Ed Sinke, YWAMer from Tyler, TX shares his story about becoming a pastoral leader in world missions. Ed is a personal friend and a leader who has mentored me for many years. Ed and I talk about the role of the Mentor in the Converge program.

Joseph and his family came to the United States to work with African Americans who also have bitterness and anger in their story. Joseph was led by God to help African Americans discover their roots and freedom from bitterness through a ministry of reconciliation.

In this episode, John Henry, director of YWAM Converge, shares all about the Converge programs and network. The episode includes Xian Wu’s amazing story. In 2003, Xian did a Water Resource Engineering internship in East Timor. His is one of many among the hundreds of Field Ministry Internship participants who have served with Youth With A Mission sponsored internships since 1986. Converge internships has replaced the former Field Ministry Internships (FMI) of YWAM's Student Mobilization Centre.

This is the story of how Jihye pioneered a new International Student Ministry for YWAM at the University of Texas in Dallas. After six years of work with students at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, Jihye went to Christ for the Nations to study worship theology. Then God interrupted her plans to return to Madison.

Marjorie and her husband David have been leading and teaching primary health care and community development ministries in South Asia for many years. She brings a perspective and expertise regarding cross-cultural ministry and what it means to love your neighbor. 

English is Glenis' second language. She became our first Converge intern to Albania where nobody spoke Spanish and only a few spoke English. But that's when she began to sense God calling her to be a translator. Her story about the children in the orphanage in Albania will touch your heart.

Ned is the former director of Intervarsity Christian Fellowship's International Student Ministries. This conversation with Ned Hale was primarily to discuss the importance of friendship with the foreign student for the cause of Christ. However, our discussion honored many others who he had the privilege of knowing over five decades of university missions.

Mauricio and Diana are YWAM missionaries to the universities in South America. Mao directs YWAM's Student Mobilization Centre offices in Cartagena, Colombia.

Lova is a YWAM Campus Ministries leader in Madagascar. He and a team of eight Malagasy YWAMers went to South Korea for our School of University Ministries & Missions. Since then, those eight leaders have take leadership of six YWAM ministries in four cities, emphasizing university ministries. Lova and his team are hosting Converge interns, including English Teacher interns in June 2019.

Ramy Taleb tells his Converge Story of becoming a peacemaker in Lebanon. God took Ramy out of Lebanon to Northern Ireland and then South Africa in order to learn how to be a reconciler for peace in his own homeland. Two interns spent seven months in Lebanon in 2018.