Every month YWAM holds a global day of prayer across our mission family. The leaders send out a fantastic package of information each time, including a letter from the International Chairman (Lynn Green), teaching on that month's topic and extra resources such as testimonies, video clips and so on. An email is sent to every YWAMer who has signed up, directing them to the related website, which is really well done. The only thing is that not everyone around the world is able to access this kind of web-based information ... which is where Communication Teams like AfriCom come in.
It's our job to find a workable solution so that our staff around Africa are included in these prayer times. It's taken a bit of creativity - for a while it seemed we weren't even able to get people signed up for the emails - but we are on track to make this work. We send out a text message to as many cell phone numbers as we have for YWAM staff members in Africa, alerting them to the upcoming Prayer Day and giving them the theme and main text. Then we mail a short version of the email information ... those that have adequate Internet facility can refer to the wealth of information on the website but those whose Internet is unreliable or expensive are not excluded from the initiative. So far so good: if anyone is reading this in Africa, do mail any YWAM cell numbers to ywamafricom@gmail.com.
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