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Anxious about COVID-19? Get creative with routines, call a friend, says new pandemic therapist

For the past few weeks, Windsor's new pandemic response therapist Dana St. Jean has been spending her time fielding phone calls and speaking with people over video chat to find ways to help them cope with the stresses of COVID-19.



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Calgary-based company charged with pandemic price gouging

Alberta has charged a Calgary-based supply company with COVID-19 price gouging, but the company's owner says he himself is paying massively inflated prices just to bring in supplies like masks and sanitizer.



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Dear Diary: How this retired teacher is staying connected with her dad

In this instalment of our series, Dear Diary: In a Time of COVID-19, Karen Pollock tells us about learning the ukulele and how it’s helping her stay connected with her father.



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Alberta reports 59 new COVID-19 cases, one additional death

Alberta reported 59 new cases of COVID-19 on Saturday, marking a full week of daily new cases remaining in the double digits.



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Calgary coffee shop ordered to close its patio by Alberta Health Services

A Calgary coffee shop must close public access to its patio and dine-in services, Alberta Health Services says.



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McDonald’s Workers in Denmark Pity Us

Danes haven’t built a “socialist” country. Just one that works.




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Tessitore, McFarland out of Monday Night Football booth: report

The tandem of Joe Tessitore and Booger McFarland won't return to ESPN's "Monday Night Football" broadcast booth, according to media reporter Richard Deitsch of The Athletic.



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B.C. fire-related fatalities on the rise in 2020, says province

Fire officials are asking people in B.C. to test smoke alarms and take care in the kitchen as 15 people have died in the province so far this year due to fires — three times the number of deaths for the same time period in 2019.



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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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Update on Refugee Emergency in Italy

(Source: Italian Evangelical Alliance) North African refugees flooding into Lampedusa are now being moved to various centres throughout Italy. The Italian Evangelical Alliance and their partner organisations are working to reach out to these displaced peoples.




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OM Italy launches anti-trafficking ministry 

The coordinator of OM Italy’s anti-trafficking ministry describes the birth of the ministry through meeting a Nigerian woman forced into prostitution in Rome.




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Seeing missions in an Italian light

Danish students gain perspective and experience with OM Italy.




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OM Italy launches Saturday football games

To counter negative effects caused by lack of jobs and activities in the local area, OM Italy now offers free football games.




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Clowning around in Italy

The experience of a group of young people going on an outreach in Italy after Transform 2013.




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Samba and sports in Italy

A Transform 2013 outreach team in Vasto, Italy, uses samba music and sports to connect with children.




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Transforming the Mediterranean

Around 340 people participated in the Transform 2013 mission conference in Rome before spreading across the Mediterranean on 29 outreaches.




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OM Italy hosts ‘Nefarious’ screening

Tesori Raggianti, OM Italy's anti-trafficking ministry, hosts a 'Nefarious' screening in a local theatre.




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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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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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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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Connecting with kids in Fucecchio

The team in Fucecchio, near Pisa puts on their first English Sports camp after a year of local ministry through an after school programme.




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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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Alive with Christ

God uses a Scripture verse sent by text message to change a man’s life.




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Jemima and Amitaf

God uses an OMer working amongst Kurdish refugees in Turkey to reach a whole family through one contact.




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Unseen Fruit

A Turkish girl's long journey to becoming a believer in Jesus.




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An invite to tea

OMer Michelle* and a team of women taking the gospel out in Istanbul, Turkey, are invited to a refugee's home.




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Taxi ride with a message

An OMer learning Turkish was encouraged when she shared the message of the gospel with a taxi driver in a city in Western Turkey.




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Without a vision people perish

Participants of a poverty simulation activity hosted by AIDSLink International discover that it’s very different to minister to the poor than to be the poor.




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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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Either God or not.

MDT trainees have an opportunity to minister and pray for healing for a lady in Lesotho.




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Farm workers coming to faith

Farm workers hear about Jesus for the first time at their compound.




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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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The Samaritan woman

During door-to-door ministry in a small village in South Africa, a woman opens up her house.




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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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Rebuilding lives in a new city

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




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A seed that took four years to bear fruit

Four years after a member of OM Russia befriended her, an Uzbek lady in Novosibirsk came to faith.




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Rehabilitation through love and action

The church in Russia is facing a new threat-HIV/AIDS. OM Russia works in rehab-centres to show God's love and compassion.




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“I am not worth it to believe in Jesus."

A Dutch team member shares her mission trip experience praying with a man in Siberia.




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Seeing hearts, not the disabilities

OM Russia had a great kick-off to the STM summer season by serving in a camp for children with disabilities to hear about Christ.




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To Russia with love - a Trans-Siberian adventure

A team member from the USA who participated in a short-term trip on the Trans-Siberian railroad across Russia shares her experience.




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“What shall I do with Buddha now?”

A Discipleship centre student from an unreached people group meets a girl with the same ethnic background and tells to her about salvation.




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Abandoning ruinous traditions

A woman from a least-reached group of people accepted Christ during Discipleship Centre student outreach.




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Living and engaging in a Muslim community

After discovering his freedom in Christ and being discipled, former drug addict Ruslan wants to share hope with the least reached.




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School project impacts community

A school-wide clean-up drive organised by OM Philippines' Sudlon II students becomes a community-wide clean-up drive hosted the third Saturday of every month.




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Holiday Bible class becomes community event

The OM Philippines-Cebu team, in partnership with the local church, touches the lives of young and old through a five-day Bible class.




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Livelihood training for the destitute and devastated

OM Philippines hosts micro-business workshops that offer a future with hope.




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Construction of 20 homes unites people

20 A-frame houses and a Sunday School building destroyed by Typhoon Haiyan have been built by OM Philippines these past three months.