personal written prayers via they brought their friends — 120 text or WhatsApp. Interactive, kids turned up to practice! Since online youth group meetings have then, 24 boys have accepted Jesus prompted creative activities, such as their Saviour. as one study in which We might well each young person feel like David before COVID has had to grow a plant Goliath, armed only at home to remind with a few stones and necessitated them of how we grow a slingshot. creativity in the spiritually. But it is important ways our workers to remember the Lord One positive outcome of this was with David, and connect with pandemic is that David won. With our young people. it is now easier to Lord’s help, we too share knowledge and can take up our stones resources. of encouragement, Previously, a SIM youth leader creativity, and courage, and use them could only meet or do leadership to bring healing and hope to the training with one church at a time. communities we serve. Now she meets with several WHAT CAN YOU DO? churches in different countries in Listen to For Freedom’s Global the same meeting! Learning Café, “How to build Undoubtedly, COVID’s community resilience”, available continuing challenges are huge, but on PORT. Learn practical steps so are the opportunities. During for helping communities cope lockdown, a Sports Friends coach with COVID challenges. in Kenya stopped meeting with the Download Trauma Healing’s 50 boys he coached weekly. He was COVID response resources to sad, but decided to encourage them help children and teenagers and their parents via social media navigate mental health issues: and phone. When the lockdown www.sim.org/-/trauma-healing. lifted, not only did the boys return,
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Sarah Scott-Webb is SIM’s For Freedom Ministry Point Person, a role she shares with Karine Woldhuis. They serve our teams around the world by equipping them to prevent and confront exploitation and restore and transform survivors through Christ. Sarah holds a master’s in international relations (with a focus on genocide and human trafficking) and has 16 years of experience in the anti-trafficking sphere. Contact her at intl.forfreedom@sim.org. [1] Save the Children, The Hidden Impact of Covid-19 on Child Poverty [2] Save the Children, The Hidden Impact of Covid-19 on Education
Every child is different, but mothers are very much the same around the world — the same worries and fears, guilt and joys. Dive in to “For the Joy” and laugh and cry with 21 Australian mission mum as they share stories of raising kids in remote places and in some of the most populated cities in the world. These inspiring stories will resonate in the heart of the reader as fear, faith and figuring it out come together in page-turning reality. Stories include: • Home-schooling while living in a bus,
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