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THE BOOK THAT
TRANSFORMS
ANNUAL
REPORT
2016

ANNUAL REPORT 2016 YWAM KONA
CONTENTS
OVERVIEW
BIBLE DISTRIBUTION
TESTIMONIES
FINANCE REPORT
VISION FOR 2017
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MESSAGE FROM LOREN CUNNINGHAM
Loren Cunningham is the Founder of Youth With A Mission (YWAM), an ever-expanding global "family of
ministries" born in 1960 which has reached into every nation on earth (www.ywam.org). As a missions
movement, YWAM encompasses evangelism, training and mercy ministries. It is manned by more than
20,000 full-time staff from 200+ countries and a wide variety of denominations and Christian traditions
who serve at more than 2,000 YWAM locations in 191 nations. Some five million participants have
served in YWAM programs as students, short-term volunteers and full-time staff since its inception.
Loren is also the Co-Founder and International Chancellor of the University of the Nations (UofN), a
global ministry of YWAM (www.uofn.edu). Since the university was established in 1978, the UofN has
grown to offer more than 500 different kinds of courses and hundreds of seminars (some of which are
offered in 97 languages), held at more than 600 locations/campuses in 160 countries. Hundreds of
thousands of students have registered within the global UofN system and have taken at least a Discipleship
Training School (DTS), the entry course and prerequisite for all other UofN courses, for pursuing
UofN associates, bachelors or masters degrees, and/or for becoming YWAM staff. UofN is also
initiating certificate courses and online e-courses.
Together with his wife, Darlene, Loren’s ministry partner from the beginning of YWAM and UofN, he
currently leads the University of the Nations campus in Kona, Hawaii (www.uofnkona.edu).
By 1999, Loren had personally gone to every sovereign nation on earth, all dependent countries, and
more than 100 territories and islands for the sake of Christ and the Great Commission. This has given
him valuable insights into global trends and uniquely prepares him to share God's strategies for world
evangelism. His wisdom, experience, leadership understanding and call to build bridges of unity within
the body of Christ have given him opportunity to speak publicly to live audiences from a few to more
than a million people gathered in one location. He usually ministers on all six continents each year.

ANNUAL REPORT 2016 YWAM KONA
Since 1960 Loren, joining with many other global leaders, has carried a burden to make the Bible
accessible to every person on earth in their mother tongue by 2033, thereby ending Bible poverty
worldwide. Wherever the Bible goes, the Spirit of God brings transformation! In recent years, he has
met with hundreds of influential leaders in evangelical, charismatic and Pentecostal denominations, as
well as those leading the oldest Christian traditions, to invite their partnership in this cause. Loren’s
personal goal is to make at least an oral translation of Scripture available to the 1,869 totally Bible-less
languages by 2020. He is actively recruiting more than one million Christians that will sign a pledge to
help eradicate Bible poverty by praying and serving as the Holy Spirit leads them (www.endbiblepovertynow.com).
Born in Taft, California, Loren’s family heritage is rich with generations of Christian ministers. His educational
background includes three Bachelor degrees, a Master of Science in Administration of Education,
and three Honorary Doctorates. Loren is the author of five books: Is That Really You, God?
(translated into more than 130 languages), Making Jesus Lord, Daring to Live on the Edge, Why Not
Women? and The Book that Transforms Nations—the Power of the Bible to Change any Country.
Loren Cunningham
Founder of YWAM

GE
BIBLE DISTRIBUTION
FRAN
CUBA
HAITI
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
PANAMA
21,571
COLOMBIA
BRAZIL
SD CARDS
WERE HANDED OUT
13,000
HANDED OUT IN AN ADOPTED, UNREACHED DISTRICT OF THE HIMALAYAS IN NEPAL

ANNUAL REPORT 2016 YWAM KONA
RMANY
CE
TURKEY
GREECE
LEBANON IRAQ
JORDAN
EGYPT
UGANDA
CAMEROON SOUTH SUDAN
RWANDA
MONGOLIA
CHINA
NEPAL MYANMAR
LAOS
INDIA
THAILAND
TAIWAN
VIETNAM
CAMBODIA
PHILIPPINES
MALAYSIA
PAPUA NEW GUINEA
FIJI
8,571
84 63
TO DIFFERENT NATIONS
TEAMS SENT
LOCATIONS

NEPAL
Ywam Kona has adopted a
district in the Himalayas.
In Nepal, Bible distribution in several regions of the country continues to plow
forward. September of 2016 marked a year since the start of the distribution project.
As teams of ywammers and local believers have delivered the Bibles to villagers and
helped start audio Bible listening groups, we have seen God come in power.
In September, four YWAM staff hiked through the Himalayas to scout out the
possibility of sending future teams to villages on these trails. After an especially
difficult day of travel, the team stopped for the night at a shepherd’s hut. The hut,
small and littered with dung, seemed like a resort for the exhausted missionaries
after their trip. As the team got settled in, the shepherd approached them. Discovering
that these four were followers of Jesus, the man said that he had been reading a
Bible and then asked if he too could become a Christian. The team led the shepherd
in a prayer to give his life to Jesus and then they prayed that the Holy Spirit would
come and dwell in the man. The man then looked up and said, “I am so happy!”
The team left the next day rejoicing over what God had done and two days
later, were able to pass back through the shepherd’s village. When they reached the
new believer’s hut, they turned to see that a 15-year-old shepherd boy had followed
them. The boy was invited inside and he and the other shepherd sat with the team
and listened intently as they spoke about Jesus. The boy became excited as he heard
what they

HIMALAYAS
had to say. “I know about Jesus!” he said. “A little while ago, there was a group of
westerners. They came to my village and talked about a man named Jesus. Then
they started praying for people. One man was completely blind. [The westerners]
prayed to Jesus. I watched with my own eyes as Jesus gave the man his sight. After
that, I wanted to follow this Jesus." The team of course was elated and led the boy in
a prayer to receive Jesus. Both of these new believers were presented with an audio
Bible.
In just 1951, there were no known Christians in Nepal, according to the Nepal
census. Today, the fame of Jesus is rapidly spreading throughout the Himalayas and
the country has one of the world’s fastest growing Christian populations.
Because Bible engagement training is key for discipleship and lasting impact,
the teams that are sent out in 2017 will receive further training in listening groups.
Listening groups are small gatherings where a group of those wanting to learn about
Jesus commit to listening to a portion of the audio Bible and then discussing it every
week. In regions such as Africa and India, audio Bible listening groups have multiplied
and many times these groups become new churches as people grow in their
relationship with God and lead others to the Lord.

FINANCE REPORT
s
$156,300
was raised in the combined accounts
between: The Book That Transforms
and Voice of the Martyrs (VOM)
s
$65,000
The Book That Transforms
s
$91,300
Voice of the Martyrs
125000
s$105,000
EXPENSES
100000
75000
50000
25000
0
SD Card &
Jesus Film
s$3,800 s$6,800
Administrative
SD Duplication
Machine
s$40,900
Remaining left