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Summer colours of Bosnia

Summer colours of Bosnia What do you get if you take 10 artists (professional and aspiring) from four different nationalities and put them in Bosnia with a pot of strong coffee, several tins of paint and 40 gypsy kids? You get this year’s Artslink team in Bihac, that’s what!




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To Heal the Wounds of Bosnia

Overview of Bosnia's past and present and spiritual challenge




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Over coffee in Bosnia

Claudia, from Brazil, leads the ministry of OM in Bosnia. She shares her life and God’s love with the local people, bringing more to restoring faith in Christ—one cup of coffee at a time.




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Seeds for Bosnia

OM Bosnia and a local church distribute Bibles in town this Easter season.




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The joy of Jesus despite challenges

An OM worker in Bosnia shares how the enduring faith of two elderly women of God has inspired her to also persevere to the end.




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I am not alone!

During his years as a heroin addict, Muhamed wrote a song that is now a celebrated worship song in his local church.




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Nominal Muslims learn about Jesus

Spending the weekend with friends, Mark and Beth quickly learn that their friends’ background does not necessarily mean they follow the practices of that religion.




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Warm homes for 100 families

God supplies the money needed for OM Bosnia’s firewood project quickly this year, enabling them to give 100 households firewood by the middle of November.




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Tattoos, soccer and Jesus

Thanks to the interest shown in his tattoos, OMer Rafael shares about Jesus during an impromptu soccer game with a few Roma boys in Bosnia.




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OM Bosnia opens new space for teens

Seeing that there were few affordable activities for teens in Dobrinja, Bosnia, the OM team launches The House, a comfortable, safe place for young people.




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A shoebox full of God´s love

OM Bosnia distributes Samaritan’s Purse shoebox gifts to close to 2,000 children.




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Building a bridge to reconciliation

Teens attending TeenStreet Europe in July will raise money for a project to bring reconciliation to the ethnically divided youth of Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina.




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Heating houses points to God

A family in need receives free firewood and, for the first time, understands that God is bigger than their needs.




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Global South, Global North and Christ's attitude

Claudia Costa, from Brazil, discusses her personal journey to leadership in Europe and the unity believers share in the body of Christ.




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A Roma man dreams Jesus

Jesus speaks to a Roma (gypsy) man in a dream one night, which leads to the man’s salvation.




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Bosnian teens look for >>MORE

Bosnian teenagers attend TeenStreet Europe for the second time—learning more about God and His plan for their lives.




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Investing in Bosnia's future

A scholarship from OM Bosnia gives a young woman from a needy family the chance to go to school.




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Practical help opens hearts

OM Bosnia supplies firewood to locals and an invitation to the local church for dinner, which opens their hearts to the truth.




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Believers in Bosnia spread God’s blessing

OM worker Jael shares about believers in North West Bosnia growing in faith and learning the joy of giving.




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The last warm stove

Over the years, God used OM Bosnia’s firewood project tremendously. For the first time since 1999, there will be no wood provision this winter.




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Investing in education and eternity

Providing disadvantaged children with backpacks brings the gospel into homes in remote Muslim villages of Bosnia-Herzegovina.




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Beautiful Sarajevo

In the Olympic city of Sarajevo, OM connects with the local people through spaghetti nights, sports, 'smoke breaks' and coffee.




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OM Europe steps out to reach youth

European youth more than ever need good relationships with adults, says OM Europe’s Empowering Kids&Youth team, who focus on positively impacting Europe’s next generation.




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Loving one another

Daniel Ottoson (US), who serves as a site leader at an international congregation in Finland, enjoys seeing Finns and foreigners serving and loving Jesus together.




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Bus4Life begins sixth European tour

Bus4Life begins its sixth year serving churches and OM teams across Central and Eastern Europe.




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Planting dreams in the suburbs

In an area of Tampere, Finland, seemingly shrouded in hopelessness, one teenager and her father reach out to un-churched youth struggling with alcoholism and depression.




