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.
Last month YWAM organized a short term outreach to Panama for a youth group from El Paso. The youth group had many unique experiences including clearing a river of rocks so that canoes could pass, extending the length of a soccer field, handed out free water and told people about God’s love for them.
Back in 1987 Chad Estes viewed a radical display of Christianity in San Fernando City in the Pampanga province of the Philippines.
Chad was there as part of a YWAM mobile evangelism team over the Easter weekend when he witnessed people whipping themselves, getting beaten with clubs and even being crucified on a cross (not to death mind you, but literally nailed to a cross for ten-minutes.). The people did it to get God’s attention and to “atone for their sins”.
You can read more about Chad’s crazy experience here.
The YWAM SoFJ in Africa has just completed the twelve week lecture phase of their school. The covered topics such as Worldview with Landa Cope, how to design a magazine and recording a radio broadcast (Maybe one of the graduates can help me develop a YWAM News podcast?)
They are currently praying about the field assignments for the YWAM SoFJ students to go on, getting the last of their finances in and where to go from there.
You can read more about the completion of the YWAM School of Field Journalism here.
