When I opened up my e-mail about two weeks ago I got very excited when I found about a dozen stories submitted to this web-site. Unfortunately though they were all spam.
For the moment I will be shutting down the story submit feature on this site until I find a solution that doesn’t allow through so much spam. I might look at adding a Captcha module to the site or changing the plugin used for submitting the story, but hopefully it will be back on-line soon…
I read a post tonight that me laugh about what else YWAM is an acronym for. Of course it officially stands for “Youth With A Mission“, but there are many other things that it could stand for, and here are a few of my favourites:
There are close to a dozen other options for the YWAM acronym on the post I was reading, and you can check them out here.
This weekend also marks the beginning of an HIV – AIDS Seminar in Worcester, South Africa. The seminar is three weeks of lectures and practical experience in the area. The topics that will be covered during the seminar are:
YWAM Worcester has an active ministry to sufferers of HIV – AIDS called “Garden of Hope”.
You can read more about the three week HIV – AIDS seminar, and Garden of Hope (GOH) here.
This weekend, August 7 – 8, YWAM Northwoods is hosting the “Set Apart” Conference at their campus near Chetek in Wisconsin.
The conference is meant to help break down denominational and generational walls by emphasising “being real and vulnerable with one another”.
It goes from Friday at 2:00 – late Saturday night. The conference has been planned by many youth in the area and includes pastors from various churches around the area as speakers during the weekend.
You can read more about the “Set Apart” conference here.
As we look at how to best communicate what is happening around the world with YWAM we want to look at as many different options as possible. YWAM has had an online presence for many years,
There are quite a few YWAM audio shows available from individual locations around the world (we did a YWAM Podcast in Townsville for quite a number of years). I have listened to many of these podcasts and they do a great job in communicating what is happening at the local level, but as far as I’ve seen there is no podcast out there communicating what is happening in Youth With A Mission as a whole.
Collecting the new from around the world for YWAM can be quite a challenge, so it would be hard to cover everything that is happening around Youth With A Mission, but I wonder if people would be interested in hearing what news we are able to gather.
To gauge the interest in a YWAM News Podcast I’ve put together a small survey. There are only four questions, and it should only take about 2-minutes, but your input would be very valuable. Thanks …
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