Carol Wain

My name is Carol Wain and I am part of the leadership team of YWAM Liverpool. I am wife to Andy and mother to Anna-Rose, aged 7 and Daniella, aged 6. My life as a YWAMer is very full and varied. I have my own private practice at home as a Christian counsellor and psychotherapist as well as working as a member of  the Liverpool Centre of Counselling and Psychotherapy in Liverpool city centre. I am also involved in the fresh expressions/emerging Church movement within the Anglican Church here in Liverpool. I am currently part of a team pioneering fresh expressions of Church in Liverpool city centre - our vision statement is “to connect through networks with people who are searching but don’t get church” ie. our next event is taking place for an hour after work in a Church that has been converted into a club/wine bar. I also help lead a lunchtime event called ‘daydream’ in an Art Studio in the city centre which is more meditative / reflective and open to anyone.  

Andy Wain

Wow you want to read something about me, thanks, don’t worry I won’t be too long winded.

You may have already met my wife Carol, (see above). We have been married for 11 years and have two wonderful daughters – Anna-Rose (7) & Daniella (6). I guess you could call us a global family as the girls have already visited three continents, Carol is white South African, and I am from Yorkshire, a rural county in the north of England.

I was born into a Christian home and did not things there was much more to Christianity than that, however looking at my personal spirituality there have been three significant moment. The first way the day I realised being a Christian was more than living in a Christian family and going to church. So when I was 12 I started to live the values of Jesus’ teaching in my life rather than just understand them. The second moment was more of a general sense of knowing I would work in missions, with the idea I would be wearing a pith helmet in darkest Africa. This sense of destiny increase as I came to the end of school so I started to train as an electrician, thinking a practical trade on the missions field would be a useful tool. The third significant event was doing YWAM’s Discipleship Training School (DTS). Following the call on my life I applied to a number of missions organisations, many did not reply or said there was no place for me at that time, but a few – including YWAM – invited me to join them. The DTS changed my life: for the first time I knew what it was to pray for someone and actually see them healed in front of me; I preached and the spirit of God visibly touched people as I spoke; and our lives were saved in a head on coach crash in the middle of Argentina. This was Christianity in the reality of life.

After working and living in a needy urban community, helping lead training courses and overseas trips I now work with YWAM in Liverpool, overseeing a number of the projects we are involved in and looking at how to serve the international students in Liverpool. Carol and I also help couples going through hard times and work with engaged couples as the prepare for marriage

Dave & Susan Hanratty:

Hi, we would like to introduce ourselves to you. We are Dave & Sue Hanratty and are part of the YWAM leadership team here in Liverpool. We are parents and grandparents.

We joined YWAM in January 1991 for 3 months to group lead on a Community Counselling School and 16 years later we are still here. And so began our adventure of faith!
During those 16 years we have helped lead counselling schools and an operation year as well as lead Discipleship Training Schools. We have taken many teams on outreach to many nations and hopefully have stirred the church to fulfil the great commission and go to the nations.
During these times God has stretched us, stirred us, changed our lives, taken us through challenging times as well as amazing times when we have seen Him move in and through our lives for His glory.

Dave is very much involved in the Next Wave – a YWAM England vessel coming to Liverpool in June 07.
At present Sue is one of the leaders of an international women’s ministry here on Merseyside and also helping to shape the vision of YWAM Liverpool.

We are both in leadership at our own church and part of i56 a new church in Liverpool. We have a passion to see the lost saved and the Bride of Christ restored and equipped for ministry.
We also co-ordinate short term YWAM teams coming to Merseyside and look forward to the new things God is going to do in this new season.

We are in exciting times in YWAM Liverpool as we see the new vision come to birth in 2007.