Apparently down in Byron Bay, in New South Wales, Australia, there is a yearly celebration of everything about marijuana. They call this festival “Mardi Grass”, and no, that’s not a typo.
A team from the School of Music in Missions from YWAM – Reef to Outback based out of Townsville, Australia headed down to outreach to the people there with “a message of hope and some great tunes”.
You can check out a video about it here.
Over on one of my other sites I have just launched a YWAM DTS Blog Carnival. I’m hoping to gather a list of stories from people’s Discipleship Training Schools together.
It’s my first ever Blog Carnival that I’m running, so it’s a bit exciting to see what happens. Could be a total bust if no one submits any stories, or it could be a fantastic source of stories from people who have done a YWAM DTS with Youth With A Mission.
If you want to participate in the YWAM DTS Blog Carnival, or want to see what stories get submited, then check out the post, YWAM DTS Blog Carnival – Bill Hutchison.
Looks like there is a large conference of Christian leaders about to take place in the first week of June in Hong Kong. The meetings are to discuss how to get “the whole church” involved in the Call2All movement to reach everyone with the Gospel of Christ.
There was a fantastic letter sent out to Christians from ministry, business and other workplaces to participate in the conference. The Call2All movement wants to see every follower of Christ engaged in reaching the lost. The letter was interesting in how it tackled “traditional methods” of evangelism, and how there is the call for new methods to be developed using what God has already blessed us all with.
Youth With A Mission (YWAM) is one of many Christian organisations that are a part of the Call2All. You can read more about the meetings in Hong Kong, and the letter that was sent out, here.
A group from YWAM Canada visited the prison in Suva, Fiji to assist and speak with the prisoners there. Team from the YWAM base in Canada have visited the prison before, and this was their third year there.
The YWAM group made about 40 litres of soup to feel 3200 people there, and also brought school packs for 500 students. They were given a tour of the prison facility and visited a prisoner art museum that has been set-up there.
You can read a bit more about the visit if you scroll down a bit on the news article here.
To help raise money for the YWAM ministry in Belfast, Ireland the national director, Jonny Clark, took up the challenge with four others to run a marathon. The marathon was used as a relay-fundraiser for their ministry there.
Here’s a video that put together about the fund-raising efforts, and why their doing it:
You can read about how they did in the Belfast Marathon here.
