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YWAM Working to Provide Clean Water
I remember first hearing about some of the work YWAM was doing to provide clean water when I was in Kenya in 2001 for the University of the Nations (U of N) Workshop. Howard Malmstadt demonstrated a new water filtration and purification device that he developed with Rolf Englehard. 30 of the units were given [...]
Dean Sherman in Denver Hospital with Cardiac Problems
While travelling through Denver on his way to teach in Cimmaron, Colorado, Dean Sherman fell ill with severe chest pains. He was taken from the airport directly to the hospital after having terrible chest and stomach pains. At the hospital they discovered that his gallbladder is shot and that he has several stomach ulcers. The [...]
Stop Paying for Slavery Tour in Australia
The Not for Sale Campaign is bringing the “Stop Paying for Slavery” tour to Australia this month. Here are the dates and location for the tour: Adelaide June 29 and 30 Melbourne from July 1 – 3 Townsville July 4 – 6 Brisbane July 7 – 9 Canberra July 9 – 11 Wollongong July 12 [...]
YWAM Building a School in Angola
YWAM Angola is looking at building a school in the nation. The area that they are looking at is so undeveloped the government has no plans to address basic needs in the area like literacy and primary education. YWAM has already started up three literacy groups in the area and will be working with the [...]
Voluntourism and YWAM
CNN had an interesting article about something called “Voluntourism”. Voluntourism is defined by Wikipedia as: Volunteer travel, volunteer vacations or voluntourism is travel which includes volunteering for a charitable cause. In recent years, "bite-sized" volunteer vacations have grown in popularity. The types of volunteer vacations are diverse, from low-skill work cleaning up local wildlife areas [...]
