Youth With A Mission (YWAM) England has a new leadership team. The team of five has been appointed after six months of prayer by staff and supporters of YWAM England, followed by a nomination and interview process. All five appointees are long-term members of YWAM.
The move to a team leadership reflects the need within YWAM England to cover the many different roles of leadership within the mission. It was felt important that the team members between them covered four aspects — outward (motivate new ministry, mobilise, and network with other agencies), inward (oversee and maximise ongoing ministry), upward (lead in hearing and obeying God), and integrated (focus on the legal, administrative and structural implementation). The team will be chaired by Donovan Palmer, who until last year was overseeing the Africa Mercy Ship project in Newcastle upon Tyne.
As well as leading the organisation as a whole, the team has also been given the responsibility to create an apostolic environment and to identify young, and perhaps hidden, leaders within the mission. In other words, to prepare and lead YWAM England into the next phase of all God has for the mission.
Chairperson Donovan Palmer comments: “I believe that God is moving YWAM England into a new period of growth and development, one that will see more and more waves of young people being trained and sent out to fulfil all that God has for them. The appointment of this team is one part of all the preparations God is bringing for those waves.”
The team’s appointment comes during a time when YWAM internationally is praying and fasting for 50 days to discern the word of God for the next phase in the history of YWAM. Donovan continues: “God has moved through YWAM in incredible ways during its 45-year history. But He seems to be wanting to bring us back to Him, and then launch us out again. I believe the appointment of a leadership team for YWAM England is part of this new move of God, and is vital at this stage in the life of YWAM in this country.”
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