NEW VESSEL FOR YWAM New Life reports that Youth With A Mission (YWAM) Medical Ships have acquired a new vessel, a 65-metre supply ship for their work in Papua New Guinea. To be renamed the MV YWAM Liberty, the ship will be the fourth to be deployed by the organisation into PNG. CONVERTS IN ECUADOR As reported in Inspire Magazine, about a third of the Waodani tribe, who killed five young missionaries in 1956, have been baptised, and meet weekly for Bible study and prayer. Sixty years after MAF pilot Nate Saint and four friends were speared to death in the Ecuadorian rainforest by the Auca Indians – renowned for their violence – the story continues. CHURCH GROWING IN CUBA Cuba's churches may still be restricted, but that's not stopping a spiritual revival in the communist nation, according to church leaders. The Council of Churches of Cuba estimates that about 25,000 evangelical and other Protestant houses of worship are flourishing across the country.