Table 2: Regressions of Church Growth on Mission Orientation and Other Control Variables

Dependent Variable: Church Growth Collinearity Statistics

R2 = R-squared value of the regression Figures in parenthesis are probability values of signi cance of variables following t-test.

SE = Standard error of regression

P (F) = Probability of values for F test

P-values ≤ 0.05 = signi cant at 5%

P-values ≤ 0.01 = signi cant at 1% following χ2 distribution

P-values ≤ 0.10 = signi cant at 10%

P-values ≥ 0.10 = not signi cant

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Women in the Camps: A Brief History of YWAM Women in Thai Refugee Camps in 1980

Allison Kach1

Abstract

Young, female faith missionaries were a part of the large-scale refugee response that took place a er the Cambodian genocide. e experiences of the YWAM women who were a part of this response o er insight into the daily struggles, traumas, hardships, joys and triumphs of their lives of impassioned mission service to Jesus and into the lives of the refugees they felt God had sent them to serve. is case study retraces the experiences and accounts of some of these YWAM women and the brief historical context they were a part of. is study highlights the roles of prayer, humble service, and Christian community in their mission practice and aims to restore female voices to these pioneering YWAM teams and their essential place in contemporary mission history.

Introduction

How did Diane Carabello, a thirty-year-old, Denver, Colorado, woman end up in ailand, spending her days listening to Khmer refugees tell their stories of genocide, su ering, and pain? Diane was one of the thousands of relief workers that rushed to the ailand refugee camps a er the Vietnamese Military overthrew the Khmer Rouge on January 7, 1979.2 Her motivations to serve the refugees were rooted in her personal conversion to Christianity that took place six years earlier under a YWAM ministry in Amsterdam, Netherlands in 1974. Diane “met Jesus” through YWAM’s evangelistic work, and she joined the community house in Amsterdam and began reaching out to other young people who, like herself, were travelling the “hippie trail,” searching for spiritual experiences.3 Continuing in the is paper highlights the stories and mission contributions of female faith missionaries like Diane (Carabello) Groves, of YWAM who served the Cambodian, Vietnamese, Lao, and Hmong peoples of ai refugee camps in 1980. rough the personal writings, archived documents, telephone and electronic communications of Diane and other YWAM women, I attempt to trace the history YWAM’s work among the Cambodian refugees from a woman’s perspective. e YWAM women’s stories highlight how some of the Mission’s “best men were women” working amongst the refugees (Littleton 2018).5 Not only were the YWAM women some of the “best,” they were, in their own words, ordinary, broken people who were willing to serve the refugees because of their passion for Jesus and love for others (Littleton 2018).6 It was this Christian passion and motivation that sustained the YWAM women as they served countless refugees in dire circumstances. eir stories, experiences, and mission practice traced from a historical perspective, o er insight into the dynamic faith and works of these YWAM women and an education for students of mission history.

YWAM movement, Diane returned to the United States in 1978 to complete the YWAM School of Evangelism in California.4 Committed to mission service with YWAM in California, Diane’s life and mission trajectory was about to change.

Diane picked up a Time Magazine issue that contained an article about the Cambodian genocide and refugee crisis in 1979. As she read the article, an image of an emaciated and desperate Cambodian woman trying to cross the ailand border touched Diane deeply. is image remains etched in Diane’s memory today and was the inspiration and motivation that led her to begin praying for Cambodia (Groves 2018). rough her prayers, she became convinced that God was asking her to go and serve the refugees and love them as Jesus would (Groves 2018). What Diane did not know at the time of her praying and inquiring about how to get to ailand was that other YWAM women and men were praying for the Cambodian refugees in YWAM communities in Switzerland, Hawaii and, Holland. ey were forming a response, rst in prayer and second in action.