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God speaks through thunder and whispers

A long-term worker shares with a local man in the middle of a thunderstorm, discovering his interest in Jesus.




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Learning a language, making a friend

A long-term worker shares how learning Arabic has impacted her life and friendships in the Arabian Peninsula.




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MENAnews: A 22-hour adventure in faith

OMer's in the Arabian Peninsula set out on a faith adventure with two goals: sleep in a local home and give away a Bible.




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Ten tensions faced by OM workers in the Arabian Peninsula

OM workers in the Arabian Peninsula talk about tensions they encounter as they live, work and serve.




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Fill and spill: Creating vibrant communities

An OM team in the Arabian Peninsula focuses first on building community and discovers extraordinary results.




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Too many miracles to count

OM workers in the Arabian Peninsula testify to healing and deliverance miracles amongst Muslims.




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More than a pay check

OM workers in the Arabian Peninsula use their jobs intentionally—as opportunities to develop relationships and share truth with their co-workers in least reached nations.




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When Muslims are more like Jesus than I am

“While I waited the remaining few minutes for my flight, I processed what had just happened. I recognised too much of the ‘Good Samaritan’ parable in the situation, and, unfortunately, I wasn’t the unlikely passer-by who went out of the way to help: it was the Muslim woman,” shares Nicole.




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News24 Business | Tito Mboweni appointed as chairman of property group

Accelerate Property Fund owns Fourways Mall, along with other smaller shopping centres and other properties in Johannesburg and Cape Town.




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News24 Business | TAKE A LOOK | SA's biggest landlord to turn Bedfordview office park into luxury apartments

Growthpoint Properties will spend R200 million to convert its 35 000 square metre Riverwoods office park into a resort with luxury apartments.




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News24 Business | Sandton City owners hope 2022 reignites once bustling ‘richest square mile in Africa’

Sandton was a place to be before the pandemic. But footfall in Africa's richest square mile refuses to go back to pre-pandemic levels. Restaurants and hotels around the area are struggling.




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News24 Business | Mdantsane City owner plans more solar farms to power its malls and rely less on Eskom

Vukile Property Fund plans to build more solar farms to power its malls and reduce its reliance on Eskom's power by another 5% by the end of March 2023.




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News24 Business | With 3 000 apartments a year, and 28 estates to go, Balwin has no plans of slowing down

After handing over almost 3 000 apartments to their owners, residential estates developer, Balwin's revenues surpassed R3 billion for the first time in the company's 26-year history.




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News24 Business | Home rentals bounce back: See where in SA tenants pay the most (and the least)

Residential rental growth has reached its best levels since the pandemic started, a new report shows.




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News24 Business | It will take years to restore the health of Sandton offices - Growthpoint SA CEO

Growthpoint Properties says it will take years and a faster growing economy for Sandton office buildings to go back to how they were before Covid-19.




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News24 Business | PICS | Looking to rent? Here's what you'll get for R20 000 a month, and where

The rental market is recovering, including in higher rental brackets. and estate agents reveal what you can get for R20 000 a month.




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News24 Business | Say hi to 'Sandton 2.0', as swanky suburb beefs up security with artificial intelligence

While some were writing Sandton's obituary during the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, when the work-from-home phenomenon became the norm, others - like its property owners and businesses - were planning its revival.




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News24 Business | Troubled China Evergrande pledges to repay debts in 2023

China Evergrande has pledged to repay its debt this year, as the property giant faces a restructuring following Beijing's crackdown on excessive borrowing and rampant speculation in the real estate sector.




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College of Education faculty member part of team awarded $3.5 million grant

A Penn State College of Education faculty member is part of a multidisciplinary team across several universities that has been awarded a $3.5 million Transformative Research Grant from the Spencer Foundation to conduct a large-scale, five-year study on community-driven initiatives to teach Asian American studies in K-12 classrooms.




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JEDI Collaborative explores relationship between social justice and education

Ashley Patterson, associate professor of education and women’s, gender and sexuality studies at Penn State, explored the intersection between social justice, equity and education during a JEDI Collaborative speaker series event at Penn State Lehigh Valley. 




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News24 Business | Transnet scrambles with equipment delivery as peak fruit exports loom

Transnet has said essential equipment, including rubber-tyred gantries and ship-to-shore cranes, will only arrive by the next peak fruit export season at the Cape Town Port.




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News24 Business | Filipino giant says Maersk unit holds SA 'hostage', will appeal Durban port interdict

ICTSI said it will use all legal channels to make sure that a Maersk subsidiary, "is not successful in holding the Durban port, and indeed the South African economy hostage to their interests".




