Who We Are
Our Mission
To make faith active while spreading the Gospel of Jesus Christ at home and around the world.
Our Vision
To develop an international network of youth-sending organizations that will mobilize a generation to spread the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
Our Story
Based out of the Seattle area, Youth Missions International was founded in March 2007 by a highly experienced group of short-term mission trainers and senders.
Combined, our trainers have over 20 years of training and mission leading experience, training and sending over 85 short-term mission teams on six continents. Most of them had previously been involved in training and sending teams through AWANA's Missionary-in-Training Program. Since being founded, YMI has sent teams from the West and East Coast to locations in the U.S. and around the world. While many of our teams work alongside AWANA Missionaries in the international mission field, we also partner with organizations like UW Sports Ministry and others as we send our YMI Teams and Church Groups worldwide.
Our Cornerstone Verse
"But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth."
Acts 1:8
Our Method
In step with Acts 1:8, YMI provides churches and individual young people (junior high-college age) with opportunities to evangelize locally, regionally and internationally through short-term mission training and mission experiences.
