Back in March I announced that we were launching a weekly audio news program, the YWAM Podcast. Since the launch of the podcast we have produced 27 episodes and the program has been downloaded over 3000 times. It has been heard in 41 different countries and has covered over 400 different stories from around Youth With A Mission.
The feedback for the podcast has been great. While most of our listeners are current YWAM staff and students, there are also many non-YWAM listeners. My favourite feedback from a listener was this one written on the YWAM Facebook page:
“Praise God! This is so amazing I get chills as I hear what Our Great God is doing among the nations!”
Moving Forward
Even though each episode of the YWAM Podcast is only 12 – 17 minutes long it represents 12 – 15 hours of work. This includes collecting and curating the stories, writing the script, recording and editing the podcast, posting the audio and news articles and then promoting the podcast through our various communication channels. I enjoy doing it, but it takes a lot of time to produce a good show.
We are moving the YWAM Podcast from a weekly to a fortnightly (every two weeks) format. This will probably increase the length of each episode slightly, but it should free up about 10 – 12 hours every two weeks for me work on other projects.
As we look at future projects we are looking at a few different options for audio content as well as collecting and creating content for a new resource site for YWAM International. Stay tuned to this web-site and the YWAM Podcast to hear more about our future projects …
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