Transform mission conference one year, outreach team in France the following year, the sisters from Mexico are eager to share the love of Christ, realising the audience was different from what they expected.

A group from the Sharing Lives Course visits a mosque in Lausanne, Switzerland, and learns that greater awareness can lead to greater sensitivity.

“Every movie, book or song tells a story. They all have a beginning and an end. When a song ends, the story seems over. When the killer is found at the end of that thriller, the movie ends. When the couple is finally together and they kiss on the last page of that romance novel, the book ends,” says OMer Anja. “But in life, the end of a story is never the end of it. It always goes on. When that book or movie is over, time seems to freeze and life as we know it seems to stay exactly the same.”

God uses bracelets to weave together a group of children from different cultures and backgrounds so they can experience His love.

An outreach to Arab tourists in Switzerland opens up doors to talk about Jesus' love.

OM Malaysia is moving away from the concept of TeenStreet and investing into training people to work with the next generation instead.

Teens from Malaysia and Southeast Asia connect to the ultimate power source during TeenStreet Malaysia 2013, becoming lights to their families, communities and our world.

Traders have discovered the benefits of coordinating option expirations with the release of economic data focusing on the impact of certain indicators.

One young Zambian man’s life is transformed when he encounters Christ through an OM football team and a coach’s patient effort.

“Seeing how these boys lived…put my own life into perspective,” said Anne Davidson, after spending time with youth living on the streets of Lusaka.

Dimas, the headman of a small village along the shores of Lake Tanganyika, shares about the challenges of being a headman and Christian.

Yande learns to walk with the aid of crutches and splints provided by Bethesda Mercy Ministries.

A young man with a disability finds help at Mercy House and his grandmother finds a way to serve.

The Good News II School in Mpulungu, Zambia, has grown from 20 students to over 180. Students have grown from the values they learnt.

God can accomplish much when learning moves outside the classroom and a mission student serves in Namibia.

God moves mightily using a teen girl and a team of people to reach a needy area of Southampton, UK.

OM Lifehope Dancelink holds a workshop for girls in a predominately Muslim area of Birmingham to teach not only dance moves but also about Jesus.

Kelly Norman, an intern with OM Lifehope in the UK, shares her personal insights about why she reaches out to the homeless in Birmingham.

With OM Lifehope, Andrea works with a local church and growing church plant, providing her with many opportunities to build relationships with locals.

Editor Kris speaks to Andrew Berry about the opportunities that exist among least-reached communities across the British Isles.

Ronald, an OMer working with the youth in the Netherlands, sees God change young men’s hearts at TeenStreet Europe.

Sharing his faith with locals in the Near East during the 2012 Transform outreach inspired one participant to return to Transform this year.

Sixty teenagers participate in a Teens in Mission outreach over the holiday season to grow in relationship with God and share about Him with others.

As a 13-year-old boy, Klaas Kattouw dreamt of sailing on the vessel now used for the new Riverboat ministry. Today, he is the Captain.

A couple uses their God-given cultural and evangelistic tools, gained from years spent in the Muslim world, to reach out to Turkish Muslims.

OM worker in the Near East Field has a passion for Muslim women to understand the Word of God.

OM workers explain, their home has become a mix of Latin American and Middle Eastern cultures.

The Mena Travelling Team has their first outreach, travelling throughout the MENA region and doing whatever it takes to share the Gospel with the unreached.

A community of believers from across the world come together to establish houses of prayer along what has been called the Isaiah 19 Highway.

An OM training conference equips a local pastor with tools to transform his Sunday service for Syrian refugees.

One worker shares how leading a short-term summer outreach changed her perspective about her country and capabilities.

The OM Near East Field church planting school prepares students to cross cultural and religious boundaries.

Women in the Near East pray and prepare Bible stories to share with local friends through creative opportunities.

Driven apart by the Syrian civil war, an extended family experiences miraculous healing and dreams and believes in Jesus.

One couple talks about how God has answered 50-year old prayers for the Middle East North Africa region.

OM workers from Latin America discuss the similarities and differences to Arab culture.

OM workers share the Bible with Muslims in the Near East.

OM Near East launches a one-year Arab internship programme to equip local believers for long-term ministry among the least reached.

A call has gone out for help to identify thousands of mystery Scottish scenes, finds Sandra Dick.

Travel and tourism have become casualties of coronavirus lockdown, but one travel writer has found a new way to highlight Scotland's beauty, writes Deborah Anderson

The Chaotic Scots Traveller Kay Gillespie delivers her Top 10 places She's dreaming about in Scotland

By James Campbell

A long-time resident of Trench Town, Donnette Dowe has seen the trials of urban life up-close and personal. Like many inner-city Jamaican communities, crime, teen pregnancy and poverty are rife.The 50-year-old mother of five children (ages 26, 24, 21, 16 and 12) is director and tour manager for Trench Town Culture Yard, a renovated tenement which was once home to Bob Marley and his family.

War is the great distraction. Right or wrong, foolish or wise, it suspends all the usual political and economic rules. Suddenly a chancellor who has spent five and a half years telling us “there is no money” can find ready billions for warfare.

If the bookies are right, Jeremy Corbyn is the political equivalent of a nice slice of wholemeal, browning fast. He’s toast. Smart money, supposedly superior to any opinion poll, says a Labour leader elected by a landslide will be gone within a year of his triumph.

IT isn’t often that a rousing speech on socialist internationalism is rewarded with a full transcript in the Spectator. In fact, it never happens. The Tory Party’s newsletter is funny like that.

If modern lives were measured in unprecedented weather events, we would all be 200 years old. Defences against floods that were supposed to happen every other century are being overtopped in the space of a few winters. The victims surveying ruined homes and businesses are ageing fast.

Ian Bell, the award-winning Herald and Sunday Herald writer and columnist, died last week aged 59. Here are excerpts from 10 of his finest pieces of writing.

If modern lives were measured in unprecedented weather events, we would all be 200 years old. Defences against floods that were supposed to happen every other century are being overtopped in the space of a few winters. The victims surveying ruined homes and businesses are ageing fast.

NICOLA Sturgeon was at her best during the new, extended First Minister's Questions on Thursday when she spoke about the sickening murder of Liam Fee.