Blog – YWAM Tyler

Tyler Tom

You can find Tyler Tom roaming the Twin Oaks campus taking in the fresh sunshine, or sipping a hot latte in the Substation. Enamored by God's faithfulness, Tyler Tom gathers stories and interviews to share with you from what God's doing with His children among the nations.

02 Jul 2021

Valuing Students through Christian Education

Tyler Tom

YWAM Tyler, Teaching, Missionary Life, Nations, YWAM, Education, Teacher Appreciation, Christian Heritage School, Family Discipleship, discipleship, principal approach, CHS, christian education

Discipling students through Education The future leadership of our communities, churches, businesses, and families is developing in our current children and teens. Their success is highly dependent on how they are educated.

25 Jun 2021

My Journey to Know Jesus at YWAM

Tyler Tom

Healing, YWAM Tyler, Purpose, Knowing God, Life-Changing, YWAM DTS, Value, Identity, Journey, Freedom, YWAM, Faith, Inspiration, Get to Know God, Redeem, SST, Transformation, Overcoming, discipleship, sex trafficking, human trafficking, trafficking, DTS

Finding Jesus Changed My Life Forever It was about 24 years ago, when I saw this sign for the first time at the base entrance. I was a broken, pregnant teen from New York who found myself in Texas in a maternity home my aunt found that was part of some "weird Christian thing" called YWAM. Little did I know that this place would become home for me.

18 Jun 2021

Rescue The Perishing | YWAM Houston (cont)

Tyler Tom

YWAM Tyler, Rescue, YWAM, Urbanization, Missions in America, YWAM Houston, sex trafficking, human trafficking, Montrose, prostitute

Breaking The Cycle of Prostitution And Trafficking "My mom pimped me out when I was about 6 years old." - Street girl. "Wow, we got an education on the streets of Houston! The school of hard knocks." - Kim Dale, who with her husband Martin, direct Youth With A Mission Houston.

11 Jun 2021

A Glimpse of Pain - A Glimmer of Hope

Tyler Tom

YWAM Tyler, Missions, Perspective, human trafficking, border, border crisis, humanitarian, humanitarian aid, Hope at the Border, ywam south texas

A Personal Perspective on the Border Crisis We worked with a local charity yesterday at the Border. This charity is where people go when they have passed through immigration and are waiting for family members to purchase bus or plane tickets for them. People can stay here up to three days. Often they have not eaten, showered, or even rested⏤or very little⏤for days or weeks.

04 Jun 2021

Rescuing the Perishing | YWAM Houston

Tyler Tom

Urban Missions, Rescue, Following Jesus, YWAM DTS, Missionary, Hope, No Fear, Urbanization, Missions in America, city ministry, YWAM Houston, sex trafficking, human trafficking, mercy, Montrose, street church, Houston Texas

The Battle over homelessness, broken families, and injustice in Urban America. "Oh my gosh, THESE are the prostitutes! I didn't even recognize them!" "I had this revelation one day as I was listening to the kids at our Street Church share their stories. I thought they looked somewhat typical. Just young people running around with backpacks on their backs, except most of them were homeless. We'd...

19 Mar 2021

Discipleship Training School | The Day My Life Began

Tyler Tom

YWAM DTS, YWAM Outreach, YWAM, DTS

A YWAM DTS Brings Life Transformation This picture was taken on the first day of my DTS five months ago. This was the day my life truly began.

26 Feb 2021

Mercy and Compassion Warms the Heart

Tyler Tom

YWAM Tyler, Mercy Works, Serving, YWAM Outreach, YWAM, snow, compassions, east texas, texas, mercy, food bank, snow storm, winter storm

Texas Winter Storm Puts Missions to Action After a week of freezing temperatures and, in some cases, no heat in homes for days, Mercy Works, our compassionate ministries department at YWAM Tyler stepped into action.

20 Nov 2020

Overcoming Loneliness

Tyler Tom

YWAM DTS, Communication, Overcoming Fear, Freedom, Loneliness, fear, friends, devotion

OVERCOMING LONELINESS With the current state of our world, it is becoming more common to feel lonely and isolated. In fact, in 2019, three in five or 61% of Americans expressed feeling lonely and this was before the 2020 global pandemic. I would have been apart of this 61%. Loneliness was a huge struggle of mine for years, and only recently did I finally overcome the heaviness and lies of...

06 Nov 2020

One Chapel - Thousands Of Prayers

Tyler Tom

YWAM Tyler, Missions, Missionary, Encounter God, YWAM, Answered Prayer, Miracle, Faith, Holy Ground, Prayer Chapel, Holy Spirit, Missions in America, ywam tyler staff

One Chapel - Thousands Of Prayers "It's hotter than a firecracker in here!" exclaimed Leland Paris, as he stepped into the 12' by 15' foot well house we called our prayer room. As YWAM Tyler's base leader, he knew we desperately needed a new building to become our "House of Prayer." It was 1998 when volunteers from all over America gathered together to transform this tiny, hot, well house into a...

30 Oct 2020

Is God Sounding an Alarm in 2020?

Tyler Tom

IS GOD SOUNDING AN ALARM IN 2020? I have never experienced a true fire alarm, only fire drills. While dining in a restaurant, the alarm unexpectedly blared. Everyone shot to their feet. The manager came and assured everyone it was a false alarm.

Tyler Tom

Valuing Students through Christian Education

My Journey to Know Jesus at YWAM

Rescue The Perishing | YWAM Houston (cont)

A Glimpse of Pain - A Glimmer of Hope

Rescuing the Perishing | YWAM Houston

Discipleship Training School | The Day My Life Began

Mercy and Compassion Warms the Heart

Overcoming Loneliness

One Chapel - Thousands Of Prayers

Is God Sounding an Alarm in 2020?

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