We, Rodney and Jolanda Blevins, have been missionaries with Youth With A Mission (YWAM) since 1997. We both did a Discipleship Training School (DTS) at the YWAM base Heidebeek in Heerde, The Netherlands. The DTS is YWAM’s six month training course designed to help you understand God more deeply, live more like Jesus and identify your unique gifts and purpose to use in missions.
In March 2000, we moved to the city of Zenica in Bosnia & Herzegovina where we lived and worked until June 2003. We moved back to The Netherlands in 2003 continue our ministry at the YWAM base Heidebeek.
Jolanda has been involved with the pastoral and staff care and development teams here at Heidebeek. She has also been a mentor to other missionary ladies as well as students in the Discipleship Training School and other schools given at Heidebeek.
In Budapest, Jolanda will mostly be busy, together with our daughters’ nanny with homeschooling our children. Jolanda will also be in charge of hospitality, receiving groups/guests in the house where we will be living. With her background in pastoral care, she has also been asked to help setup and facilitate this for YWAM Central Europe.
Rodney is the leader of EuroCom, YWAM Europe’s communication team. EuroCom exists to serve the leadership of YWAM Europe and YWAM Europe’s communication needs.
EuroCom, like all of YWAM’s communication teams operating at local, regional, field and global levels works together to:
- improve communication among ministry locations and between leaders and staff
- represent YWAM to the church and public
- empower missionaries with valuable skills, heart and vision
- produce recruiting and training resources
- help YWAM be more effective in its mandate to know God and to make Him known
In Budapest, this will stay mostly the same, although he will be working more closely with Carmelita Clarke who is EuroCom’s link with the European Leadership Team.
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