Germany

As Western Europe's richest and most populous nation, Germany remains a key member of the continent's economic, political, and defense organizations. European power struggles immersed the country in two devastating World Wars in the first half of the 20th century and left the country occupied by the victorious Allied powers of the US, UK, France, and the Soviet Union in 1945.

With the advent of the Cold War, two German states were formed in 1949: the western Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) and the eastern German Democratic Republic (GDR). The democratic FRG embedded itself in key Western economic and security organizations, the EC and NATO, while the communist GDR was on the front line of the Soviet-led Warsaw Pact. The decline of the USSR and the end of the Cold War allowed for German unification in 1990. Since then Germany has expended considerable funds to bring eastern productivity and wages up to western standards. In January 1999, Germany and 10 other EU countries formed a common European currency, the euro.

YWAM in GERMANY:
YWAM Germany began in 1972 with the Olympic outreach Munich and 1000 young people crowded into the castle of Hurlach. Today there are 3 main bases in Germany. Castle Hurlach emphasizes DTS and a frontier missions focus; in Altensteig, in the Black Forest, Jugend mit einer Mission is involved extensively with church ministries and U of N schools; and in East-Germany at Hainichen, family ministries is a special emphasis. There are also ministry groups working in Frankfurt working with children and youth, and reaching out to artists and prostitutes. King's Kids groups are established in Dortmund and Berlin.

prayer needs:
- that God would continue to mobilize and equip for frontier missions through Castle Hurlach.
- for the "Mission Adventures" ministry, mobilizing young Germans into world-missions.