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Join Us in Activating a Generation to Disciple the Nations

YWAM Salem is embarking on a campaign to expand our facilities in response to the coming wave of young missionaries.

Capital Campaign Progress

$2,826,750
61%

Phase 1 Goal: $4,590,000

Our vision is to prepare a place that will train over 1,000 young missionaries annually! We currently estimate the full build-out of our Master Plan to cost $20,000,000. This is our need over the next ten years. 

Our current need is $1,763,250 to finish construction of phase one! 

Preparing to Activate

In order to achieve our long-term vision and train the next generation of missionaries, YWAM Salem must first expand and improve its facilities in 3 strategic ways.

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Create Space for Growing Impact

Student dormitory: As we prepare to train and send more missionaries, we need more beds for them to sleep in. This new 7,077 sq. ft. dorm will add 44 beds, classroom, and a lounge to meet our emerging needs!

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Preparing a place for multiplication

Infrastructure and Permits: In order to prepare the YWAM Salem Campus for expansion, we secured comprehensive conditional use permits. We recently broke ground on our core systems, like water, road, and septic systems! These upgrades will literally lay the foundations for the future.

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Activate a generation to disciple the nations

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Responding to the need

40.6%

Of the world's people groups are unreached with the gospel. That means over 3 billion people worldwide do not know the good news of Jesus Christ.

33%

More than one-third of millennials now say they are unaffiliated with any faith, up 10 percentage points since 2007.

87%

Of Millennials consider a company’s commitment to social causes when deciding where to work. They want to do something they feel really matters. 

Statistics from Joshua Project, Tim Elmore, Barna Group

 

Our Solution

Located on 35 acres in Oregon’s capital city, YWAM Salem is a non-profit, international and interdenominational Christian organization focusing on missions training, local and global outreach, and coaching young people through our flagship program, The Discipleship Training School (DTS). We help people discover their gifts and calling and use those to serve God in the world—especially the unreached.

Campaign Progress

$2,826,750
61%
Phase 1 Goal: $4,590,000
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Our Mission

We believe all people were created to know God and to dare to believe He can change history with your life. But there's a problem. 3 billion people in the world have never heard the name of Jesus, and countless young people feel disconnected from God’s story.

We’re on a mission to change that by targeting 2 key demographics: unactivated youth and unreached people. 

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Future Phases

At YWAM Salem, we are committed to growth. And we're planning for it. 

Student Dormitory

This phase adds an additional 10,800 square foot versatile student dormitory building, bringing our total capacity to 300+ students.  

Project Cost: $5 million

Assembly Hall

A place for our community to meet as a whole and additional classroom space for our expanding programs. This 11,500 square foot building will have seating for 350+. Three classrooms that each seat 50+ and room to store materials.

Projected Cost: $4 million

Staff Housing

This includes 6 family oriented units, 16 single oriented units, 8 speaker/guest units, and increases staff capacity by 45% up to 120. Additionally, these new living quarters house our team close to the students they are mentoring. This is critical to the live-learn environment in which we disciple.

Projected Cost: $6.5 million

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YWAM’s training schools and short-term outreach programs have provided opportunities for thousands of young people who were raised in our affluent society to experience the reality of life in other parts of the world. Through these experiences, the students have found a greater understanding of the breadth of God’s love, and many have committed their lives to church ministry or missionary work. I am grateful for their influence on the youth of American culture and around the world.
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Dallas Willard
Late author and professor of Philosophy at USC

YWAM is a unique contribution to world mission. YWAM has been highly effective in attracting mission entrepreneurs, especially among young people, and mobilizing them for a wide range of important mission work. Sprawling, sometimes messy and very nimble, YWAM’s entrepreneurial spirit is the envy of the larger, more structured missions. YWAM’s dependence on the movement of the Spirit of God in directing its work is a witness to all of us.
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Bryant MyersProfessor of Transformational Development, Fuller Theological Seminary; former Vice-President, World Vision

It has been my privilege over the years to observe and participate with Youth With A Mission on numerous projects around the world. Their focus on evangelism is always great. YWAM has a tremendous team of dedicated servants of the Lord and always marvel at how God has been able to use them in so many strategic areas of the world.
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Franklin Graham
President and CEO, Billy Graham Evangelistic Association

My life has been so powerfully impacted by missions. I’ve been involved with trips to Calcutta, India, to Bucharest, Romania, to Ecuador. And I have seen God move through those trips powerfully in my life and seen how God uses that to change people’s lives in those countries. I have had some very close friends of mine who have worked with Youth With A Mission and been on mission trips and their lives have been radically turned around by working with this ministry. So, I encourage people considering going on a missions trip to link up with YWAM because it is an incredible ministry.
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Rebecca St. James
Musician