transforming the lives of global youth
Hear from some of YouthHOPE's 2011 Interns as they share their thoughts on an amazing summer spent in different parts of the world. Our teams did an excellent job of serving others and recognizing the transformative power of the gospel in the lives of youth overseas. …
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The 2011 YouthHOPE Internships are well under way. Take a few minutes to hear straight for the horses' mouths about what they hope to get out of their summer and what they are up to right this very minute! …
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I had the chance to spend a day with our intern teams at Pre-Field Orientation which took place at Palm Beach Atlantic University in West Palm Beach, Florida. After having followed the process of planning and recruiting for the four YouthHOPE internships, it was great to finally meet the people that will be sent out as global youth ministry ambassadors. I must tell you that I was very impressed with the quality of each and every one of the interns. One of the reasons that I spent the day with them was to provide some training in the area of global youth ministry, to share the vision of YouthHOPE and also to teach on the subjects of worldview and culture. They interacted well and seemed very eager to learn. To me a "learner spirit" is one of the of important characteristics that we look for in our interns. While they go to serve the people in the country of their internship, they also go to learn from them. It is only with …
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I was in church worshiping on Sunday and we sang the song With Everything. The lyrics of the song really started to make me think. The opening verse says:
Open our hearts,
To see the things
That make Your heart cry,
To be the church
That You would desire.
Light to be seen.
That made me think about the 14 YouthHOPE interns preparing right now to go to the five countries where they will come alongside youth in some pretty challenging situations. Some of them will work with Haitian youth, many of whom are still living with post traumatic stress disorder from the earthquake that devastated their nation. Some will be showing the love of Christ to young people in SE Asia who were taken advantage of and abused. It is my prayer that as the interns go into these situations, that God would allow their hearts to hurt as His does and that that would spur them on to be the church that we are called to be. …
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YouthHOPE has been involved in youth ministry in Haiti for more than a year now. About two months ago, we began planning how to partner with New Mission Systems International missionaries Nego and Ellen Pierre-Louis. Aaron Arnold (Executive Director) and Ryan Russell (Director of Training and Networking) were planning on traveling down to Haiti from January 26-29 to prepare and organize a youth pastor training project in Jacmel, Haiti. A little over a week ago, an earthquake with a magnitude of 7.0 hit Haiti. …
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Hello everyone,
How are you all doing? Certainly Ellen and I are the one who should answer that question from you! Well, with God’s unconditional love, WE’RE FINE!
Ellen and I have been pretty close to knowing what is it like to fall from a third storey during a earthquake, but somehow it didn’t happen! Because The angels of the Lord camp around those who fear the Lord and are walking according to his purpose.
We were in downtown Jacmel, visiting my sister where she is staying and we were there in the third storey when that happened. We had no choice to run down, we could only hang on to each other while some of us were crying, praying, thinking about jumping.
God saved us, we are attaching some pictures to let you see the situation in Jacmel, then you will realize that it’s not bad only in Port Au Prince. While God saved Ellen and I and our family from preventing the building we were in to collapse, there are …
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