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Opportunities for after you have done a Discipleship Training school, a core training of YWAM.
Whatever way you want to serve God, you can most likely do it in YWAM! Being on staff with YWAM is an adventure in faith. Join staff for a couple of years, or stay for life.
In Sendai, one of the joys of joining staff is to serve side by side with people from a variety of nations and Christian backgrounds. As well as this, you will be immersed in the unreached region of Tohoku (North-East Japan), with its rich traditional Japanese culture and history, and scenic, peaceful nature.
All YWAMers in Sendai will be expected to invest in learning the Japanese culture and language, desiring to demonstrate the Gospel to the unreached millions you will encounter every day. Become like a Japanese, to win the Japanese (1 Cor. 9.20).
Here are a few of the ways you can serve as staff in Sendai:
YWAM does not pay its staff. Most of our staff meet their financial needs by partnering with friends and churches who support their ministry.
To join YWAM Sendai staff you first need to complete a Discipleship Training School (DTS). DTS is the prerequisite to all our other training and opportunities and is offered at over 600 locations around the world.
To find out more about staffing with us, please check out our wiki or contact us with any questions.
Opportunities from one day to six months.
The Discipleship Training School (YWAM DTS) offers five to six months of growing deeper with God and impacting the world, all in a community environment.
The next school is scheduled to run in September 2025. Please get in touch > for more information!
Are you interested in bringing an outreach team? That’s great! You are welcome! As we are still a small community, we are unable to plan schedules or ministries for outreach teams. But you are welcome to prayer walk, do evangelism, and get involved in things we do regularly as a community!
Please get in touch and ask us any questions you have about coming to Sendai!
If you are thinking about coming to Japan, or are already here, and would like to visit us, please get in touch! Especially if you are seeking the Lord about next steps and are considering being a missionary in Japan, you are welcome to join our team’s schedule to get a feel for life in Sendai.