The most recent issue of the International YWAMer is available now available over on their web-site.
This issue discusses how the current economic recession is effecting the Churches ability to engage in missions around the world. You can also find some practical tips to YWAMers about how to survive the current financial downturn. Lynn Green, YWAM’s International Chairman, has a great article about the call for YWAMers to live in the tradition of the Levites.
You can read the entire issues here, and while you are there I would highly recommend that you subscribe to receive every new issue if you haven’t done so already.
Starting April 29th YWAM Turner Valley in Alberta, Canada is offering a one week “OneStory” seminar, open to anyone in YWAM Canada (or beyond) who want to learn more about how to communicate God’s Word to oral people groups. The goals of the seminar are to help the participants understand better how oral communicators think and learn, understanding their worldview and gaining knowledge of cultural considerations.
The OneStory seminar is a part of the call2all strategy to raise the churches effectiveness in evangelism and missions.
You can find out more about the YWAM OneStory seminar here.
Contact the Turner Valley YWAM base here if you are interested in participating here.
A team of 6 skaters from Red Deer, Alberta, Canada and 18 from Edmonton, Canada headed down to Mazzatlan, Mexico to join a YWAM Outreach in Mazatlan, Mexico.
The team managed to pack 10 suitcases full of skateboard gear that was donated to the local Mexican skaters when they were down in Mexico. They helped to assemble portable skateboarding equipment and run different events in the area.
The outreach was organized by Skatelife and you can read more about it here.
A film made by a YWAM Film Making and Photography student about two kids coming to terms with post-genocide Rwanda in 1994 will be released in US theatres next month. The film was widely acclaimed when shown at the Cannes Film Festival in 2007.
The film was shot in only 11 days in 2006 while the director, Isaac Chung, was on a YWAM missions trip to Uganda. The film cast at risk kids who were a part of a YWAM run soccer camp in Rwanda and the crew was the other YWAM students on the school.
Amongst the current political unrest in Thailand a YWAM Outreach Team (SOMM) from Australia is seeing some amazing results. They are primarily working with children and women who are currently trapped in the sex industry.
The team is taking all necessary precautions to stay safe and will be returning to Australia shortly. When they return to Australia the School of Music in Missions (SOMM) team will do a music tour to promote the issues of injustice in Thailand.
