YWAM Pismo Beach & Central Coast is a community of believers that exists to disciple one another and to reach the local community through intercession, evangelism, training and mercy ministry. We also reach the nations by going, releasing Christians into missions and bringing the nations to the Central Coast for the purpose of discipleship and evangelism.

YWAM Pismo Beach & Central Coast Five-Fold Purpose

1.) ENGAGE* THE LORD
We are committed to knowing God. It is our desire to encourage an atmosphere where we worship God through service, music, evangelism, prayer and intercession, learning, discipling and loving one another, creativity, and using our God-given gifts and talents.

2.) ENGAGE ONE ANOTHER IN COMMUNITY
One of YWAM's values is community. We will express this by facilitating and encouraging an environment of love, acceptance, accountability, openness, mutual discipleship, honesty, and friendship. Some of the ways in which we shall intentionally pursue this is by living in community with one another, eating, worshiping, praying, doing outreach, and playing together. We wish to be an inclusive, tight-knit family, which reaches the community around us, and the nations. This also includes serving, building relationships, and partnering with other YWAM Bases.

3.) ENGAGE OUR COMMUNITY (CENTRAL COAST)
We will be an active part of our community by (but not limited to) interceding for the Central Coast, ministering to the poor, building relationships with business owners, meeting some of the practical and spiritual needs of those in our area, and interacting and building friendships with the residents of the Central Coast.

4.) ENGAGE THE LOCAL CHURCH
We will be actively involved in the local church of the Central Coast. Each staff member will be required to attend and participate in a local church congregation. We wish to befriend, serve, help equip, pray for, and encourage the local church. We want to be viewed as part of the church and not a para-church organization.

5.) ENGAGE THE NATIONS We are committed to reaching the nations with the gospel! It is our goal to see the nations come to the Central Coast for mutual discipleship. We will also engage the nations through intercession, evangelism, training, and mercy ministry. We want to both send people into the world to reach the lost and go ourselves!

* DEFINITION OF "ENGAGE": "To be intimately committed."