Intro: Despite the challenges of 2020 and 2021 God's mission is NOT cancelled, updated on many of our ship ministries, and more on this episode of the YWAM News Show ...
Thank you for downloading this, the 122 episode of the Youth With A Mission News Show Podcast, I’m your host, Bill Hutchison.
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Stories:
The Mission is Not Cancelled!
I wanted to start us out this week with a challenge from Bevin with Globalcast Resources, a ministry of Youth With A Mission ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wctLcLzy_cM
Global Cast Resources
How to Avoid Wasting Your Years as a Missionary
As we consider Bevin's challenge to us Mark Anderson is asked the question, "How to we avoid wasting our years as a missionary?" ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdfkMmyaLTc
That message from Mark Anderson is one of many messages from YWAM Kansas City's YouTube Channel.
YWAM South Sudan
I've been updating you through the years with the work that YWAM has been doing in South Sudan. Back in September 2016 the civil war degenerated so far that the YWAM Centre in ... had to be evacuated.
This month the YWAM missionaries were able to return to their centre in Yei and see how much damage was done to their centre and the community around it. Many of the homes, as well as the primary school, have been completely stripped out, and other building have been set on fire.
They are asking God for wisdom for how to move forward and rebuild, and are asking that we would join with them in praying about what the future holds for the ministry there.
YWAM South Sudan on Facebook
Mae-la preschools under threat of closure
Mae-la camp is a refuge camp located in Thailand on the Burmese border. It is home to about 60,000 mostly Karen refugees from Burma. At the camp there are thousands of children, and last year there were 17 pre-schools at the camp. The preschools provide a preschool education as well as a nutritional supplements program that is essential for these children to thrive.
As of this year all large Non-Government organisations have ceased, and has put all of these pre-schools at risk of closing. These closures will not only take away the only early childhood educational foundations available to thousands of children in Mae-la camp but will also destroy the front line where basic health and learning difficulties are picked up and a safe place for women who are experiencing stress in their relationships is taken away.
Australian Mercy, a ministry of Youth With A Mission, and a couple of other smaller NGOs are trying to hold the line but at the present time their resources are not anywhere big enough to fund all 17 preschools.
At the moment, Australian Mercy funds one preschool and a teacher training program that is shared by all the other preschools. They also fund a nutritional supplements program that provides extra food to families and children who are at risk of malnutrition.
