Hi! My name is Matthew Gibson. In January 2025 I will be going to South Africa to serve as a full-time missionary with Youth With A Mission (YWAM). My mission is to disciple young people to be biblically literate ambassadors of God's kingdom in every sphere of today's society.

I joined YWAM at the beginning of 2023, and by the end of 2024, I will have spent two years being trained at and sent from their base in Kona, Hawaii.

One of the schools I did in Kona was the School of Biblical Studies (SBS), which is a nine month intensive Bible school designed to lead students through an inductive study of all 66 books of the Bible. My time in SBS was the most enriching, transformative, and foundational season of my life as the Word of God became alive to me in a new and powerful way. Following SBS, I had the opportunity to go to South Africa for two months on an outreach. During my time in South Africa, God marked my heart for the people there, and I got to visit YWAM's Fire & Fragrance base in the city of Potchefstroom.

This Fire & Fragrance base is pioneering an SBS that will begin in February 2025, and I will have the privilege of being one of the volunteer staff for this school. I am very excited to lead other students through the school that so significantly impacted my own life, and I am expectant for what God wants to do in South Africa and beyond through this SBS.

Matthew 28:19–20

"Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”

2 Timothy 3:16-17

"All Scripture is given by inspiration of God and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work."

Ezra 7:10

"For Ezra had set his heart to study the Law of the LORD, and to do it and to teach his statutes and rules in Israel."

Matthew