Stories of faith, hope and encouragement

Container Ship: Aid in a Box

The vision is simple.  The vision is BIG.  Deliver modular aid using ships, like the YWAM Liberty in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea to otherwise isolated communities on islands in the South Pacific. It’s a radical idea – and it’s working! The Liberty is a 1700-tonne supply ship, redesigned to handle full-size shipping containers pre-assembled as […]

Lawrence Tamarau: Making a difference

The world needs more families, like Lawrence and Sandra Tamarau in Papua New Guinea.  As a local missionary, Lawrence works fulltime as an engineer aboard the YWAM Liberty – a 1,700 tonne medical cargo ship –  delivering critical aid and the gospel of Jesus Christ to his countrymen in remote islands in the South Pacific.  […]

The Elven Forest Epiphany

“Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, Nothing is going to get better. It’s not,” Dr. Seuss, The Lorax This call to Christian mission work began 20-years ago after I’d been fired from my dream job as a Forest Resource Engineer using science to do good through crop management.  Unfortunately, the resource sector […]

A Prayer in Nindawari

YWAM Ships exists to reach the isolated with medical aid and the gospel of Jesus. This year, Katie, a 23 year-old registered EMT from Idaho, USA, led a small team from YWAM Ships Kona up the Gira River of Papua New Guinea to remote tribal villages of the Binandari.  Yes, they were able to soothe […]

The Chieftains of Jingada

Six hours over open ocean by banana boat and then 90-minutes more up a flooded, croc-infested river called the Gira, lay the village of Jingada.   In late January, we joined a 12-person Discipleship Training School (DTS) team from YWAM Ships Kona to visit Jingada and deliver aid and ministry programs to the isolated.  We […]

New Generation for YWAM Liberty

It was midnight and pouring rain when our Discipleship Training School (DTS) team arrived from Kona, Hawaii aboard the YWAM Liberty in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea. The ship was pitch black and hotter than the inside of a cow. Earlier that day, the ship’s main generators had packed it in, but tired as we […]

YWAM Ships: Media Campaign

Youth With a Mission (YWAM) is a faith-based, non-profit movement operating around the world to share the good news of Jesus through practical helps, specifically with medical mercy ship ministries. Earlier this year, we got to hang out with a great group of passionate storytellers at YWAM Ships base in Kona, Hawaii.  It was all […]

Where others have walked

Have you ever found yourself in a place and felt as though you were not alone? I don’t mean like there’s someone stalking you or that the place is haunted; not that.  More like you are standing on ground where important people have walked before and even though centuries have passed, they are somehow still […]

YWAM Ships: our next chapter

BREAKING NEWS:Lib and I have accepted an invitation to join the communications team of YWAM Ships. The Call: To encourage and motivate those wanting to know Jesus and make Him known – with documented victory stories from the frontline of people who are living life by faith. The Mission: To train small teams of Field Reporters […]

Heroes and Rogues

Salmon Arm Art Gallery presents: Heroes and Rogues December 3-17, 2016 70 Hudson Ave, NE  Salmon Arm, BC Heroes & Rogues is a collection of classic, medium-format, black and white photographs that began 11-years ago more out of my admiration of the work of the Canadian portrait photographer, Yousuf Karsh, than for any real historic reasons.  […]

My Date with Gimli

Got a call from the local Film Commissioner looking to house a Yeti. “A what?” I asked. “A Yeti… Y-E-T-I… you know, an Abominable Snowman, albino Sasquatch… I need to find a cave big enough to shoot a movie in,” he said in a tone that somehow managed to make me feel stupid for asking. “There’s […]

Roots and Blues Festival

If you had anywhere near as much fun as we did at the 24th Annual Roots & Blues Music Festival in Salmon Arm, BC, then you may want to check out the slideshow down below! Previous Next