AIIM is the fruit of a vision that God gave to David Ross in 1985 while teaching in the YWAM DTS in Taipei, Taiwan. God showed him the great potential of the Korean Diaspora – the 7 million Koreans living outside Korea among the nations of the world – for world evangelization.

AIIM is a ministry of YWAM, and we began our first phase as
in Los Angeles and New York, connecting many youth and young adults, as well as churches, with the vision of the first cross-cultural church, the Church of Antioch in the Book of Acts. Now we have entered our permanent phase – The Antioch Institute for International Ministries – and we are located in the beautiful foothills of the Cascadian mountain range, in Monroe, Washington.

YWAM-AIIM, also known as YWAM is not a Korean ministry. We draw deeply on our Korean heritage, with a love for the Word of God and a strong emphasis on prayer, a strong emphasis on the Holy Spirit and mission to the world. We are an international community of the Holy Spirit open to people of all races and nationalities, bonded together to make Christ known to the world.

To : Christians to a deeper intimacy with God

To : Christians to live in obedience to God's call to the nations

To : the Church to reach the spiritual and physical needs of the lost

To : and serve missionaries & multi-ethnic community of worship and prayer

AIIM strives to be a multi-generational & multi-ethnic community of worship and prayer

AIIM is committed to the unreeached peoples and fulfilling Revelations 7:9-10