The stories of children around the world are staggering. Throughout the world millions of children are orphaned through war, through AIDS, through extreme poverty. Every seven seconds a child dies from a preventable disease. Drug addiction runs rampant. Children are sold into prostitution or forced to become child soldiers. They’re lost and they have no [...]
Posts Tagged ‘AIDS’
Announcing 2009 Rescue Ops DTS: Children at Risk
Posted in Fall DTS 2008, Fall DTS 2009, tagged africa, AIDS, children at risk, HIV, india, injustice, missionary, missions, Orphans, poor, poverty, slum, street kids, Youth With A Mission, ywam on April 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Mural
Posted in Fall DTS 2008, tagged AIDS, Discipleship Training School, dts, india, Orphans, outreach, Pune, Youth With A Mission, ywam on January 19, 2009 | 2 Comments »
by Katie
When we first came to the AIDS orphanage, Dr. Edwards asked if any of us liked to paint. My eyes lit up and my husband Travis pointed to me. (I just graduated college with a degree in Art.) I wondered what I would get to paint.
Areli and I brainstormed and decided to sketch a [...]
Shradha
Posted in Fall DTS 2008, tagged AIDS, Discipleship Training School, dts, india, missions, Orphans, outreach, Pune, Youth With A Mission, ywam on January 19, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Rynn meets a special girl at an orphanage for children with AIDS.
How do you say goodbye?
Posted in Fall DTS 2008, tagged AIDS, Discipleship Training School, dts, india, missions, Orphans, Pune, street kids, Youth With A Mission, ywam on January 19, 2009 | 1 Comment »
by Paul Allen
We’ve spent the last three days at the AIDS orphanage here in Pune. We said our goodbyes earlier today and I could hardly hold myself together.
It was so hard leaving them….
Wonder Boy Yogesh
Posted in Fall DTS 2008, tagged AIDS, Discipleship Training School, Orphans, Pune, Youth With A Mission, ywam on January 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
by Paul Allen
Yogesh slipped his right hand on top of my palm. From above, my other hand crashed down. SMACK!
Just in time, Yogesh pulled his hand away, narrowly avoiding the “jaws of the alligator.”
Slowly, my hands crept apart again. Yogesh smiled, a dimple creasing his cheek. His eyes grew wide, locking in on my hands [...]
Destination: India
Posted in Fall DTS 2008, tagged AIDS, Chennai, children at risk, Discipleship Training School, dts, HIV, india, leprosy, Orphans, Pune, street kids, Youth With A Mission, ywam on December 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
There are more than 11 million abandoned kids in India. Many of them eat, sleep and bathe on the streets of their city. Some become beggars or thieves. Others are kidnapped and forced into prostitution. These children are lost and they have no place to live. And these are the ones on the heart of [...]
