Some terms that would be helpful to become familiar with:
YWAM - Youth With A Mission. YWAM is a missions organization that works world wide. The program I’m doing is through YWAM. (www.ywam.org)
U of N - University of the Nations. Located in Kona, HI (on the big island). This is the base of operations for some YWAM training programs, as well as many other programs. (www.uofnkona.edu)
DTS - Discipleship Training School. DTSs are about 24 weeks long in total, and have a 12 week lecture phase in Kona at the U of N, and a 12 week field assignment in which DTS students put the lecture phase into practice. There are a huge variety of DTS focuses offered at U of N. (What is a DTS?)
photogenX - This is the DTS focus I am doing. photogenX is a ministry of YWAM that uses photography as a means to engage a media driven Western culture and be a voice for the voiceless, pleading the cause of the voiceless to people who can do something to change their situations. photogenX DTS students and staff work as advocates for people we meet and photograph, people who have been wronged by social injustices. (PhotoGenX DTS) (photogenxdts.blogspot.com) (photogenx.net)
Advocacy - Some of the issues photogenX is committed to addressing and changing are sex trafficking abroad, racism against indigenous peoples in Panama and Latin America, infanticide in the Amazon, and issues of voicelessness globally. (photogenx.net/sexandmoney) (hakani.org)
These are the basic terms, and the terms I expect to use most often. Ask if you have questions.
Grace and peace,
Christopher
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