Mar 13, 2020 | Uncategorized
G’day from Australia, We wanted to update you on our response regarding Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19). Please know that all of us are taking this season seriously as we go above and beyond to ensure the safety of everyone who comes onto our campus. We are...
Feb 6, 2020 | News & Stories
During the MV YWAM PNG’s visit to Iruna, Central Province, in October, the health workers stationed at Iruna Health Centre were mourning the loss of a mother who died during childbirth in their health centre just days before. During an education session run by YWAM...
Jan 30, 2020 | News & Stories
The MV YWAM PNG was serving villages along the lower Bamu River when they met Manu*. Two weeks ago, he heard that YWAM would be coming – and what’s more, he heard they offered dental services. He got his dugout canoe and began his long journey downriver....
Jan 28, 2020 | News & Stories
Two of YWAM’s own, Jennifer Rentsch and Rebekah Hoover, were honoured with a Community Volunteer Award last weekend as part of Townsville’s Australia Day Awards. The awards were given in recognition of Jennifer and Rebekah’s leadership in coordinating YWAM...
Dec 20, 2019 | YWAM Blogs
Each year I ask God for a word for the year. Just one word – no sentence, list, or paragraph – just one word! You may be thinking, “how can my whole year rest on just one word?” It’s something that I’ve been doing for the last three years of my life and...
Dec 18, 2019 | News & Stories
YWAM’s Training and Medical Ship, MV YWAM PNG, has just completed a successful year of outreach in remote areas of Papua New Guinea (PNG) in collaboration with local health authorities. The 60 metre long vessel and her team of volunteers have helped restore sight to...
Nov 17, 2019 | News & Stories
At 32 years of age, Selita’s sight was restored after a successful cataract surgery aboard the MV YWAM PNG. Watch the...
Oct 18, 2019 | YWAM Blogs
You, school graduate, have the world at your feet, a buffet of opportunities are before you. This next season of your life has the potential to chart the course for the rest of your life with god. How do you feel? Excited? Scared? Nervous? Need a GAP Year? ...
Oct 18, 2019 | News & Stories
A forty year old mother, Oani, had her sight restored in Abau District, Central Province this month thanks to a collaborative eye surgery patrol between YWAM Medical Ships Australia & Papua New Guinea (YWAM MS), Port Moresby and Hagen General Hospitals and the...
Oct 1, 2019 | News & Stories
“We will name the baby, Jennifer.” These were the words from a young mother shortly after she gave birth to a baby girl in Bamio, Western Province last week. Jennifer Monipa is the name of one of the midwifery students from the University of Goroka who assisted the...
Sep 24, 2019 | News & Stories
As a child growing up in the Simbu Province, Miriam Maua never expected to become a seafarer. It was a motivational speech delivered by a woman at Miriam’s high school, Goroka Grammar School, in 2015 that inspired her to pursue a career at sea. “Working at sea...
Sep 23, 2019 | YWAM Blogs
Hello! I was just part of a very cool adventure and I’d love to tell you about it… So firstly, the adventure was on a YWAM medical ship in Papua New Guinea. This ship operates as a licensed medical provider in PNG, reaching extremely isolated villages, and the...
Sep 19, 2019 | YWAM Blogs
In the beginning, Youth Adventures was a trip I signed up for because I had major FOMO. All of my friends were going and I was keen to leave frosty Victoria and head up to the beautiful tropics. But it ended up being much more than a trip for me, in fact, after doing...
Sep 18, 2019 | YWAM Blogs
Two years ago I was coming back from a six-week outreach in Papua New Guinea, nearing the end of my DTS in Townsville, Australia. I had no idea where I was going from there, in fact, the only thing I was sure of was the list of ten things I wanted to eat once I got...
Sep 11, 2019 | YWAM Blogs
I grew up in a society that’s always pressing me to be dependent on myself. This independent thinking has lead me to believe that if I don’t succeed in some area of my life then I’ve failed – then I’m not good enough. This lead me down a...
Sep 10, 2019 | YWAM Blogs
I’ve been on DTS for about 6 weeks now. A little while ago someone asked me what I missed most about home. While things like my dog, my sister/best buddy, family, and school (yeah I’m that weird kid that likes school) would have been normal responses- I...
Sep 3, 2019 | News & Stories
Essential health care is again starting to reach one of the most remote regions in Western Province thanks to an initiative emphasising the vast Lake Murray area of Middle Fly District. Part of this began with an intensive collaborative patrol conducted earlier in the...
Sep 3, 2019 | News & Stories
Teapopo is a small village with smooth mud shores and bright green mangroves on the Fly river of Western Province, Papua New Guinea. It is like many small villages along the river that the MV YWAM PNG, visits each year with medical services and training. The...
