God is using Africans to pioneer exciting new ministries throughout Africa! Here is an update from the team in Wau, South Sudan...

South Sudan has its first Discipleship Training School (DTS) up and running at the YWAM base in Yei. Many DTS programs have been run in Yei over the last ten years, but this is the first one since independence was declared on July 9th. This training will consist of three months of lectures on missions and Christian discipleship followed by a two-month practical outreach somewhere in the region. God has used this simple training to equip and release thousands of missionaries all over the worl...

Here is an update we received from a YWAM staff member serving with his family in Darfur...

"...We started meeting five weeks ago on Fridays for house church. We started with just a few, but every week we have new faces. We are now up to 11 from the local tribes. The great part is that they are the ones that continue to share and bring new friends to the Lord. They have all made professions of faith. We have been singing worship songs in Arabic, but some of the guys now want to translate the w...