Eleven YWAM members killed in Tanzania bus crash
Eleven members of the Christian organisation Youth With A Mission were killed in a bus crash in Tanzania last Saturday. Two buses from YWAM were returning from a course to their campus in Arusha when one of the buses was hit by a truck and sustained significant damage, along with two other vehicles. The other bus […]
Lifestory: Remembering Loren Cunningham, founder of Christian missionary organisation YWAM
SAMANTHA ELLEY pays tribute to Loren Cunningham, founder of Youth With A Mission…
My Mission: Peter Warren, founder of the Youth With a Mission base in Denver, Colorado
Australian PETER WARREN tells the story of how he and his wife Linda ended up serving with Youth With A Mission in Denver, Colorado…
Churches work to heal the wounds of Brazil’s deadliest environmental disaster
One month after a dam near an iron ore mine in Brumadinho, Brazil, burst its barrier, flooding another dam down below, churches have been actively working in the area, comforting hundreds of families in grief and joining hands with the public agents who are offering humanitarian relief to the people in the region. The incident […]
OUTREACH: BIBLE STUDY AND SKATEBOARDS MEET AT ‘SKATECHURCH’
BOBBY ROSS, Jr, writing for Religion News Service, reports on how US churches are reaching out to skaters…
US missionary, captive for 20 months, is alive, reports Niger’s president
World Watch Monitor A US missionary kidnapped in Niger in October, 2016 is alive, according to the West African nation’s president. Jeff Woodke, who worked for Jeunesse en Mission Entraide et Developpement (JEMED), a branch of the US-based Youth With a Mission, was abducted by unknown assailants late in the evening of Friday, 14th October, […]
US hostage’s wife asks his African captors to contact her
World Watch Monitor The wife of a pioneering American missionary abducted nine months ago in Africa’s Sahel region has put out a video pleading for his safe return. In the 2 minute 26 second video released on Tuesday, Els Woodke expresses her despair and desire to be in touch with her husband’s kidnappers. Jeff Woodke, […]
Kidnap in Niger of US missionary a ‘terrible tragedy’
World Watch Monitor The kidnap of a pioneering American missionary in Niger is a “terrible tragedy” for the communities he served for 24 years, according to the local mayor. It has also raised security concerns among the country’s missionary community. Jeff Woodke, 55, who worked for Jeunesse en Mission Entraide et Developpement (JEMED), a branch […]
THE CAPTAIN’S TALE: JEREMY SCHIERER TELLS OF LIFE ABOARD THE YWAM MEDICAL SHIP, MV PACIFIC LINK
As the YWAM medical ship, MV Pacific Link, prepares to head to Papua New Guinea following the completion of its tour of Australia’s east coast, DAVID ADAMS speaks with the ship’s captain, Jeremy Schierer, about his job…
THE SHIPPING NEWS: YWAM MEDICAL SHIP SPREADS THE WORD AMONG AUSTRALIANS BEFORE HEADING TO PAPUA NEW GUINEA ON A MISSION OF MERCY
DAVID ADAMS reports…