We share YWAM's three-fold apostolic call of mercy ministries, training, and evangelisation. We also have a few distinctives:

Mobilising Catholics
We train and mobilise Catholic young people for active Christian service.

Although we desire to be a blessing to all the churches, Kerygma Teams has a primary call to train and mobilise Catholic young people for active service.

Emphasis on Reconciliation
We support initiatives of reconciliation between the Christian churches.

As paradoxical as it sounds, KT also has a primary call to support initiatives of reconciliation between the Christian Churches. We believe that many reconciliation efforts sometimes fall short by failing to adequately involve members of the historic churches. Kerygma Teams desires to be a bridge between Catholics and members of other Churches.

Catholic Ethos
Our teams are ecumenical, but with a "Catholic ethos". We endeavour to maintain an "ethos" or atmosphere in our teams which encourages Catholic members to live out their Catholic faith. This includes providing for regular Eucharistic celebrations, including many Catholic speakers in our training programs, maintaining healthy ties with the local hierarchy and diocesan structures, encouragement to observe the Catholic church year, and together examining important Catholic documents.

Supporting Communities
We support the founding of new Catholic "communities". Kerygma Teams supports efforts to build new Catholic and ecumenical "communities".

Collaborative in nature
Most of our projects are collaborative in nature. Most of Kerygma Teams' projects are collaborative in nature. This means that the majority of what we do, we do together with local Catholic groups.

Self governing transnational
We are a self-governing transnational ministry within Youth With A Mission. Within Youth With A Mission, Kerygma Teams has been granted permission to develop its own organisational structures and lines of leadership. There are a number of semiautonomous sub-organisations contained in YWAM's "family of ministries" which we refer to as "transnational ministries". These ministries maintain the over-all core values and vision of the parent organisation, have lines of communication and accountability with the rest of the mission, but they have also been given a large degree of freedom to develop new vision, a unique "ethos" and ways of doing things. Some of the better-known of these YWAM transnational ministries are King's Kids, University of the Nations and Impact World Tours.
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