Love Across the Cultures - a YWAM specialty
Take a large number of young, creative, adventurous people of both genders and any nationality, put them together for a longer period of time, add some memorable experiences somewhere around the world (preferably in difficult life circumstances), spice the mix with the zeal to change the world, and stir well. Then watch what happens...
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Raising children as part of a missions team
I grew up as part of a ministry team, serving and contributing throughout my growing upyears as my father and mother pastored churches in Canada and the USA. Loren was raised in the same way, doing ministry outreach with his parents across the southwestern United States and singing duets with his sister Phyllis from the age of three.
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Family: a way to disciple a nation
"Of all the domains in the Kingdom of God, family is probably the most discussed and studied by Christians. (...) Over the last decade of coloring the scriptures by domains in order to understand God's thinking in every arena of life, nothing has more impacted my thinking than God's view of family, its influence, and its role in community at large" Landa Cope
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Eat, Talk, Play – Jeff Fountain on MarriageWeek
A young family man one Saturday was shopping for a tin of paint in a home improvement store, when he noticed how many young couples were spending time and money on their house. Suddenly the thought struck him, how much time and money do these couples spend on improving their relationship?
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Know Your Sexual Philosophy
There are numerous things in life to have a philosophy about. Money, Politics, Religion, Gender, Education, etc. The categories are endless. The interesting thing about philosophy is that nearly everyone (of sound mind and thinking) has a philosophy about everything whether they realize it or not, and whether they can express exactly what that philosophy is or they cannot.
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YWAM is Family
Have you realized that YWAM uses family terms quite often? We are a Family of Ministries; we call ourselves the YWAM-Family, and John Dawson refers to the role of our elders as parental with a spirit of adoption.It is a great blessing that Loren and Darlene Cunningham, as father and mother of YWAM, continually guard “the Family” by not allowing hierarchical structures to take over...
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Marriage Under Pressure
Marriage is a complex subject. Some couples seem blissfully happy and at ease with each other; they maybe argue once or twice a year, cope well with in-laws, teenage children, and even do fairly well camping for a week or two every summer! For the rest of us, our marriages go up and down in line with our stress level.
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Adult children of divorce face extra burdens
Children often have it rough when their parents divorce, but grown up "kids" may have it even rougher reports Reuters. Adult offspring whose parents split up later in life face the usual and expected psychological issues: "They may feel like 'everything I thought was real, isn't,'" says Diana Mercer, an attorney-mediator and author of several books on divorce.
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Marriage improves your wellbeing
Run your marriage with 'Spousonomics'
Many people believe that love and money don’t mix, but according to the authors of a new book, Spousonomics, using economics can be a powerful tool to making your marriage successful says the Daily Mail. Their theory fuses the field of economics - the study of how to allocate resources to achieve the best results - with the problems in marriage, which also hinge on limited resources: how to use your time, energy, money and libido to keep you smiling and your relationship thriving.
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