YWAM: God's Force for Spiritual Revolutions

I have been reading a vision Loren Cunningham, the visionary founder of Youth With A Mission received in 1975. It is a fantastic vision that energized Loren and gave him guidance ever since. Listen and watch Loren tell about it in this video. 

 We at Sweeten Life are quite familiar with YWAM and its innovative, creative and dynamic missionary outreaches. It is, by far, the most innovative Christian organization I know. I think one reason is the original vision is very holistic so every sphere of influence is a target for the YWAM outreach.

Our mission and vision are similar to that Loren received in 1975. When I was President of Equipping Ministries and later as President of Sweeten Life we trained YWAM Missionaries in Counseling, Small Groups and Theology. They continue to use that training in many places. 

Break The Poverty Cycle

We have tried to declare war on poverty but I think we lost. It seems that the people who designed the war had a lot of compassion but not much wisdom about how people respond to money, rewards and punishments. There is an old saying in Ministry:

If you want more of the same behavior, reward it.

If you want less, punish it. 

In the war on poverty we rewarded the behavior that brings Poverty and punished the behavior that brings Prosperity. Then it is called a Death Spiral.

Can you think of any families, cities or nations that have been in a Death Spiral?

List them in your head:

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We equip Christians to prosper spiritually, emotionally and financially. Wherever Christians have lived by the precepts of the Bible they have developed communities of health and growth. You can get the materials and learn how to teach others yourself by applying them to your own life. 

Multiply Ministers in Missions

Listening for Heaven's Sake in Russian

Why do we not send American Missionaries overseas?

Because they are not as effective as national Missionaries! It is less expensive and much more efficient to train locals than it is to recruit, train and support an American.

We partner with nationals. We recruit passionate, spiritually mature, committed, and teachable locals who volunteer to teach others. 

The Early Church grew at the rate of 40% per year for 300 years by making Converts into Disciples. That is how we have multiplied our leadership in over 100 nations. They are established to be Disciple Makers. We go to Make Disciples not just Make Converts. We know we have been successful when our Disciples are recruiting and making disciples themselves.

22 Years of Expansion in Russia

Even before the Soviet Union collapsed we knew God was calling us to set up our equipping ministry in Russia. We did not know how we could do it behind the Iron Curtain but we believed God was pointing us toward that vast land of 11 Time Zones.

Then, miraculously, in 1989, the whole facade collapsed like an empty balloon. The enslaved populace was set free from the evil slavery of Socialism. There was a promise of an end to murder by state and a lawlessness built on government power and lies.

As a faith based organization, we were severely restricted from any open ministry until 1989. The Soviets killed 92,000 Russian Orthodox Priests and destroyed 12,000 church buildings.

In 1990 I met a Christian Psychologist who invited me to Moscow and a year later I flew from Oslo to Moscow to meet a group of Christians in Psychology. At that meeting was a Psychiatrist who said she wanted to visit us in Cincinnati and learn how we treated people in our Christ centered in-patient units. She came in 1992 and returned to establish an organization designed to train Peer Helpers and Lay Pastors.

Because we always train new people to multiply themselves dozens of times the group has spread all over the Russian Republic. Pray for them. Support them by sending a generous donation. 

They must remain anonymous still.

Virtuous Circle 1 For Geometric Expansion

A beneficial cycle of events or incidents, each having a positive effect on the next.

Example: Compound Interest

How do you design the events in your system to always have a positive impact on consumers and actors?

See my articles and books to learn how!

Why did Jesus practice, teach and model a specific type of education?

Why did Jesus command us to practice that model and not another type of education?

Because He created mathematics!

Why did St. Paul command us to practice the same mode?
He gave gifts to the church of Apostles, Prophets, Evangelists, Pastors and Teachers to equip/disciple God's people so they can do God's works.

Because he understood math!

It’s like the game: put a single grain of rice into the first chess block. Double it in the next one: two grains of rice. Double it again: four grains. There are 64 blocks in a chess board. Once you go through all 64, you will have 18,446,744,073,709,551,616 grains of rice or about 636,094,623,231,363 pounds. As in trillions.

That’s how exponential math works. It gets big, very quickly.

Why do so few churches obey Jesus' command and talk to big groups rather than disciple future leaders?

Why so many talkers and so few disciple makers?

My friend, Galina, is coming from Russia to tell us how God is using them to disciple that entire nation. Contact us if you want to meet her.

The New Way to Deliver Health Care

The Triple Aim The future of payment and good treatment will be judged by insurance companies and government agencies on three markers. They are called, The Triple Aim.

Aim 1. Increased quality of medical care with less duplication.

Aim 2. Increased Patient and Family Satisfaction about the treatment, care, empathy, warmth and respect shown by the Medical system.

Aim 3. Reduced cost per incident and reduced costs for the entire population.

These are not currently the model so the model must be changed.

Look at our web page to see what we are doing.