This month we will talk about the FIFA World Cup and some of YWAM’s different sports outreaches, we also hear stories from YWAM Australia’s gathering in Alice Springs in the middle of the country, we’ll hear about YWAM in Haiti helping to serve their local community, and more Thank you for watching or listening to the Youth With A Mission News Show Podcast, this is the 170 episode of the Youth With A Mission News Show Podcast, We are your hosts, Bill Hutchison and Lidia Hugentobler. Watch the YWAM News on YouTube You can contact us, subscribe to future episodes, leave comments, and find links to all the stories we talk about on the show notes for this podcast at ywampodcast.com/170 … https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23K5qFS0qwY Fruitbreak Shorts The most recent Fruitbreak for YWAM Rogaland asked the BCC students some questions about their school … https://www.instagram.com/p/DZ-UZE-MkbB/ Watch on Instagram YWAM Australia Alice Spings Prayer and Evangalism This month about 100 people from YWAM Australia met in Alice Springs in the Australian Northern Territory. When they were there they spent time praying for the nation and engaging in evangelism. Here are some stories from their time in Alice Springs. https://youtu.be/76cxAVWtBJc Watch the Video on YouTube If you head on over to ywam.org.au you can find out more about the different ministries around Australia. The Send Philippines More than 13,000 young people gathered in two different locations for The Send Philippines this month. The Send is done in partnership with Youth With A Mission (YWAM), Circuit Riders, Christ For All Nations, and related organizations, including Andy Byrd, Francis Chan, and Lou Engle. The engagement of vulnerable children — orphans, children in poverty, and those in the foster and adoption system — is a formal pillar of The Send’s global framework and featured prominently in the Philippines gathering. In the Philippines, partner organizations working in child welfare and family-based care, such as Philippines Without Orphans, were on-site at both venues to receive commitments and connect participants with concrete next steps. The Send Philippines had a real focus on the country’s large overseas worker population. With an estimated 10 million Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) dispersed across the globe, the event’s leadership saw an opportunity to prepare Filipino Christians to function as missionaries in the countries where they settle. You can read more about the Send Event in the Philippines in the original article on the Christian Daily web-site. YWAM Sports Outreach YWAM has had a long history of outreach at sports events and ministry around sport. This includes multiple outreaches and opportunities during the current 2026 FIFA World Cup in Canada, Mexico and the United States of America. Munich Olympic Outreach 1972 YWAM’s history is full of sports outreaches and ministries. One of the outreaches that started it was to the Munich Olympics in 1972. YWAM deployed nearly 1,000 volunteers for an evangelistic campaign. To accommodate the expected crowd of young people, YWAM purchased the Hurlach Castle in Bavaria, which was about 70 kilometers west of Munich. That castle became the organization’s second permanent training center. Unfortunately the Munich Olympics of 1972 the games were marred by the Palestinian terrorist attack that killed 11 Israeli athletes and coaches. The YWAMers quickly mobilized to comfort the public, hand out flowers, and pray on the streets. The full story can be found in Loren Cunningham’s Book, Is That Really You God? by YWAM Publishing. This event marked the beginning of YWAM’s tradition of Olympic outreaches.I was working with YWAM in Australia in 2000 when the Olympics were held in Sydney. There was a significant outreach to those games including creative art outreaches, evangelism, parallel sporting events, and more. Also the most recent summer games in France YWAM brought many people and teams to the event. YWAM Sports Outreach Opportunities Again using the search engine over at ywam.org I had a look at what opportunities are available with sport in YWAM. 125 different opportunities came up under the “sports” category. It includes specialized courses like a Sport Leadership Ministry in Cameroon, Sports clubs, Training camps, and opportunities for Hiking,Trekking, Camping, and even Hunting at different locations. I thought I would narrow it down, especially with the World Cup happening, and searched up soccer and football, and came up with nearly 100 different opportunities. YWAM runs soccer camps or events all over the world, including training camps and clubs in Italy, Romania, Albania, Argentina, Panama, Latvia, New Zealand, Tanzania, South Africa, Lebanon, Mexico, Canada, USA, and many more. I reckon that with all the sports played around the world, football / soccer would be “YWAM’s official sport.”