Brazil Team Final Update

Here is the final team update from the Brazil Team:

Hey all,

We finished our ministry at Itapeva City. The last day we presented the gospel in each of the three sessions. All together there where 43 salvations. This is very exciting for everyone and the church is thrilled with the ministry that we did.

It was sad to leave our new friends there. Yesterday, Friday, we went to the Good Jesus City Church that the YMI Brazil Mission Team worked with last year. The college team members were finishing up their week of ministry there. We got to see Eric Wahlstrom, the first YMI music person work with the kids. He is teaching them a song on the recorder. They will be doing a song at church tomorrow.

Our team is also going to learn the song and join in with the kids. After the music session, Katie Henderson taught the basketball session, she was helped by Bryan Presler and Tim Keough, the other YMI College Team participants. The kids did better with basketball than they did baseball last year. After we finished at the church, we went to a church member's house. Tomorrow we are going early to church to prepare music and a pantomime. The team is doing very good and everyone is well and working very hard and loving our time here in Brazil.

God bless everyone,

Brad and Becky Keough

Brazil Team Leaders

Final Philippines Update!

Here is the final report from the Philippines Team:

Hey all,

The team is doing well. The youth have really begun to connect with the kids at the individual ministry sites. They are excited about the ministries that they have had the chance to witness and be part of, and they are doing very well establishing relationships with both the pastors/leaders, as well as the kids. We are encouraged :)

Our ministries have been very flexible - more so than we have ever experienced before. Mr. Curabo (Jess Curabo - Awana Missionary) knows when the Awana kids or the street kids do not understand. Because of this, he will frequently come to me and give a good suggestion on what to do next to keep their attention. We are blessed with a team that is perfect for that kind of flexibility. God certainly knew what he was doing :).

God bless, and thank you for your part in making it possible for us to be here. :)

Philip and Anna Ahrens

Philippines Team

South Korea Update!

Here is the latest from the South Korea Team:

Hey all,

Today is our last day of our first English Camp ~ we are all sad to be on our last time with the children. We have also prepared gifts for each of our translators and those that are helping us through our time here.

Last night was a very nice dinner out. It was chicken stuffed with rice and served to us by individual boiling pots. GOOD stuff!

John and Penii Jo Trautwein

South Korea Team

Brazil Team Update

Here is the latest from the Brazil Team:

The team is doing great. We are in Itapeva City, this is our second day of ministry. We arrived on Monday in Sao Paulo and drove four hours to get here. We are all staying in a church, it is very nice and they have been treating us wonderfully. The first day we walked around the town and handed out fliers inviting kids to the three sports clinics we are running. We do a soccer clinic in the morning and afternoon and basketball in the evening. They have had a very good turn out. The team is working very hard and running all aspects of the camp themselves with Juca interpreting. Tomorrow is the Gospel message and then we will leave here about 8:00pm to go back to Atibaia where we will join the college teams for their last day of ministry at Bom Jesus do Perdoes, a town nearby. Please continue to pray for all of us and the people here in Brazil that we are working with.

God Bless,

Brad and Becky Keough

Brazil Team

New Update From South Korea!

Here is the very latest from the South Korea Team:

Hey all,

Just thought we'd do a quick check in here.

We had a great day, everyone is doing very well and slept pretty good last night after our 5 hour bus ride from the airport in Seoul to Jungpyung.

Today they took us on a tour of the POW Camp and then down to the seaside and saw Windy Hill and then stopped to dip our feet in the South Sea.

We are all set for our ministry tomorrow with very detailed schedule and we all know just what we will be doing; we are expecting about 60 children but hoping more with show up.

God Bless,

Penii Jo, John & the team!

Philippines Team Update

Here is the latest from the Philippines Team:

We are going to s tribal ministry today. I think it will be more interaction and relationship building instead of an actual program. Everybody is really looking forward to it, but nobody is sure what to expect.

About the two Awana clubs that we were able to help with the other day: It was encouraging to see the leaders at both churches be devoted to reaching the kids. We hear many stories of leaders and pastors that have given up good jobs to work with youth full-time. Praise God for them!

At one church, the pastor had just started Awana about 3 weeks ago. Since he was reaching out to the unsaved street kids, he had decided not to start with handbooks, but instead to have the gospel presentation given for both the council time and the handbook time. So we got to do an hour and a half of songs and gospel presentations!

Philip and Anna Ahrens

Philippines Team

YMI South Korea Team Arrives!

Hey Everyone,

Once again this morning YMI is pleased to announce the arrival of another mission team to the international field. The South Korea Team arrived early in the morning (around 3am) PST. We were notified by one of our International YMI Interns of their safe arrival. More to come later, hopefully, once they are rested.

Please note: This team will be spending time on some islands in the south of South Korea - one being off the southern tip. Given the new location, we will have to see how communication happens over the course of the trip. Be expecting at least one more update mid-way through their time in-country.

YMI STAFF