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European youth more than ever need good relationships with adults, says OM Europe’s Empowering Kids&Youth team, who focus on positively impacting Europe’s next generation.

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.

Bus4Life begins its sixth year serving churches and OM teams across Central and Eastern Europe.

In postmodern Finland, an international church in Helsinki preaches God’s Word as it is and challenges its congregation to ‘get into the Bible’ daily.

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.

Church planting in Europe takes steps forward in cooperation with Wales Evangelical School of Theology, where OM workers receive proper training for the work.

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

As the Bus4Life begins its seventh tour, former driver Tuukka Linkopuu reflects on his two-year ministry while Esa Tuuri prepares to take the wheel.

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

OM Europe hosts its third annual Youth Factors Conference in Pälkäne, Finland, in April, which offers participants an opportunity for reflection and self-discovery.

Logos Hope crew member Tom Critchley spent three months in Finland. He shares about contemporary Christian music in Finland, focusing on the metal band Terapia.

OM's work in Finland began 50 years ago in 1965. Since then, approximately 3,000 Finns have participated in OM’s work.

After years of dreaming and praying, OM Finland purchases a new vehicle to replace the old Bus4Life, opening more opportunities to reach Eastern Europe.

OM Finland extends love and fellowship to immigrant mothers through friendship groups, open conversation and learning together.

Wanted: an adventure-loving, open-minded driver. Esa was that driver.

An Iranian refugee surprises a long-term worker by stating his desire to become a Christian.

Teemu Laitinen (Finland) serves as the Bus4Life driver in Ukraine, Hungary, Moldova and Romania.

Bus4Life ministers in Central and Eastern Europe, bringing hope and Christian literature to the region's widespread towns and villages. During the spring and early summer of 2018, Bus4Life visited Hungary, Moldova, and Ukraine.

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.

Members of OM El Salvador started offering the 'Life at the crossroads' programme in the community of El Rosario in their country. The team shows students in the sixth, seventh, eighth and ninth grade what norms and values are and that there is a God that cares for them.

Recently, a team of 32 OM volunteers from the UK, Canada, Costa Rica, Guatemala and El Salvador worked together in an outreach to bring gifts and the Gospel to La Ceiba, Corozal in Honduras. For a week, they ministered in a community with a high percentage of people infected with HIV and a high mortality rate due to the consequences of AIDS. Many families in the area have suffered the loss of a father or mother. OM El Salvador took the initiative to respond to the needs of many kids and share about the love of Jesus in the outreach ´Changing gifts for smiles´.

A group of 45 OM volunteers from El Salvador are safe after a bus accident in Nicaragua last Saturday.

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

A group of 32 Salvadorians recently crossed borders to share the gospel with people in Belize.

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.

A team from Guatemala, El Salvador and the US build a church for a new congregation and share the gospel in San Marcos, Honduras.

2012 marked the end of 30 years of OM under the leadership of Mauricio Hernandez, who has now handed over to Daniel Caballero.

OM El Salvador sets out to redeem a rough neighbourhood.

A pastor of a small community church was about to resign when God brought new hope through the work of OM El Salvador.

OM team members in El Salvador reach out to young people in their country, challenging them to live a healthy life.

The power of unity and the diversity of the body of Christ was enjoyed during an outreach in El Salvador.

With the vision to promote healthy lives, OM educates people in topics like diabetes to reduce its incidence among members of the community.

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.

Anna Filion came to El Salvador as a nurse, but learnt that God had bigger plans for her during OM El Salvador’s Samaritan Adventure outreach.

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

God used a dangerous situation to change the life of a Salvadorian woman.

A woman confesses a need for her heart to be healed following a terrible experience.

Various Pastors joined OM El Salvador on an outreach to Honduras, obeying the Lords command to make disciples.

A volunteer from Germany serving with OM El Salvador for 5 months learned that she can do all things through Christ.

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.

One couple's lives are changed when OM El Salvador visits their community to do medical examinations and share the good news.

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

Michelle never expected to be involved in missions, but God had other plans.

“… If God has called you to China or any other place and you are sure in your own heart, let nothing deter you… remember it is God who has called you and it is the same as when He called Moses or Samuel.” - Gladys Aylward.

No method is infallible when trying to reduce Bible poverty among the least reached, an OM worker discovers as he distributed Bibles.

Pason lost his family when he fled Myanmar. By playing football with OM team members, he finds friendship and hope.

In a nation filled with tribal tension, OM works toward reconciliation through youth conferences, relief outreaches and a bookshop filled with Bibles.