Around AUS $20,000 has already been contributed to the David McG. Memorial Fund, established by staff at the Youth With A Mission training center in Perth, Western Australia.
The fund will be used to help candidates from developing
countries complete six-month Discipleship Training Schools,
which combine classroom teaching with an outreach phase to
prepare students for YWAM service.
McG. - from the UK - had just returned from an outreach to
Vietnam and Thailand at the end of his DTS training when he
died in a surfing accident on March 17, St Patrick's Day.
Together with several other YWAM students, he was surfing at
Borunup, south of Perth, when he was caught in a powerful
current, and drowned.
The son of an Anglican minister and younger brother of Will M., a member of the YWAM leadership team in Perth, he had been intending to return home to pursue a career in medicine.
"David was a precious young man, who longed to know more of God," said Shirley Brownhill, who with her husband Peter directs the Perth ministry. "He touched many people with the simplicity of his 'first love' for God, which should be lived out all the days of our lives."
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