Stories

Providing people care training to Arab believers

Story | 17/01/2022 | Near East

Helen launches OM's Face to Face course in Arabic and explains how Arab believers share the transformative material in their home countries.

God's timing

Story | 13/01/2022 | International

After Bible School David and Adèle understood God tell them to wait, and so, they actively waited as they sought His direction.

Questions and answers

Story | 12/01/2022 | Africa

A garden plot has become a gathering place for men to sit and talk with one another, and the most popular topic: religion.

Giving God all of the cupboard

Story | 06/12/2021 | Portugal

“How does one make prayer a lifestyle?” Esther wondered. She felt the desire to talk to God during the day, to be His friend, to include Him in the little and the big events of every day.

Reflecting the kingdom of God

Story | 06/12/2021 | Central Asia

John and Maria see how God uses little and big things in their lives to reveal truth and meet needs in their community.

A small thing

Story | 01/12/2021 | Bosnia & Hercegovina

OM worker Rafael grew up in a traditional Catholic family in Costa Rica. But even then God was preparing him to minister to society’s forgotten half a world away.

Designed by God to transform from the inside

Story | 30/11/2021 | South Africa

What started as a one-month commitment in 1979, quickly turned into something more for Rose.

Coming full circle

Story | 10/11/2021 | Sri Lanka

To be working in the country of his birth is coming “full circle” for George. “I want to help people who are suffering,” he explained. “I want to do my best in helping them to know about Jesus.”

Finding the needs

Story | 01/11/2021 | South Asia

“I know that when we go out for God, God will provide. And God has been providing, sometimes it can be more or less, but God provides it all,” Rosea remarked.

A God who can be known

Story | 30/10/2021 | Malaysia

One Tamil Malaysian girl defies cultural expectations to become an engineer, a Jesus follower and now a leader of others.

The importance of prayer

Story | 30/10/2021 | South Asia

“We may never know what effect our prayers have in the spiritual realm...But that's okay because it's for the Lord's glory,” shares Heather, a woman of prayer.

A business with purpose

Story | 18/10/2021 | South Africa

God uses the desperate plea of a business owner on the brink of bankruptcy to facilitate His kingdom work across Africa.

A community touched by God's healing love

Story | 11/10/2021 | Slovenia

Rodrigo and Daiane from Brazil serve with a church in Slovenia, whose gospel podcasts reach many people for the first time, including a young mother from a marginalised Roma village. After her disabled child is miraculously healed, many Roma people abandon occultic folk traditions to follow Jesus. Now a church is being planted among them.

Moving to Mongolia

Story | 08/10/2021 | Mongolia, Russia

From a least-reached people group herself, Tuvan translator Buyana wants Tsaatan reindeer herders to hear about Jesus and know the God who changed her life.

'Send me!'

Story | 04/10/2021 | United Kingdom

Emilie had always wondered if God was calling her to India. She recently discovered it was the right people but not yet the right place.

Practical skills, purposeful life

Story | 04/10/2021 | United States

Randy uses his skillset to serve God and share His love with others, first on the OM ships, now in a basement print shop.

“The word ‘father’ has real meaning now”

Story | 30/09/2021 | Ships

OM Ships :: Jareht hated his father, who’d walked out on five sons when Jareht was just four years old. By the age of 16, Jareht was close to ending his life. But God showed him what a true Father He is. Now, Jareht is serving on board OM’s ship, sharing God’s transforming love with others.