrance to Yosemite National Park.

We send outreaches to Thailand, Nepal, and the Middle East, and we are committed to seeing these nations discipled through YWAM's threefold ministry model of training, evangelism, and mercy ministry.

By serving here, you are helping to train, equip, and release young people into these nations and every sphere of society to see the world reached for Christ!

For more of our story, you can visit https://www.ywamyosemite.org/about-ywam-yosemite

University of the Nations Kona is one of the largest U of N campuses in the world and exists to train and send out YWAM missionaries to serve in all spheres of society. University of the Nations, Kona campus is home to a diverse network of ministries that support YWAM's mission to "Know God and Make Him Known" through evangelistic endeavors, training and mercy ministries.

Founded on biblical principles, the University of the Nations (U of N) fulfills its commitment to Christ and His Great Commission by equipping men and women with spiritual, cultural, intellectual and professional training, and inspiring them to both continually grow in their personal relationship with God while also seeking to make Him known among all peoples in all nations. The U of N employs a modular system with 12 weeks of classroom coursework. Some courses require field internships or field assignments in their area of study.

Some of the distinct characteristics of the U of N include: a live-learn lifestyle, intensive modular courses and immediate field application, a creative atmosphere in the classroom, one-on-one contact between staff and students, cross-cultural and multi-cultural training, and“Multiplier for Missions”. The University seeks to broaden the scope of evangelistic endeavors by equipping students to serve in all spheres of society and in all nations, being both ‘salt’ and ‘light’ to the world (Matthew 5). To achieve this, we teach students to think biblically, discern spiritually and apply scriptural truth to every area of life. The U of N offers Associate’s degrees, Bachelor’s degrees, Graduate Diplomas and Master’s degrees from its seven faculties. These faculties are: Arts and Sports, Christian Ministries, Communication, Counseling and Health Care, Education, Humanities and International Studies, Science and Technology. At this time, approximately 15,000 students are taking one or more registered courses in 97 languages, across 142 nations, in 600 locations each year.

University of the Nations, Kona owes much of its growth and substance to the work of short-term volunteers who serve in a wide variety of practical ways. Mission Builders have played a major role in making the U of N Kona campus what it is today. They serve the Kona campus in many ways, assisting with everything from carpentry and maintenance to food services, grounds keeping and secretarial work. These wonderful volunteers have found it's a challenging and spiritually refreshing experience -- and a great way to make new friends from around the world.

Those volunteers who would be interested in serving in the kitchen, housekeeping, grounds and other general logistical areas need to be able to serve for a full quarter, as you will come onto the campus as a part of the Kokua Specialists team for orientation and begin volunteering at the start of the new school session, and stay through until the school session has finished. It’s a wonderful, challenging and rewarding location to serve for those who have the time and ability to invest three months into this growing and dynamic training campus.

Kona only has beds for 110 volunteers in their Mission Building housing and often are hosting 150 volunteers at a time, so you can understand the need for consistency through the entire quarter! Professional construction workers can apply to serve at Kona at any time and for any length of time you are available. We are also looking for volunteers who are willing to work in our kitchen, and if possible, who could make a one-year commitment.

You will have numerous opportunities to interact with our staff and students at meal times, work and community events and to enjoy worship and teaching weekly on Thursday evenings with the entire staff and student body. Your weekends are free to explore our island paradise.

YWAM Redding's vision is to train up revivalists to transform the Muslim world. Located in Redding CA, a city where revival is consider normal Christianity, we run multiple training schools all throughout the year and send outreach teams to some of the most unreached areas of the world. Our base directors, Jachin and Sarah, heard from the Lord in 2013 about pioneering a base focused on these areas and thus was born YWAM Redding.

The heartbeat of our base is centered on worship, prayer, and evangelism. Along with running schools, we've founded an initiative to get a Bible into every home in the Bay Area. We regularly send groups to cities like Fremont and Oakland to saturate neighborhoods with the Word of God, going door to door with Bibles and ministering to many.

Along with these great focuses, we are committed to living daily in healthy community with each other. We have weekly small groups, family nights, and worship times to connect with the Lord and each other.

There are many great ministries in Redding such as Bethel Church, Burn 24-7, and many local churches. We love to partner and facilitate unity with the greater move of God that's happening within so many groups and in so many places around the world.

Our vision is to equip, train and commission people of all ages whose passion for Jesus will impact the needy and make disciples in the cities of Northern California as well as unreached people groups and developing nations around the world. We do this through life-changing training schools, outreaches, youth ministries, and serving and partnering with the body of Christ.

Our beautiful location at Richardson Springs, outside of Chico, CA, is home to a thriving Youth With A Mission training center with approximately 50 full-time staff.

We offer the following foundational schools:
The Discipleship Training School every September and January for ages 18 - 30, Crossroads Discipleship Training School for those 30 and over, single and/or single with children, this school usually runs in September, and the Family Discipleship School for married couples with or without children, this school traditionally begins in April.

In addition to these schools we also the secondary school, School of Biblical Studies, it is currently running on a 9 month course and begins in September. We have goals of offering a broader span of schools as the Lord leads and prepares the way.

An active place year-round, YWAM Chico is a great place to volunteer. There are always maintenance and operations jobs to work on, so bring your skills (and your RV, if you have one). Join the fun for minimum of 2 weeks or a maximum of 3 months. We can use whatever skills you have to offer! Several of our buildings require extensive remodeling work as well as ongoing maintenance and there's plenty of painting needs year round. We also have need for a small engine mechanic, plumbers and carpenters.

The team at YWAM Provence is in an exciting rebuilding phase. Our goal or vision is to disciple France and the French-speaking world and beyond to be disciplers of nations through worship, intercession, evangelism and the fortifying of leadership. We aim to realize this goal through training, encouraging, acting, mobilizing and serving.

Currently, we have a mini multi-generational Discipleship Training School planned for the fall and a Foundations in Intercultural Studies School planned for next spring. We also have a great heart to reach out to the people here in the St Paul region of France.

There is always a need for help with practical work, both indoors and outdoors, so we welcome any volunteers who would like to come to help in these preparations.

YWAM Ketchikan is primarily a ministry of connecting cultures, with the purpose of mobilizing Southeast Alaska Natives into missions. It is about connecting cultures of tribal peoples for the purpose of advancing the ministry and message of Jesus Christ to unreached indigenous people through discipleship, training, raising the standard of excellence in leadership, and encouraging intimate relationship with the Lord.

Our hope is that there will be a release of young Southeast Alaska Natives into missions, sharing Jesus through their culture to tribal peoples around the world who await the news of the One True Creator - that they too can know and worship Him within the context of their own culture.