When you move to a new country, there are many things that are done differently. It is easy to become frustrated and even judgmental, but we must graciously submit, as far as is biblically possible, to the customs and authorities of our new home.
Training church leaders and Bible teachers to equip God's people is a vital part of world mission. Phil Nicholson shares how OMF partners with Langham Preaching to help train and support local Bible teachers in Southeast Asia: One pastor in Mongolia told me he had been preaching for 20 years but had never received any [...]
Michael learned that Japan’s samurai spirit of ganbaru (hanging in there even when it is tough), can be applied to the Christian life.
Kevin is in his 30s but he looks much older. He had some health problems when he was a baby. That made his head bigger and face wider than the average person. Kevin’s dad passed away when he was in high school. He then dropped out from high school because of financial difficulties. His appearance […]
A new year often comes with the promise of new resolutions, things we want to change, or lessons we learnt and want to take with us into the new year. One of the biggest lessons most of us learnt in 2020, whether we wanted to or not, was to adapt
As someone who has always loved to travel, see new places and serve far away communities, the idea of mission in my hometown or neighborhood is a perspective on mission that I perhaps had never really engaged with.
What does it look like to be part of a community that seeks to bless Muslim people? Here at OMF we long to learn more about all the people God has made. What we learn helps us to love them better. So what does it look like to bless Muslim people? It can seem daunting [...]
William Soutter helped to build the China Inland Mission premises in Tatsienlu in 1898. But he left a legacy that far exceeds those foundations. Soutter had given himself to mission work to Tibet in 1893 when he responded to Annie Taylor's appeal for men to take the gospel to Tibet. He was one of twelve men [...]
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