#1 – YLI Training in Nicaragua – Ash and Ryn headed down to Nicaragua in January with our partner church, Southern Hills. We were part of a team doing love evangelism with children during the day and YLI training for local pastors and church leaders in the evening. For the first time, the YLI training was translatedContinue reading “5 things to share so far in 2025”
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You can join us in 2025
Here’s how! Young Leaders International’s model is simple relational discipleship. That means that even though we’ve experienced exponential growth in the number of young leaders impacted, our baseline budget has only increased minimally year over year. In 2025 we will be increasing our investment in the Nigerian interns while we continue to build up theContinue reading “You can join us in 2025”
Empowering young leaders to reach their world through discipleship.
Da Onyame Ase! A word from our Executive Director, Ash Zook Friends, Da Onyame Ase (thanks be to God) is a line in a Ghanaian children’s song, Da N’Ase. Da N’Ase is like the American song, “Jesus Loves Me”. It’s often the first song a child learns in Sunday School. Similarly, it is spiritually deepContinue reading “Empowering young leaders to reach their world through discipleship.”
Intimacy with God
Is what we are made for Remain in me, as I also remain in you. No branch can bear fruit by itself; it must remain in the vine. Neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in me. -John 15:4 Why Coach Retreats are so important It may appear on the surface that YLI’sContinue reading “Intimacy with God”
Incarnational Evangelism
Means Leaving your Comfort Zone What’s new with YLI Coach, Constant Adzomani For just as we share abundantly in the sufferings of Christ, so also our comfort abounds through Christ. If we are distressed, it is for your comfort and salvation… -2 Corinthians 1:5-6a When thinking about world missions what often comes to mindContinue reading “Incarnational Evangelism”
Spiritual Reproduction
Grows from intimacy with God and love evangelism …and what you have heard me say in the presence of many witnesses entrust to reliable people who will also be qualified to teach others. Join with me in suffering, like a good soldier of Jesus Christ. – 2 Timothy 2:2-3 On nearly every trip to WestContinue reading “Spiritual Reproduction”
2024 Water Projects
This year we were able to complete ten clean water projects before the rainy season began in June. That’s a pretty good pace for us. Water projects have grown into a key part of our incarnational evangelism efforts in Ghana over the last 15 years, but drilling can only be reliably done during the dryContinue reading “2024 Water Projects”
YLI through the eyes of friend Rhonda Ristow
Whether along the sprawling streets of sidewalk vendors, high-rise businesses, malls and traffic in Accra or Tamale, or in the bush communities like Bimbilla, Chaamba, and Talon, the people of Ghana are at the heart of its beauty and vibrancy. You will find a mix of old and new, modern and ancient, influences of Islam,Continue reading “YLI through the eyes of friend Rhonda Ristow”
Intimacy with God Retreat Jos, Nigeria
Ministry in a persecuted country felt different. It was joyful, but serious. As I taught on intimacy with God, it felt as though our leaders were paying attention to my words like I was giving them instructions to perform emergency surgery.
Discipling persecuted Christian students who love their Muslim peers.
An opportunity arose in northern Nigeria this year that at first seemed (to my sometimes-stubborn commitment to vision statements) to be outside of YLI’s scope. Our vision is to disciple young adults but earlier this year we received an invitation from a high school student group at a rural boarding school. I saw some photosContinue reading “Discipling persecuted Christian students who love their Muslim peers.”
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