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Testimonies from OM Pakistan’s School of Missions

Three young people passionate about serving God in their local communities benefit from OM Pakistan’s year-long study and practical outreach programme.




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A faithful follower

One man is so determined to be baptised that he braves the odds to take the opportunity God has given him.




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Hungry for the reality of God

As OM teams spread out across the nation last month, bringing news of God and His love, so the stories return of people hungry and thirsty for His truth.




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Sharing the word faithfully

OM Pakistan goes into bazaars, streets and houses with literature about God to meet those eager to learn more.




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A walk of prayer

An OM Pakistan team and local believers carry out a prayer walk through the city in spite of fear of opposition.




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Tales of encouragement and prayer

As OM teams spread out across Pakistan, they witness God’s work in people's lives through encouragement, prayer and God’s Word.




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Pakistanis find God through travelling team

As the OM Pakistan men's travelling teams visit communities, they encourage, bring truth, and help individuals understand their need to commit to God's Son.




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Practical love for the hurting

OM Pakistan encourages a believing doctor, and through their support a young woman hears about the One who brings true comfort.




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Kids’ Games brings breath of fresh air

OM Pakistan takes the popular Kids’ Game event to one of the most challenging parts of Pakistan to share a message of God’s love.




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Life after Youhanabad attacks

Over one month after the attacks on two churches in Youhanabad, Pakistan, OM's teams care for the emotional, spiritual and physical needs of those hurting.




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God’s place for her in society

Queen Esther's example of leadership allows women in Pakistan to gain a vision for how they can also can create positive change in society.




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Rising above fear

There is nothing like being afraid and going ahead anyway. Rehana faces her fears so that women in Pakistan can experience the love of Jesus.




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Revitalising the faith

Going house to house to share the Good News, a team discovers a believing family who had been isolated and out of Christian fellowship for eight years.




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Vision for the least reached

Amir's vision for ministry is enlarged through OM Pakistan's travelling experience.




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Being the hands and feet of Christ

OM Pakistan provides ongoing help to those injured and affected by the Easter 2016 bomb blast in Lahore.




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Learning how to live for Christ

Fazeen is a graduate of OM's training programme, through which God changed her life's perspective and direction.




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Peace from God

Nasir experienced peace from God during challenges at OM's training that forced him out of his comfort zone.




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Finding God's purpose in Pakistan

The road that moves the church where it's never been is usually not the easiest path. This is the story of OM’s work among the unreached people in Sindh province.




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Lifting up women for community change

OM's vocational training centres offer valuable skills to women and youth and see the development of character and community.




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Ministry restarts, sees fruit

OM Pakistan restarted ministry in one province to reach the least reached by forming small discipleship groups and training local believers to be disciples of Christ.




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A Sporting Infusion for Ukrainian Summer Camps

OM Ukraine's sports team equips and trains churches in using non-traditional sports in their summer camps.




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Lost and found

God restores a lost bag to the OM team during a short-term outreach to school children in northern Russia.




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Teaching spiritual and physical fitness

An OM Ukraine sports team member helps young Ukrainian women gain a healthier understanding and appreciation of the bodies God gave them.




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Biodiesel plant fuels relief efforts in Ukraine

A Ukrainian pastor responds to nearly 100 per cent unemployment in his village by starting biofuel and cash crop business enterprises.




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Can you find meaning in failure?

A Christian football coach experiences what he says is the best gift from God, something “so much more than winning”.




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Looking after orphans

OM Ukraine's team in Odessa heads up the annual All-Ukrainian Day of Prayer for Orphans in the Odessa province.




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‘Now is the time for the Church to shine’

An OM Ukraine leader reports that amidst ongoing conflict, deep changes are taking place that OM Ukraine expects will lead to spiritual harvest.




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Making a difference during war

As war continues in the east of Ukraine, refugees flood Odessa. OM cannot turn a blind eye to its new neighbours.




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Push-ups opens the door for the gospel

The OM Ukraine team in Vinnitsa hosts a summer camp and experiences unity with churches and transformation with children.




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Hope for children with autism

OM Ukraine Odessa invites children with autism and their families to a two-day summer camp.




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Church planting within the conflict zone

A report of results: OM has been supporting church planting efforts and training local missionary teams to plant churches nearby and within the conflict area.




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OM making an impact: A personal account of a refugee

A 29 year old recounts how his family fled the war zone and came to stay at OM Odessa centre




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Anya's story (stories from Ukrainian refugees)

A 17 year old high school student shares about how she fled from the war zone and came to stay at OM Odessa's centre.




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Failing business man finds hope and purpose

A welder's life is renewed in Kaharlyk, Ukraine through a new business opportunity with OM.




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A Seminar-retreat for pastors from the conflict zone in Ukraine

OM Ukraine and experts in crisis management held a seminar for pastors serving on both sides of the conflict line in Eastern Ukraine.




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Short-termers bring new life to churches in Ukraine

Short Term Mission participants bring inspiration to Ukraine's churches for ministry amongst the aged and internally displaced people.




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Bus4Life brings literature and life to Europe

Bus4Life is OM’s mobile missions centre to the unreached people of Central and Eastern Europe, bringing books and also participating in summer programmes, as it did in summer 2017.




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Visitors from far away

International short-term volunteers reach out to an elderly Jewish couple and share comfort from God's Word.




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Building sustainable businesses for transformation

Turning organic waste into bio-fuel and French-fry oil into bio-diesel; all these are innovative ways of building sustainable income for the church in Kaharlyk.




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Over 60 villages and only four churches

OM Ukraine team gets excited about church planting in a northern Odessa province after participating in a Bus4Life outreach in the area.




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A new life without alcohol

Alcoholism in both men and woman is a huge problem in Poland. One young woman decides she’s had enough and turns to Christ.




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Care for the forsaken ones

God opens a door in a juvenile correctional home.




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I can forgive because I was forgiven

God sets a young Polish man free from drugs and enables him to forgive his father who abandoned him.




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The sound of new sandals

Between 17 and 23 December 2010, the team of OM Mexico and a group of volunteers gave away 200 sandals to children in the poor Mexican farming state of Chiapas.




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Born to be beautiful

A group of fourteen OM volunteers recently started organising meetings for ten- to thirteen-year-olds in Mexico: the ‘Butterfly Club’. It´s a weekly gathering of thirty young girls in Hermosillo, Mexico. They come from a vulnerable environment with broken families that lack many basic resources.




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Food for the crowd

God miraculously provides food for a much larger crowd than OM Mexico had planned for during their July outreach to a prison in Oaxaca.




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Not perfect, but willing

OM Mexico meets with young people seeking to serve God in missions during Expomision in Sonora, Mexico.




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Fashion for a good cause

Participants in OM Mexico's clothing exchange swop clothing items and support missions at the same time.




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New season for OM Mexico

Times are changing for OM Mexico, with new staff and a new office.




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Instruments of God in Mexico

New OM team members feel encouraged to be an instrument of God in Mexico.