Send
Identify students and young adults who are ready to explore God’s calling through mission experiences related to their studies and skills.
Help a student get started →Churches • students • vocation • mission
Your church is already preparing the next generation for mission.
Converge can help our church mobilize college students and young adults into mission through their studies, careers, and calling.
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Converge can help your church
Converge can help your church mobilize college students and young adults into mission through their studies, careers, and calling.
The students and young adults in your congregation are preparing for careers in education, business, healthcare, engineering, technology, communications, the arts, science, government and many other fields. What if they began to see those fields as places of mission?
YWAM Converge helps churches equip students to ask not only, “What am I going to do with my life?” but also, “God, how can You use what I am learning?”
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From college major to mission
Churches have long sent people through prayer, financial support, short-term teams and vocational missionary service. Those pathways remain important. Alongside them stands an enormous mission field: Christian university students preparing to enter virtually every profession and sphere of society.
NursingEngineeringEducationBusinessFilm & artsScienceSocial workTechnology
Every field of study can serve God’s world.
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Five ways your church can partner
Mentor
Invite mature Christian professionals, pastors, missionaries and tradespeople to help younger believers connect faith with vocation.
Become a mentor →Host
Propose a real ministry project where a student can learn while serving through communications, research, technology, outreach or another practical need.
Propose a project →Pray
Pray for students, universities, mentors, Christian faculty and mission hosts—and for a generation offering every gift to Jesus.
Join us in prayer →Give
Support students, Fellows, missionaries, projects and partnerships that connect churches, universities and ministries.
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Beyond the mission trip
A mission trip can change a student’s summer. A biblical understanding of vocation can change the direction of a student’s life.
We want students asking, “How can my whole life participate in God’s mission?” The classroom becomes preparation. A profession becomes an opportunity to serve. Relationships become ministry. Skills become stewardship. The Great Commission becomes part of a Christian’s understanding of vocation.
“Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord.”
Colossians 3:23
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A simple path for churches
- Connect. Tell us about your church, missions program, college ministry or young adult ministry.
- Identify. Notice students, mentors, ministry projects and mission opportunities already present in your congregation.
- Mobilize. Help students explore where their studies and skills can serve real ministry needs.
- Mentor. Surround them with mature Christians who pray, listen, challenge and encourage.
- Send. Commission students to live missionally on campus, across cultures and through their future professions.
Start with one student. One mentor. One project. One conversation.
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Invite YWAM Converge to your church
We would be glad to introduce Converge to your pastor, missions committee, college ministry, young adult group or congregation. A presentation can introduce the vision of connecting Faith + Education + Vocation + Mission.
The question is not simply, “Will I become a missionary?” It is, “Jesus, how do You want to use my whole life?”
Connect with us
What is your next step?
Tell us where you are, what you are studying or doing, and how you hope to participate.