YWAM San Diego / Baja is opening up their house building projects for individuals to join, as well as groups. Traditionally they have only accepted groups of 15 – 20 people to build a house, but right now they are putting together an outreach for individuals to join them to build houses for poor families in Ensenada, Mexico.
The house building outreach will be run from August 14 – 16 and is open to anyone who wants to help, you do not have to have done anything with YWAM in the past to be a part of this outreach with Homes for Hope.
You can find out more about the house building outreach to Ensenada, Mexico here.
Debate is still raging about the documentary depicting a re-enactment of infanticide that is practised by some Amazon Tribes in Brazil. There seems to be a few thoughts on the documentary and the idea of infanticide being practiced:
We should ignore it and leave it alone since it isn’t too widely spread among the tribes and it’s their tradition to kill unwanted babies, so we shouldn’t interfere (Survivor International, Brazil’s National Foundation for Indians (FUNAI)
It should be stopped, as many tribes have already done, and the killing of babies should be made illegal, even among the Indigenous Brazilian Amazonian tribes (Hakani Organization, various law makers in Brazil, United Nations Human Rights, etc.)
The documentary was filmed and edited by members or Youth With A Mission (YWAM).
A Youth With A Mission Team Discipleship Training School built a bridge in Guyana. The bridge will allow the local farmers to drive over a canal and use machinery like tractors to work the fields. Previously all the work has had to be done using hand tools like machetes, which takes a very long time. The entire bridge construction was done by hand, including hauling the large logs used for the bridge support.
It sounds like the YWAM DTS team is having an amazing time on their outreach to Guyana. The team started out in Jamaica, where it looks like did the lecture phase of their school.
You can read more about their YWAM DTS outreach, and the amazing things that they are experiencing in Guyana, here.
If you are a YWAM Staff or Student and haven’t yet signed up to receive the Monthly YWAM Prayer Day Letter then you really need to do so.
The YWAM Monthly Prayer letter is a way for everyone in YWAM to join together every month and focus and pray about what God is saying to mission together. There is something of signifigant for everyone in YWAM to be doing this in unity.
The topics covered so far this year have been:
Getting back to our core business of making disciples
Overcoming the Giants in Africa
YWAM’s shop ministries and s/y Next Wave
Dealing with Passivity and Unbelief
Our Call to the Unreached
If you haven’t done so already then head on over and sign up to receive the Monthly YWAM Prayer Letter here.
In July YWAM Harpenden is offering a two week workshop to help YWAM Staff to improve their communication skills. An experienced group of professionals will be teaching on the course and the workshop will include both instruction and practical application.
The workshop will cover written and verbal forms of communication. Written communication will focus on business and professional writing and the verbal communication will focus on public speaking.
Jean Hartley, M.A. Communication, will be the primary speaker during the workshop. He has 40-years of college teaching experience and is a YWAM Associate directing internet ministry for people with physical disabilities.
You can read more about the Communication Skills Workshop that is being offered by YWAM Harpenden here.
