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YOUTH WITH A MISSION - Proyecto Libertad BOCACHICA, COLOMBIA
NOTE: SITE BEING UPDATED ... COME BACK SOON FOR THE LATEST (Site last updated July 2009)
OUR VISION: To provide spiritual and physical help for the poor and needy on the islands and rivers of North West Colombia.
MISSION STATEMENT: To share the love of our Lord Jesus Christ by using the two hands of the gospel (James 2:14-18): telling the good news of Jesus while helping to meet peoples basic physical needs.
OUR STORY SO FAR: In February 1997 Jorge and Karen Silva arrived to Cartagena to pioneer Proyecto Libertad, a mercy ministry within YWAM-Cartagena, Colombia. The team worked in the island community of Bocachica while maintaining its administrative office on the mainland of Cartagena until 2003 when we moved full-time out to the island.
Bocachica is an underdeveloped island community located about 25 minutes off the coast by speed boat. There is no running water, no plumbing system and poor sanitation conditions. The majority of the 12,000 residents live in very poor conditions and approximately 50% of the population are children. Most "Bocachiqueños" struggle to make ends meet by fishing, making & selling local handmade crafts and other tourism related jobs.
In such desperate situations, God has heard the cry of his children and has responded by sending people to help meet the physical needs, while ministering the loving gospel of Jesus Christ.
OUR MINISTRIES:
Boat Ministry
Children's Ministries
Community Development
Construction Projects
Elderly Ministry
Evangelism and Discipleship
Health Care Services
Hosting Teams
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Love chooses the good
1 John 4:8-10
"God is love" may be the most reassuring sentence ever uttered. But what does it mean? Is God made of love? No, because love is not a substance. Neither did he create love. The uncreated, unchangeable God has always known love and has always loved. There has never been a time when the Father did not love Jesus or Jesus did not love the Holy Spirit. God did not invent love. He is love, in all its dimensions.
Love involves complete interaction between personalities---their intellects, emotions and wills. Perhaps the best way to define love is that it always chooses the highest good--for God, for others and for oneself.
In Jesus Christ, especially in his death, God has demonstrated that he will always choose the highest good for us, even when it involves his own unspeakable suffering. Of the many things we can be thankful for, the first must be that God loves us---with his intellect, his will and his emotions.
Have you thanked God today for the fact that he is always loving?
Love Lights: Deut. 10:15; Lam. 3:22-23; John 13:1-15; Romans 5:8
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How YWAM Started
When Youth With A Mission was founded in 1960,in North America, the focus was to get youth into short-term mission work, to give them opportunities to reach out in Jesus' name.
YWAM's founder, Loren Cunningham, believed that years of theological training did not necessarily qualify people to serve the Lord effectively, nor should they be a requirement before encouraging young people to pass on the love of Christ.
At the time, this was considered revolutionary. The idea of having relatively untrained young people doing missions was generally not considered, and was even seen as potentially disastrous.
However, over the years, while mistakes have of course been made, the concept of short-term missions has added huge numbers of people to the task of world evangelization. It is now accepted as a valid contribution to mission work.
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