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Open doors

Members of Christ Church in Lye and OM’s local team visit neighbourhoods to invite residents to church, hand out tracts or hear prayer requests.




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Life and hope for Glasgow

OM Lifehope partners with More Than Gold, an organisation that equips local churches to engage with their communities during the 2014 Commonwealth Games.




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Dancing for God’s glory

You want to share the hope you have in Jesus but don’t know how? OM Lifehope’s Dancelink team suggests dancing in the street!




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A home for tonight

Kelly Norman, an intern with OM Lifehope in the UK, shares her personal insights about why she reaches out to the homeless in Birmingham.




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Don't worry, trust Jesus

In partnership with a local church, OM Lifehope teaches truths about God and the Bible to children at their recent Easter holiday club.




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Lifehope Transit Challenge: God’s heart for Europe

OM Lifehope coordinates the Transit Challenge, sending out teams all over Europe to love, serve and proclaim Christ.




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Those who preach good news—Chorley Community Encounter Team

Chorley Mission is a small church of mostly elderly people; a Lifehope team brings new life to the congregation through working with children and youth.




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Hitting the road for Jesus

Sent onto the road after two weeks of training at the OM Lifehope base, the Transit Challenge Team supports OM ministries across Europe.




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Working together in the United Kingdom

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




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At our doorstep

Loving our Muslim neighbours is an opportunity and privilege.




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A light for the neighbours

The Friendship Centre is a central hub and meeting place for people from a diverse community in England.




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Permanent hope for the Kurds

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




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Making friends from all over the world

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




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First steps towards the Lord

Ronald, an OMer working with the youth in the Netherlands, sees God change young men’s hearts at TeenStreet Europe.




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A landmark day for the Riverboat Project

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




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The Riverboat Captain’s Story

As a 13-year-old boy, Klaas Kattouw dreamt of sailing on the vessel now used for the new Riverboat ministry. Today, he is the Captain.




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Light and love for Bedouin villages

Transform team provides children’s programme, conducts English classes and learns how to love Bedouin people in the desert village.




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Going to extreme lengths for the sake of the gospel

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.




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Prayer: Making way for the gospel to go forward

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




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Training leads to transformation

An OM training conference equips a local pastor with tools to transform his Sunday service for Syrian refugees.




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A local worker in God’s harvest

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




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Working out at women’s gyms

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.




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Caring for 5,500 orphans

A local partner cares for 5,500 orphans in the Near East, compromising personal health and safety for the children’s sake.




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Praying God’s heart for the nations, Part 1

Workers from the Middle East North Africa Area share how they use strategic prayer to prepare the way for God to move across the region.




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Supporting and sharing

Workers with support roles in OM's Near East Field -Lebanon, Jordan, Syria and Iraq - find opportunities to engage locals and share truth with friends.




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Sponsoring food distribution in Kurdistan

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




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North Africans prepare to go to Iraq

The OM Near East Field church planting school prepares students to cross cultural and religious boundaries.




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Telling stories, throwing seeds

Women in the Near East pray and prepare Bible stories to share with local friends through creative opportunities.




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Not forgotten

"Although the Kurds feel they are one of the forgotten peoples of the world, they aren’t forgotten by God," an OM worker explains.




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Doors to ministry

OM workers share the Bible with Muslims in the Near East.




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A Bible for the Kurds

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




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Fin24.com | OPINION | Transport SOEs: A crucial link in SA's economic recovery

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




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Fin24.com | Political stardom beckons for virus point man, Zweli Mkhize

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.




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Mysteries of history: can you identify these forgotten photos?

A call has gone out for help to identify thousands of mystery Scottish scenes, finds Sandra Dick.




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Coronavirus in Scotland: How a travel blogger is bringing the beauty of Scotland to a lockdown audience

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




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Coronavirus in Scotland: Top Ten places to visit after lockdown according to The Chaotic Scot travel blogger

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




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Whisky tourism can be key to Scotland’s post coronavirus bounce back, says festival chairman

By James Campbell




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Ian Bell: Osborne's plans to eradicate budget deficit dissolve into puddle of excuses

War is the great distraction. Right or wrong, foolish or wise, it suspends all the usual political and economic rules. Suddenly a chancellor who has spent five and a half years telling us “there is no money” can find ready billions for warfare.




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This moment is far too important for weary Left-Right Labour

If the bookies are right, Jeremy Corbyn is the political equivalent of a nice slice of wholemeal, browning fast. He’s toast. Smart money, supposedly superior to any opinion poll, says a Labour leader elected by a landslide will be gone within a year of his triumph.




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Ian Bell: The dismantling of Hilary Benn's empty war rhetoric

IT isn’t often that a rousing speech on socialist internationalism is rewarded with a full transcript in the Spectator. In fact, it never happens. The Tory Party’s newsletter is funny like that.




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Ian Bell: heavy price paid for failing to meet climate change costs

If modern lives were measured in unprecedented weather events, we would all be 200 years old. Defences against floods that were supposed to happen every other century are being overtopped in the space of a few winters. The victims surveying ruined homes and businesses are ageing fast.




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The voice that was a guide to our nation: Ian Bell in his own words

Ian Bell, the award-winning Herald and Sunday Herald writer and columnist, died last week aged 59. Here are excerpts from 10 of his finest pieces of writing.




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Paying a heavy price for failing to meet the cost of climate change

If modern lives were measured in unprecedented weather events, we would all be 200 years old. Defences against floods that were supposed to happen every other century are being overtopped in the space of a few winters. The victims surveying ruined homes and businesses are ageing fast.




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Jo Cox's death should challenge our lazy, unthinking disdain for politicians

"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.




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Magnus Gardham: The EU debate was criticised for "scaremongering". But it quickly came true.

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




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Will the long-awaited Chilcot report teach a history lesson or deliver justice?

The accepted unit of measurement for long books is War and Peace. Library shelves bend and buckle under the weight of bigger doorstops, but it's Tolstoy's classic that has become the shorthand for a hefty tome.




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Magnus Gardham: After Brexit, has the time come for a federal UK?

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.




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Magnus Gardham: Would a "soft Brexit plus" deal for Scotland satisfy Nicola Sturgeon?

When Theresa May declared "Brexit means Brexit," Nicola Sturgeon's response was pithy and to the point. "Remain means Remain," she said, making an apparently all-or-nothing commitment to securing Scotland's place in the EU after the country voted decisively to stay.




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Coronavirus in Scotland: How to enjoy the Cairngorms ... from the comfort of your armchair

Cairngorm National Park has moved online to give armchair visitors a flavour of a Highland spring, finds Sandra Dick




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Coronavirus in Scotland: Grandparents have embraced technology to keep in touch with their loved ones

By Deborah Anderson