God’s love and a healthy relationship between husband and wife are the basis for a healthy family. We believe God gives us clear directions in His Word on the why, how and what of families. The YWAM Aruba community has a calling to focus on families. We want to help families establish a higher level of love, trust, and joy and help restore broken families. We want to encourage families to experience this by having fun, playing together and learning together. We will teach people what it means to be a family; what makes a family healthy, what is the Fatherheart of God and how does it show in a family, how to develop talents within a family, how can a family be an important aspect of a community (without overstepping its own boundaries), how does a family worship and learn more about God together. We want to help families find their calling and/or goals as a family and help prepare them to go into missions into every sphere of society.

Couples Night
We organize Couples Night regularly. We teach about topics as Attachment, Love & Respect, Redeeming Love, and Serving eacho other in a healthy way, and love to tell how God redeemed our marriage and now uses it in a mighty way to help other couples. It is beautiful to see how God gives purpous to both the husband and his wife, and that each of them have a specific role and God given talents. In this way God shows us how we can help each other and lay down our lives for one another when we are married.

Marriage Course
During the Marriage Course, couples get important information about how to have a healthy marriage. In eight sessions, topics as The Art of Communication, Conflict Resolution, and The Power of Forgiveness are explaned in videos and a book. Although several couples can attend this course, the set-up of this course is very private. Every couple can work through the videos and the book themselves, and there is no obligation to share anything about your own life with other couples. Each session starts with having a meal together. 

Counseling
In Aruba there are many broken families. With a sky-high divorce rate, many one-parent-families, domestic violence and child abuse, this country needs healing in many places. One of the things we provide is counseling in the areas of marriage, family, and trauma. Our counseling provides safety for people to share their hearts. Based on Biblical truths we help people to find a new perspective in life.

We have a vision of a living room that will change lives—and we want you to be a part of it. For the last few years, YWAM Aruba has been working alongside other community changemakers to provide love, friendship, and ministry to women within the San Nicholas sex industry. We’ve seen firsthand how the love of God has impacted this precious -and vulnerable- group of women.
Now, we have the opportunity to grow the impact of this ministry by establishing a permanent living room in which these women can always feel at home. We will call this place “La Sala”.
Through La Sala, we believe God will bring further restoration to this community of women, providing them with a safe place to receive guidance, friendship, and assistance. Most importantly, we will show how the love of God continues to tangibly reach those in need. We invite you to prayerfully consider donating to this cause that God has pressed upon our hearts.