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THE LEGACY COVENANT<br />
RENEWAL DOCUMENT<br />
Manila, 2024<br />
When 4500+ YWAMers from 110+ countries gathered<br />
in Manila for YWAM Together in September 2024, we<br />
affirmed the following <strong>Legacy</strong> <strong>Covenant</strong> before the<br />
Lord:<br />
We recognize that we are in a new season of multigenerational<br />
collaboration. This is the first global<br />
gathering of our missionary movement since Loren<br />
Cunningham graduated on October 6, 2023 to his<br />
heavenly home (along with many other beloved<br />
YWAMers who have departed in the past couple<br />
years). As we are reminded of the spiritual DNA we<br />
received from our founders, we commit ourselves<br />
afresh to our stated purpose, core beliefs and<br />
foundational values. This is only possible as we walk<br />
intimately with Jesus, imitating Loren’s lifelong pursuit<br />
of ever-growing friendship with God.<br />
We affirm that Jesus continues to be the leader of our<br />
mission movement. This is the way it has been from<br />
the beginning and this is the way we will continue to<br />
serve the Lord and his loving purposes on earth. We<br />
will look to Jesus and follow his leading. We place our<br />
confidence in him, not in our structural frameworks.<br />
For this reason we consecrate ourselves to be<br />
wholeheartedly devoted to God, walking with him in<br />
holiness and intentional obedience.<br />
We affirm the Four <strong>Legacy</strong> Words that we received<br />
through Loren Cunningham:<br />
• the vision of the waves of young people<br />
going from everywhere to everywhere,<br />
• the call to disciple nations through the<br />
spheres of society,<br />
• the vision of extending the kingdom of God<br />
through the Christian Magna Carta, and<br />
• the call to End Bible Poverty Now in every<br />
mother tongue!<br />
We recognize that each of these Four <strong>Legacy</strong> Words<br />
complements one another. Each presents a unique<br />
perspective of how to complete “the alls and everys”<br />
of the Great Commission. As we collaborate together,<br />
they present a holistic and integrated meta-strategy<br />
for fulfilling God’s redemptive dreams. All of them<br />
contain myriads of opportunities for creative<br />
innovation as we go to where we are not, serving the<br />
least, the last, and the lost. Together we can see the<br />
greatest missional impact possible.<br />
God drew our attention to focus on the emerging<br />
generation. We affirm that it is time for the youngest<br />
generations to arise in our midst. In our multigenerational<br />
movement we are always committed to<br />
championing young people. We celebrate and make a<br />
way for the youngest in our midst to be and do all<br />
that God asks of them.<br />
God highlighted the University of the Nations as we<br />
recognized and commissioned expanding leadership<br />
teams. We affirm this ministry that God has raised up<br />
in our midst to help equip the emerging generation<br />
for the greatest growth unto missional impact.<br />
God also led us to focus on Africa. Together we<br />
remembered the twelve that perished in the tragic<br />
Arusha incident. We recognize that Africa has a<br />
strategic role in our future. The population of Africa<br />
will multiply from just over one billion to nearly four<br />
billion people on earth between now and the year<br />
2100. More than half of the people in 25 African<br />
countries are currently under the age of 25. Already<br />
one out of every four Christians in the world live in<br />
Sub-Saharan Africa. These facts should inform our<br />
missional activities.<br />
God also spoke to us of the need to see a resurgence<br />
of prayer and intercession in our midst. As we listen<br />
to God in the place of prayer he guides us in the way<br />
we should go. We cry out to God for a burning desire<br />
to see passionate prayer be normative in our midst as<br />
our lifestyle both individually and corporately. In our<br />
YWAM history, prayer and worship have always been<br />
catalytic to our apostolic initiatives. We affirm afresh<br />
that prayer is the foundation of our ministry and our<br />
apostolic expansion.<br />
Throughout the time together we heard testimonies<br />
from around the world. Each concluded with the<br />
phrase, “This is my story!” to which all of those<br />
gathered responded, saying, “This is our story!” And<br />
we recognize, as we look to God, that in truth “This is<br />
his story!” Together we have experienced God. We<br />
have received a treasured legacy from those who<br />
have gone before us and we commit to pass it on<br />
faithfully to future generations. Our desire is to be<br />
mission true to the call of God. Therefore, as we<br />
depart Manila, we commit ourselves to walk in unity,<br />
we embrace the call of God, we determine to do all<br />
that we can do with the aid of the Holy Spirit to do the<br />
work of God in the ways of God for the glory of God.<br />
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