Leadership Team
Matt
RAWLINS
Singapore
I joined Youth With A Mission in 1978. I went from my school in Hawaii to work in Micronesia (Saipan) for three years. There I was involved in evangelism and training. I then went to Hong Kong where my focus was on leading a cross cultural evangelism team of 24 students to Korea, Japan, Philippines and then back to Hong Kong. I began work in training in Hong Kong when they asked my wife and I to move to Singapore to take over the work there.
I was in Singapore for five years where our ministry grew to approximately 50 staff with teams coming and going throughout all of Asia. Our focus in Singapore was on training and leadership training. After the work in Singapore and regional leadership in the last year and a half, I became very interested in cross cultural leadership development and what were the core ingredients that are needed to maximize a leader's growth and effectiveness.
My family and I left Singapore and moved back to Oregon where I finished my BA in Management and Communication from Western Baptist. I began work on my Masters in Education from Portland State, then transferred to the University of Wales where I finished my Ph. D. My focus in research was on the 'Learning Leader' and what communication is needed to make organizational leaders effective in times of turbulence or change.
Kim
& Cindy HUNT
Orlando, Florida, USA
Kim & Cindy Hunt have served with the IDTSC since 2000. They led many DTSs in Romania and Hungary , developing leaders in the Central Europe region. They were Central Europe Regional Coordinators until 2007 when they moved to Florida with their daughter Katie. They continue to serve the IDTSC through staff training and development at YWAM Orlando and around the world.
Kim was an architect and holds a M.A. in Cross-Cultural Studies from Fuller Seminary. Having travelled in Eastern Europe during Communism, Kim developed a heart to serve the persecuted church. After moving to Romania in 1992, he did his DTS in Hungary in 1995, and pioneered a DTS in Romania with Cindy. Kim’s heart is to help young people follow God’s call into missions and ministry.
Cindy was a high school teacher before joining YWAM. She did her DTS in 1992 in Scotland and has been developing young teachers and staff ever since. She teaches globally on Prayer, Hearing the Voice of God, and Helping Teachers Teach.
Amos
HATHWAY Amos Hathway was born in Los Gatos, California, USA in 1970 and grew up in the Los Gatos/Santa Cruz area. He was raised in a single parent home without any Christian foundation. In 1986, he met his future wife, Ellen in high school. In 1989, they where married. After struggling with substance abuse, Amos graduated in 1993 from Monterey Bay Teen Challenge where he became a Christian and was set free from drugs.
Ellen had been called to missions at the age of 6, but had fallen away from following God in high school. While in Teen Challenge, Amos was called into full time Christian service. In 1994, Ellen and Amos joined Youth with a Mission and attended the Discipleship Training School in Honolulu, Hawaii. They followed that with the Leadership Development School and the School of Missions and Evangelism. In 1996, they joined full time staff in Honolulu serving with the Leadership School as well as the DTS. In 1998, they became the Directors of the DTS in Honolulu and directed the DTS program in Honolulu until handing over the directorship in 2004.
From 2002 to 2005, Amos and Ellen co-directed YWAM Honolulu. They have worked with the Factory in Harpenden, England, working to see a global youth movement. Amos and Ellen are currently serving locally with YWAM Salem in their training department. Amos also serves on the International Frontier Missions Team with YWAM seeking to connect short term missions with long term workers. Amos and Ellen have a passion to see a new apostolic wave of young people going into all the world transforming every area of society. Amos and Ellen desire to see the DTS strengthened and become the vehicle to see this new generation awaken to their call as nation changers.