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There is desperate need right now for the people of Burma because of the recent military coup, YWAM Europe will be having a worship and outreach gathering in Maldova later this year, we get to see and hear some updates from Thailand and Vietnam, and we have a look at some of the coffee ministries that are happening around Youth With A Mission on this, the 123rd episode of the YWAM News Show.
Thank you for downloading this, the 123rd episode of the Youth With A Mission News Show Podcast, I’m your host, Bill Hutchison.
You can contact us, subscribe to future episodes, leave comments, and find links to all the stories we talk about on the show notes for this show at ywampodcast.com/123 …
Stories:
Military Coup in Burma
Back in February the democratically elected government in Burma / Myanmar was replaced by the nations military. Since then there have been many people killed and the army is attacking many Karen areas. This has lead to thousands of civilians being displaced and having to hide in the forest. Some of these groups are being shelled by the military and are running for their lives.
There are over 5000 Internally Displaced People (IDPs) known to be hiding in the forests at this time. The people are trying to flee to refugee camps in Thailand, but those camps and the boarder are closed off. As the fighting continues in the cities the number of IDPs and refugees is only increasing.
Right now there are four new refugee camps forming close to the Thai / Burmese border. Australian Mercy, a ministry of Youth With A Mission, can not get aid into the cities at the time because of the violence happening there, but they can get aid into the IDP camps forming on the boarder.
On the Australian Mercy web-site you can see what is needed to meet the needs of the Internally Displaced People. The needs include food, clothing, medicines, and basic aid. The people are desperate, and the situation there is getting worse, please take the time to pray and consider how you can help …
YWAM Thailand Update
Staying in South East Asia we have this update from YWAM in Chiang Mai, Thailand, and what God did in 2020 …
You can find out more about the ministry that is happening with YWAM Chiang Mai on their web-site, ywamthai.org.
YWAM in Vietnam
As we continue to look at what is happening in South East Asia we have this from YWAM in Vietnam about what they are doing:
You can find out more at ywammercyvietnam.org.
YWAM’s Mission to the Muslim World
Youth With A Mission has always had a focus on reaching out to the most unreached people around the world, and many of those people live in the 10/40 window, and many of the nations in the 10/40 window are Muslim majority nations …
Youth With A Mission has many opportunities to reach out with the gospel to the Muslim World. You can find many of those opportunities on the global YWAM web-site, ywam.org.
On the next episode we will be talking about one of the opportunities that Youth With A Mission participates in every year, and it’s one that you can join in with from anywhere in the world …
Love Europe Gathering
In August YWAM Skien will be hosting the Love Europe Gathering …
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The gathering and outreach will be happening in Maldova in August of this year, and you can find out more on their web-site, loveeurope.no.
Gleaning for the Hungry Summer 2021 Plans
Gleanings for the Hungry is a mercy ministry of Youth With A Mission with a mission to feed the hungry of the world, both physically and spiritually. A large part of fulfilling their mission is the procurement and production of shelf-stable food. In the summer, they dry peaches and nectarines that are not pristine enough for sale. Year round, they produce a dehydrated soup mix, mostly from donated products.
Everything they produce is given free of charge to partner ministries around the world, to be distributed in impoverished areas, with the love of Jesus. and they are starting to gear up for the new 2021 season …
You can visit gleanings.org to find out more about their food distribution ministry …
YWAM Frontier Missions – Disciple Making Movements
During last year, and coming into this year, a lot of how YWAM has done it’s training has had to change because of COVID-19, and the many restrictions that have been brought about because of it. One of the ways that it has changed is that many YWAM locations have developed online training resources.
One of these online courses that is coming up in July is the Getting Started in Disciple Making Movements course, being offered by YWAM Frontier Missions. This online course will be run from July 7 – October 7 and will help you go from potentially feeling confused, busy, and overwhelmed by the task of reaching the unreached, to feeling inspired, hopeful, and full of faith that God is able to multiply disciples through you.
The course will work to help you to:
- Develop a step by step faith-filled plan for prayer saturation,
- Discover simple, but proven, evangelism strategies
- Find local influencers (Persons of Peace).
- Learn to stay focused on what key fruitful activities
- Start your first Disciple-Making group.
If you head on over to their web-site, ywamfm.org, you can find out more about the course and find out how you can enrol and participate.
YWAM Budapest
Even during the Soviet communist era YWAM was sending short term teams into Hungary to pray and discretely distribute Gospel literature. The first YWAMers to make their home in Hungary was in the late 80’s, and with the fall of communism in 1989 YWAM began to send teams to pray, connect with pastors, and seek open doors for the Gospel. They have been operating continually in the nation since then, and this some of what they are currently engaged in …
You can head over to ywambudapest.org to find out more about their ministry.
Coffee
One of the things that myself, and probably many other people in YWAM, can attribute to our time in ministry in a love, and possible addiction, to coffee. For me it started when I first started staffing the discipleship training school, in addition to working in other ministry areas like communication and IT. Since then my taste has become a bit more refined, much less instant coffee, and coffee ministry has really opened the doors for communication at many locations around the world. This includes the coffee ministry that YWAM Budapest runs …
The location that I did my DTS at was located in Townsville, Australia. Like me, they have become a lot more refined in the coffee that they offer, and last year they even opened a coffee shop in the centre of the city.
They are definitely alone in combining ministry and coffee, as we hear from YWAM Lakeside, Montana:
YWAM Hernut in Germany is another ministry wanting to expand their coffee ministry into the community:
YWAM in the Gold Coast of Australia runs a coffee van outreach to the people in their community:
I’m sure there are many other locations around the world that are also combining coffee and ministry. I went over to ywam.org and did a search for “coffee” and it came up with 73 programs and places around the ministry. I’m sure that not all of them, but it is fun to see some of what God is doing.
Theology and Coffee
With all of our talk about coffee in this episode I want to highlight a recent study done by our friends over at the Babylon Bee. The results of the study was that they found that the stronger the coffee, the more sound the theology.
While the specific study was in relation to churches, it wouldn’t be out of the question to say that there is most likely also a correlation at YWAM Centres around the world where the stronger the coffee, the more sound the theology …
Feedback
Well, thank you very much for joining with us on this episode of the YWAM News Show. If you head on over to ywampodcast.com/123 you can find links to all the stories we shared, and also watch all the videos. While you are there you can also subscribe for future episodes through the links on the right hand side of the page or at the bottom of the article.
If you are part of YWAM, and have a story to share, please get in touch through the web-site as I love to highlight what God is doing in the nations through the global ministry of Youth With A Mission.
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