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International YWAMer Launches Audio Podcast

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This month’s (December 2009) International YWAMer is now available in an audio podcast version as well as the e-mail and on-line version.

At the moment we are limited to an English only version of the International YWAMer Podcast. The written version of the International YWAMer is available in English, French, Spanish, Korean, Portuguese, Indonesian (Bahasa) and Russian, so we are hoping to make audio versions available also in those languages as we find fellow podcasters and translators to partner with.

You can read the latest International YWAMer, well as listen to and download the audio version from here.

I’d love any feedback that you have on it, please feel free to post them in the comments below.

I started podcasting in YWAM in mid-2003 with a video news update for our local YWAM Centre in Australia and we launched the audio version in 2005.

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YWAM Montana Gets Donated a Motel

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YWAM Montana, located in Lakeside, Montana, has continued to grow and was in desperate need for new staff housing. As a huge answer to prayer they were donated a 12-room motel, plus the means to move it onto the YWAM location.

The foundations are still being finished and the three building hotel should be dropped into place in the next few weeks. Other the next six months they will be getting the building up to scratch and they should be ready to be inhabited in Fall 2010.

The new accommodation should be on-line just in time for the Discipleship Training School (DTS), the School of Biblical Studies (SBS), the Titus Project and the School of Worship (SOW).

You can see more photos of them moving the hotel buildings here, and more about YWAM Montana here.

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YWAM Biblical Core Course Starting in January

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In January a new YWAM Biblical Core Course will be starting up at Reef to Outback, where I spent my first 11-years in YWAM and missions.

The Biblical Core Course (YWAM BCC) is a 5 1/2 month course that is broken up to be half lectures and half outreach. During lectures they’ll be covering topics like:

  • How to study the Word of God
  • Applying the what God says in the Bible to your life
  • Preaching and Teaching
  • Is the Bible still relevant today

After the lecture phase the Biblical Core Course will be heading over to Papua New Guinea again. The had a very successful outreach there last year when they ran the course and the staff are pretty excited to be heading back there again with the new school.

Jonathan Spainhour will be leading the school again this year. He just let me know this morning that another student signed up for it yesterday. He runs a great school full of practical and challenging teaching.

You can find out more about the school here.

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YWAM and the C Street House in Washington DC

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Back in the 1980s Youth With a Mission operated a ministry centre in Washington DC. They operated their ministry out of a rowhouse on C Street SE. When YWAM concluded its ministry activities in the city 20 years ago they transferred the house to C Street Center Inc.

For the last few months Youth With A Mission has been linked to that same house in Washington DC on C Street SE. The house has been linked with numerous Washington Political scandals, but the biggest complete was that the house was registered as being tax-exempt. The problem that people had is that the house was used as a boarding house for various political figures and should not have been operating as tax-exempt.

Unfortunately when the house was transferred to C Street Center Inc the city records were not updated. YWAM has not had anything to do with the property since they completed their ministry activity at that house in Washington DC 20 years ago.

Below is a link to the latest article about the house, and the quote regarding the ownership of the house.

Al Kamen – In the Loop: C Street house no longer fully tax-exempt – washingtonpost.com

The owner, according to tax records, remains the same, “Youth With A Mission Washington DC Inc C St. Center.” But that group says the property was transferred 20 years ago to C Street Center Inc. after YWAM concluded its activities in the city.

Update December 7, 2009 – The official real estate records for the C Street house have finally been updated to reflect the above information. The house was sold on March 21, 1990 to C Street Center, and then transferred to Fellowship Foundation Inc. on October 25, 2002. You can see the updated records on the Arlington Virginia website here.

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YWAM Australia Schoolies Outreach

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Like Spring break in the USA Schoolies Week in Australia is when year 12 graduates get together for about two week to party. This  takes place around end of November and the beginning of December. I’ve been down to the Sunshine Coast in Queensland Australia on a Discipleship Training School outreach during schoolies week and it’s a pretty intense time. There is a lot of opportunity and need for outreach and love to be shown to these kids who are there.

Many churches and organizations in Australia get together during this time to try to make schoolies week a better time for the kids attending. YWAM regularly participates in schoolies week to help try to make a difference in these kid’s lives. Where I used to work at Reef to Outback the Discipleship Training School would run outreaches to Magnetic Island (off the coast of Townsville), quite often partnering with other church ministries and community organisations.

There are plenty of opportunities for people to participate on outreach during schoolies week. One of the busiest places in Australia for Schoolies week is the Gold Coast, in South East Queensland. About 60,000 17 and 18 year olds pack the area during this time.

You can find out more about the YWAM outreach to schoolies on the Gold Coast, and how you, your YWAM centre or church can participate, on their web-site here.

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