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Cycling to the unreached

Staff from OM SportsLink and Campus Crusade for Christ cycled from Pretoria to Cape Town to minister to people in rural villages along the way.




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Praying for change

After seeking God to change his current course, Hein van der Merwe attends a five-day programme at OM South Africa and finds new direction.




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Introducing basketball to Mamelodi

Basketball is not played much in South Africa, but OM SportsLink successfully introduces the game to students in Mamelodi, a township outside of Pretoria.




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The Link in South Africa

Five OM entities based in South Africa previously working in three separate offices throughout Pretoria have recently united under one roof.




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Baby cemetery at the Mamelodi City Dump

Typically, at least two discarded babies are found in the Mamelodi City Dump every week. AIDS Hope seeks to eliminate this horrible reality.




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UNIC ministers to students

Unite Nations in Cape Town (UNIC) works alongside two local universities, building friendships with the international students for God’s kingdom.




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Coaching for life in Randfontein

Community leaders in South Africa met with SportsLink to discuss how coaches can impact the fatherless in Randfontein.




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Mieliemeel miracle

God unexpectedly provides just what a family needs.




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Hope in every circumstance

When an MDT participant’s family member commits suicide, she becomes puzzled and angry. But with encouragement from others, she recognises God’s compassion.




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Discipling boys through sport

OM SportsLink ministers to young boys in Mamelodi, the largest township of Pretoria, South Africa, every Friday.




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Voicing the plight of the vulnerable

In October, 140 people take the Table Mountain Challenge in Cape Town and Franschhoek, South Africa, as part of the Freedom Climb.




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At the foot of the cross

OM Africa teams and friends gather to read aloud the Word of God and declare its truth over the continent.




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OM South Africa appoints new leader

On 23 January 2015, OM South Africa celebrated Pranesh Anandlal’s leadership as director since 2008 and welcomed his successor, Andrè van der Bergh.




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Once and for all

A Missions Discipleship Training participant discovers that his sins were dealt with by Jesus on the cross, making him free and forgiven, once and for all.




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New chapter of life

During the Go Challenge, the team is asked to pray for an elderly woman while doing door to door ministry in Tzaneen.




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Loving youth through sports in South Africa

OMer Jan Willem Otten uses basketball as a way to keep kids off the streets and put them in touch with the gospel




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Farm workers coming to faith

Farm workers hear about Jesus for the first time at their compound.




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Kids challenged to share the gospel

The AIDS Hope team encourages children in their afterschool program in Mamelodi to share the gospel with the community.




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Kids' reading club

Marleen was challenged to create reading curriculum for kids by what she saw while climbing Mount Everest in Nepal.




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Missions Discipleship Training in OM

OM has trained thousands of young people into a stronger relationship with Christ and prepared them for the mission field.




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Connecting with God in prayer

During an outreach to Lesotho an MDT team meets an older man during door-to-door ministry and invites him to their daily prayer meeting.




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Dabbling in the office of dreams

For the OM Africa communications and media team, the latest and greatest thing is a duck.




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From Argentina to Africa

Belen, 20, discovers she doesn't need to wait to serve God in missions when He sends her to Africa for six weeks.




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Combining personal passion with ministry

Ride2Transform allows teams on two wheels to pedal far and wide, praying and sharing the love of Christ in least reached areas in Europe and Africa.




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Convincing or conversing?

An Australian working with OM Russia shares about seeing God work in the lives of the students of OM Russia’s Discipleship Centre.




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Quilting to Christ

Russian OMer Alexandra Bykova begins a Quilting Club to bring women closer to each other and to faith in Christ.




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About OM Russia’s Student Christian Centre

OM Russia’s Student Christian Centre, in partnership with the local Evangelical Church, reaches universities in Novosibirsk. The project leader shares about plans for this year.




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Four baptisms becomes five

After watching others be baptised, an Uzbek lady who had recently repented in the church expressed her desire to follow the others’ example.




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Obedience turns to joy

The students of OM Russia's Discipleship Centre practice sharing their faith with those from a Muslim background.




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Encouraging smaller churches in Russia

Dorothea, from Germany, joins the one-year programme with OM Russia, which includes visiting Siberian villages to help churches and sharing the Gospel with locals.




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Breaking the cycle

OMer Sasha looks for solutions to breaking the downward cycle of poverty, neglect and lack of education plaguing two disadvantaged families in Novosibirsk, Siberia.




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From card making to vehicle servicing

OM Russia’s Business for Transformation ministry supports eight projects that empower locals through employment, while impacting the kingdom.




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A chain of events

Students at OM Russia’s Discipleship Centre help plant churches, start a rehab centre and begin a farming business.




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Rebuilding lives in a new city

OM Russia partners with local churches to respond to the needs of Ukrainian refugees in Novosibirsk, Siberia.




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Rehabilitation through love and action

The church in Russia is facing a new threat-HIV/AIDS. OM Russia works in rehab-centres to show God's love and compassion.




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Winter camp warms hearts

OM Russia organizes a winter camp for Siberian teenagers where they learn to always to trust God.




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Reaching the unreached

Discipleship Centre students shared the Gospel with a group of unreached villages during a short-term outreach.




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Anniversary of discipleship ministry

OM Russia celebrated the 10th anniversary of the discipleship ministry.




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Trained to be a Channel of Hope

OM Russia hosted and participated in AIDSLink International’s (ALI) Channels of Hope Facilitator Training©.




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Amazing repentance

An OM worker in Russia finds opportunities to share Christ's love with members of the Romani ethnic group.




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Starting a vibrant church

OM, in cooperation with the local church, has sent believers to serve in a village where unreached people groups live. Shortly after, some local people repented and decided to follow Jesus. Now a vibrant church has been started.




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Living and engaging in a Muslim community

After discovering his freedom in Christ and being discipled, former drug addict Ruslan wants to share hope with the least reached.




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A beacon of light for kids and teens

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




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School project impacts community

A school-wide clean-up drive organised by OM Philippines' Sudlon II students becomes a community-wide clean-up drive hosted the third Saturday of every month.




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Trekking to see lives changed

Home to many mountain tribal people, most of whom practice animism, Banaue will host this year’s Go Extra Mile outreach from 9-24 April.




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Children from the slum graduate

Nineteen boys and girls graduated from Fishport Kids Tutorial Club's day care programme in Manila, Philippines, this month.




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Holiday Bible class becomes community event

The OM Philippines-Cebu team, in partnership with the local church, touches the lives of young and old through a five-day Bible class.




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Three million and counting…

OM Ships’ vessel Logos Hope welcomes her three millionth visitor on board while in Puerto Princesa, Philippines.




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Serving beyond their comfort zones

Marie Reyes from Australia led the Out of the Comfort Zone Cebu team, and shares lessons she learnt during the two-week outreach.




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Immediate relief to earthquake-affected area

OM Philippines partners with the local church to provide water and food in areas hit by the 7.2 magnitude earthquake on 15 October.