YWAM European Leaders' Learning Community (ELLC)

One of the main wellsprings of our joy is deep, repentance-based reconciliation. And yet, not all of our teams and communities are marked by joy. How do we get it back?

Sue Pratt, with the help of Johan and Laura, model key principles in mediation that Sue shares in her article for this month's theme.

DTS outreach teams CAN and HAVE pioneered new locations and ministries. Come and sit with me as I share some key areas that we need to pay attention to as we prepare to take these teams into pioneering situations. Wisdom, communication and more are needed as we head into the unknown.

Many unreached people have come to Europe and are now living here for the long term. How are we seeing them? With heavenly eyes or earthly eyes? Ashraf shares practical ways we can be building bridges with them as we see them as with God’s eyes.

As Phillipians 3:12-14 says - we may not already have attained all this, but we need to press on towards the goal, so we need to be making goals. Have you ever thought about making separate goals for each of the roles that you carry?? If not, Belinda shares with us some practical ways we can go about goal setting for the different roles that we carry. And what better time to make goals than at the...

In this video, Rite shares about the importance of setting goals for relationships as well as tasks. She gives examples of how she has developed those relationships around her over the years.

Leadership integrity is the foundation of trust and respect. It should translate into real situations and is essential for building a positive organizational culture.

As we take time to say goodbye to our beloved founder, Loren Cunningham, we wanted to take time this month to reflect on his lessons on leadership. In this LDx talk, Lynn Green, who has known Loren for over 50 years, shares with us some of the Key Leadership Lessons that he has learnt from Loren over the years.

Instead of our normal Round Table Discussion for this month, we decided to have some of our YWAM European Conveners and Elders share short anecdotes with lessons they learned from Loren. Contributors: Stephen Mayers, Tove Poulsen, Terje Konradsen, Elaine Leakey, Belinda Chaplin, Frank Bauer, Jan Torland, Gary McKinney and Jose Liste

Andreas Nordli shares with us on the topic “What is leadership?”. This video is video number 1 of a 5 part Vision Development Workshop. Make sure you check out all the videos! Married to Asne since 1996 with five kids, Andreas has been in YWAM since 1995, and pioneered a YWAM base in Romania. He has been leading YWAM Norway since 2009.

Andreas Nordli shares with us on the topic “Management vs. Leadership”. This video is video number 2 of a 5 part Vision Development Workshop. Make sure you check out all the videos! Married to Asne since 1996 with five kids, Andreas has been in YWAM since 1995, and pioneered a YWAM base in Romania. He has been leading YWAM Norway since 2009

Andreas Nordli shares with us on the topic “What is vision?”. This video is video number 3 of a 5 part Vision Development Workshop. Make sure you check out all the videos! Married to Asne since 1996 with five kids, Andreas has been in YWAM since 1995, and pioneered a YWAM base in Romania. He has been leading YWAM Norway since 2009.

Andreas Nordli shares with us on the topic “Building a visionary culture”. This video is video number 4 of a 5 part Vision Development Workshop. Make sure you check out all the videos! Married to Asne since 1996 with five kids, Andreas has been in YWAM since 1995, and pioneered a YWAM base in Romania. He has been leading YWAM Norway since 2009.

Andreas Nordli shares with us on the topic “What is leadership?”. This video is video number 1 of a 5 part Vision Development Workshop. Make sure you check out all the videos! Married to Asne since 1996 with five kids, Andreas has been in YWAM since 1995, and pioneered a YWAM base in Romania. He has been leading YWAM Norway since 2009.

Belinda led this month's Round Table Discussion on all aspects of Ending Bible Poverty with Jessy Pfarrkircher and Christopher Hipona, Join us as we learn about all the ELLC resources for this month and also how to get more involved in this Legacy Word to us as a Mission

This is not an LDx talk where the “x” denotes 10 minutes, but rather an LDXXL talk from our founder, Loren Cunningham. This is a presentation from him on why he is so passionate about Oral Mother Tongue translation. It was given via zoom to the Go Persia conference in June 2023. Darlene tells us about this presentation, “He said to me, "I'm not sure I will have the strength to do a full t...

"Governments all over Europe encourage their citizens to store food and other necessities in their homes for at least three days of survival. We should also build Bible Storehouses to prepare for a spiritual famine and offer every home a free Bible. How do we do that?"

This month's Roundtable Discussion was a little different, as Debbie Lannap facilitates discussion with two of our normal "facilitators", Francis Obaika and myself coming in as guests. We had fun talking amongst ourselves about our favourite topic "Dynamic Communication". We hope you enjoy it as much as we enjoyed recording it.

LaurenceLucas Munoz together with guest hosted, Noémie Pons, the amazing Joseph Avakian in our Leadership Lounge. Joseph Avakian has been working with Youth With A Mission since 1984 and has been involved in teaching and projects around the world. He has been responsible for pioneering and launching many of the schools that YWAM is currently running in the area of communication. Joseph was also on...

Understanding Social Media First steps into revamping your social media - How we turned our social media rightside up - collaboration between Jonathon Lee Laser and Nathan van de Graaf All-round apps and programs for content creation; Adobe creative cloud Free All-round apps and programs for content creation; https://www.adobe.com/express/ https://www.canva.com/https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/pro...

Francis hosted this month Round Table topic Faith, Work and Vocation. Our guests for this month were Lukas Preis - Daniela Schirm & Jonathan de Jong

Maarit Eronen: It is vital to identify the needs, pain points and fears of your audience. Then you clarify your message and revamp it to meet and answer them. This will make your communication relevant and effective regardless of limited resources.

Tove and Johan hosted Norwegian serial-entrepreneur and author Hermund Haaland. Hermund is passionate about seeing the world and our societies moving in the best possible direction. He founded the Think Tank "Skaberkraft", that aims to stir the imagination as well as the conversation on how to build the best possible future of Europe. More recently Hermund, together with his wife Linn, f...

From YWAM to Mainstream Work

A more complete understanding of the meaning of work can be visualized as a three-legged stool. Each of the legs represents one of the three great callings we read about in the Bible; the Great Commission, the Great Commandment and the Cultural Mandate. Work from a place of rest Steward what you already have Work is worship Work when it is founded in love, heals, restores and generates life