The Life Cycle of a Missional Business
Lloyd Oppel
Lloyd and Darlene Oppel joined OMF in 1981 and invested the next forty years in the Mekong region. The last seventeen years of their time in Southeast Asia was as missional business people in a creative-access country. In their own words, “Those forty years included hard times, but in retrospect, we would not have missed those years for anything. We are two of the happiest old missionaries in retirement. Every time we check the river of shalom, we find it is running deeper.”
Read moreSports and the gospel resources
We’ve collected together a few resources from the speakers at our Serve Asia webinar on sports and the gospel to help you explore the topic further.
From Erik
Holy Play – article from Desiring God on a Christian theology of sport and competition
Why we play – article from The Gospel Coalition
From Levi:
‘Ultimate Grace’, a book about how God is using Levi’s love of Ultimate Frisbee for the gospel
Levi’s Serve Asia story
Read moreA Christian View of Work in Response to the Fall: Reflections that Will Hopefully Encourage Discussion
Harvey has served in various professional capacities and leadership roles since he first went to China in 1982. He met his wife Linda at a conference in Hong Kong in 1985 and they eventually married in 1987. Their two children were raised in China, but are now back in the US.
Read moreHome assignment storage
There are many reasons why a long home assignment (more than six months) can be worthwhile for missionaries and the ministries they are part of. But there are also challenges involved in making such a home assignment happen.
The practicalities and circumstances around home assignment often means moving out of one home and moving into a different one when you return. Packing up your life is a stressful and emotional task that missionaries are all too familiar with. Finding somewhere suitable and affordable to store all your household goods in Japan while you are away is an extra challenge that missionaries often face.
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