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Living the crisis in Greece

In an interview with OM Greece’s country leader, Kees den Toom (Netherlands), we learn about the current situation in Greece and OM’s response to it.




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Never too late

Instead of staying with OM Greece’s leaders for the holidays as planned, a visitor stays in a local church, which changes his life.




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Persecuted believer tells story of hope

A persecuted Muslim-background believer finds practical help and strengthened faith at an OM Greece drop-in centre.




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Worship event brings churches together

Believers from different nations and denominations gathered to worship God together in Athens, promoting unity amongst the city’s believers.




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Church in Greece united to serve

Following escalation of the refugee crisis in Greece, Greek and migrant churches unite to serve the refugees passing through the country.




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Leaving Lesvos

Day after day, OM volunteers staffed transit camps meeting and loving refugees on Lesvos. After roughly nine months, the ministry is closing down.




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Reflecting God's love

OM seeks to love refugees like family members through starting sports ministry and cooking meals in camps.




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Romanian Revolution!

Work of OM Romania, partnering with the church




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Loving the Most Hated People in Europe

Work of OM Romania among the Roma population




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Tragic accident brings salvation to village

A Roma man’s cry to God for mercy to spare his son’s life transforms his future and the future of his small town.




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Surviving the white hell

Earlier this year, a severe storm blanketed Romania in snow that left hundreds stranded. A team brought food, wood and hope to victims.




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OM founder visits Romania

OM founder George Verwer speaks at the Romanian Brethren Assembly about living a pure life and standing against the issue of abortion.




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Romanian teen responds to God’s love

Since 2007, the Bus4Life has visited 150 locations, welcomed 10,000 visitors and touched many lives, including one Romanian teen who comes back to God.




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Ready and available

First MENA travelling team shares stories from a year of adventures around the Arab world.




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Light and love for Bedouin villages

Transform team provides children’s programme, conducts English classes and learns how to love Bedouin people in the desert village.




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From Latin America to the Levant

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




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A local worker in God’s harvest

A local man shares his testimony, endures persecution and encourages others in the Near East to stand firm.




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Leaving lasting ideas

Restoration and hope: A Bedouin woman and her son earn new income selling beans after listening to an OM worker share ideas about starting a small business.




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Running at full capacity: Evangelicals serve refugees in Lebanon

Five years of displacement has taken its toll on Syrian refugees living in Lebanon, but many have met Jesus and discovered eternal hope.




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Teaching positive identity through English club

Believers bring a positive identity message to teenage girls living in a remote village.




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‘A year of harvest’

Local OM worker plants a church in a conservative Muslim village and sees fruit after ten years of prayer.




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Arab believers share faith

Eighty Arab believers attend training to learn how to share the Bible with their Muslim neighbours.




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Changing children’s lives

By paying rent for a small school run by a partner church, OM provides education and biblical input to children of displaced families.




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3 guys, 2 countries, 1 believer

An OM worker shares the gospel with a Syrian in northern Iraq, surprisingly reconnecting with the man months later at his baptism in Sweden.




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A Brief Conversation Blossoms Into Much More (Italy)

Rose (Scotland) as been developing a growing ministry among residents at a local retirement community. What started with a single conversation has grown into a ministry that impacts many lives through friendship and community outreach.




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Never too old to serve

Instead of planning for their retirement, Rose and Matthew Gibson followed God's calling to full-time missions with OM Italy.




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Summer camp in the Val Pellice Valley

OM Italy organises an annual summer camp for children in Torre Pellice, where many hear the gospel for the first time.




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Transform outreach casts vision for trafficking ministry

Participating in a Transform outreach to trafficked women gave OMer Erika Tello the vision of founding the OM Italy anti-trafficking ministry.




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Around the walls of the Vatican

An Italian girl receives a vision of Jericho that guides her to speak with a woman on Transform 2013 outreach day.




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Community living, Jesus style

How do you shine God’s light to people in the community in which God has placed you?




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Benvenuto a Incarnate

OM Arts introduces locals from Isola, Italy to Incarnate - a programme teaching artists to work in cross-cultural missions.




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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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Norway Marine Office approves internship opportunities with Logos Hope

In January 2013, OM Norway and Norwegian Naval Training Agency agreed on internship programme for deckhands and motormen on board MV Logos Hope.




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Travelling team supports churches

OM Spain's traveling team is back at base after nearly two months on the road visiting and serving in various churches.




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Transform 2018 - VIBRANT

The OM Transform team experienced God at work during the conference and outreach day. The local churches were an added blessing, as was the cycling team sent out to pray for least reached towns.




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Vibrant

Highlights from Transform 2018 outreaches in Spain, France and Portugal.




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Distributing God's love around the clock

In his third update from Serbian/Croatian border, Volker Sachse says that in spite of increasingly difficulties, he can see God’s peace touch local people.




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Jesus Christ’s power to make everything new

Slobodan never thought he could be free, but Jesus gave him a new start. Now Slobodan urges Roma in Croatia and Serbia that there is a better way.




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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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‘I have to come here again’

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




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We are here to spread God’s love!

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.




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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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Riverboat crewmembers celebrate New Year on board

OM's Riverboat was inaugurated in the Netherlands during a New Year celebration on 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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Encouraging local believers

OM Riverboat community members encourage local believers who are struggling with their faith.




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Visit to mosque improves mutual perceptions

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




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Local kids have fun, learn about Jesus

OM Hope for Zurich’s kids’ club brings together immigrant children from a local neighbourhood in hopes of sharing God’s love with them and their families.




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An OM retreat renews vision

Lawrence and Susan Tong encourage the OM Switzerland team during their annual retreat.