YWAM founder Cunningham dies

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Date posted:  1 Nov 2023
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Loren Cunningham, the founder of international mission agency YWAM (Youth With A Mission), has died.

US magazine Christianity Today described him as a ‘charismatic visionary’ who ‘mobilized millions of young people for short-term trips’. He was 88.

The magazine reported: ‘When he was only 20, Cunningham was praying and saw an image of a map, but the map was moving. Waves were crashing on the shores of every continent, receding, and then crashing again. The picture appeared to him like “a mental movie,” he would later say, and as he looked closer, the waves were young people, “kids my age and even younger”, fulfilling the Great Commission to “go into all the world and preach the gospel to all creation” (Mark 16:15).

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