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Hope comes in the colour brown

God grants the wish of a teenage mom as a sign of His love for her. Now she’s found what she has looked for all her life.




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Making friends from all over the world

With a cultural theme on Latin America, 231 participants from 40 countries have come together for the September GO conference in the Netherlands.




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First steps towards the Lord

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




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Challenging the traditional concept of missions

Historically, the Netherlands has sent missionaries around the world to share about Jesus. Now, the Netherlands is a mission field.




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A landmark day for the Riverboat Project

God is moving the Europe Riverboat Project on as a captain is found, a boat contracted, and volunteer crew begin to board.




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The Riverboat Captain’s Story

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.




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Using their toolbox

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




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The secret that can't be kept

The Agency is a first-of-its-kind interactive mission experience that’s set on top of OM’s newly-launched Riverboat.




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Taste and see–with others and God in community

TASTE in Delft, Netherlands, embodies the love of Jesus in community and shares that love in practical ways with the people around.




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Reflecting God in the outskirts of Zurich

The OM short-term team seek God’s will for their ministry after their move to the outskirts of Zurich. Recent encounters have encouraged and surprised them.




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The Lord establishes our steps

As workers wonder how to reach people with the good news, they find God has already prepared the way.




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Language of the heart

After struggling to connect with an immigrant woman in Zurich, one worker listens to the woman’s story and thus learns the language of her heart.




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Hugs from the Father

An OMer from Canada shares about different encounters she had during an outreach to Arab tourists in Switzerland.




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The perfect method

A MDT trainee puts what she has learned into practice as she teaches German to an Egyptian immigrant in Switzerland.




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The faith of a child

An OM trainee in Switzerland allows God to use her story and faith to touch children's hearts.




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Tied together by a bracelet

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




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Gearing up for Out of the Comfort Zone 2012

Currently 100 people from 15 nations are expected at OM Malaysia’s annual missions conference at Golden Sands in Port Dickson, Malaysia, from 14-18 July 2012.




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10 years of living ‘Out of the Comfort Zone’

Board members from OM Malaysia joined 110 participants from 18 nations in the 10-year celebration of the Out of the Comfort Zone conference this year.




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Not only the God of my parents

Since 2005, Rachel Chua (22) has been involved in TeenStreet Malaysia and she attended OCZ for the 2nd time this year. Her passion is contagious.




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Connected to the source

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.




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God’s dream for the nations at OCZ Asia 2014

In June, 162 people from 28 countries participate in Out of the Comfort Zone Asia 2014, followed by outreaches to 12 countries.




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Out of the Comfort Zone Asia 2016

A recap of OM's OCZ conference, why it's worth attending and what participants learned this year.




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Jesus makes the black, white

A young refugee hears about Christmas.




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Out of the Comfort Zone Asia 2017 begins

On July 8, 2017 the Out of the Comfort Zone Asia, a short-term missions conference, began.




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A knock at the door

A man shares his story of living with HIV at an AIDS workshop aboard Logos Hope, which opened hearts for ministry to others with HIV.




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Freeing the Dalits

In 1988, it became evident to leadership that OM needed to respond to the hundreds of millions of poor and marginalised in India, specifically the Dalit-Bahujan people, or ‘untouchables’.




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To Heal the Wounds of Bosnia

Overview of Bosnia's past and present and spiritual challenge




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The joy of Jesus despite challenges

An OM worker in Bosnia shares how the enduring faith of two elderly women of God has inspired her to also persevere to the end.




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The last warm stove

Over the years, God used OM Bosnia’s firewood project tremendously. For the first time since 1999, there will be no wood provision this winter.




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OM team brings the Saviour to people in Perquín

A team of 38 from El Salvador and Guatemala visited the Salvadoran city of Perquín to spread the message of the Saviour.




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Sports, games and the gospel

Over 2,000 people in San Salvador experienced Soyafest 2012, an event organised by a local church and OM El Salvador to entertain and share Christ.




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The road to redemption

OM El Salvador sets out to redeem a rough neighbourhood.




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Actions rather than words

A team mobilised by OM El Salvador walked for hours to show God’s love to the people of Cabañas. With actions rather than words.




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A heart for the Lord

Salvadoran Abigail Quintanilla desires to serve God. But she didn’t always feel this way.




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Reaching the unreached in El Salvador

Tony and his son Gabriel are moved by the mission-oriented heart of a local Pastor in El Salvador and decide to lend a hand.




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The call to serve

Two children have the desire to serve God just like their father, the pastor of a church in their small village.




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Loving one another

Daniel Ottoson (US), who serves as a site leader at an international congregation in Finland, enjoys seeing Finns and foreigners serving and loving Jesus together.




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Planting dreams in the suburbs

In an area of Tampere, Finland, seemingly shrouded in hopelessness, one teenager and her father reach out to un-churched youth struggling with alcoholism and depression.




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Repairing the big disconnect

OM strives to give 'church' a whole new meaning in the land of the Finns.




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Growth on the trampoline

“I am more excited about God now,” says one young Swiss lady after three months working alongside OM Finland to reach youth in Tampere.




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The fire in me

Johanna went to TeenStreet for the first time when she was 14 years old, but the experience impacted her beyond the one-week duration of the event.




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‘I had some feeling that God was there’

God touches lives through OM Czech Republic’s annual summer English camp.




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The smuggler

Alex Erdélyi, an OM contact in Czechoslovakia during the Cold War, continues to publish and distribute Christian literature today.




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God can protect, even in a Czech brothel.

OM Czech Republic has a heart to reach out with God's love to those working in the sex industry, and met Anne who works as a prostitute but knows God's love and protection from evil.




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Bringing hope to workers in the sex industry in Czech Republic

The ministry of helping women involved in the sex industry aims to support those trafficked in Czech Republic by building relationships and prayer




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God’s light shines in the darkness of the sex trade – in Czech Republic

As OM Czech Republic team members reach out to sex workers by visiting a brothel regularly, they are able to establish friendships and talk about God and His care for the women there, and offer them Christmas gifts, which touch hearts.




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God has His way in southern Ecuador

OM Ecuador team members and volunteers see God open doors and protect the team during a recent trip to the highlands of Ecuador.




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Taking sports ministry to the next level

Three hundred people interested in sports ministry gathered in Ecuador in April for a forum organised by the Coalición Internacional del Deporte.




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By the grace of God

Over a thousand people visited the medical clinic that OM Ecuador recently installed in the small town of Cadeate. Many also came to faith.




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It’s not just about the fish

A team of 18 people from Guatemala recently joined forces with OM Ecuador in an outreach to the little-evangelised southern parts of Ecuador.