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What students say about FMI
 CallingQuest Campus Ministries Team to Kenya 2001
"The training...revolutionized my thinking and my life. The way I see the world, the way I think about my future, the way I read the Word, and the way I respond to poverty and brokenness is different." Ju Rhyu, Brown University - International Studies
"I feel God calling me to get as much education as possible so that I may be able to disciple the nations in health care, possibly affecting policy." Carrie Black, Cal Poly, SLO
"This mission trip was seriously an awesome experience & I can honestly say I have been transformed by the grace of God."
Uganda AIDS Counselling and Health Care team '96
Zaneta Chung, a Yale University pre-med student, joined our Uganda AIDS Counselling and Health Care team last year. When she returned she said “The internships was one of the best learning experience of my life.” Community Health Development internship on the Amazon '96
Carol Morgan, an Egyptian Coptic Christian on a scholarship from Columbia U., was required to give an oral report to a panel of faculty on her Community Health Development internship on the Amazon. Her report explained the Biblical view of development and integrated learning experience. Health Care, Church Ministries, and Education Team to Ghana '95
Eight Health Care, One Church Ministries, and One Education intern served in the Central Region in several villages alongside YWAM church planting efforts.
“We went with the clinic staff to villages where they gave immunizations and we offered primary wound care and education. After the clinic staff left, we had revival meetings.” This student related the deep spiritual lesson God taught her: “There were people coming to us with the expectation of being healed (but we didn’t have the training or skills) ...through this circumstance God showed me that we can’t rely on our knowledge or skills. He stripped us of all knowledge and skill and took us to the point of despair to show us that it is not by human power but through the Name of Jesus. We need to have faith in God and not ourselves.”Jeannie, U. of Pennsylvania
Another Ghana team student said: “...a set of four month old twins who had sores and rashes all over them. This condition was due mostly to the lack of vitamins, especially vitamin B. The mother told us that the father ran away and she had no money for food. I wanted to blame someone for the culture and how this kind of thing could happen but God taught me to be patient.” Amazon Region, Brazil Community Health Development Team '95
The team of five students was led by Brenda “Gillie” Gilfillen, an American nurse who serves full time at our YWAM LaBrea base on the Amazon. The team joined a Brazilian doctor’s mobile clinic training Brazilian Health Care workers after flying on a Wycliffe Bible Translator’s plane from Port Velho to LaBrea and then journeying up 18 hours on a river boat.
“I’ve learned to see medicine with a new perspective. Doctors need to respect God. He is the the one who gives knowledge to doctors. He is the one whom the doctors need to trust in to heal the patients. God is the one who equips doctors to serve the sick. When I am a doctor, I would like to offer my skills and time to go on short term outreaches and work perhaps as a missionary doctor on trips like the one we took to the Amazon passing on a vision to students.” Julie Cheng, Cornell University
“...in terms of exposure to clinical medicine, I observed various surgeries and the delivery of twins and I administered penicillin & PPD (tuberculosis) shots. The life and death aspects of medicine became very real to me. At times I was overwhelmed by what I saw, such as the variety of tropical diseases, the underlying poverty of the villagers, and the stark beauty of the Amazon. My primary goal of the summer was to experience what it is like to be a medical missionary, a goal which was definitely fulfilled.” Sung Chong, U. of Pennsylvania  Pogradec, Albania Health & Education Assessment of Handicapped Team 95 Three students worked with YWAM, Pogradec nurse and occupational therapist staff assessing the needs of 100 handicapped children under the age of 15 in the mountainous villages along the Macedonian Border.
Steve Hong,, a Columbia University student on the Albania team said: “It was good to know that we were pioneering a new area of ministry and that through what we started a whole project to help the handicapped children in the Pogradec area was beginning.” The assessment project prepared by this team is to be presented to hospital and government officials in Albania.  Business Team to Mexico '90
"...this internship [is] wonderful experience for the...type of work I am planning to do...problem solving in an underdeveloped economy, while integrating mission work." M. Francine Thacke
Social Work Team to Belize '89
"(our team). was able to work in areas that you could never experience in the states." A. Wells International Affairs Team to Hong Kong '89
"I was a translator for the Russian delegation at the Lausanne II Congress in Manila with 192 nations represented. The Church is much bigger than I thought." Johann Matthies Journalism Team to Hong Kong '89
"I am so glad YWAM provided this chance of a lifetime!" R. Replogle Art Internship team to China ‘88
Paula Dubill later attended a DTS, then used the medium of her art to teach the refugees from Cambodia in Hong Kong high rise slums. Today Paula is teaching the U of N Fine Art course in S. Africa. Her art and the art of her students are being used to express the glory and the greatness and the kindness of the Lord in Africa Agriculture Team to Belize '87
"I am now very interested in missions and what my direct involvement can be...we can minister to people by nearly any means."C. Moss Art Team to China '87
"I grew spiritually and learned I was able to take what I learned in Chinese painting to apply it to watercolor." L. Eberwein Education Team to Fiji '87
"It provided me a structure for studying education in Fiji and better enabled me to understand how to set up an early childhood school in another culture." D. Ninemire Medical Ministries Team to Philippines '85
"This internship strongly confirmed my calling to medical missions and provided badly needed impetus to a lengthy academic career." M. Miller
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