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| YWAM's 40th Anniversary (2000 year-end) |
| NEWS FLASH! Aug 29,
2000 Faculty and students of one of the world's largest non-formal training organizations meet in Colorado Springs to chart progress and plan for the future. |
AUSTRALIA: A small group of "wired" Christians have established what is believed to be the first "virtual" missionary center - designed to reach out to the millions in cyberspace. |
| June'99:
GUINEA:Members of a forgotten handicapped
community have a permanent reminder at hand of the
care shown them by members of a visiting missionary
hospital ship - thanks to some ingenious recycled
"shoes". |
June'99: UNITED STATES:A new book series is challenging today's teenagers to learn about radical faith from yesterday's heroes. |
June'99: ISRAEL: The final steps in The Reconciliation Walk, a three-year effort to undo centuries of enmity between Christians and Muslims and Jews, are being taken over the next few weeks. |
| June'99:
UNITED STATES: A young Thai boy's dreams of
playing with his friends and growing up to become a
preacher are now within reach thanks to a lifesaving
surgery made possible by some determined friends. |
| June'99:
LIBYA: Missionary leader Loren Cunningham has
become one of only a handful of people ever to have
visited every country on earth, personally fulfilling
Christ's command to "go into all the world". |
| May'99: INDIA: A project to improve the living conditions of low-income families has given missionaries an opportunity to share the gospel with thousands of slum dwellers. |
| May'99: ALBANIA: Missionaries are offering listening ears and helping hands to some of the hundreds of thousands of Kosovo refugees left homeless and hopeless by the latest wave of "ethnic cleansing". |
| May'99: UNITED STATES: A new missionary "job market" underlines how taking the gospel to the ends of the earth has changed with the times. |
| May'99: WORLD: An international children's and youth ministry is taking on a new look and a new challenge in the coming months. |
| May'99: KOREA: The Caribbean Mercy, part of Youth With A Mission's Mercy Ships fleet, is to make an historic visit to Communist North Korea, later this year. |
| May'99: AUSTRALIA: They have come to Perth from five countries to start training for next year's Olympics - but their sights are on the crowds rather than the finishing tape. While athletes around the world are gearing up for Sydney's 2000 Games, missionaries are learning how to make the most of the opportunity presented by the global gathering for presenting the gospel. |
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