YWAM Western Canada & Emerging Culture
There will likely be some blog silence from me this week, as Kim & I will be in Calgary attending the Youth With A Mission Western Canada Leadership Team (YWAM WCLT) meetings. I am particularly excited about these meetings, as we have a significant portion of the agenda designated to examining the emerging culture and our response to it as a regional mission. YWAM Western Canada is generally quite open to this dialogue, with many of us engaging this missional frontier within our ministries already. Some are skeptical, but willing to explore. It promises to be a good time.
For those of you who are familiar with YWAM and are surprised that there is active exploration of the church in the emerging culture, I am not surprised. YWAM as an organization often takes on many of the cultural dynamics of the region of which it is a part. You are as likely, therefore, to find very postmodern expression of YWAM as you are to find mega-ministry centres, even some who would be concerned, even opposed to the emerging church. It is one of the more complex dynamics of our mission, with its fair share of headaches, but it is also ones its greatest strengths.
Keep us in your prayers as we travel this week and wrestle through some of the important challenges facing us as a region and a larger mission. If you would like more information about YWAM, check out these links:
