Vision and Mission

YWAM Pneuma Springs is a missionary community of the Holy Spirit. As a community, we are an organism, not an institution. We seek to base our life together and our witness to the world on the selfless love that God revealed to the world in the gift of His Son, Jesus Christ.

Our aim is to become a reflection of this love, giving to one another, including guests who come to us, unselfishly in love and service so that our ministries flow out of our communion.

Pneuma Springs is a place of Worship, a place of Intercession for the nations of the world and a place of training for cross-cultural missionaries.

We believe that all mission begins and ends with prayer, and that God indeed answers the prayers of His people to transform nations. Our vision is that believers from churches throughout the Pacific Northwest will come to join us in prayer for the salvation of the world. 

Our hope is that the world will know that we are His disciples because of our love for Christ and for one another.

OUR MISSION STATEMENT

Our mission is to know God and make Him known to the world. In order to be faithful to our mission calling, we are committed to the following:

• To challenge Christians to a deeper intimacy with God;

• To train Christians to live in obedience to all that Christ has commanded us;

• To mobilize, together with local churches, the Body of Christ to meet the spiritual and physical needs of the lost;

• To minister to the lost and needy of our own local community;

• To emphasize the 4/14 window of missions; that is, to begin to make a concentrated focus on mobilization and training of children and youth aged 4 to 14;

• To focus on the ‘diaspora’ of all nations, not just Korean, for the purpose of raising them up as a great mission tool for world evangelization;

• To serve and work for the freedom of Christians in oppressed and persecuted nations;

• To encourage cross-cultural missionaries by serving, caring for and enabling them to be fruitful for the Lord;

• To become a healing, reconciling community of God by worshiping and serving as a multi-cultural, multi-generational missionary force.

“After this I looked, and behold, a great multitude that no one could number, from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands, and crying out with a loud voice, “Salvation belongs to our God who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb!”

– Revelation 7:9-10

Our Community’s Story

Our community began in 1961 under the direction of Dr. David Ross, whose vision was for God’s people to be as holy as God, as humble as Jesus, and hidden treasures of the Holy Spirit. These are the righteous that God is seeking in this generation. At Pneuma Springs, we work and pray to help raise up such a generation. 

YWAM: Our Global Family

It all started when a 20-year-old American college student in the Bahamas on a worship tour spent some time in prayer. As he leaned back in his bed and looked up, he saw what he called a “mental movie.” He saw waves on a map. The waves turned into young people, going to every continent, sharing the good news about Jesus. “Was that really you, Lord?” he asked.

This radical idea, that young people could be missionaries, stayed with this 24-year-old young man, Loren Cunningham. Four years later, in 1960, he started an organization with that idea expressed even in its name: Youth With A Mission.

Loren opened his first office in a bedroom at his parent’s house in California and the story of how YWAM began and how it grew is a story of God’s direction and God’s grace in using ordinary people from countries all over the world. 

Today, Loren is one of the only people to have ministered in every country on earth. He and his wife Darlene still serve with YWAM from their home in Hawaii.  As members of YWAM’s Global Leadership Team, they help oversee one of the largest Christian charitable organizations in the world.

Youth With A Mission (YWAM) encompasses thousands of people and hundreds of ministries in almost every country of the world. In all of them, our passion is : “To Know God and Make Him Known”