On New Years Day Keni Su’a, a contractor in Calgary and former YWAMer, was killed at a restaurant here in Calgary. He was there for lunch and happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. There were two other people killed, both with ties to local gangs.
I was unfortunate in that I never had a chance to meet him but Kani Su’a was a friend of a lot of the YWAM staff here in Calgary. He immigrated to Canada from Samoa in the 1990s to work with Youth With A Mission and started a contracting firm here about 5-years ago. It was quite a blow to his friends and family both here in town, and back in Samoa.
You can read more about Keni Su’a and his murder here.
YWAM ran a 15-day detox camp at VVD Phangrei with the motto “Time to heal”. There were people from all over India and around the world (USA, UK and Norway) to give input to the participants in the camp.
Youth With A Mission has run a few of these detox camp in the area. The area is notorious for the number of drug addicts in the district. The camp engaged many different doctors and nurses from the area to help with the camp. According to the camp director, Mayola Ngamchiyo, “Our camp is focusing not only on treating campers physically but also on providing them mental and spiritual solace through gospel news”.
You can read more about the YWAM detox camp here, and about one of the YWAM detox schools that are offered by the University of the Nations (U of N) here.
The International Faith Telegraph: World Christian News and Missions News was launched earlier this year by a former YWAMer.
The new Christian On-line News Service collects news from all over the world that relates to Christian Missions and about “how God’s people are fulfilling the Great Commission worldwide”.
I’ve found it to be a great source of stories to inspire my own faith and prayer life. It’s good to hear some of the good news from around the world about what God’s doing, rather than the “doom and gloom” and we hear about on the regular news services.
Two catamarans with 18 members of Youth With A Mission (YWAM) on board as passengers broke free of their moorings during a storm and ran aground on the Belize Barrier Reef.
The two vessels involved are registered to the United States Coast Guard and are used for tours in the area. No one was injured in the incident, but the Port Authority is investigating the incident because of the damaged caused by the vessels.
The two boats involved are the Imagine and the Dreamer, both double-hulled sailing catamarans that are 46 feet long, 24 feet wide and draw 3.5 feet of water.
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).
