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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 …
This video captures the heart of our Children at Risk Ministries at YWAM Madison. We long to see every orphan rescued and brought into the loving arms of family. Will you join us on Sunday, November 6 as we remember the orphan together with thousands of churches across the world? And will you ask God how you can be a …
by Jen “Let’s put together care packages for the families in the hut slum community,” I suggested to the YWAM Chennai leader. “I was thinking the same thing!” he said, excited. I didn’t know it at the time, but this hut slum was one of the worst in Chennai. It formed when the government tried to clean up the streets. …
by Paul Allen In Chennai, our ministry focus has shifted slightly from working directly with children’s homes. Here, we are working primarily on prevention and community development of at risk communities (hut slums, railway stations, markets, street families, villages, etc). Here’s what we have done since our arrival in Chennai on January 28: Jan. 29 – Open Air (drama, testimonies, …
by Jen The man was passed-out in a corner of the slum house. He looked half dead. His wife motioned for me to pray. “God, free this man from his bondage to alcohol,” I urgently prayed. Earlier that morning we had been meeting as a team. Being in Chennai felt harder and I had to struggle to engage. At the …
In the final weeks of the team’s outreach in India, a DTS student pauses to reflect on what she has learned.
Sunshine burned the gray walls of the marketplace. Long ago, its architecture was built with grace and beauty, but now garbage was strewn everywhere and dust blew in circles around brown grass. When Katie and I entered the vast arched gates of the market, our eyes went ablaze with color. We had entered the flower market! Black stone columns stretched …
by Areli We were walking through the streets one afternoon, saying hello to everybody. Jen, PD and I saw a women who was sitting on the ground. She was one of many others in the street, but our hearts immediately went out to her. We said hello to her, but of course she didn’t know English (or Spanish! haha). With …
by Rynn New state, new language. I recognized not one single word that this woman was chattering at me. I wanted to, as she was speaking and motioning earnestly. Evidently, there was something she very much wanted to communicate to me, and as I was smiling and nodding, it was apparently not evident to her that I was not understanding …
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