March 2017 Update from Jim & Sherry
This picture is so true of Jim Galloway on a daily basis !!
He loves riding all over campus on his work cart. He can get to the job sites quicker and feels he's more efficient.
Here he is moving the JLG lift from Plaza of Nations after some people put up some new flags getting ready for a visit from TBN (Trinity Broadcasting Network). They are doing an interview with Loren & Darlene Cunningham about the University of the Nations & YWAM on March 27.
Aloha Kona Urgent Care (AKUC) Celebrates 2 yr Anniversary
Lunch at Jackie Rey's Restaurant with some of the staff to celebrate
The Aloha Kona Urgent Care
(AKUC), located ½ mile south of the U of N campus in Kona, is part of the
Transformation Health Network and is open 7 days a week from 1-9pm. All of the staff are passionate
followers of Jesus Christ, who desire to minister to the needs of the community
both physically and spiritually.
Patients receive prayer, and healings are not uncommon.
Many of the staff are
affiliated with the U of N and YWAM.
I have had the opportunity to work part time at AKUC when an extra nurse
was needed while some of the staff were gone overseas with outreach teams to
Iraq or Papau New Guinea.
This past quarter, I have
worked to strengthen the link between the Campus Clinic and AKUC as they have
offered an amazing discounted Travel Clinic fee to students at U of N. Many of
the students going overseas need Typhoid vaccines, prophylactic malaria
antibiotics, and other vaccines such as Yellow Fever, Japanese Encephalitis,
etc. My role has been to communicate
with outreach leaders what resources are available to obtain the needed
vaccines in the area. If they want to utilize the AKUC Travel Clinic, then I facilitate
acquiring the needed demographics, entering them in the electronic medical
record, collecting the fees and coordinating the pick up of scripts on campus
to meet the various schools departure deadlines. In addition, I continue to work with the volunteer MDs who serve a few days a week on campus.
This past quarter at U of N, the Medical DTS (discipleship training school) being held down the road at YWAM Ships, had some of their nurses alternate daily work duties at the AKUC location and the U of N campus clinic. They are preparing to leave at the end of this month to IRAQ or Papau New Guinea for their outreach. I had the privilege of working with the ones at the campus clinic.
SOME U OF N HIGHLIGHTS
(YWAM) U of N helping end Bible poverty
A
group of young people were stranded in a village during a bitter Himalayan
blizzard. Most were sick and shivering, trying to stay warm. They gave their
host, a local man, an SD card. Hours later, they overheard him listening to his
new audio Bible on his cell phone. He continued all night long, because he
couldn’t bring himself to turn it off. (The photo above is from this village.)
Another
team trudged through the winter weather carrying loads of Bibles to a different
Himalayan village. When they arrived, they set up a solar powered projector and
showed the Jesus Film. An audience of about 200 formed to watch this film in
their own language. The team spent time getting to know the villagers and
sharing stories about Jesus. The next day, they went throughout the village to
present Bibles, both written and audio, to the people they had met the previous
night.
They recently returned to Kona for a short time from (PNG) Papau New Guinea where they were working to get NINE more new languages recorded for the Jesus Film. They saw EIGHT languages recorded and made into the film last year.
On this visit, they were told about a screening of the Jesus Film where people from those language groups heard Jesus speaking in their tongue and came running. They brought friends from their village to see the film and many came to Christ through the movie.
A woman who was blind in one eye had a spontaneous healing when Jesus healed blind Bartimaeus in the film.
The project in PNG is a collaboration between Campus Crusade, Wycliffe Bible Translators, SIL, the Bible Translation Association of PNG and YWAM. It involves recording one speaker from a language group reading the Gospel of Luke, the gospel used in the film. From there, a native language "checker" makes sure that there are no bumps in the translation as they listen to the audio along with the film.
Bernie estimates that the Jesus Film is now in 100 of the 850 languages of PNG. There is some portion of the gospel already translated in 250-300 of those language groups.
YWAM'S NEWEST SHIP
We are all pleased to announce that
we have been gifted an amazing vessel to join our fleet of medical ships!
P&O Maritime reached out to our partner base
YWAM Medical Ships Townsville and alerted them to the fact that the
L’Astrolabe, a scientific research and supply vessel, was being retired.
Remaned MV Liberty
It is worth $11. 6 Sold for $400,000 USD for cost of parts, fuel and reposition expenses. The lower cargo area will be converted to a hospital.
Through a collaborative effort between YWAM Norway/Kona/Townsville and other bases taking offerings, the funds were collected and the ship arrives in Townsville next week!!
For further information: https://ywamships.net
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That of which we are a part is truly more important than which part we play, but we are so privileged to be allowed to play a part in what God is doing in the earth.
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Bless you all
Jim & Sherry
