Posts under ‘YWAM’

Well, I am home. It’s been a journey to say the least. India for me has been a love-hate relationship. I didn’t think I could cope at first. It was an odd feeling, me being the world traveler, and adventurer. It felt like too much, too many old women with hands left as stubs from [...]

Week 5 Update Zoos & Underground Sugar Zane Shops Every day we walk through our neighborhood, about 10 minutes to the Children’s home. We pass “Raj’s Shoppe” where we buy milk, bread and mango ice cream. We pass about 8 stray dogs, often picking though trash, We cut through field with a family of girls [...]

Yesterday, I walked the steps to the top floor of a brothel. They were narrow, wooden, creaky, dark. It was late afternoon, almost time to wake up, to begin business. I wondered how many walked these dark stairs before, and what their motives were. We followed Jasmine, a young girl with a slender nose and [...]

Tonight, we are getting on a train to ride 24 hours to Pune. We are saying goodbye to the city that has slowly become a temporary home the past few weeks. The faces I have met will stay with me. Joshua* had a flashy bright blue shirt that made him stand out from the other [...]

(I don’t have any pictures of the leper colony cause it wasn’t allowed.) We walked into the barren clinic on the edge of the leprosy colony. A familiar face hung on both sides of the wall, Mother Teresa, a picture of loving the “least of these” we were about to meet. I made my way [...]

Some things feel familiar before you’ve even experienced them. You see a face in your mind’s eye, blurry, but the feelings are sharp and you just know you are going to love them. You feel a place in your soul, colorful, dirty, distracting, beautiful, broken and you feel like somehow you have always known it, [...]

It has been so incredible to see how people are jumping on board with the vision of this trip. I have never been on a trip where the donations have been so unexpected. I am amazed. Preparing emotionally, physically, spiritually. Just need $337 now.

In about 7 weeks, I am heading to India for 7 weeks. I am leading a small team from YWAM Resonate. I am so incredibly excited. We are partnering with the ministry Streams of Mercy to work with orphanages to connect with the workers and kids there in order to tell their stories. The needs [...]

A cool video about YWAM Resonate graciously produced by Ywam Tyler’s video team. See shots of Me, Felix & Jeff describing some of the latest missions communication projects that Youth With A Mission Resonate missionaries have been producing, including books, webcasts and 3D animations.

Here is a video about the different projects we have been working on as a team here at YWAM. I haven’t been involved in all of these, but it’s just a glimpse of some of the stuff we do here. The new discipleship training school has started to arrive, I can feel the excitement in [...]