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 ‘india’
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 »
Live from India — Videos and Interviews
Posted in Fall DTS 2008, tagged adventure, Chennai, children at risk, Discipleship Training School, dts, evangelism, highlights, human trafficking, india, missions, mumbai, Orphans, outreach, pictures, Pune, street kids, video, Youth With A Mission, ywam on March 12, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Five videos and interviews with the Discipleship Training School students and the people they met in India.
Operation Care Package – Hut Slum, Chennai
Posted in Fall DTS 2008, tagged Chennai, Discipleship Training School, dts, india, Youth With A Mission, ywam on February 23, 2009 | 2 Comments »
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 [...]
Now as Always
Posted in Fall DTS 2008, tagged Discipleship Training School, dts, india, missions, outreach, stop the traffic, Youth With A Mission, ywam on February 16, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I felt as bold as Joshua. Of course, God had gotten me through this! My God never changes. The same God who was with me in Driver’s Ed and during my ACT test was with me here in India. He was there when I was 15 and picked that verse from Philippians.
And that is the God I choose to exalt with my body… whether by life or death. Now as always.
Bangles!
Posted in Fall DTS 2008, tagged highlights, india, missions, outreach on February 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
by Jen
Something happens to me that I can’t explain. When I see Indian bangle bracelets, my eyes glaze over and I’m immediately transported into a world of color, glitter and jewels. Which color goes with which Punjabi? What about the orange sari I want to buy? Is this the exact shade to match?
It’s starting to [...]
Chennai at a Glance
Posted in Fall DTS 2008, tagged Chennai, Discipleship Training School, dts, evangelism, india, missions, outreach, Youth With A Mission, ywam on February 9, 2009 | 3 Comments »
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 – [...]
Great Expectations
Posted in Fall DTS 2008, tagged Chennai, Discipleship Training School, dts, highlights, india, missions, outreach, Youth With A Mission, ywam on February 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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 than Pune and I had to [...]
Lessons from India
Posted in Fall DTS 2008, tagged Chennai, Discipleship Training School, dts, highlights, india, missions, outreach, Youth With A Mission, ywam on February 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
In the final weeks of the team’s outreach in India, a DTS student pauses to reflect on what she has learned.
Flower Girls
Posted in Fall DTS 2008, tagged Chennai, Discipleship Training School, dts, highlights, india, missions, outreach, Youth With A Mission, ywam on February 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
Mary’s Story
Posted in Fall DTS 2008, tagged Chennai, Discipleship Training School, dts, highlights, india, missions, outreach, Youth With A Mission, ywam on February 4, 2009 | 2 Comments »
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 [...]
