YWAM News Podcast Launched

Last month we launched a new YWAM News Podcast over at ywampodcast.com.

The idea behind the podcast is to cover some of the news that is happening in Youth With a Mission around the world. So far we have put together four different episodes, releasing them on Monday night (which usually turns into early Tuesday morning). The last podcasts have been about 15 to 20 minutes long.

The types of topics that we plan to cover on the new podcast are:

• Outreach News
• Training Opportunities
• Information about YWAM Conferences
• Prayer Requests from various ministries
• Opportunities to partner / donate to various YWAM ministries

This YWAM News Podcast is the first of a few that we want to launch this year. Some of the other concepts that we are looking at are:

• Teaching / Devotional Podcast
• YWAM Roundtable / Talk Show
• Messages from YWAM Leaders
• Staff and Student Testimonies and Interviews
• YWAM IT / Communications Podcast

We’re still in the conceptual stage for those other podcasts, but hope to get a few of them up and running later in the year.

One of the things that will limit what we are able to do is my laptop. The laptop that I currently own and use is 4.5 years old. The computer is too slow to record interviews or more than one host. It is also having hardware problems, shutting down at random times and some of the keys and buttons have stopped working. We are needing to raise the money for a new laptop, and are looking at one with enough power for audio and video podcasting, as well as developing more content and web-sites for our work with the YWAM International Chairman’s Team.

You can donate directly using the ChipIn widget on my site, or you can also check out the donate page on our families web-site to find out other ways to give.

Update: If you are wanting to listen some of the YWAM Foundational Teaching you can find them at ywampodcast.org. They have collected almost 350 teachings from around YWAM and we hope that these new podcasts will help complement the work that they have already done.