Powerful Words of Hope from an Indian Street Kid
I was reading through my journal from my DTS last night, processing some of the things from my outreach to Nepal and India that I have long left unprocessed. After my team got back from outreach, we broke up into new teams with people from all of the different outreach groups – Moldova, Turkey, Thailand, East Asia, Uganda. We went …
My Journey to Manhood
“I, Garett Collins, do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic…” This was the honorary speech I repeated at the Military Entrance Processing Station. I was 18 years old and fresh out of high school. I thought that the military was the right path for me and my …
Bye, Bye, Auntie Bread
by Brittany, DTS staff, Uganda I knew we would be friends from the first moment that we met. We were sitting around the dinner table eating rice and chicken. Angela sucked on a chicken bone that stuck out of her mouth. I couldn’t help but smile at her. She smiled a toothy, eight-year-old smile back at me, bone still in …
Compassion Requires Us To…
“Compassion asks us to go where it hurts, to enter into the places of pain, to share in brokenness, fear, confusion, and anguish. Compassion challenges us to cry out with those in misery, to mourn with those who are lonely, to weep with those in tears. Compassion requires us to be weak with the weak, vulnerable with the vulnerable, and …
Compassion Asks Us…
photo credit: Jackie Streng “Compassion asks us to go where it hurts, to enter into the places of pain, to share in brokenness, fear, confusion, and anguish. Compassion challenges us to cry out with those in misery, to mourn with those who are lonely, to weep with those in tears. Compassion requires us to be weak with the weak, vulnerable with the vulnerable, and powerless …
What they need has a simple name…hope
by Elizabeth, YWAM Madison staff Soroti, Uganda This week’s highlight: The smiles on the faces of the older girls at the children’s home as we talked about how God knit each one of them together before they were born. Three of the girls have HIV/AIDS. The fourth was raped and is now a mother at the age of thirteen. It …
You Are Safe Here – Uganda children’s home
by Breana, YWAM Madison Staff, DTS ’11 Graduate Soroti, Uganda I had no idea my heart would experience such a break when I first heard we would be going to the Amecet Home. I knew we would meet children and babies who have HIV/AIDS, I expected very much to be able to go into the home, see what it meant …
Video: Indian AIDS Orphans – Full of Life
We spent a week at a Home for children devastated by AIDS while our team was in India. Although many of the kids suffered from HIV, we found that they were so full of life and joy. They totally stole our hearts.
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