 There is power in words...
both in ink on a page, and in words presented on film, or on the internet. Words can get hold of people and change their minds and their hearts. That’s why we train writers. At the YWAM Woodcrest campus, we are training missionary writers. Some of our students go into classic missions work in various parts of the world. Others seek to make a difference in the secular media.
Since 1986, we’ve trained writers in our three-month writing schools and internships, in our one-week writing workshops, by offering personal writing retreats in our writer’s village, and by having local critique groups. Our staff also offer off-site training in other countries or states.
In addition to training writers, we write books, songs, articles, and web sites. We write to release more missionaries, to show people how to make lasting changes in their communities, and we write to impart faith. We’re doing everything we can to see the whole world reached for Christ.
 There’s a long history linking writing and missions . After eight years ministering overseas, Jim and Janice Rogers returned to the United States in 1974 to focus on writing to increase the numbers of new missionaries. In a time when very few had heard of YWAM, we developed several projects, including YWAM’s first films, publications, multimedia presentations, and eventually, books. Our multimedia show premiered at the first Billy Graham Congress on Evangelization in Lausanne, Switzerland, in 1974. We initiated the Personal Prayer Diary in 1979, and were part of the founding of YWAM Publishing in 1985.
As Janice co-authored Loren Cunningham’s first book, Is That Really You, God (ITRYG), she was mentored by John and Elizabeth Sherrill. The Sherrills co-authored some of the most influential books of faith–books such as The Cross and the Switchblade, The Hiding Place, and God’s Smuggler. After this mentoring experience, we wanted to release other writers in a similar way. We started YWAM’s first School of Writing in 1986. Since then we’ve trained many hundreds of writers, in the U.S. and internationally, from Brazil to Barbados to Norway to Ukraine
We started developing the YWAM Woodcrest campus in the late 90s, as a home for the training of missionary communicators. It is 106 heavily wooded acres (43 hectares) in East Texas. see the training center>> 
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