Women's Ministry

Reaching out to the daughters of God in Antigua.

This includes a Tuesday meeting at the base open to any mums in the area, as a time of Bible study, testimony and more, where they see a growing community encouraging each other and developing their relationships with God. The staff of this ministry also go & visit different mums each week to spend some time with them in a more one-on-one type setting and encourage & pray for them. As a mums ministry, this is also a ministry that welcomes children to be a part of it.

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Children's Ministry

Reaching out to the young people of Ciudad Vieja.

The base has an all age kids’ club open to the children from all around the community that runs every Thursday, including games, singing, Bible lessons & more. Staff sometimes go into one of the local primary schools to read the Bible with the classes there, and give out Bibles at the end of the year to any kids who don’t have one. These ministries are ones that we will be able to bring our own children along to (something that it wasn’t really practical to do back when we were in Penang)

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Discipleship Training

Times of teaching and outreach - to know God and make God known.

This is the biggest single project we help with. The school consists of a 12 week ‘lecture phase’ with a different discipleship topic taught every week - Nature & Character of God, Intercession, Mission, World View, and so on - followed up with regular small group discussions, one-on-ones, journals and assignments. Students also need to complete work duties each week and help out a little with some of the local ministries. As a minimum 50 hour work week, this will be the busiest part of our year, and we will to some extent job-share so that we can take care of our children as well.

The ‘outreach phase’ of the school lasts for 8 weeks and could be in a nearby or a further away country. Past outreaches have been to Panama, Costa Rica, Haiti & other Latin American nations, but others have gone as far as India, Nepal, Israel, & Greece (we are praying for an outreach to take place in Malaysia!).

• Dates: February 7th - July 5th 2019
• Lecture Phase: 12 weeks
• Outreach Phase: 8 weeks

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Bible Distribution

Offering the life giving Word of God to those in need

The base facilitates staff & visiting groups going to communities to give out Bibles door to door to any family that doesn’t have & would like one. It is also an opportunity to talk with people, share the gospel, and pray for them. This is also a ministry that staff are able to go & serve in as whole families, and so we take our children along to be a part of this.

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Other Ministries

There are other ministries on a less frequent or one-off type basis.

There are some ministries reaching out on a less regular basis to the homeless, an orphanage & a nursing home, and there are projects in schools, construction projects, and community events that happen from time to time. Teams that come have also helped with food distribution, medical/dental outreaches, and more, and the base runs a Summer Spanish Language School as well as occasional seminars open to the community. Antigua is also somewhere very open to street ministry and groups regularly go out to do dramas, songs, dances, etc., on the street as a means of sharing the good news. A regular street outreach known as ‘Soul Patrol’ happens some Friday afternoons, sharing with people from all over the world who are visiting Antigua.

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Future Projects

Ministry opportunities that arise or that God puts on our hearts

As well as the things that presently taking place at the base there is a lot of vision for other opportunities that exist or that could be started. The base now has a men's ministry to complement the ministry to mums, and has started to run events to invite local pastors too. Soon we hope to start some marriage seminars out of the base as well, and remain open to whatever else God may call us to do for this community.

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Strengthening Missionaries

Caring for those who come and serve at the base.

Known as Member Care, this is "the ongoing investment of resources by mission agencies and churches [...] for the nurture & development of [missionaries & their families] [...] from recruitment through retirement" (Doing Member Care Well, O'Donnell, 2002, p.2). It means YWAMers taking care of YWAMers effectively through regular staff meetings, staff-focused events, care settings and more.

We also have a heart to make sure the short-term teams and volunteers that come and work with us are also cared for well during their time at the base, communicating well with them, helping coordinate ministry and travel, providing decent resources and generally keep an eye on their well being.

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Strengthening Students

Investing in those who come to be discipled.

We are now helping out with the running of YWAM's Discipleship Training School programme in Antigua. This was something we had wanted to be involved in for a while but our last YWAM base was not running any during our time there. This involves helping in the planning and logistics of running the school (both the lecture and outreach phases), discipling students through small group discussions, one-on-ones and so on, and going with them as they head out on outreach to wherever God may lead the school to go.

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Strengthening Structures

Helping the set up of the base be the best it can be.

For a YWAM base to run effectively there are a number of "behind the scenes" elements to be taken care of. These include elements like bookkeeping for the base and ministry accounts, putting together documentation for staff, manning email accounts, note taking in meetings, helping develop policies, representing YWAM at conferences, and more. These are some of the ways we have served on base before and are ways we are willing to serve wherever we go.

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