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News24 Business | Lottoland wins round in battle against Google in South Africa

The Competition Tribunal issued an interim order that should allow online betting platform Lottoland access to Google Ads.




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News24 Business | US investment banking giant caught out by weak rand

It took less than a week for one of Citigroup's recommended Trump trades to sink under water.




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News24 Business | Business brief | Mantengu digs up a profit; Shell prevails in landmark climate ruling

An overview of the biggest business developments in SA and beyond.




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News24 Business | Court orders Nulaid owner Quantum to reinstate director it removed in boardroom war

Nulaid owner Quantum Foods has been ordered to reinstate a nonexecutive director it removed after requesting to see the legal advice it relied on in refusing a shareholders' meeting request for board changes.




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News24 Business | GEPF says its annual investment return is 'satisfactory' - but write-offs climb

The Government Employees' Pension Fund delivered a return of 4.9% on investments for its members in the year to end-March.




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Response: 'Reading Logs' Can 'Kill Students' Love of Reading'

Mary Beth Nicklaus, Beth Jarzabek, Jennifer Casa-Todd, Jennifer Orr, and Leah Wilson contribute their thoughts on the use or nonuse of reading logs to document student reading at home.




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Biases Can Hurt Boys' Reading

Children adapt their attitudes toward reading to conform to their classmates' perceived gender stereotypes, in ways that put boys at a disadvantage, according to a new study in the journal Child Development.




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Reading Instruction 'Keeps Parents Up at Night': Advocates in Wis., Calif. Push for Changes

As schools apply more scrutiny to the methods and materials they use to teach early reading, educators and parents in some states have started to form new advocacy efforts—trying to pressure states and districts to adopt new approaches to teacher training and evaluating materials.




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National Education Policy Center, Deans' Group Take Aim at the 'Reading Wars'

The National Education Policy Center and Education Deans for Justice and Equity released a joint statement on Thursday, claiming that "there is no settled science of reading."




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Lucy Calkins Says Balanced Literacy Needs 'Rebalancing'

A recent document signals a major change in instructional theory from the Reading Workshop creator, who previously pushed back on "phonics-centric people."




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The Gospel and travel meet

Kyle Scott (UK) joined OM Europe’s Transit Challenge Team at Transform 2010 and spent the next 6 months travelling from Italy through Southern Europe to the Balkans. After returning home for Christmas, he flew to Germany for the GO conference in January 2011, from where he joined the OM team in France. We were curious to know more…




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God at work in northeast France

God works in the hearts of those who attend an event at a local church in northeast France.




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The Lord worked in many ways!

Six OMers spent two weeks in the south of France sharing God's love with children as part of a large music festival.




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Farsi-speaking man receives Bible

God prompts a worker to take along a Farsi Bible during his day manning the literature stand so that a Farsi-speaking man can find the Truth.




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Bonding over clean-up

Cleaning up after class turns into a moment of sharing between an OM worker and two North African women.




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Raise and Give for Bosnia-Herzegovina

Mathilde, a French teen, describes her trip to Bosnia-Herzegovina. She and others will raise funds for a youth centre where Bosnian teens can discover God.




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Join a one-year team in France

A 20-member church and a volunteer pastor seek long-term help for sharing the gospel with the 24,000 people in their town.




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Joy and sunlight

An OM outreach participant shares the gospel with another group of hikers during a walk down a mountain in France.




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From South Africa to Turkey to France

Martin and Petro De Lange start ministry to Turks in France.




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TeenStreet 2012 and Raise and Give

French teens attend TeenStreet 2012 and help raise money for youth ministry in Bosnia-Herzegovina.




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Teaching to immigrant women

OM worker Lynn, along with teammates, ministers to immigrant women in France.




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Dance for France

After the Transform conference last July in Rome, about 10 of the participants in eastern France started to meet together in order to share the Gospel through dance.




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An ‘Alliance of Hope’

A team member has a change of heart during the Transform 2013 outreach to prostitutes in Lyon.




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See you in France!

Ashley, 19, serving with OM France, shares how God led her to OM and about the ministry she’s been involved in so far.




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The gift of words and the Word

Several years ago OM France started teaching French to immigrants to meet a practical need, build relationships and share God’s love.




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Et après? (and after?)

Hindsight is, as they say, 20:20. It’s usually easier to see, after the event, what should have been done to prevent it from happening. But whether this is true for the recent tragic events in Paris is a case for argument.




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Transform Calais

A group of 12 came to France through the Transform conference, to partner with a church and establish connections in the local refugee camp.




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Staying relevant in missions

OM France marks OM’s 60th anniversary, inviting International Director, Lawrence Tong, to grace this special occasion.