Four years ago a team of 18 young people packed up their lives and relocated to Nuremberg, Germany to pioneer the first YWAM base in the city, carrying a vision to see the next wave of missionaries launched into the nations. This original team of YWAMers slept on floors, met in noisy cafes, biked to the industrial district for office work, and scraped, chipped and sanded away an old furniture store into a new cafe and studio space, laying a foundation for what was to follow. Over the last few years several hundred missionaries received training, while thousands heard the gospel either within the city or abroad.
Whatever your involvement has been, we want to thank you. Whether you have prayed for us, invested into someone on staff, sent a member of your church to do a DTS, or even unintentionally prayed for us as you ask that God's Kingdom would increase on earth, we say thank you. We don't work on our own, but rather God calls us to be a part of a greater whole, the Body of Christ, living out the Kingdom. In this book, we celebrate what God has done in and through us this past year. As you read through these reports, we invite you to celebrate with us, and we pray you will be encouraged. Jesus came to seek and to save that which was lost. As we reflect on the last fiscal year and step into the next. We pray God continues to seek, to save and to draw near those who don't yet know Him.
God has called us to train, equip, and launch missionaries out into all the world, to every tribe and tongue. The Gospel must be preached in action and in truth, the church readied to grow and go. There we have our mission: to know God and make Him known. We can't get there on our own. So we invite you to be a part of the movement. Let's bring the Gospel to new horizons, let's see discipleship on a new level, let's glorify God and advance His Kingdom.