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		<title>Introducing the Pratten Family</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2014 12:42:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We joined Mercy Ships in 1995 and then moved to YWAM Harpenden. We are now in Lanner near Redruth, Cornwall, where Julia grew up. We have two fantastic daughters, Hannah (15) and Abi (12) and we are the carers for Julia’s father, John. We want to be a catalyst for prayer, mission and discipleship in Cornwall. We do this through connections; serving, building relationships with churches and other organisations; facilitating outreach teams and hospitality. Already, DTS outreach teams have served churches; alongside local missions and shared their faith. We helped with the Scripture Union beach mission, took 20 teenagers to Soul Survivor and are supporting youth groups. John Wesley brought revival here. There is beautiful coastline but also areas of great poverty. It is great to be part of Hope Cornwall 2014 &#8211; to raise up young people into a lifestyle of mission and see 60 young people involved in mission in the towns of west Cornwall. Do you want to see ministry develop in Cornwall?]]></description>
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		<title>Leadership Gathering &#8211; WELG</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2014 12:36:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The historic city of Lyon, home to one of YWAM’s most creative urban teams, was the host city for our bi-annual Western European Leadership Gathering last month. This year we had over 250 participants, and also included a number of YWAMers from Central Europe. The WELG is designed to be an environment where a tangible sense of “family” is felt while simultaneously providing momentum for new urban engagement by our missionary teams throughout Europe. During the gathering we had extended times of prayer and worship. YWAM Lyon’s leaders Laurence and Lucas Munoz shared their passion for street art and evangelism. (Check them out at www.jem-lyon.com.) One of YWAM’s founding fathers Lynn Green challenged us to dream bigger dreams and see another major wave of YWAM missionaries released. Following this theme, Carl Tinnion spoke about the need to embrace the chaos of growth and increased fruitfulness. The Central European attendees often come from very different situations from those in Western Europe. In our Western region we have large bases with scores of staff. In Central Europe there are often entire nations with only a handful of staff, sometimes just individuals or couples courageously working away to bring transformation to their nation. Therefore, a theme for our last two gatherings has been to encourage our work in Central Europe and to see an acceleration of teams and outreach into nations such as Albania, Bosnia, Serbia, Romania and the Czech Republic. When organising one of these events we always need to make a choice. Do we go for a rural retreat centre, perfect for conferences but far away from cities, or do we go for a downtown feel in the heart of a city we are working in, but with the headaches of finding accommodation, meeting space, and eating space for 250+ people? With this gathering we went for the city centre option. This created a conference environment where we were walking for 30 minutes at a time from hostel to main venue and from there to our lunch, dinner and afternoon workshop space, and back again to the main venue for the evening meeting. Sure, this was a bit of a hassle, but it also meant that at the end of four days, over a hundred YWAMers had each given out at least two Gospels of Luke each to random people we met. We also walked several miles around a beautiful, modern European city, just like one of the two dozen in which we hope to pioneer new teams in the coming few years. The city itself became one of the most memorable aspects of the gathering, a living visual aid. Author: Jonny Clark]]></description>
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		<title>Missionaries Lifestyle &#8211; The Tribe</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2014 11:36:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Everything changed for us when we realised that Mission was not just an action of the Church but was a part of the character of God. Mission is less about a change of location and more about the change of our heart; to have the heart of God is to have a heart postured for mission &#8211; His mission. This begs for a new framework that every believer can be a part of. And we feel it’s YWAM’s role to step up and help make that happen for all believers. Every mission movement has had two elements to remain sustainable: community and teaching.  Where those two happened, mission was always sustainable. In this digital age, spreading the idea of community further and bring teaching deeper is possible thus enabling a larger mission movement than ever before.  YWAM has created one of the best frameworks in the world for career missionaries. It has a framework that sits on a foundation made up of 18 values that keep us innovative, global, young and flexible.  While this framework works well for career missionaries, what about all those who feel called to be missionaries in their different careers or as we call them ‘Lifestyle Missionaries’ In order to facilitate this, we’ve been developing The Tribe! First, we needed people to be able to create learning communities of friends on mission together. So what is the irreducible minimum to see sustainable mission?  Here it is in 14 words.  “Invite Others.  Gather Regularly.  Eat Together.  Pray Expectantly.  Learn Scripture.  Bless Locally.  Engage Globally.” Secondly we needed to fuel these communal fires of mission happening in homes, coffee shops, staffrooms etc. We designed a mobile app that can be downloaded into any phone and will carry the seed for anyone to start a community of lifestyle missionaries. When Jesus sent out the disciples, he teamed them up, told them to pack light and instructed them to focus on building deep relationships wherever they went. But for some reason in some cases our attempt to improve on the calling of Jesus we started chasing the next ‘Big Thing’ and lost sight of that original plan.  We put programmes above relationships, the multitude above the ‘one anothers’ and we somehow choked the adventure out of following Jesus. So maybe its time to get back to the heart of the kingdom where small is better than big, together is better than alone, collaboration replaces competition and everyone is moving at the speed of love. Grab a friend or two, visit us at wearethetribe.org and get started.  After all we can’t change the world alone.  Author:  Matt Whitlock &#8211; The Tribe &#160; &#160;]]></description>
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		<title>New Adventures &#8211; Croatia</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2014 11:19:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jarod and Bexi Graham, former YWAM England staff and Next Wave crew, are helping to re-pioneer YWAM Croatia. Good day… or ‘Dobar Dan!’ as they say here in Croatia.   In March 2013, we moved to Croatia to help re-pioneer a YWAM work in the country. But our journey began much earlier. Our time on the Next Wave, 2006-08, was such a rich and valuable experience. Apart from being the place where we met, it was an incredible environment for growth and leadership development. In the two years on board, we were able to see how sailing is a great tool for discipleship and evangelism. We then spent two years at Holmsted Manor, where, using small boats off the coast of Brighton, we were able to run the sailing DTS. We knew we wanted to continue to work with boats, but where? We heard about the Croatian coastline and its many inhabited islands. It was also one of three countries in Central Europe with no YWAM presence. God began stirring something in our hearts and we had to go visit. That was almost two years ago. Then last March, we packed up our car, and made our way across Europe to Croatia. This year has been an adventure! We have helped teach English, start a house church, learn some language, build relationships, host three outreach teams, and run seminars for locals. We made friends with a local Catholic priest, who opened up his Cathedral for us to run a Biblical Worldview Seminar. At the end, the priest stood to thank us saying, “We are Catholic and Protestant in this room, and we are one in Christ.” For anyone who knows this part of the world, that statement is huge! God is opening doors for us into the Catholic Church. That seminar took place on one of the 180 inhabited islands (there are over 1000 in total), and our hope is to use sailing to take outreach teams to the islands, bringing the hope of Jesus.  Just two weeks ago a family who had been with YWAM in Hawaii and Central Asia joined us and another couple are coming in June. We feel so excited for all that God is doing. Our hope is to run a sailing DTS next spring, and we are currently praying about buying a boat. God is reminding us, ‘Don’t lose that adventurous spirit I created in you, and don’t ever get so comfortable that you won’t take a crazy step of faith for me!’ We miss our YWAM England family but Central Europe has embraced us, and God has amazing plans for this region of the world.]]></description>
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