Our motivation is Jesus, our task is the Great Commission, and our opportunity is every day, until all have heard the gospel.
Mercy Ministries
Because Jesus loves us, we will show care, kindness, and love to others. Helping others is not just a mission strategy; it is acting on what Jesus has asked us to do, and it has value in itself.
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YWAM Medical Ships Norway is a ministry of Youth With A Mission Norway. We work in collaboration with YWAM Medical Ships Australia to deliver healthcare and training to remote communities in Papua New Guinea.
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Short-term missions
Join us on a mission trip and experience God's heart for new people, places, and cultures. Actively contribute to various ministries and get a taste of missions!
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In 1990, a total of 2,000 missionaries were sent out from Norwegian mission organizations. Today, the number is below 500. There are various reasons for this decline. First, the role of missions has changed. Second, mission strategies have evolved. Therefore, comparing missions in 1990 to 2025 is almost as difficult as comparing apples to oranges. However, we cannot ignore the fact that the number of missionaries has decreased. We believe in a new wave of missionaries from Norway.
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The world is waiting. Every nation, every community, every person deserves the opportunity to hear the life-changing message of Jesus. Our mission trips are more than just travel—they're about stepping into God's heart for the nations.
Available Mission Trips
Long-term missions
Do you have a heart for helping those who suffer, for seeing unreached people groups come to know Jesus, and for transforming local communities, cities, and nations with God’s truth?
We send out missionaries to the whole world, with the purpose of making God known through words and actions. Youth With A Mission Norway has over 100 missionaries in 40 different countries working in areas such as evangelism, church planting, discipleship, and community development.
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A one-year team consists of 3-5 people who travel together as missionaries to one of YWAM's project/focus areas. The team will receive joint training, support, and debriefing from the sending base. They will contribute to existing ministries where they go, while also working independently as a team, focusing on language learning, cultural understanding and mission work. Currently YWAM Norway has two focus areas for one-year team:
Sentral Asia
Indonesia
For more information contact: info@ywam.no
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All of our missionaries are sent out from one of our eight centers in Norway and sign a partnership agreement with the center they are sent from. It is the local YWAM center that provides guidance, facilitates, supports, handles formalities, and holds debriefing sessions with those sent out.
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Ready-to-go is a 3-day course on missions designed to prepare YWAMers that are on their way into cross cultural missions. The course will give you some basic understanding of what to expect as you are moving into a new culture and ministry. Some of the topics we will discuss are; calling and commitment, cultural understanding, contextualization, how to stay spiritually fit, starting a business, vision and goals, risk assessment etc.
Next course will be held at YWAM Kristiansand - August 18-20th
For more info contact: yngvild@ywam.no
Training
Join us on a mission trip and experience God's heart for new people, places, and cultures. Actively contribute to various ministries and get a taste of missions!
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Discipleship Training School (DTS) is a missions training school through Youth With A Mission. The school lasts for six months and can change your life forever! During these months, you will receive tools to get to know God and opportunities to make Him known in Norway and in the nations.
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Missions EQUIP, is next level, hands-on, missions training, that will equip you with all the tools you need to serve God wherever he may call you! This two-year Associates of Arts program within the University of the Nations will train you and take you out to the field, to experience hands-on what long-term missions can look like. Missions EQUIP is designed to equip students with essential skills and knowledge in areas such as communication, worldview, strategic thinking, pioneering, entrepreneurship, and cultural adaptation. We aim to teach you how you can use the unique giftings and skills that God has given you to impact the nations.
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(3 month lecture face + 3 month-2 years of internship in the field):
If you have a calling for cross-cultural missions and a deep passion to bring the transformative power of the Gospel to the Unreached, School of Frontier Mission (SoFM) is the life-changing school where your time and investment will make an eternal impact. This school will prepare you to move forward with vision, calling and in faith for the impossible, while providing practical opportunities to put your training and faith into practice. Here are some of the bases that run this school:
FAQs
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Our missionaries are sent out from one of our eight centers in Norway and sign a partnership agreement with the center they are sent from. The local YWAM center provides guidance, facilitates, supports, handles formalities, and conducts debriefing sessions with those sent out. Our sending process is relationally based, and it is important to us that those at the center and the missionaries get to know each other before they are sent out.
Everyone sent out by YWAM begins with a Discipleship Training School (DTS).
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The minimum requirement to be sent out with YWAM is completing a Discipleship Training School (DTS) with the University of the Nations. Many of YWAM’s missionaries use their education in their work, such as medicine, education, engineering, theology, and diaconal work. YWAM also sends out people without formal qualifications.
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YWAM is a non-profit organization, and its leaders and staff are called to live in dependence on God for financial provision. No one working with YWAM receives a salary from the organization, but they raise a network of support partners who stand with them in their ministry.
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With YWAM, you can go on short-term trips, as a one-year team member, or for many years. Our missionaries have served anywhere from one to 30 years, depending on how God leads each individual. To receive a partnership agreement as a missionary from one of our YWAM centers, along with the support that comes with it, you need to intend to serve for a minimum of two years.