A Youth With A Mission Team that has been volunteering at Christmas Island has unfortunately caused a bit of controversy.
The YWAM team has been providing sports, arts and other similar activities to the detainees of an Australian Immigration Detention centre on Christmas Island. The team was asked to come in by the company running the detention centre to help to augment what was already available at the centre.
There have been no complaints lodged against the YWAM team, but a human rights commission is investigating if the company running the centre is trying to save money by bringing in the YWAM team.
You can read a bit more about the YWAM team on Christmas Island here.
After spending the last three years renovating our house in Australia I enjoy good before and after renovation photos.
YWAM Metro New York recently went through some pretty major renovations on about five of the properties that they use. The places seemed to have a lot of character before the renovations, and the work that they did to them really brought out that character.
You can check out the before and after photos here. Once you get there click on the Renovations link, and then the Before and Afters link.
Let Justice Sing is the newest album released Five Star Streets from Reef to Outback, in Townsville, Australia. The members of the band are Mike Murray, Luke Haythorpe and BJ Magee.
The members of Five Star Streets have been together now for a few years and have put out a couple of albums. Their latest album is a message of justice and redemption. Many of their recent performances have been as a part of Voice in the Dark, which is a movement to raise awareness of injustice issues around the world.
The new album will be released during the band’s second North American Tour, which will be happening later this year. They describe themselves as an indie-rock band and you can read more about them, their recording plans and their tour plans here.
Andy Frecka went to Russia in 1999 with Youth With A Mission (YWAM). He spent nine years there where he got married, had four kids and tells the whole story in a very humorous way in his book “Winter Road: Journey of a Russian Mission”.
It’s apparently not a very long book, at only 280 pages, and is a very capturing read. It captures a lot of different adventures during his time in the city of Perm, near the Ural Mountains, including buying a car, boiling snow for food, working with a local group of prisoners, and more.
You can read more about the book here, and purchase it through Amazon here. There are four reviews over on Amazon, all five stars.
From all reports it sounds like the Call2All conference that was help in Hong Kong this month went really well. About 3000 people involved in ministry from over 100 different countries gathered together to work on strategy for the completion of “The Great Commission”.
There were a number or targets that the delegates from the conference came away wanting to target:
Reach 1.73 billion people with the gospel by 2020
The engagement of hundreds of unreached people groups
Establishment of over 100,000 new houses of prayer
Hundreds of oral bible teams to work around the world
1.8 million new church plants
You can read more about the Call2All Conference, and read summaries of each days events, here.
. There are four reviews over on Amazon, all five stars.