Dr. Jack W. Hayford, Pastor/President, The Church On The Way, The King's Seminary

"The influence of ywam and the leadership of Loren Cunningham, in character and constancy, has been, under God's grace, one of the most determinative factors in bringing about the global Church's renewal and impact in the last half of the 20th century."

Dr. Tony Campolo, Professor of Sociology, Eastern College, St. Davids, Pennsylvania

"Loren Cunningham has been one of the most adventuresome visionaries of our time. What he has accomplished staggers the imagination. God gave him a dream and he lived it out--very few of us do that. Wherever I go I seem to run into people who have been discipled into radical discipleship by ywam. Those who have been a part of their program prove to be a great gift to churches around the world. Their spirituality, their ability to witness, and their commitment to take seriously the teachings of Christ have impacted Christendom. I can safely say that ywam is one of the most important and effective movements in Christendom today."

Dr. David Yonggi Cho, Senior Pastor, Yoido Full Gospel Church, Seoul, Korea

"We congratulate Youth With A Mission on their vision and creativity in training youth to reach around the world for Christ in education, mercy ministries, evangelism and frontier missions. We rejoice with you in the faithfulness of God and of His people! May God continue to bless you and use you mightily as you invest in and contribute to the lives of Christian young people in your efforts to reach the world for Christ."

Bill Hybels, Senior Pastor, Willow Creek Community Church

"Whenever I'm traveling and speaking internationally and meet high-committed, servant-oriented Christian leaders, I think to myself, 'Another ywamer!' I'm rarely mistaken. I am so grateful for the work of ywam and for the intensity with which you do it."

Bill McCartney, Founder & President, Promise Keepers

"Over the last 40 years, Youth With A Mission has become one of the premier missionary organizations in the world. Not only has it effectively spread the gospel and ministered to practical needs of the underprivileged around the globe, it has captured the imagination and energy of young people, infusing them with a vision--and providing a unique way--for reaching the lost!"

Pastor Lloyd Ogilvie, First Presbyterian Church, Hollywood, California

"I have observed first hand the magnificent, mighty way the Lord has used Youth With A Mission. It is Biblical, Christ-centered and Spirit-empowered. Dynamic evangelism is coupled with profound caring for people."

Dr. Jerry Rankin, President, International Mission Board, Southern Baptist Convention

"The expansion of God's kingdom has been accelerated by the phenomenal mobilization efforts of Youth With A Mission. The vision and creativity of ywam has inspired and challenged other Great Commission organizations to greater boldness and innovation for reaching our world for Jesus Christ. "

Tom White, Director, The Voice of the Martyrs

"I first learned about ywam 25 years ago in connection with the Bible and other Christian literature we print for difficult areas of the world. I was inspired to realize that there are selfless soldiers of Jesus Christ around the world willing to give all in any situation. The feet and hands of ywam have been a tremendous help for the gospel. They were then and still are today the feet and hands of Christ."

Billy Graham

"We all rejoice in the way God has blessed this organization in reaching people all over the world for the Lord Jesus Christ. Keep up the good work. You have my support and my prayers."

Dr. Bill Bright, Founder and President, Campus Crusade for Christ International

"I thank and praise our wonderful Lord for the world impact ywam has had in helping to fulfill the Great Commission. Loren Cunningham along with the leadership and staff of ywam has always been a great inspiration and blessing to me and it has been a great joy and privilege to work alongside them for the gospel. Their faith, boldness and zeal for our dear Lord have been a significant factor in this greatest-of-all-time spiritual harvests for Christ's kingdom in the past 40 years."

Luis Bush, Former Director, AD 2000 and Beyond "My wife Doris and I have reflected upon the impact that the ministry of ywam has had on our own family. We counted that our children had been on no less than 14 short-term mission outreaches with ywam. As one outside the ywam family, I had come to see the many lessons I learned from the experiences of my own children. ywam has had a major world impact. The leadership style invites initiative, entrepreneurial risk, spontaneous responsiveness. There is the enthusiasm and commitment of those who are making sacrifices just to serve. ywamers have always been part of new spiritually-critical, cutting-edge initiatives. They have a pioneering spirit; a discipleship emphasis on servanthood; a culture of innovation and orientation to the future; dream facilitators who seek to encourage the dreams of others; willingness to take risks; a passion for Jesus and partnership with other Christian entities in advancing the Kingdom of God. Some of the impact values and principles I have learned from ywam include: seeking God and waiting until you hear before you move, interceding on a regular basis for the nations; tapping into the initiative of God moving through the two-thirds or majority world; setting worship at the heart of all ministry out-flow and giving a place to the 'Holy Spirit and new-paradigm sensitivity' with an out-flowing prophetic nature and appeal."

Gregory Fritz, President, Caleb Project "yeam provides a positive alternative for energetic young people. For some, the choice can be as clear and dramatic as rebellion versus submission. The danger and thrill of drugs, gangs and the street seduces them into rebellion from their parents' world. However, ywam offers similar excitement through an alternative means--submission to Jesus Christ. ywamers love God and follow Him with the same reckless abandon that characterized the first century disciples."

Millard Fuller, Founder and President, Habitat for Humanity International, Inc. "ywam is a powerful voice for Christ around the world. I am pleased and proud to salute Loren Cunningham and all of those faithful people with whom he has served over these four decades. May God continue to guide this pioneering venture in the years ahead."

Franklin Graham, President, Samaritan's Purse

"It has been my privilege over the years to observe and participate with Youth With A Mission on numerous projects around the world. Their focus on evangelism is always great. ywam has a tremendous team of dedicated servants of the Lord and I always marvel at how God has been able to use them in so many strategic areas of the world."

