Phillip & Amy Ward

Forward Mission

About the Wards

Phillip and Amy Ward are full-time missionaries with YWAM (Youth With A Mission). Amy has been with YWAM since 2008 and Phillip joined her when they were married in 2014. They together have a powerful ministry and are best known for their Father and Mother hearts. They minister all over the world preaching, teaching, pastoring and discipling. They have 3 adult children and a daughter-in-law.

They both served with YWAM in Kona Hawaii many years have recently relocated to the Nashville, TN area. Amy is the co-founder of the YWAM ministry Fire & Fragrance and is a part of the leadership and pioneering of a new Fire & Fragrance YWAM base in Nashville and she will be continuing travel and minister all over the world. Phillip has been working on developing a construction trade school for mission fields around the world and will be starting a proto type Trade School in Nashville as well a construction business that works tougher withe the school. .

Forward Mission is a non-profit they created to raise missions support through as they are both full-time missionaries and raise all their own financial support through generous supporters.

Amy Ward

Amy Ward is a lover of Jesus that has given her life to see the kingdom of heaven released on the earth.  She carries a prophetic anointing and releases the heart of Father over people and places.  She has a desire to see people have a radical intimate relationship with Jesus.  Most of all she longs to be the friend of God and for everyone to know Him as friend. She is most known for teachings on the Holy Spirit, Friendship with God, the Fear of the Lord and the Prophetic. She has a real authority on her life to bring alignment both personally and corporately . She has a passion for hospitality and cooking and loves the practical part of ministering to people this way. Amy carries the heart of a mother in comes through everything that she does.

Born into the fifth generation of Alaskan fisherman she grew up in remote parts of  Southeast, Alaska spending many summers on the fishing boat. At a young age in the Alaskan wilderness she learned to hear the voice of the Lord. Throughout her young life she encountered the Lord and has an amazing testimony of the delivering power of Jesus Christ that set her free and into the destiny of the Lord. Her story and life is one of overcoming and learning to love.

Amy started ministry at the age of 16 and has been apart of pioneering and leading serval ministries and movements in Alaska and then joined Youth With A Mission (YWAM in 2008). She has served in leadership roles with YWAM in Kona, Hawaii, and is one of the leaders and founders of Fire & Fragrance and Circuit Riders both YWAM ministries. She is currently in the process of being apart of a pioneering team to Nashville, Tennessee.

Amy travels and ministers all over the world with YWAM and other ministries.

Amy married Phillip Ward in 2014 and become a step-mom to his three children Mekennah, Elijah and Bob.

Amy also has a personal website with some of her teaching notes and more about her ministry.

Phillip Ward

Phillip Ward is a man who carries the father’s heart in everything he does. He has a passion to see a generation come into their true identity as sons and daughters of a good and loving God. Since a very young age he had developed practical skills and talents in the construction trades and business that he now uses to disciple young people to become men and women of God with viable skills. He and his wife Amy Ward are full-time missionaries with Youth With A Mission and Phillip uses his skills in many areas of leadership and discipleship in the mission. Phillip is developing Missional Construction Trade School’s and sending out a wave of skilled missionaries into the inner cities and developing nations. He also is apart of planting trade schools in other nation's and presently has one in Nigeria. He is presently in the process of moving to the Nashville, TN area to plant a flag ship Missional Trade School to see reproduced all over the world.  Phillip also loves to preach and teach and is getting many more opportunities to do that all over the world.

Phillip was born and raised Texarkana, Arkansas until he was 18. His parents started a inner city ministry with a focus on young people. His dad started a baseball team for inner city youth which led to their family adopting 3 teenage boys. Living a very missional life in the inner city with very little financial support they would see the miraculous power of God show up in amazing ways with provision.  On several occasions seeing God multiply food to feed their family and the children around them for several days. Doing ministry from a very young age along side his dad, Phillip had numerous supernatural encounters with the Holy Spirit that would mark is life forever.

In those day’s doing the kind of ministry his family did was not widely accepted or supported by the church, which brought hurt and pain to his family and eventually led to Phillip walking away from the Lord for a season in his late teens. In that time he became a father to a beautiful picture of grace, his daughter Mekennah. He was married at 17 and by the time he was 21 he had two more children, both sons, Elijah and Bob. Having a family so young forced him to grow up fast and provide through hard work. 

At 18 years old he moved to Alaska to be a big game hunting guide in the Chugiak Mountain Rage. Phillip moved his young family out to a remote hunting lodge where they were caretakers for that first winter. From there they moved to Wasilla, Alaska where Phillip would work construction in the hunting off season. The owner of that Construction business was a great Christian man who became a great mentor and spiritual father in his life. Phillip’s own father and this man, are two of the main reasons Phillip is walking in the gifts and calling of God on his life today. 

Over the year’s Phillip learned many types of trade skills such as Carpentry, Masonry, Welding, Pipe Fitting and Iron Work. He is also a very skilled artist and his work reflects it. For a season he ended up working on the North Slope of Alaska in the oil fields, working his way up to a Mechanical Superintended, leading over 90 employees and handling large contracts. 

The hardest seasons of Philip’s life came when his marriage ended despite his best efforts to restore it. In his own failures and brokenness the Lord continued to show Himself faithful and good. 

In 2014 he married Amy Sollars, a long time friend of his family. Amy had joined YWAM Kona in 2008 and was apart of pioneering the Fire & Fragrance school, and then in 2013 lead a YWAM plant to Southern California and was one of the founders of the YWAM ministry Circuit Riders. When they married it brought Phillip and his 3 children into the YWAM family. For the first couple of years of their marriage they lived in Southern California where Phillip tried to get his custom furniture business off the ground, while Amy still traveled and ministered. God had different plans and called them to Kona, Hawaii to the largest missions bases in the world and where Amy lived for 5 years from 2008-2013. The invitation to Kona came from the founder’s of  YWAM Loren and Darlene Cunningham, and the request was for Phillip to use the skills sets and passionate heart to pioneer a trade school within the mission to train and disciple young people going into short and long term missions. Phillip and Amy lived and served in Kona from 2017-2023.

At the end of the day Phillips just longs to show Jesus to the world through the Fathers heart, be a good father to his own children, and loving husband to wife.