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Launching MDT UK

An interview with the leaders of MDT UK, an exciting new training programme in Birmingham and London.




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Reaching Turks in the UK

Working among the UK's Turkish-speaking communities, an OM worker is witnessing lives being transformed.




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Creative connections

OM worker Janice uses art to create conversations about the gospel on the streets of England.




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The art of conversation

An art exhibition hosted in a church helps believers invite the community to come in and talk about faith.




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A charity shop with a difference

OM workers use London charity shop to reach out to surrounding Turkish and Kurdish communities.




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UK children visit the Wild West

The Kid's 'n' Things team visited two churches to run five-day long holiday clubs, with the theme of “Lionheart and the Great Wild West Adventure”.




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Church without walls

God uses a bold husband and wife team to be His witness among Somali people everywhere.




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Hope comes in the colour brown

God grants the wish of a teenage mom as a sign of His love for her. Now she’s found what she has looked for all her life.




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Challenging the traditional concept of missions

Historically, the Netherlands has sent missionaries around the world to share about Jesus. Now, the Netherlands is a mission field.




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‘I have to come here again’

Sharing his faith with locals in the Near East during the 2012 Transform outreach inspired one participant to return to Transform this year.




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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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Welcoming strangers

Thousands of people have sought refuge in Europe in the past decades; in 2015, the number exploded. OM teams welcome the foreigners to their new home countries.




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Riverboat crewmembers celebrate New Year on board

OM's Riverboat was inaugurated in the Netherlands during a New Year celebration on 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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The secret that can't be kept

The Agency is a first-of-its-kind interactive mission experience that’s set on top of OM’s newly-launched Riverboat.




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Taste and see–with others and God in community

TASTE in Delft, Netherlands, embodies the love of Jesus in community and shares that love in practical ways with the people around.




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Encouraging local believers

OM Riverboat community members encourage local believers who are struggling with their faith.




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From Latin America to the Levant

OM workers explain, their home has become a mix of Latin American and Middle Eastern cultures.




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Spreading the gospel in Muslim communities

OM MENA Travelling Team (MTT) spent 26 days distributing more than 10,000 gospel tracts and spreading Scripture throughout a Muslim-majority country.




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Marriage changes the way Lydia does ministry

Ten years ago, Lydia* arrived on the field as a single woman. Now married and with two kids, her method of ministry has changed entirely.




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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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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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Running at full capacity: Evangelicals serve refugees in Lebanon

Five years of displacement has taken its toll on Syrian refugees living in Lebanon, but many have met Jesus and discovered eternal hope.




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Teaching positive identity through English club

Believers bring a positive identity message to teenage girls living in a remote village.




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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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Refocus on church planting

When a small team decides to focus more on church planting, God brings people into their lives in unusual ways.




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Syrian family comes to faith

Driven apart by the Syrian civil war, an extended family experiences miraculous healing and dreams and believes in Jesus.




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Changing children’s lives

By paying rent for a small school run by a partner church, OM provides education and biblical input to children of displaced families.




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Hope amidst desperation: How the Syrian War changed OM’s ministry in the Near East

Since the Syrian war began, OM workers have served alongside locals, including Muslim background believers, to spread hope amongst desperate people.




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Crossing the ocean and crossing social protocols

OM workers from Latin America discuss the similarities and differences to Arab culture.




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The power of music

A children’s music programme helps Syrian mothers identify their skills and how to use them for Christ, even before they become believers.




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3 guys, 2 countries, 1 believer

An OM worker shares the gospel with a Syrian in northern Iraq, surprisingly reconnecting with the man months later at his baptism in Sweden.




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Equipping Arabs to reach the least reached

OM Near East launches a one-year Arab internship programme to equip local believers for long-term ministry among the least reached.




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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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Lockdown recipes: Chef Paul Tamburrini brings you his family feasts

HE has created elegant fine-dining dishes in some of the most reputable restaurants in Scotland, but chef Paul Tamburrini he is now facing his harshest critics – his family.




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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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Andre Harrell, music exec who discovered Diddy, dies at 59

NEW YORK (AP) — Andre Harrell, the Uptown Records founder who shaped the sound of hip hop and R&B in the late 80s and 90s with acts such as Mary J Blige and Heavy D, and who also launched the career of mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs, has died. He was 59.Diddy's REVOLT company confirmed the death Saturday but no other details were immediately available. Harrell was the vice chairman at REVOLT.




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Sharing the culture of Trench Town

A long-time resident of Trench Town, Donnette Dowe has seen the trials of urban life up-close and personal. Like many inner-city Jamaican communities, crime, teen pregnancy and poverty are rife.The 50-year-old mother of five children (ages 26, 24, 21, 16 and 12) is director and tour manager for Trench Town Culture Yard, a renovated tenement which was once home to Bob Marley and his family.




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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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What's the problem with city council and marking the Easter Rising?

Glasgow City Council has a keen sense, it seems, of what is or might be controversial. When the rest of us imagine that a handful of words to mark a long-distant historical event could never be more than anodyne, the council is alert to the affliction of controversy. It is a condition to be avoided at all costs.




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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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One of Scotland's finest: read 12 of Ian Bell's best columns

Award-winning Herald and Sunday Herald columnist Ian Bell has died at the age of 59.




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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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Why the SNP's pro-EU allies are becoming increasingly frustrated by the party's friendly fire attacks

THE Treasury has bombarded us all week with facts, figures and forecasts making the case for the UK to remain in the European Union. Its big report, on Monday, warned Brexit would tip the country into a year-long recession, resulting in up to 820,000 job losses within two years.