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Supporting the local church in Turkey

OM teams are supporting Turkish churches as they respond to the changing situation in Turkey.




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Sowing among Syrians in Turkey

OM worker joins a new Arabic-speaking ministry among Syrians in Turkey.




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Open hearts in Turkey

Long-term workers in Turkey are seeing openness to the gospel like they haven't in many years. They share some recent stories here.




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A calling confirmed

Turkey is a 'hot-climate' culture, meaning that people are relationship-oriented rather than task-oriented.




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Innovation in Istanbul

Through the ups and downs of starting a new team, millennial workers see fruit when they start asking the right question.




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A Bible on the shelf

In 2011, The 1881 Project saw each of the 81 provinces of Turkey engaged with the gospel message over an 18-month period.




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A Bible for an atheist

A persuasive atheist changes his mind when Jesus meets him in a dream.




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Trips around Turkey

Travelling around Turkey, one OM worker shares truth with people in some of the country's least reached provinces.




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'I want to pray this prayer'

After experiencing answered prayer, a Syrian woman finds faith through gifts of the "Jesus Film" and a Bible.




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Taxi ride with a message

An OMer learning Turkish was encouraged when she shared the message of the gospel with a taxi driver in a city in Western Turkey.




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No gossip or lies

A Christian teacher shares from the Bible with her Muslim headmaster in Turkey.




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Fayima’s dream

It has been four full years since she left Syria and now Fayima has seen the Light!




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Church planting in Tunceli

A short-term creative outreach team helps long-term workers connect with several young men in a least-reached area.




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'The East is the new frontier'

Workers Berni and Carla are passionate about reaching the East of Turkey and encouraged by spiritual growth happening there.




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Youth experience persecution

OM teaches East London youth about the persecuted Christians in the world, as well as trains them in street ministry.




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Protecting the women and girls of South Africa

HIV and AIDS can be prevented. It just takes you.




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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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Preparing for missions

Engage, OM South Africa’s bi-annual conference, provides a challenge and a channel for joining missions with OM.




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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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Vegetables that save lives

If you only owned the ground you stood on, how would you make the most out of it? A creative idea becomes a sustainable reality.




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Mountains of garbage

Norwegian Bible school students on mission trip to South Africa, shares the Gospel at the garbage dump outside Pretoria




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Golden years, new beginnings

While other couples in their fifties talk about retirement, Philip and Riana Dyason are talking about a new beginning: pioneer ministry in Russia.




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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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Without a vision people perish

Participants of a poverty simulation activity hosted by AIDSLink International discover that it’s very different to minister to the poor than to be the poor.




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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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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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Light in the darkness

OM AIDS Hope, in collaboration with Stanza Bopape Clinic, arranges an event on World AIDS Day 2014 to bring light to the pandemic.




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Even when you’re tired, God works

God sustained MDT participant David, who found it difficult co-leading his short-term outreach when he wasn't doing so well himself.




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Standing up for the marginalised

Jabulani, a youth from South Africa affected by HIV, receives help and care from the OM team ministering in his community.




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Undeniable power of prayer

Australian outreach participant Kathryn Jenkin testifies to how God used her prayers while on outreach in Lesotho.




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Using arts to open hearts

In July, an OM team of artists will use their creative gifts to share about the Creator at the National Arts Festival in Grahamstown.




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Either God or not.

MDT trainees have an opportunity to minister and pray for healing for a lady in Lesotho.




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Sharing the gospel in a hair salon

Logos Hope crew members share the Gospel in a hair salon with someone who has never before heard about Jesus.




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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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Midwifery in the Middle East

A South African OMer plans to use her nursing skills to build relationships with Muslim women in the Arabian Peninsula.




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Playing good sports

OM South Africa SportsLink team enjoys a day of ministry with kids in a development centre.




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There's more to life than rugby

For the past two years OM South Africa SportsLink has attended a prestigious rugby tournament to spread the good news to players, coaches and staff.




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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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MDT: A springboard into missions

Missions Discipleship Training in South Africa is not a wasted six months--it's a springboard into your calling, preparing and equipping you for the real deal.




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Passing on the baton

After leading AIDS Hope for the past 11 years, Nico and Alma hand over the leadership of Meetse a Bophelo centre in Mamelodi.