Why YWAMers raise support?

 

Every YWAM worker, including the founder, Loren Cunningham, raises enough funds to meet his or her own financial needs. They must raise or provide their own support funds, meaning they are responsible for their housing, food and personal ministry expenses (such as travel and communication).  For most people in YWAM, these funds come from friends, family and churches who contribute financially. 

 

YWAM has purposely chosen to emphasize personal support raising as the primary means of funding for our staff. Although we recognize there are many other valid ways of financing ministry, the way we have chosen is based on Biblical principles and has enabled us to include tens of thousands of people each year from over 130 countries in the task of fulfilling the Great Commission. 

 

It's also a financial model that enables many important ministries to exist in our world today. Just as the staff of a church or a community service organization relies on donations to pay their salary, so our staff also rely on financial partners to meet their financial needs.

 

We believe, and have experienced over and over, that personal support raising provides many benefits to our staff. It often creates a close bond between the financial partner and the worker in the field; it helps our workers experience God's faithfulness in tangible ways; and when combined with a commitment to pray as well as to give, it provides powerful teamwork that results in encouragement for our workers and supernatural blessing on our ministries. 

 

Through coming together, we can change people’s lives!

 

Since no staff worker in YWAM receives a salary, this means I must find a group of partners who will make my ministry possible by investing financially each month.  

 

Through this partnership I become the personal representative of those who choose to invest in my ministry. One of God’s promises to us in Luke 6:38 says, “Give, and it will be given to you. A good measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over, will be poured into your lap. For with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.”  I can assure you that we cannot out give God. I know that when we give, God sees to it that we are blessed beyond anything we can imagine. And you want to talk about having a huge eternal reward attached to it, try giving to see the Gospel spread to those who have not heard!

 

Ways to Give

 

Although one time gifts are extremely helpful and appreciated, having a team of committed and faithful people standing with me monthly is so crucial. Even a gift of $10 a month, $120 a year can make a huge difference. Whether you want to give a one time gift or give monthly, listed below are several ways to give in two categories, tax-deductible or not.