The Heart of YWAM Jax Beach

While many people have a general idea of what YWAM is, not many people realize that each YWAM base is given the autonomy to pursue the vision that God has given them.  Here's a brief look at the vision Father has given us at YWAM Jax Beach.

YWAM Jacksonville Beach exists for the purpose of inspiring, equipping and sending people to share the good news of Jesus with those who have never heard.  

This is the heartbeat that drives everything we do here at YWAM Jax Beach, from offering short-term outreaches and running Discipleship Training Schools (DTS), to running the School of Frontier Missions (SOFM) and sending long-term workers overseas.  It is all aimed at bringing the Gospel to people and places where it has never been heard.  During our time in China we experienced this first hand.  There were multiple times when we would share with someone about Jesus and get responses along the lines of, "Is he your Lama (Tibetan spiritual leader)?"  Or, "That's something they say in American movies when they get angry."  Unfortunately, there are too many people that still have never heard the name of Jesus, much less the Gospel.  Every day, close to 70,000 people die without having had an opportunity to hear this amazing Good News.  The vast majority of these people and people groups (more on this later) live in an area known as the 10/40 Window.

This is why we do what we do, and why we focus on it so strongly.  The feeling is not that our vision is better than those of other ministries or YWAM bases, but rather that we know what we've been called to focus on.   In coming days I will expound on some of these ideas and share a variety of statistics as well.  For now, I just wanted to give you a brief introduction to the heart behind what we do at YWAM Jax Beach.

The 10/40 Window