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Thank you for watching and listening to this, the 128 episode of the Youth With A Mission News Show, 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 podcast at ywampodcast.com/128 …
Stories:
In this episode we will be looking at how YWAM is responding to the floods in Pakistan, the YWAM Dental Trailer in Papua New Guinea, YWAM Ukraine’s ministry to provide homes for displaced families, flooding in Ghana, YWAM Vanuatu’s V2 Life Association school building project, the YWAM Aotearoa medical outreach to Fiji, the Jesus Film being shown in South Sudan, and more …
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YWAM Responds to Pakistan Floods
Pakista has been devastate with over one third of the country being inundated with unprecedented flooding. Over thirty million people have been affected, with millions of livelihoods destroyed. Camps have been set up for survivors, but food and clean drinking water are scarce.
YWAM has ten teams in Pakistan and they have been offering help, even though some of their own homes have been flooded. They have distributed hundreds of food packages, as well as mosquito nets, tents, and medicine.
You have help those in Pakistan by supporting their ministry through the full story at ywam.org.
Pray to End Bible Poverty
One of YWAM’s global prayer initiatives is The Invitation, which we do every month. This month we are praying to End Bible Poverty.
Four ways that you could pray this month is for translations and publications, pray for distribution of the Bibles, prayer for Biblical education for people after they have received their Bibles, and to pray for the Habakkuk Initiative to holistically disciple 80 nations in 10-years.
You can find out more about the prayer initiative, including what our prayer focus will be for November, over at ywam.org/theinvitation.
YWAM Dental Trailer in Papua New Guinea
YWAM Medical Ships Australia has began operating the YWAM Dental Semi Trailer in Port Moresby this month. The pilot program saw over 120 students undergo oral health screening, and more that 300 students receiving oral health education.
22 volunteers were a part of the pilot program, including two dentists, one dental therapist, and four dental assistants from Australia and PNG. The team was able to provide over 125 dental procedures, including restorations and extractions.
YWAM has been conducting mobile dental clinics in PNG for over 10 years with their medical ship and land-based teams. During this time nearly 44,000 dental treatments have been provided in partnership with local health authorities and health workers.
Find out more at ywamships.org
New Patrol Boats arrive for YWAM Ships in PNG
Two brand new patrol boats for the YWAM Medical Ship arrived in Papua New Guinea.
The patrol boats were manufactured in Norway in a joint effort between YWAM Medical Ships Norway and Australia, to serve the people of Papua New Guinea.
YWAM Ukraine Warm for Winter
YWAM has been working in Ukraine for many years, and this year has been an exceptionally challenging one for them, along with the citizens of Ukraine.
With winter coming up YWAM has been actively working with local communities and teams from around Europe to build 100 homes for some of the many families that have been displaced due to the conflict.
In partnership with Homes of Hope YWAM has raised the funds to build 100 insulated homes and are working to get them all built before winter.
Head over to ywamkyiv.org to find out how you can find out more about YWAM’s ministry in Ukraine.
Flooding in Ghana
There is flooding in Accra, Ghana …
Visit the YWAM Accra web-page at ywamaccra.org to find out more about what is happening there, and to let them know how you prayed and if you can help…
V2 Life Association – YWAM Vanuatu – School Building Project
At the end of 2021 God provided enough to start building a new cyclone-safe building for the Teouma Christian Academy in Vanuatu, and the walls are now up. Once complete it will house two full-size classrooms, 5 self-contained toilets, and a staff room.
Now that the walls are up on the new classrooms YWAM Vanuatu is praying for the final $100,000 to come in so that they can have the room installed. Their current classrooms are all full, and they are unable to accept any new students at the academy, so their desire to see the building completed by the start of the new school year in 2023.
YWAM Ships Aotearoa Finished 2022 Outreach to Fiji
YWAM Ships Aotearoa just completed their fourth and final Fiji outreach for 2022, and has just returned to New Zealand. Here is an update from during their time …
During their recent outreach the teams were able to minister to many people, including:
- 2 Islands; Totoya & Rabi
- 276 Patients
- 337 Tooth Extractions
- 113 Tooth Restorations (fillings)
- 47 Scalings
- 350+ Given Oral Health Education, Tooth Brush & Toothpaste
Visit ywamshipsaotearoa.org.nz to find out about their planned trips for next year.
Jesus Film in South Sudan – YWAM Kona
A Team from YWAM Kona was able to stream the Jesus Film in a village outside of Magwi, South Sudan and it was a powerful time!
Toward the end of the film, they heard the sound of many repeating the salvation prayer in the local language of ‘Acholi’. For many in the crowd, it was the first time they heard the name of Jesus.
Read the story, and see photos on the YWAM Kona Facebook Page.
Beyond the Island Film Premier
A YWAM Film about a story of hope, education and an awareness driven film called “Beyond the Island” premiered recently in Papua New Guinea.
Benny Prasad – World Record Holder for Fastest to Travel to Every Nation
A friend of mine, and fellow YWAMer, Benny Prasad, broke the world record about 10-years ago and became the fastest to travel to every nation. On the YWAM YouTube channel Benny has started to share some of the amazing stories that happened while visiting every nation of the world …
So far they have put together five of his stories that you can watch, and you can see them in the playlist on the YWAM YouTube Channel.
Brother Andrew Passes Away
Brother Andrew, known as “The Bible Smuggler”, had partnered with YWAM for decades, and his influence is very evident in the mission.
For more than 60 years, Open Doors’ founder—Brother Andrew—visited over 125 countries in service to the global church. Sadly, last month, Brother Andrew went home to be with God after spending his life in service. God used Andrew’s obedience and prayers to change millions of lives and eternities. We are grieving but we are equally thankful.
Brother Andrew, in one of his final interviews stated that the thing he wanted to be remembered for most, was that he was a Disciple of Jesus Christ.
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