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Culturally exposed while exposing Jesus

A new OM Italy team member participates in an English Scout Camp, which brings the Gospel to children and gives her new cultural insight.




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Artists transform conversations into creativity

Artists participating in the Incarnate training and discipleship programme of OM Arts in Italy are inspired by conversations with locals.




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What I do have, I give to you

Christian Pilz spent a week in the refugee camp in Idomeni, where 13,000 people camp at the closed border. “What happened to us?” he wonders.




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International arts festival impacts Italian community

Artists present visual and performing arts during the international art Festival Week hosted by OM Arts International’s Incarnate programme.




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Anti-Trafficking in Italy

The anti-trafficking efforts by OM Italia are developing as they work to involve the local church in this outreach.




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Transform 2016: A refugee’s prayer - An insight into short-term refugee ministry

Meeting Christian refugees praying for European governments made a deep impression on a Transform participant. For another, the term ‘refugee’ got a whole new meaning.




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Showing them another way

By providing holistic care and support to victims of human trafficking, OM hopes to lead them to freedom in Christ.




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Combining personal passion with ministry

Ride2Transform allows teams on two wheels to pedal far and wide, praying and sharing the love of Christ in least reached areas in Europe and Africa.




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A vibrant community emerges

“Aren’t there enough churches in Italy?” Not to reach the 50,000 people in Pisa, says OM team, who plants La Torre.




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A needle in a haystack

In an Istanbul neighbourhood of 200,000 people, an OM worker, prompted by God, asks a question to the only person who knows the answer.




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Acceleration in Turkey

Ministries in Turkey experience acceleration through wide sowing, building projects, and church planting.




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Pay back time

A Turkish girl helps out at the Bible Correspondence Course (BCC) as part of her church's discipleship programme.




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Turks turn to Christ: The story of the Bible Correspondence Course

No known believers from a Muslim background existed in Turkey when the first two OMers arrived in 1961. Now, nearly half of the 7,000 believers there can trace their journey through the Bible Correspondence Course.




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Trying to get a bank account

One OMer forms an unlikely friendship with a security guard while trying to get a bank account in Turkey




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I give my life to You

A Turkish man gives his life to the Lord after seeing a performance by the Taco Outreach Team.




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Delia's story

An Uzbek girl living in Istanbul, Turkey enters into relationship with Jesus after having a dream.




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Supporting the local church in Turkey

OM teams are supporting Turkish churches as they respond to the changing situation in Turkey.




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Sowing among Syrians in Turkey

OM worker joins a new Arabic-speaking ministry among Syrians in Turkey.




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Open hearts in Turkey

Long-term workers in Turkey are seeing openness to the gospel like they haven't in many years. They share some recent stories here.




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Trips around Turkey

Travelling around Turkey, one OM worker shares truth with people in some of the country's least reached provinces.




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'I want to pray this prayer'

After experiencing answered prayer, a Syrian woman finds faith through gifts of the "Jesus Film" and a Bible.




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Fayima’s dream

It has been four full years since she left Syria and now Fayima has seen the Light!




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Youth experience persecution

OM teaches East London youth about the persecuted Christians in the world, as well as trains them in street ministry.




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Cycling to the unreached

Staff from OM SportsLink and Campus Crusade for Christ cycled from Pretoria to Cape Town to minister to people in rural villages along the way.




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Praying for change

After seeking God to change his current course, Hein van der Merwe attends a five-day programme at OM South Africa and finds new direction.




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Golden years, new beginnings

While other couples in their fifties talk about retirement, Philip and Riana Dyason are talking about a new beginning: pioneer ministry in Russia.




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Baby cemetery at the Mamelodi City Dump

Typically, at least two discarded babies are found in the Mamelodi City Dump every week. AIDS Hope seeks to eliminate this horrible reality.




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Baby safe opens

Opening a ‘baby safe’ in a township near Pretoria, South Africa, helps desperate mothers find a solution and give their babies a future.




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Hope in every circumstance

When an MDT participant’s family member commits suicide, she becomes puzzled and angry. But with encouragement from others, she recognises God’s compassion.




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Discipling boys through sport

OM SportsLink ministers to young boys in Mamelodi, the largest township of Pretoria, South Africa, every Friday.




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Even when you’re tired, God works

God sustained MDT participant David, who found it difficult co-leading his short-term outreach when he wasn't doing so well himself.




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Undeniable power of prayer

Australian outreach participant Kathryn Jenkin testifies to how God used her prayers while on outreach in Lesotho.




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Loving youth through sports in South Africa

OMer Jan Willem Otten uses basketball as a way to keep kids off the streets and put them in touch with the gospel




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Midwifery in the Middle East

A South African OMer plans to use her nursing skills to build relationships with Muslim women in the Arabian Peninsula.




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Playing good sports

OM South Africa SportsLink team enjoys a day of ministry with kids in a development centre.




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There's more to life than rugby

For the past two years OM South Africa SportsLink has attended a prestigious rugby tournament to spread the good news to players, coaches and staff.




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The joy of giving

The children at Meetse Bophelo Centre learn to bless their community through the act of giving.




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Connecting with God in prayer

During an outreach to Lesotho an MDT team meets an older man during door-to-door ministry and invites him to their daily prayer meeting.




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Healed eyes

During an outreach God used the MDT team to intervene for a young girl who went away praising God.




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Combining personal passion with ministry

Ride2Transform allows teams on two wheels to pedal far and wide, praying and sharing the love of Christ in least reached areas in Europe and Africa.




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Unwanted, but wanted by God

A girl named Anastasia, growing up between alcoholics and drug addicts, is reunited with her father who years before became a Christian.




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‘Always Ready!’

God uses three OM Russia Discipleship Centre students to bring hope and help to members of a remote church in Siberia.




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Obedience turns to joy

The students of OM Russia's Discipleship Centre practice sharing their faith with those from a Muslim background.




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Your life turned upside down in 10 minutes

OM Russia works to bring hope to neighbours affected by HIV and AIDS.




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Where do you throw your water?

Thirteen students graduate from OM Russia’s Discipleship Centre on 7 April after completing the intensive seven-month course.




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'Why shouldn't we get involved in world mission?'

How OM Founder George Verwer's visit to Siberia impacted local churches.




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What’s killing Russia’s youth?

OM Russia and partner organisations work to thwart two killers picking off the younger generation in Russia: drugs and HIV and AIDS.




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Breaking the cycle

OMer Sasha looks for solutions to breaking the downward cycle of poverty, neglect and lack of education plaguing two disadvantaged families in Novosibirsk, Siberia.




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Learning by doing

Students of OM Russia's Discipleship Centre learn not only through theory but by hands-on practical experience.




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Rebuilding lives in a new city

OM Russia partners with local churches to respond to the needs of Ukrainian refugees in Novosibirsk, Siberia.