YWAM Bethlehem

We have already reached out to many countries during the past several years. Our aim is to motivate our students to go to the Frontiers! Some of these countries are Lesotho, Namibia-Himba People group (and the border of Angola), Swaziland, Mozambique (working with the Shangaan people in Xai-Xai), Chad, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea (working with the Fang and Combe people), Argentina, Brazil, Uganda, Indonesia and South Africa. Our challenge during the past year has been Mokomo in Uganda. Helping one of our leaders there to start a mini base, with mini DTS's, Youth Centre, feeding scheme and sewing ministry. We are also working in Gulu in the refugee camps where we helped starting a preschool with 100 kids, feeding them once a day and supporting a cook and teacher for these kids. From Gulu we work into DRC & Sudan.

We are the first and only Afro Latin base in Africa, & run our base in English & Spanish. Students from the entire world are welcome. Our base are a bridge between Latin America and Africa. Latinos come to prepare as Missionaries, learn to speak English and go into Africa and the world as Missionaries. Also vice versa for Africans to learn Spanish and to go to Latin America. Learning a new language with us is only a bonus!

We run three DTS's every year, 1 February & around 13 July. It runs for 20-24 weeks. We also run a DTS in the poor community once a year. It is 3 months theory on the base, and depending on where we go on field assignment (outreach), another 2 - 3 months. The SOFM starts every year around the 14th of July and also runs for 30 weeks. 3 Months training and 4 months outreach..

Our base is in Bethlehem, Orange Free State Province, South Africa. We are situated on a farm and are now getting out of our pioneering stage into being a more settled base. We are always building new buildings to bring up more facilities and housing as the numbers of staff and students are growing.