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.
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.
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.
The team from YWAM Hockey was just up in Northern BC from March 19 – 30th conducting free hockey clinics. This is the clinics of many that they are planning to run throughout the year in British Columbia, Canada. The program for the clinics includes teaching hockey skills, as well as teaching biblical values and showing the love of Christ to the participants.
YWAM Hockey will be running a Hockey YWAM DTS starting in September of this year in Vancouver, Canada.
You can find out more about the YWAM Hockey clinics that just happened here.
After hearing of an attempted infanticide in a remote village of Papua New Guinea a YWAM Introduction to Primary Health Care School (IPHC) team was able to bring much needed medical care to the very malnourished child. In addition to seeing a physical change in the life of the child the team also saw a spiritual change in the village as the villager’s began to see the value of the life of any child, no matter how it comes into the world.
