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Leadership and Eldership in YWAM – Lynn Green

In late 2017 Lynn Green sat down to discuss Leadership and Eldership in Youth With A Mission, and to answer some questions that people around the world had about the changes and development of it in YWAM.

Some of the questions discussed are about plural leadership, what is an Elder, what is the role of conveners in YWAM, why was there the need for the significant organisational change for YWAM in Singapore in 2014, how does YWAM’s flat leadership structure work cross-culturally, what is the importance of relationship over hierarchy
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The Spiritual Leader – Loren Cunningham

In this episode of the Youth With A Mission Teaching Podcast Loren Cunningham shares with us a teaching about being The Spiritual Leader.

Loren Cunningham is the founder of Youth With A Mission (YWAM) and the co-founder of the University of the Nations (U of N). He is also a leader at the YWAM, U of N Campus in Hawaii, and a member of the YWAM International Eldership.

Loren speaks on this teaching about leadership and draws a parallel to the shepherd:

“Know well the condition of your flock and pay attention to your herds” (Prov 27: 23).

He emphasises the great responsibility of leadership and discusses the different roles that a leader must carry. He speaks of the leader’s responsibility to obey God in action, and submit to God and others, in heart. Continue reading

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The Great Commission – Loren Cunningham

Loren Cunningham shares with us a teaching about The Great Commission.

Loren shares with us some exciting stories from the early years of Youth With A Mission. You will get to hear about when some of YWAM’s leaders joined the mission and how many of Loren’s views about leadership developed.

The teaching was recorded in the early 1990’s while Loren Cunningham was writing his book Why Not Women, so we get to hear some of his thinking about Women in Leadership, and stories about some of the women who have been released into ministry in Youth With A Mission. Continue reading

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Leadership with John Dawson at YWAM Together

http://traffic.libsyn.com/ywampodcast/John_Dawson_on_Leadership_-_YWAM_Together_2015.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download | EmbedSubscribe: RSS | MoreJohn Dawson, one of the past Presidents of Youth With A Mission, shared at YWAM Together about Leadership and the YWAM Family, about what it means to lead the … Continue reading

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The Eldership Model of Leadership in YWAM with Lynn Green

Lynn Green joined us for a Google Hangout in June of 2013 to talk with us about the Eldership Model of Leadership in YWAM.

During the last 10-years Youth With A Mission has been moving away from a business style of leadership structure to an Eldership model of leadership. In this conversation with Lynn Green we get to hear what this change means, and how we can implement it at our own YWAM locations. Continue reading

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Spiritual Eldership – Loren Cunningham 2004 (Updated 2012)

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E-Book PDF: Open in New Window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS | MoreEldership – Tripod Message for Youth With A Mission When I was seven years old, my family and I visited Niagara Falls. I have an indelible picture in my mind … Continue reading

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Avoiding the Institutionalisation of Leadership – Lynn Green

http://traffic.libsyn.com/ywampodcast/Avoid_the_Institutionalisation_of_Leadership_-_Lynn_Green.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download | EmbedSubscribe: RSS | MoreIn this episode of the YWAM Teaching Podcast Lynn Green shares about how we in YWAM can avoid the pitfall of institutionalising leadership. Servant Leadership is on one of … Continue reading

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