Blog – YWAM Tyler | Following God

24 Oct 2018

The Day I Thanked God For Losing My Job

Tyler Tom

Training School, YWAM Tyler, Missions, Purpose, YWAM DTS, Thankfulness, YWAM, Following God, Missionary Training, Go

I sat in the classroom during my training school with YWAM one morning, and I was crying, thanking God for the loss of my job.

13 Oct 2018

How I became a full-time missionary from a couple short-term mission trips

Tyler Tom

Missions, YWAM DTS, Missionary Life, Following God

Before my YWAM DTS I was just going through all the motions that I thought others expected of me. I had been going to college, but after a few years of taking and retaking classes, I figured I should do something different with my life or at least postpone college until I knew what degree I wanted to work towards. While I was in college, I was also a youth leader at my church.

10 Oct 2018

From Comfort Zone \\ To Divine Absurdities

Allison Mear

Outreach, Provision, YWAM Outreach, Finances, Miracle, Possible, Mission Trip, Following God

I still owed $750 on tuition, and the $1,000 for the outreach plane ticket was due that day as well. The trip to Greece was in just three weeks, and I was going to need an additional $2,000 on top of the airline ticket. I had no idea where this money was going to come from. Basically, I was freaking out.

30 May 2018

The Night I Decided to Follow God

Daria Faith Eckhoff

Relationship with God, Life-Changing, YWAM DTS, Following God

It was about a month and a half before I came to do a Discipleship Training School (DTS) at YWAM Tyler in 2015. I had already applied and visited the YWAM Tyler campus from New York! I decided to do a training school for two sole reasons: I wanted to find God and find myself.

02 May 2018

Sometimes Following God Doesn't Make Sense

Allison Mear

Outreach, Provision, Finances, Miracle, Possible, Mission Trip, Following God

I still owed $750 on tuition, and the $1,000 due for the outreach plane ticket was due that day. The trip to Greece was in just three weeks, and I was going to need an additional $2,000 on top of the airline ticket. I had no idea where this money was going to come from. Basically, I was freaking out.

15 Nov 2017

An Audience of One

Carl Hamper

Trust God, Direction, YWAM DTS, Serving, YWAM Outreach, Hearing God's Voice, Faith, Following God, Outdoor, Dependence on God

In all the talk today of measuring success by numbers, based on how many “hits,” “clicks,” or “likes” we get on our social media, I am often taken back to the memory of my very first Youth With a Mission trip in 1984. We were traveling through the Atlantic Coast of Canada, performing an evangelistic drama known as Toymaker and Son. It was a 52 minute long drama performed in full costume to a...

14 Jul 2017

Don't Drag Your Feet

Amy Fish

Trust God, Direction, Obedience, Knowing God, Life-Changing, YWAM DTS, Calling, Spiritual Growth, Journey, Hearing God's Voice, Following God, Get to Know God, Redirection, Dependence on God

“Nah, I don’t need to do that!” I emphatically told God one day after being asked by our ministry leaders to do a YWAM DTS. At the age of 34, my husband and I had already been serving the Lord in full-time ministry for years. We had worked as youth pastors in Kansas, while attending school. Then we planted a church in South Carolina. Missions was nothing new for us because we had led numerous...