Tag listing: Community Development
Biography of a YWAMer
In rural Mozambique, many people believe that missions is for white people, for richer people, for more highly educated people. From their small training centre in the east of the country, Youth Wi...
Published November 24, 2010
Celebrating 50 Extraordinary Years!
Over the 50 years of Youth With A Mission’s lifespan the world of missions has changed dramatically.
In 1960 a missionary was invariably a white westerner, trained in a Bible College, sent to th...
Published November 17, 2010
Tears and Hope for Pakistan's Flood Victims
Since July 31, 2010, one fifth of the nation of Pakistan has been gradually submerged under the most devastating floods of its existence. The United Nations estimates that the deluge has affected 2...
Published September 14, 2010
Hope for Haiti
“The city of St Marc erupted with screams and shouts”
This is how Terry W Snow, YWAM’s national director for Haiti remembered the minutes after the terrible earthquake that was to change Hait...
Published July 23, 2010
A YWAM base crippled by theft
On Sunday night, 27th June 2010, thieves entered the Youth With A Mission training centre in Arua, northern Uganda, and stole approximately $27,000 USD and a laptop computer. Early Monday morning,...
Published July 05, 2010
Breaking the Cycle
Chaimon’s home is a construction site, the one where his father works. His father came to Ratchaburi in Thailand from Burma, a place Chaimon has never been, so he feels neither fully Thai - somethi...
Published June 25, 2010
For the love of the game
If you are a soccer fan and you are enjoying the FIFA World Cup, you can imagine the sense of excitement in South Africa, the host nation, where streets are filled with fans and their painted faces...
Published May 21, 2010
A Wonderful Dirty Job
Jesus commanded us to love our neighbor, and through the ages since his life, people have pondered and practiced many different methods of fulfilling this command. For Saji and Priya Mathi digging...
Published March 31, 2010
Finding God Amid the Garbage
Addis Ababa, capital of Ethiopia, has a garbage heap where a group of children and young people live; they are labeled “monsters” by the locals. My friends and I from the YWAM centre in Herrnhut, G...
Published March 05, 2010
YWAM Argentina carries out humanitarian aid in Haiti
YWAM Argentina’s first relief team to Haiti left on February 6, travelling with the Argentinean humanitarian aid and peace-keeping agency "White Helmets".
YWAM accompanied the White Helmets on a...
Published February 22, 2010