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Church planting goes to school

Church planting in Europe takes steps forward in cooperation with Wales Evangelical School of Theology, where OM workers receive proper training for the work.




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Repairing the big disconnect

OM strives to give 'church' a whole new meaning in the land of the Finns.




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Bus4Life travels on grace

As the Bus4Life begins its seventh tour, former driver Tuukka Linkopuu reflects on his two-year ministry while Esa Tuuri prepares to take the wheel.




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Growth on the trampoline

“I am more excited about God now,” says one young Swiss lady after three months working alongside OM Finland to reach youth in Tampere.




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You are beautiful

OM Europe hosts its third annual Youth Factors Conference in Pälkäne, Finland, in April, which offers participants an opportunity for reflection and self-discovery.




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God uses metal

Logos Hope crew member Tom Critchley spent three months in Finland. He shares about contemporary Christian music in Finland, focusing on the metal band Terapia.




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OM Finland celebrates 50 years of mobilisation  

OM's work in Finland began 50 years ago in 1965. Since then, approximately 3,000 Finns have participated in OM’s work.




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Four years of bad roads and tight corners

Wanted: an adventure-loving, open-minded driver. Esa was that driver.




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‘I want to change my religion’

An Iranian refugee surprises a long-term worker by stating his desire to become a Christian.




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Proclaiming with one’s own profession

Teemu Laitinen (Finland) serves as the Bus4Life driver in Ukraine, Hungary, Moldova and Romania.




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Potholes, pastors and playgrounds

Bus4Life ministers in Central and Eastern Europe, bringing hope and Christian literature to the region's widespread towns and villages. During the spring and early summer of 2018, Bus4Life visited Hungary, Moldova, and Ukraine.




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A super special person

Members of OM El Salvador started offering the 'Life at the crossroads' programme in the community of El Rosario in their country. The team shows students in the sixth, seventh, eighth and ninth grade what norms and values are and that there is a God that cares for them.




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A cry for attention

Recently, a team of 32 OM volunteers from the UK, Canada, Costa Rica, Guatemala and El Salvador worked together in an outreach to bring gifts and the Gospel to La Ceiba, Corozal in Honduras. For a week, they ministered in a community with a high percentage of people infected with HIV and a high mortality rate due to the consequences of AIDS. Many families in the area have suffered the loss of a father or mother. OM El Salvador took the initiative to respond to the needs of many kids and share about the love of Jesus in the outreach ´Changing gifts for smiles´.




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OMers involved in bus accident

A group of 45 OM volunteers from El Salvador are safe after a bus accident in Nicaragua last Saturday.




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OM team brings the Saviour to people in Perquín

A team of 38 from El Salvador and Guatemala visited the Salvadoran city of Perquín to spread the message of the Saviour.




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Sports, games and the gospel

Over 2,000 people in San Salvador experienced Soyafest 2012, an event organised by a local church and OM El Salvador to entertain and share Christ.




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Cooks and construction workers join forces

A team from Guatemala, El Salvador and the US build a church for a new congregation and share the gospel in San Marcos, Honduras.




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OM El Salvador: A new chapter

2012 marked the end of 30 years of OM under the leadership of Mauricio Hernandez, who has now handed over to Daniel Caballero.




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The road to redemption

OM El Salvador sets out to redeem a rough neighbourhood.




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Resigning is not an option

A pastor of a small community church was about to resign when God brought new hope through the work of OM El Salvador.




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Challenged to live a healthy life

OM team members in El Salvador reach out to young people in their country, challenging them to live a healthy life.




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Sweet Salvadorian culture

With the vision to promote healthy lives, OM educates people in topics like diabetes to reduce its incidence among members of the community.




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Actions rather than words

A team mobilised by OM El Salvador walked for hours to show God’s love to the people of Cabañas. With actions rather than words.




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More than just a nurse

Anna Filion came to El Salvador as a nurse, but learnt that God had bigger plans for her during OM El Salvador’s Samaritan Adventure outreach.