Dr. Roger S. Greenway, Professor of World Missiology, Calvin Theological Seminary, Grand Rapids, Michigan

"I have known the ywam organization for some 20 years and I have grown to respect its leaders' vision, dedication and passion for world evangelization. ywamers are everywhere today and they are often on the cutting edge of mission advance. Since the days when I taught urban mission on a rocking houseboat in the Amsterdam harbor to an eager group of young missionaries, I have appreciated and praised God for this mission-focused organization."

Dick Hugoniot, President, Wycliffe Bible Translators International

"ywam has made a tremendous impact over the years in challenging both young and old alike to make themselves available to Christ for service in worldwide missions. I remember when I first came in contact with ywam in Nepal in 1973-76. In those days you were known as Dilaram House and you had a special ministry with world travelers. My wife and I were impressed with the dedication and the servant hearts of your workers. Over the years many of the children of our members have joined ywam to work in various ministries around the world. Some of your short-term workers have joined us in the Bible translation task. We have counted it as a privilege to be partners with you in carrying out the Great Commission. We are praying that the Lord will continue to show us ways in which we can partner together in reaching the remaining unreached people groups of the world in the coming years."

Darrow L. Miller, Vice-President, Food for the Hungry International

"The first time I met Loren, he described ywam as a tribe. I knew that I was a 'lost member' of the tribe. My first contact with ywam was over 30 years ago while a student at L'Abri Fellowship in Switzerland. I have seen this small band of brothers and sisters grow to become one of the most dynamic missions movements in recent history. ywam has encouraged men and women to dream and to bring those dreams before the face of God. During my lifetime, no one has spoken more boldly that the mission of the church is more than saving souls for heaven, but is nothing less than the discipling of nations. As I have traveled around the world, it is the ywam tribe that gives us a foretaste of what Heaven will be like, men and women from every tribe and nation bowing before Christ and worshiping the living God. Thank you ywam and thank you for allowing me to be a member of the tribe."

Dr. James H. Montgomery, President, DAWN Ministries

"Down through the centuries of the Church age, God has given us great evangelists, theologians, missiologists and inspiring prophets and teachers. In our time, I believe the Lord is raising up a whole new category of Church leaders that I refer to as Great Commissionists. These are the men and women with the vision and prophetic word to call the Body of Christ to work at completing the Great Commission in our time. Of even greater significance, these are the committed servants of the Lord who lay down their lives in actually developing bold, comprehensive and realistic strategies that could lead directly to the completion of this majestic task. Loren Cunningham, and the ywam network that is the lengthening shadow of this man of God, is certainly one of the small band of mighty spiritual warriors who fit this category. It is a profound delight to me that I am able to know Loren Cunningham and to share vicariously in the Kingdom effort for which the Holy Spirit has anointed him."

Bryant Myers, Vice-President, World Vision

"ywam is a unique contribution to world mission. ywam has been highly effective in attracting mission entrepreneurs, especially among young people, and mobilizing them for a wide range of important mission work. Sprawling, sometimes messy and very nimble, ywam's entrepreneurial spirit is the envy of the larger, more structured missions. ywam's dependence on the movement of the Spirit of God in directing its work is a witness to all of us."

Tetsunao "Ted" Yamamori, President & CEO, Food for the Hungry International

"The ministry of ywam has grown considerably over the past four decades. It is now, in my estimation, one of the most strategic agencies penetrating the mission frontier."

David Aikman, author and former TIME Magazine editor, Washington D.C.

"I know of no other organization in the Christian missionary field that has produced and continues to produce such outstanding, mature and Spirit-led young men and women. "

Rebecca Saint James, musician

"My life has been so powerfully impacted by missions. I've been involved with trips to Calcutta, India, to Romania, Bucharest, Romania, to Ecuador. And I just have seen God move through those trips powerfully in my life and seen how God uses that to change people's lives in those countries. I have had some very close friends of mine who have worked with Youth With A Mission and been on mission trips and their lives have been radically turned around by working with this ministry. So, I encourage people considering going on a missions trip to link up with ywam because it is an incredible ministry."

Martin Smith, lead vocalist, Delirious? England, UK

"ywam has been an incredible inspiration to thousands of people around the world-refreshing the parts other ministries cannot reach."

Michael W. Smith, musician

"I am a big believer in the roaring lambs philosophy of showing our faith through our actions, not just our words. That's what I admire about ywam--they take this philosophy worldwide!"

George K. Brushaber, President, Bethel College and Seminary, St. Paul, Minnesota

"Youth With A Mission has been a powerful force within the Bethel community for Kingdom values and global servanthood. Hundreds of students have been challenged and equipped to represent Christ around the world."

Denny Rydberg, President, Young Life International

"Thank God for Youth With A Mission! It's a clear path for kids in a cluttered world. It's a clear path to Jesus Christ, a clear path to significance and satisfaction and a clear path to discovering what we were created for:  sacrificial service to God and man. Thank you, ywam, for 40 years of dynamic ministry to Christ and kids!"

Dr. Dallas Willard, author and Professor of Philosophy, University of Southern California

"ywam's training schools and short-term outreach programs have provided opportunities for thousands of young people who were raised in our affluent society to experience the reality of life in other parts of the world. Through these experiences, the students have found a greater understanding of the breadth of God's love, and many have committed their lives to church ministry or missionary work. I am grateful for their influence on the youth of American culture and around the world."