Wednesday, 20 July 2011 23:36 Written by Paul Baker

I remember my DTS outreach days of old (I’m in my thirties so not that old!), the days consisted of doing our ‘ministry’ – street preaching, dance, skits and so on – and at the end of day, when we had a bit of free time, we were allowed to go and get a football and have a kick around with some of the locals.

For years this frustrated me. I was thinking, “sport is my passion and what I’m good at and I’m awful at acting, yet I’m trying to reach people with something that I am no good at and have to put what I am good at on the back burner because this is "how we do mission and reach people" right?”

Well, finally that is changing. It is amazing to see how DTS’ in particular has become creative and uses student’s gifts to accomplish mission, rather than trying to fit square pegs into round holes.

This brings up a few things we need to consider as mission trainers.

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Wednesday, 20 July 2011 23:29 Written by Walk for Truce

A two-hour history lesson from a Prime Minister isn’t an ordinary lunch appointment for me, but then very little about the Walk for Truce campaign has been “ordinary”. Sali Beresha, Prime Minister of Albania since 2005, has more authority than most to talk about the history of national and international upheaval. As the first democratically elected President of Albania, leading from 1992 to 1997, he was not only midwife to the birth of the Republic of Albania, but witnessed up close the horrifying conflict in the Balkans. So our discussion of the question of how to manage significant disputes within and between nations, but without resorting to violence, was far from academic.

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Sunday, 12 September 2010 23:51 Written by John Ladue

What a great privilege it is to report to you about our first EXcompetition in Egypt August 2010. First let me give a little explanation of what EXcompetition is: Our mission, in conjunction with our University a few years ago began to look at sports as an official part of what they are doing worldwide, even though sports had been started many years ago by people such as Jimmy Stewart out of Hong Kong, Kevin Stark also out of Hong Kong and Montana, Keith Buzzard from Montana, Baher from Egypt, more recently, Coach Powers from Kona, and so many others. We began with a meeting of a few of us in Kansas City, trying to discern where we are with sports and its many facets around the world. From that meeting till now many sports schools, and people have been beginning to work together to further the Kingdom through sports. Affiliations have been recognized with groups such as global network of sports ministries, Athletes in Action (AIA), etc. our university has now recognized sports as part of one of its colleges, College of Arts and Sports, and has begun to set up seminars, courses and outreaches, and will hopefully offer a complete degree program in the near future.

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Monday, 08 February 2010 00:14 Written by YWAM Vancouver, Canada

The 2010 Winter Olympic games is being hosted here in Vancouver, Canada! As YWAM Vancouver we are hosting the Winter Olympics Outreach. This is a once in a lifetime opportunity for us in Vancouver to welcome the world to our city and to welcome all of you to our city "for such a time as this".

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Friday, 28 August 2009 05:16

Our dear team member Jeremy passed away due to a freak accident a month before the outreach. We had green arm bands ( his favorite color) made up with 1.21 ( his favorite verse) from Philippians written on them. We wore them on our time in Asia and they sparked many conversations with tourists, and locals. 

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