Venturing out for a week of teambuilding and spiritual growth, OM Lifehope training participants leave the base by faith, not knowing what’s in store.

Editor Kris speaks to Andrew Berry about the opportunities that exist among least-reached communities across the British Isles.

An interview with the leaders of MDT UK, an exciting new training programme in Birmingham and London.

Working among the UK's Turkish-speaking communities, an OM worker is witnessing lives being transformed.

The Kid's 'n' Things team visited two churches to run five-day long holiday clubs, with the theme of “Lionheart and the Great Wild West Adventure”.

For the Kurdish people, the future is uncertain. But the gospel message that believers want to share with them is one of overwhelming hope.

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

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

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

The Mena Travelling Team has their first outreach, travelling throughout the MENA region and doing whatever it takes to share the Gospel with the unreached.

A community of believers from across the world come together to establish houses of prayer along what has been called the Isaiah 19 Highway.

OM short-term team shares highlights and lessons from a two-week Transform summer outreach to the Near East.

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

Two workers in the Middle East talk about friends they’ve made at the women’s gym and why it’s a good place to invest their time.

Amidst ongoing unrest, OM supports IDP communities by sponsoring food distribution through local partners.

Syrian Kurdish refugee families profess faith in Jesus Christ.

A Bible app provides access to God's Word for thousands of Kurds.

Ofentse Mokwena discusses what's needed for opening transport markets and unbundling transport SOEs.

Minister of Health Zweli Mkhize has won such praise for his handling of the coronavirus crisis that he’s being touted as a possible successor to President Cyril Ramaphosa.

HE has created elegant fine-dining dishes in some of the most reputable restaurants in Scotland, but chef Paul Tamburrini he is now facing his harshest critics – his family.

Travel and tourism have become casualties of coronavirus lockdown, but one travel writer has found a new way to highlight Scotland's beauty, writes Deborah Anderson

The Chaotic Scots Traveller Kay Gillespie delivers her Top 10 places She's dreaming about in Scotland

By James Campbell

Glasgow City Council has a keen sense, it seems, of what is or might be controversial. When the rest of us imagine that a handful of words to mark a long-distant historical event could never be more than anodyne, the council is alert to the affliction of controversy. It is a condition to be avoided at all costs.

THE Treasury has bombarded us all week with facts, figures and forecasts making the case for the UK to remain in the European Union. Its big report, on Monday, warned Brexit would tip the country into a year-long recession, resulting in up to 820,000 job losses within two years.

NICOLA Sturgeon was at her best during the new, extended First Minister's Questions on Thursday when she spoke about the sickening murder of Liam Fee.

"Everyone hates politicians," the MSP observed. We were chatting about the EU referendum and she was explaining why the polls were showing a rise in support for a Leave vote.

It didn't take long for the list of warnings about Brexit to start coming true.

Nicola Sturgeon has promised to exhaust all options in an effort to keep Scotland in the EU after the country voted by 62 per cent to 38 per cent against Brexit.

EDINBURGH coach Richard Cockerill has explained that he played a part in Matt Scott’s move to Leicester Tigers after deciding he could not afford to keep the former Scotland centre.

DOMINIC McKay, Scottish Rugby’s chief operating officer, has warned that if Covid-19 social distancing measures mean that rugby cannot resume by the end of November, the financial impact will be considerably more than the £12m lost revenue quoted by chief executive Mark Dodson in respect to the Autumn Tests not going ahead. The organisation’s total turnover last year was £61m.

By Deborah Anderson

Grief

Wise words

One size fits all? How wrong you are

Source: www.washingtontimes.com - Saturday, May 09, 2020
BEIJING (AP) - Yao Ming, the former Houston Rockets star and now president of the Chinese Basketball Association, says the league has three options for resuming the season that has been on hold since Feb. 1 over the coronavirus pandemic. Yao said the league might play out the full schedule; ...

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Source: www.justjared.com - Saturday, May 09, 2020
Kristen Wiig is the host of the season finale of Saturday Night Live ! The 46-year-old Wonder Woman 1984 actress hosted the Mother’s Day episode remotely from her home. During her monologue, Kristen took the opportunity to wish her mom a Happy Mother’s Day. “This is the Mother’s Day show and at SNL it’s a very special time to celebrate moms,” Kristen said. “Unfortunately, like a lot of you, I can’t be with my mom this Mother’s Day so I hope it’s okay I tell her I love her.” “You know I’ve been thinking lately, I don’t know if I truly appreciated my mom the first 45 years of my life, but this year I’m feeling especially grateful for all the things she taught me, preparing me to be a mom myself,” Kristen said before showing a plate of raw chicken breast. “Things like breastfeeding, babies love that chicken, she would always say that.” Kristen ended her monologue by thanking all the parents supporting their families during the pandemic. “So I do want to thank my mom and all the moms out there helping us get through this and have been there,” Kristen said. “We thank you so much, happy Mother’s Day. Thank you moms and thank you dads.” Find out when Wonder Woman 1984 will be out in theaters .

Source: spectator.org - Saturday, May 09, 2020
You have to give it to the enemies of the Constitution. They are clever as hell and they never stop trying. In the three plus years of the Trump administration, the left has made up the most outlandish, insane allegations against Mr. Trump. He’s a Russian agent. He’s a rapist. He takes bribes. He conspires to thwart the FBI. They libel and slander him in the one party media endlessly. When they took the House, they made up literally screaming schizoid paranoid accusations against him to try to impeach and convict him. They have utterly corrupted the FBI. They are well on their way to corrupting all of the “Intelligence” gatherings of the government. None of it worked. The truth saved Mr. Trump and the Constitution. The truth and Fox News and Rush and our own beloved American Spectator and the GOP Senate kept America whole and lawful. Now comes the latest challenge: the use of Covid-19 to demolish the Bill of Rights. This time it has worked. Yes, the virus is real and it’s truly horrible. Just gory and awful. But it’s being used to destroy Freedom of Worship, the right to assemble, the right to travel, the right to bear arms. In most states, the right to worship in groups has been killed dead while the “right” to go to Walmart remains intact. We, the people, cannot go to rallies for getting our rights back. But we can go to immense drug stores to buy eyeshadow. We cannot see our children and parents. But we can have unlimited rig

Source: www.washingtontimes.com - Sunday, May 10, 2020
OAKLAND PARK, Fla. (AP) - There is nothing like a big smooch, gentle touch or a wet nose nuzzle with a happy dog. But social distancing rules, due to the impact of COVID-19, has created a barrier between those in need of canine therapy visits and those special pups that ...

Bosnian teenagers attend TeenStreet Europe for the second time—learning more about God and His plan for their lives.

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

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

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

Jude, project coordinator of OM's Refugee Relief Serbia describes her busy role, and how OM’s service can be a powerful practical witness of the love of Jesus to hundreds of refugees.

For the Kurdish people, the future is uncertain. But the gospel message that believers want to share with them is one of overwhelming hope.

Children's club at the church in Tkvarcheli, which is held by MDT students, impacts lives of local children and gives them hope.

Algeria could transform missions in the Middle East, with a new ministry seeking to send 1,000 Algerian missionaries by 2025.

A Bible app provides access to God's Word for thousands of Kurds.

In 2008, OM Ireland purchased Lacken House to be their headquarters. Ten years and hundreds of people later, the team continues to minister from the heart of Ireland.