The centre is lead by Peter Drypolcher. On staff are Debi Drypolcher, Sizwe Mwale, Manuel Bonga & Alison Christie. The centre is accountable to the Regional Frontier Missions Leader and to the leadership of the South-Central and Southern regions of YWAM.

The Frontier Mission Center in Lusaka, Zambia serves the church and YWAM bases of South -Central Africa to be all it can be in fulfilling the Great Commission.

• SERVE the church and YWAM bases of South Central Africa to be all they can be in fulfilling the Great Commission.
  
• SERVE YWAM missionaries working among the unreached and least-reached people within our region.
• SEND YWAM missionaries to least reached and unreached peoples within and outside our region.
• TRAIN missionaries. To be done by determining with the candidate and receiving team the best training for them prior to entering the field.
• RECEIVE YWAM missionaries in our frontier areas.
• RESEARCH, as pertains to the world missions effort, about people groups in region, and regarding people groups outside our region adopted by bases and churches or to which regional missionaries are called.
• Be a missions RESOURCE centre for bases and churches in the region.
• MOBILIZE the church to be a sending church.
• MOBILIZE YWAM bases in the southern and south central regions to be sending bases.
• Encourage DTS leaders to include a week of missions TEACHING in every school, taking the responsibility to provide teachers for that subject when asked.
• Encourage each YWAM base to ADOPT a people in the region and a people outside the region.
• · Regularly meet with and WORK WITH OTHERS with similar visions to learn, avoid duplication of work, and encourage each other. We desire to see young Africans in the frontiers, whether with YWAM, or sent by another organization, or by their church.

When we talk of serving missionaries, we mean it in the broadest sense, including, but not limited to Leadership development, stages of preparation and going , visits in the field, debriefing, consultations, team dynamics, and pastoral care.

What we do

• Help the Church get a "sending vision"
• Guide those who feel called to nations or people groups yet to be reached with the Gospel.
• Provide care for those already working in the Frontiers
• Network with other agencies sending non-western workers
• Research people groups within our region
• Provide prayer tools for unreached peoples
• Host weekly intercession for the nations.