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Loren Duane Cunningham (June 30, 1935 – October 6, 2023) was an American missionary who was the founder of the international Christian missionary organization Youth With A Mission (YWAM) and the University of the Nations. Cunningham founded YWAM in Lausanne, Switzerland, in 1960 with his wife, Darlene Cunningham, at the age of 24.
Youth With A Mission was conceived by Loren Cunningham in 1956. As a 20-year-old student in an Assemblies of God College, he was traveling in the Bahamas when he had a vision of a movement that would send young people out into various nations to share the message of Jesus, and which would involve Christians of all Christian denominations.
The movement is believed by its followers to have begun in 1975 with a purported message from God delivered to evangelicals Loren Cunningham, Bill Bright, and Francis Schaeffer ordering them to invade the "seven spheres" of society identified as family, religion, education, media, entertainment, business, and government.
The institution was founded in 1978 as Pacific & Asia Christian University (PACU) by Howard Malmstadt and Loren Cunningham, the founder of Youth with a Mission, in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii. [3] As other locations were established around the world, PACU was renamed the University of the Nations in 1989.
David L. Cunningham (born February 24, 1971, Age 53) is an American documentarian and filmmaker. Besides his documentary credits in more than 40 countries, Cunningham has also directed several feature films including To End All Wars (2001) and the TV miniseries The Path to 9/11 (2006).
Dictionary of Pentecostal and Charismatic Movements, Loren Cunningham, p. 232; Cunningham, Loren, Is That Really You God?, YWAM Publishing, 1984, p. 19, ISBN 1-57658-244-2 World Heritage Encyclopedia, Loren Cunningham Article (URL had to be removed due to blacklist of this source)
Loren Cunningham (born 1936), American missionary organizer; Loren Dean (born 1969), American actor; Loren C. Dunn (1930–2001), American general authority of the LDS Church; Loren Eiseley (1907–1977), American scientist and writer; Loren D. Estleman (born 1952), American author; Loren D. Everton (1915–1991), American Marine flying ace ...
Liam Cunningham, an Irish actor; Loren Cunningham, American-born missions statesman and founder of Youth With A Mission; Malik Cunningham (born 1998), American football player; Marta Cunningham (1869–1937), American-born European-based soprano-singer and philanthropist; Martha Jane Cunningham (1856–1916), Canadian missionary educator in Japan