The YWAM Blog

culture

How to Dress Like a Local In Korea

Posted in ,

My Experience I’m Korean-American and grew up often visiting family in Seoul. Later in life, I spent a year working on Jeju Island. In my experiences traveling back and forth from the motherland, I’ve faced various cultural differences both when visiting Korea and adjusting back to the States. These differences include how people dress. Seasonal…

Continue Reading

Does God have emotions?

Posted in

What if I told you that God was an emotional God? You’d probably tell me I’m crazy. Imagine a God who felt like we did? The truth is that God has emotions. He feels like we do. All throughout the Bible we see a God who rejoices at truth, grieves over suffering, and yes, gets…

Continue Reading

From South Africa: A God Who Speaks

Posted in ,

One day we were in a local community praying for anybody who was sick. Our team walked around and went door to door asking if there was anybody in need of healing, in hopes that we could pray for them. While we were making our way around, we came across two ladies who were lounging…

Continue Reading
YWAM DTS Youth With A Mission Louisville

Love Softens the Heart: Daniel’s Testimony

Posted in , , ,

It was a chilly Thursday afternoon. A group of us DTS students had gone to a bus stop to love others and share about Jesus by handing out free hot chocolate and praying for people. As we were doing so a man with a limp approached us. His first words to us were, “Why are…

Continue Reading
YWAM DTS Youth With A Mission Louisville

Caleb’s Outreach Testimony

Posted in , , , , ,

It’s a challenge to say exactly what my favorite experience in Mexico was, but I think I’ve narrowed it down. For starters, I loved the team that I co-lead for Bible distribution and park ministry. We got along well and just wanted to share Jesus with people. On the last day of my team’s Bible…

Continue Reading
YWAM Mission Trip

How to Hear the Voice of God

Posted in

I remember the first time I sat down to spend time with God with the full intention of hearing what he had to say. I had my Bible, my journal, my cup of coffee; I was ready. I was focused, eager, and slightly terrified. “What if I can’t hear anything? What if I am the…

Continue Reading
YWAM DTS Youth With A Mission Louisville

The Power of a Prayer

Posted in , , , ,

It was a Tuesday afternoon in Cyprus. One of our Discipleship Training School students, Patrick, and I went throughout the city to do surveys with people as a way to connect and share the Gospel. We weren’t seeing a lot of breakthrough because most of the people we spoke with were closed off, didn’t speak…

Continue Reading