. There is a reason why they call it “The World’s Game” as it’s the most popular sport globally. With the World Cup happening right now there are many locations in Canada, Mexico, and America that are engaging in outreach to the people coming to watch the event. You can find examples of many of the ministries using the search engine at ywam.org. YWAM Dunham Jubilee In 1976, four years after YWAM’s first Olympic Outreach, The Olympic Games came to Montreal, Canada. Thousands of Christians took to the streets, proclaiming the gospel and seeing God move in extraordinary ways. Fifty years later, that story isn’t finished. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b83WSh6HDbk July 17–25, 2026, YWAM Dunham is hosting The Montréal Jubilee: nine days of prayer, worship, teaching, and sharing the gospel in the streets of Montréal. We would love to see many people come, pray, worship, be equipped, and take the good news of Jesus into the streets of Montréal. Find out more on the YWAM Dunham website, ywamdunham.com. YWAM Sain Marc, Haiti Community Service Garbage Collection YWAM Saint Marc has been running their trade school for many years, and have put thousands of students through their programs, equipping them with many practical and valuable skills. The trade school is open Monday to Wednesday, so on the other days the staff have been going out to serve their community. Lately the community service has been a lot of picking up trash because the garbage situation in their city has gotten very bad. Now that it is rainy season it is especially bad, with most canals being blocked with garbage and Saint Marc has been flooding worse than we have seen in previous years. Bridge Building Last week a large bridge in the city collapsed which has made travel in the area difficult. People have to climb down a ladder and then climb up another ladder on the other side in order to cross the street. A YWAM team from the trade school went to check it out and saw that school children have to do this everyday as well. The bottom is full of water and garbage and it is not safe. Fixing the entire bridge is a huge undertaking that will cost hundreds of thousands of dollars. The YWAM team decided to do what they could, with what they had. They team and a few volunteers from the community built a footbridge for people to use until the full bridge can be re-built. They also installed a solar light over the bridge for safety, and cleared significant rubble to allow people to pass and make use of the new crossing. The best place to follow YWAM Saint Marc, Haiti and their ministry is on their Facebook page. Excited for Outreach We have heard a few different outreach stories already this month. YWAM Kona asked some of their students about what they were excited about for outreach. https://www.facebook.com/share/r/18yYnStBye/ YWAM Ozajks It’s always fun to learn about some of the other over 1000 YWAM locations around the world, so this month I thought we could check out YWAM Ozarks, and some of what they are doing … https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmpJCepLk14 Watch the Video on YouTube You can find out more about them at ywamozarks.org. College of Arts YWAM’s University of the Nations College of Arts has launched a new website that is full of different opportunities around the world. You can search by your passions or regions, and find courses, communities, and art collectives around the world. Check out ywamarts.org to find out more. YWAM Kona Musicianaries One of the many arts related opportunities out there right now is with the YWAM Kona Performing Arts Music Team. Right now they are auditioning talented, passionate individuals for full-time missionary staff positions. Their outreach bands perform evangelistic concerts with original material in Hawaii, and they travel internationally annually. Not only are they looking for musicians, but they are also looking for producers, sound engineers, concert event planners, social media managers, and videographers. Head over to uofnkona.edu to find out more. The Invitation Last month for our monthly YWAM prayer day called “The Invitation” we prayer for oral Bible translation … https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvJ9beNmNtY You can check out the invitation in different languages over at ywam.org/theinvitation. Thrive Hike Last month Bill shared with us about the Wilderness Encounters: Hiking Retreat that will be happening in Spain in October. There is another hiking retreat happening in Wales this August, but this one -> is for women only… Taken directly from their web-site, this is what they say it’s about … “Hiking from the north to the south of Wales. An adventure journeying with God, depending on him, relying on His guidance and coming alive in Him. During this 16-day hike we will cross the beautiful country of Wales, traversing the most beautiful mountainous regions of the Country
