Posts Categorized: Mission Adventures

1. Youth cannot do anything worthwhile anyways. True… haha, well not absolutely true.  While a lot of the older generation may think this, it’s probably because they know of some really dumb stuff that we have gotten into. My grandfather thinks I am dopey looking because I wear shorts that cover my knees rather than… Read more »

Whitby’s Anchor youth group just recently spent two weeks in Vanuatu. This team of 14 youth, instigated and led by Polly Dacre, focused on the Eratap village just outside of Port Vila, the capital of Vanuatu. The team built a water tank alongside locals over the two weeks they were there, and also led a… Read more »

Have you ever had that mysterious feeling that something big is around the corner? Not like the feeling you get when your driving long distance at night and are drifting off into dreamsville and you see the lights of a semi truck rolling from around the curve, but a feeling like a change in your… Read more »

A while ago my friends and I were serving at a church in Auckland, preparing food. As dinner time came around we ventured out of the deep, dark recesses of the kitchen to join the back of the food line. The line started in the cafe area where there were a bunch of kids running… Read more »

This a must see, when God comes home to New Zealand. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qfqs7EvqNQ] (Part of the genius marketing of ‘100% pure’ New Zealand which has increased NZ tourism, despite the tourism worldwide trend which has declined throughout the recession.)

Man, what an awesome weekend of City Lights we just had! On the Friday night we heard Ants Watt speak on loving the broken, and on Saturday we went out into our communities and served, doing things like gardening, cleaning, handing out food parcels, and working with addicts. On Sunday we invited some of the… Read more »

This year, Mission Adventures is helping run the city-based component of City Lights. Basically, City Lights is a non denominational movement that gets young people involved in serving their communities in a practical and loving way.  In the past we have helped out with CYF’s initiatives, women’s homes, low decile schools and foster care –… Read more »

My good friend Phil Cunningham has recently been to Cambodia. Phil has a special place in his heart for justice and seeing the kingdom of God come to earth. Here is one of his latest posts where he talks to a Pastor in Cambodia about the sex trade that is devastating their nation. It is… Read more »

We have just finished the YWAM NZ Ship Tour, and had an awesome time touring throughout the country. The Pacific Link visited eight different ports (Gisborne, Wellington, Dunedin, Invercargill, Timaru, New Plymouth, Nelson and Tauranga) over eight weeks, but teams also travelled to the surrounding towns at each port. The different teams participating in the… Read more »

Last night around 2am, I woke up to Erica yelling at me, “Get that animal out of our room!” It was making this nasty high pitched squealing noise. Jake (our cat) had obviously brought it into the house through the upstairs window and then started playing with it. After turning on the lights I saw… Read more »