Welcome to YWAM Lichinga
Lichinga is the capital city of the Niassa Province. It's great to have you as our guest and to introduce you to our family. YWAM Lichinga's vision is to evangelise, disciple and train Mozambicans until Niassa will be known as a christian Province.

Let us take you on a round trip to show you who we are and what we are doing, starting in a Yao-Muslim village 10 km out of town.

If you follow a dusty road from the city across a dam and up a hill, you'll arrive in Mitawa - a village with around 7000 people of which 99,9 percent are Muslim. It was one of the first Yao villages in which YWAM started working in 1997. Over the years we have learnt much about the Yao people and have built good relationships with families in the village including the chief. We continue to teach the Bible and pursue friendships.

However, we realized that in order to be more effective in discipling we have to become more strategic. That is why we're running our first School of Frontier Missions (SOFM) from July-September of 2005. After the school a team will move to another Yao village called Itepela to live among the the people for an initial two years.

We have come to realize that we need to train for where the needs are. A few years ago, we purchased a piece of property at the entrance to the city and we're in the initial stages of building training facilities.

YWAM Lichinga currently runs the Discipleship Training School and the School of Frontier Mission and we hope to run our first School of Biblical Studies next year. We want to run more schools to train people for christian ministries, health care, education and community development in general.

Some of our people have already started this kind of work and we hope to see more individuals and teams mobilised to the unreached as well as the different sferes of society.

As volunteers they are doing quality work and are teaching others in God's ways. YWAMers in Lichinga have been involved in sports coaching, music training, literacy training, youth ministries, prison ministires, health care, teaching and preaching, leadership development, preschool work, churchplanting, teaching English, etc.

YWAM has been able to make use of an old farm property close to town to house teams and run training schools until the training base will be able to accomodate people. The project to be implimented on this 166 hectare will be registered seperately from YWAM but linked relationally, and have as it's objective to become a model of biblical ethics in the work place e.g. stewardship, work ethic, respect, honest wages, giving to missions etc.

If this is your heart as well, come and visit us! You can find out more about what we're doing on this website and if you want to respond, please send us an email. We'd love to hear from you.

Jan van Stelten

YWAM leader in Lichinga

Niassa anteriormente era conhecida como a província esquecida de Moçambique. O povo ficou oprimido de baixo de pobreza, doenças, analfabetismo, uma péssima infra-estrutura falta de integridade e justiça nos sectores governamentais, etc. Nós como Igreja e representação de Deus, temos a tarefa de tomar o desafio e discipular a nação Moçambicana, e ver as nossas sociedades transformadas em todas as esferas.

Niassa used to be known as the forgotten province of Mozambique. The people were oppressed through poverty, sickness, illiteracy, a deteriorated infrastructure, lack of integrity and unrighteousness in government sectors, etc. We as the church and representation of God have the role to take up the challenge to disciple the nation of Mozambique and see our societies transformed in all spheres.

Existing ministries are church planting among the unreached, children's evangelism and pre-school planting, literacy training, small scale health work, music/youth ministry, organizing of inter-church events and Discipleship Training School annually. As priority we want to raise up Mozambican workers and leaders.

Os ministérios que existem são implantação de igrejas entre os não-alcançados, evangelização de crianças e implantação de escolinhas, alfabetização, trabalho de saúde em pequena escala, ministério de música/jovens, organização de eventos entre as igrejas e Escola de Discipulado e Treinamento anualmente. Como prioridade, queremos levantar obreiros e líderes Moçambicanos.

Você sente-o chamado de Deus para se envolver na tarefa de discipular a nação de Moçambique connosco aqui em Lichinga, ou para ser treinado cá como missionário ãs nações? Nós gostaría- mos de lhe servir na descoberta e desenvolvimento dos seus dons para que você se torne um obreiro eficaz no Senhor. Por causa de antecedentes únicos que os nossos alunos trazem do seu contexto socio-cultural local, paralelo ao treinamento normal especificado no currículo da ETED, também vamos focalizar a questão da adoração dos espiritos dos antepassados, feitiçaria, Islamismo e outras questões relevantes que são essencias para o discipulado dos crentes locais. A escola será bilingue; Portugûes e Inglês.

Do you feel called of God to be involved in the task of discipling the nation of Mozambique with us here in Lichinga, or to be trained here as a missionary to the nations? We would like to serve you in discovering and developing your gifts in order to become an effective worker in the Lord. Because of the unique backgrounds that our local students come out of, alongside the normal training specified in the DTS curriculum, we will also be focusing some attention on the whole issue of ancestor worship, witchcraft, Islam and other relevant issues vital to discipleship of local believers. The school will be a double medium school held in Portuguese and English.
Our vision is to evangelize, disciple and train Mozambicans until Niassa will be known as a Christian Province. We focus on three main areas of ministry:
  • Evangelism and Church Planting
  • Training of Christian Workers
  • Community Development

A nossa visao e de evangelizar, discipular e treinar Mocambicanos ate que Niassa seja conhecida como uma provincia Crista. Focalizamos em tres areas maiores de ministerio que sao:

  • Evangelizacao e implantacao de igrejas
  • Treinamento de obreiros Cristaos
  • Desenvolvimento Comunitario

Besides Church Planting amontst the Yao People, we offer the Discipleship Training School, every year, the School of Frontier Missions, Pre-school and Literacy Training, Youth Ministry, Primary Health Care and Prison Ministry.

PRE-SCHOOL and LITERACY TRAINING / PRE-ESCOLA e ALFABETIZACAO