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Acceleration in Turkey

Ministries in Turkey experience acceleration through wide sowing, building projects, and church planting.




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Married and ministering together

Newly married couple temporarily in Turkey uses spare time and unexpected opportunities to reach out to refugees.




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Our Easter table

Easter provides an opportunity to share with a neighbour.




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One sows, one waters, God gives the growth

Church planters with the BCC in Turkey are encouraged by growth in a city where the gospel was previously unknown.




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Fresh bread brings openness

An OMer in Turkey who likes to bake is able to bless her neighbours in their apartment block.




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Unseen Fruit

A Turkish girl's long journey to becoming a believer in Jesus.




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Elazağı trip – God’s timing

Two OMer's plan a trip out to eastern Turkey to share the gospel with the lost, as their plans keep changing along the way.




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Drawing people in through dreams

Two stories of how God is using dreams in the Muslim world to draw people to Himself.




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Public transport for public proclamation

Two OM workers share the gospel while riding on buses in Turkey.




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2.6 million new friends

OM Turkey helps the local church to minister to the 2.6 million refugees in their country.




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Turks turn to Christ: The story of the Bible Correspondence Course

No known believers from a Muslim background existed in Turkey when the first two OMers arrived in 1961. Now, nearly half of the 7,000 believers there can trace their journey through the Bible Correspondence Course.




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Trying to get a bank account

One OMer forms an unlikely friendship with a security guard while trying to get a bank account in Turkey




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Reaching out to refugees

OM team in Turkey responds to refugee crisis by joining a church-led relief programme.




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Delia's story

An Uzbek girl living in Istanbul, Turkey enters into relationship with Jesus after having a dream.




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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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Modern "Acts"

A family in Turkey is impacted by the gospel through contacts with the Bible Correspondence Course.




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TACO team touches hearts

The TACO team in Turkey uses creative arts like dance, music, and drama to share the good news with Muslim people groups across the region.




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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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The long-term short-termer

A woman from the US has cultivated a love for Turkey and OM ministries there, completing over 25 short-term trips in 31 years.




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'Please come back tomorrow'

An OMer sharing the gospel at a police station in Turkey is asked to return and carry on the conversation.




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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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Take these three women

Three Turkish women have discovered the Saviour who loves them through contact with the Bible Correspondence Course in Istanbul, Turkey.




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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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Truth travellers

An OMer and her friend share the message of the gospel with a receptive Turkish shopkeeper.




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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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Dreams

A Syrian couple encounter Christ in dreams and decide to follow Him.




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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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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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Henna opens doors

OM team members Tami and Alu share how henna opens doors to the hearts of the Somali people, living in Cape Town.