While putting together the news for this week’s YWAM Podcast I came across another great example of someone using their skills and training for God’s Kingdom…
The first speaker on the video talks about how he went through a transformation about how he understands his skills and profession, and seeing how he can use that to bring glory to God in the nations. He has been able to work all over the world with the skills that he has with Youth With A Mission (YWAM), partnering with many different ministries.
According to the video millions of people die from a lack of clean water, and there are an estimated 2 billion people around the world who are lacking adequate water supplies and sanitation. Using the skills of a water engineer he would have learned about water supply, sanitation and hygiene. Clean water is a HUGE issue in developing nations, and the skills of a water engineer are invaluable in addressing these issues.
The video goes on to tell more about the project and being good stewards of the world that God created. I’m hoping to look a bit more into the project and what it’s about, but for the purpose of this article I really wanted to look again at how God is able to use a seemingly non-traditional skill set, learned outside of the mission environment, for His purposes.
The program that he is working with YWAM Salem Environment and Resource Stewardship (YWAM EARS), and you can find out more about it here.
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Bill, I was able to be around this group of people during their school and one evening they put on a class for the outgoing (Crossroads Outreach) students. It was so cool to see exactly how they could use the tools given to them with things just lying around their neighborhood.
I will give you an update when I find out how they used what they knew….