YWAM Ships: What Would You Bring?
YWAM Ships Kona looks to reach the isolated by bringing the love of Jesus and practical help in the form of Health Care to remote islands throughout the Pacific. Here’s a short overview we contributed to showcase some of the work they do.
Culture Shock
Culture Shock: Twelve students of the YWAM Ships Kona Discipleship Training School take 3-months to visit remote tribal villages and urban communities in Papua New Guinea. The results are transformational for those they met and very likely even more transformational for the students themselves. The following video summarizes stories that the students shared during “Debrief […]
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 […]
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 […]
Gap Relief: Typhoon Yolanda
East Samar, Philippines – Nov. 8, 2013 – Typhoon Yolanda (Haiyan) hits land in the central islands of the Philippines with wind gusts over 300 km/hr – 6,340 people died in the largest typhoon in recorded history. 100 days later, relief efforts were packing up after only just beginning to make an impact. It’s […]
In the wake of Ondoy: Tumana
The headlines are gone; tied up in twine and buried or burned shortly after it happened. The Press, too, is gone; off chasing the next disaster-du-jour, so we hear nothing more and think things are fine. But the story of life in the wake of Typhoon Ondoy – a super storm that devastated parts of […]
Papa John’s Center update
Visited Gemma B. over at Papa Johns Center to hear more about her work with abandoned kids in metro-Manila here in the Philippines. Our family was introduced to PJC during a short term trip that my wife and 5-kids took with Action International back in 2008. Gemma, if you don’t know has responded compassionately to […]
A World of Good
A handful of Canadian high-schoolers take one hour a week to DO A WORLD OF GOOD with a sustainable recycling project that helps fund two feeding programs for street kids and educate a home for some 30 abandoned children in Asia. A World of Good from Craig Pulsifer on Vimeo. THE CHALLENGE: Look beyond yourself. […]
Spoonful of Sugar
“Just a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down” ~ Julie Andrews (Mary Poppins, 1964) Oddly enough, the opposite is true in Marikina, Philippines. There, medicine is being delivered to help children regain health and appetite, thanks to the work of small, non-profit agencies, like Action International . Typhoon Ondoy hit the Philippines in September, […]
The Kids are Alright
Valenzuela City, Philippines – At Papa John’s Center in metro-Manila, children ages 5-20 are being cared for by Gemma Bucuyag (mid-left), who set aside her dental practice to care for children at risk in the neighborhood that she grew up in. Not knowing where food and living supplies will come from one month-to-the-next, Gemma relies […]
By their fruit you shall know them
We’ve been hanging out with twenty kids at the Ban San Faan Home outside of Chiang Mai, Thailand who despite the absence of birth parents will capture your heart and challenge your faith with the reality of their Heavenly Father. Photo: Abbey and Daniel enjoy the fruit of their labor after picking lychee. During my […]
