OM Ukraine and experts in crisis management held a seminar for pastors serving on both sides of the conflict line in Eastern Ukraine.

Short Term Mission participants bring inspiration to Ukraine's churches for ministry amongst the aged and internally displaced people.

Bus4Life is OM’s mobile missions centre to the unreached people of Central and Eastern Europe, bringing books and also participating in summer programmes, as it did in summer 2017.

OM Panama team members share on a live radio talk show about the upcoming International Intensive School of Missions.

Students from OM Panama’s International Intensive School of Missions experience a different world inside a mosque in Panama City.

Lighthouse Ministries builds a kitchen to transform a community in Panama.

Twice a week, 60 to 80 children receive a meal and learn about Jesus, the Bread of Life, through OM Panama’s Pan de Vida programme.

Compiled by: Antigoni Markitani

Compiled by Antigoni Markitani

Words: Abbie Lyall

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