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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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'I have no choice!'

OM France and local churches reach out to women enslaved by human trafficking in one of France’s largest cities.




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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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Bound to superstition

A recent poll shows "rationalistic" French society still highly bound to superstition.




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Prisonniers de la superstition

Un sondage récent montre que la superstition est bien présente dans la société française, qui se veut pourtant si rationaliste.




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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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Grace in action

A youth group from Lyon, France, participates in a summer 2012 TiM outreach to Southampton, UK.




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Using her gifts

A Korean Transit Challenge team member shares the gospel by using face painting to overcome the language barrier in France.




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Living out her faith

A young French woman learns more about herself and God as she serves aboard Logos Hope from 2009 to 2011.




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Colliding worlds

An OMer encounters a French woman who converted to Islam but misunderstands both Islam and the Christian faith.




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Small steps towards justice

An OM France couple works among trafficked women and fights for justice before government officials.




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LinkUp: Relevent topics for youth

During OM France’s last LinkUp, an interdenominational event for all teens and young adults in the Nantes region, OMers focused on the theme of sexuality.




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Teaching to immigrant women

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




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The first step

Despite encountering negative responses during an outreach in Orly, France, one OM team remembers that sharing about God is never a wasted effort.




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Town authorities acknowledge spiritual realities

French OMer Andre experiences that prayer can change the hearts of authorities regarding victims of human trafficking.




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A TeenStreet fundraising adventure

A church youth group sees God provide finances for the teens to attend TeenStreet Europe 2013 in Germany.




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What we are up against

During an outreach, a North African man approached the kids club and began to talk with two OM team members.




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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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Keep your smiles

During her three months mission trip to Paris, Madeline realised how precious it is to be a living testimony for the homeless.




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The least-reached in Europe

“I was not happy when the Lord told me to go to France,” recalls one American OM worker, who soon discovered Europe’s great spiritual needs.




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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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Something for everyone

In the 1980s, OM organised large summer campaigns with the huge task of covering every town and village in France with Christian literature.




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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.




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Connecting: Finding churches for Turks in France

While reaching out to Turks in France, one long-term worker feels like Apostle Paul: preaching in house churches and getting kicked out of a mosque.




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God's perfect timing

David’s role on the Riverboat is to act as a homeless man. In reality, he is acting out a familiar life he used to lead.




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Change in Audience

Although the escape room was created with a primary focus to mobilise Christians, OM Riverboats and OM France worked together to make adjustments in the simulation to suit non-believers better.




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From dream to reality

“It was a long, green boat, sailing gently along the river,” recalled Ana Barros (Portugal), as she described her dream to her mum. This happened before she had even seen a picture of OM's Riverboat.




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A really worthwhile ministry!

OMer Martin sees Muslims coming to Christ as he ministers to Turkish speakers in France.




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Sharing God's love through literacy

"At the end of the class, over tea and mini-cakes, we take time to get to know them, to help them with administrative tasks or to discuss Bible stories," shares Louise.




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Mission trip to France, better than Chanel perfume! OM Transform

Transform mission conference one year, outreach team in France the following year, the sisters from Mexico are eager to share the love of Christ, realising the audience was different from what they expected.




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Joe Biden Picks Kamala Harris for VP After Intense School Desegregation Clash

Although Harris clashed with Biden over his record on school desegregation, some of her education proposals might dovetail well with his.




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COVID-19 Has Left Thousands of After-School Programs in Jeopardy

Six in 10 programs worry they will have to shut down permanently, a survey finds—and that was before so many districts announced fall remote-learning plans.




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As Schools Recover After COVID-19, Look to New Orleans

Hurricane Katrina taught the city lessons that apply to education across the nation now, writes economist Douglas N. Harris.




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Classes canceled in Baltimore County after cyber attack




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School system dismisses early after cybersecurity threat




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A Classroom Strategy: Using Models for Scientific Argumentation (Video)

Second grade teacher Kitten Vaa shares how her students develop argumentation skills with the use of scientific modeling.




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Here's How to Implement the 'KLEWS' Strategy in the Classroom (Video)

In Queens, N.Y., Maria Katsanos' 3rd grade class conducts scientific explanations through the "KLEWS" strategy—identifying what students already know, what they're going to learn, the evidence, their wonderings, and scientific words and concepts.




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A Classroom Strategy: The Line-Up Game (Video)

Elizabeth Iwaszewicz, a kindergarten teacher at Lafayette Elementary School in San Francisco, uses music to help students focus their attention as they line up. She uses Jeopardy!'s theme song to make the routine like a quick and timed game.




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Can Artificial Intelligence Help Teachers Find the Right Lesson Plans?

The IBM Foundation has launched a website called Teacher Advisor with Watson, which uses artificial intelligence to find high-quality elementary math resources and lessons.




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Scientific Modeling in the Early Grades (Video)

Kaia Tomokiyo, a kindergarten teacher from Southern Heights Elementary in Seattle and Fallon King, a 1st and 2nd grade teacher from Cedarhurst Elementary in Burien, Wash., share how they engage younger students in scientific modeling through observation and discussion.




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Combining Literacy and Math Skills Through Thinking Logs (Video)

Thinking logs incorporate both literacy and math skills by asking students to write complete sentences explaining how they solved an equation and arrived at a solution.




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Teaching Math: Reasoning About Addition (Video)

Ryan Reilly, a 1st grade teacher at White Center Heights Elementary School in Seattle, shares how he uses related equations so students can identify similarities and differences in numbers and symbols. By noticing patterns, they learn to justify their reasons and can then solve similar problems.




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All Write Now

Texas law requires all elementary school students to learn about their community, but when 2nd grade teacher Marilyn Phillips looked for a book to anchor her lessons on Fort Worth, there was none. So she wrote her own.




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Teaching Young Learners How to Do Math Through Storytelling (Video)

Jeanne Wright creatively introduces her 1st grade students to a variety of strategies for solving addition problems.




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A Classroom Strategy: Making Sense of Fractions Through Group Work (Video)

A 5th grade teacher uses fractions to promote both language and math skills in her dual-language classroom.