A team of 6 skaters from Red Deer, Alberta, Canada and 18 from Edmonton, Canada headed down to Mazzatlan, Mexico to join a YWAM Outreach in Mazatlan, Mexico.
The team managed to pack 10 suitcases full of skateboard gear that was donated to the local Mexican skaters when they were down in Mexico. They helped to assemble portable skateboarding equipment and run different events in the area.
The outreach was organized by Skatelife and you can read more about it here.
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.
You can read more about the upcoming film here.
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.
You can read more about the team here.
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.
Short term outreaches offered by YWAM is one way for people to get involved in Christian missions.
You can read more about the YWAM Outreach Experience in Panama here.
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.
