By Gemma Creasy The New Arrival As I walk down the streets with crowds of people all around me speaking words unfamiliar to my ears, it all blurs together into background noise. Between those [...]
By Averil Bennett TCK is shorthand for Trans-Cultural Kid, or Third Culture Kid. The word “kid” is an amercanism, but also reminds me that TCK’s can have some goat-like characteristics, shared by [...]
by Sylvia Yuan and Timothy Chen 聽到媽媽說，我可以請假跟她到新加坡好幾周，真的很興奮呢！「海外基督使 團」（OMF）這個名稱我已聽過很多次，早前陪媽媽去上候選宣教士課程時，我就已和鈴木家的三個小朋友交上了朋友，他們的爸爸是日本人、媽媽是中國人。這次因為兩家人都去新加坡參加使團的「迎新課程」，我可以和鈴木家的孩子們在那邊待上一個月！每天見面一起玩，耶！ [...]
By Susan Murray – OMF New Zealand’s TCK Advisor Recently I had the privilege to travel to Thailand, Singapore and Cambodia with OMF, as their TCK (Third Culture Kids) advisor for New [...]
We both felt God’s prompting to mission work from a young age, and were inspired and challenged by hearing of the people who had served God in this way. We met and were married while at Otago [...]
By Jonathan Fuller, National Director of OMF Canada The question was addressed to one of our retired workers attending the annual OMF Thailand Field Conference. Ben and his wife served amongst [...]
By Gemma Creasy When I first arrived here in the Philippines I had the awesome opportunity to go scuba diving in a nearby coral reef. To be honest it was something that I never actually wanted to [...]
By Ailsa Barker Wirawan. A testimony of ministry to an unreached people on the east coast of SE Asia, pioneered by a local church and now part of a national missionary organization. It was a [...]
By Jill. Owned, loved, cherished, affirmed, cared for…these are all words that come to mind as I think of our last month of Home Assignment (HA) in New Zealand. I’m waiting for the plane [...]
Reverend John Hewlett has been part of the OMF fabric for as long as some of us can remember. We have seen him involved in various capacities for over 60 years, including 17 years as the National [...]
By Shireen Chua Do you believe in Prayer? It is a question if any one of us were asked would have only one response – YES. But if we are honest, our mustard seed sized faith may sometimes [...]
By Alison North We live in suburban Tokyo. Ten minutes’ walk from the station the buildings are mainly stand-alone houses, packed closely, some with small gardens, but with little space for the [...]
By Simon and Helen Johnson “I’ll make you a contract,” Yong I, one of our new believers, said to her husband Kevin. “If you want to keep worshipping your idols in our shop, then you have to come [...]
A SHORT TERM MEDICAL MISSION TRIP TO MYANMAR AND CAMBODIA By Theresa Mittermeier Psalm 147v3 He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds. My first day in Myanmar and I find myself [...]
By Dave Palmer “If you think you have come to the mission field because you are a little better than others, or as the cream of your church, or because of your training, or for the service [...]
A testimony by Sylvia Yuan Sylvia is a new member with OMF, joining the NZ Homeside team as a missions researcher and mobiliser. Recently I was asked about how I ended up with OMF. [...]
When you read about candidates who apply to serve with OMF, what you may not know is how they got there. Over the decades, each has a story to tell. As God calls each one, the journey of [...]
By Faye Imagine an area the size of New Zealand with 47 million people living in it, many of whom live in villages separated by mountains and isolated through language. Imagine those people [...]
What an eclectic bunch we must have looked at the airport! With an age range stretching from a 15 year old school girl through to a 74 year old granny, plus a mixture of cultures, it wasn’t your [...]
By Doug We are church planters. That means we seek to start a church where there is none, aiming to see its members reaching out to start other churches. The challenge is that the government of [...]
By Sarah and Edmonds Namburi The excitement started to build as the days drew closer to our holiday in Thailand and Vietnam in early January 2017. We had all our plans in place of places to see, [...]
By Christine Harding I received a rare kind of phone call a couple of years ago which still bugs me: “Our church wants to support a missionary – a real one though, not one that does [...]
Lee-anne Hill is relocating to Singapore to take on the role of Team Leader for OMF’s International Personnel System Centre of Expertise (what a job title!). We are hoping that you can take a [...]
By Shireen Chua, our OMF NZ Candidate Coordinator… I’ve just been reading Dr. J.O Sander’s book on Spiritual Maturity (Principles of Spiritual Growth for Every Believer). The [...]
By Hannah Rolston. I had the wonderful privilege of spending 14 weeks in Phnom Penh, Cambodia as part of the OMF Serve Asia Programme. As a trained Podiatrist I was able to observe and learn from [...]
Tania English is currently our OMF NZ Partnership Liaison Manager, and is a well-loved, long-standing staff member. From the very beginning, Tania’s journey of working at OMF has been one of [...]
When considering suffering in ministry, we received some beautiful and transparent reflections. These stories show us the faithfulness of God, even through some of the hardest times in our [...]
A beautiful way to reflect, pause and ponder on suffering is to remember the price that Jesus paid for our freedom. Even though what He endured was not beautiful, it was a beautiful sacrifice. We [...]
Suffering entered the world in the Garden of Eden, when Adam and Eve disobeyed God. In many different forms since then, we have lived with suffering; emotional, physical, and spiritual. We have [...]
by J. O. Fraser The first missionary to the Lisu people of the Upper Salween was going through a deep testing. It was not the privation, nor the loneliness of this isolated outpost, nor the [...]
by Dr. Will Bruce I. Saturation Praying Saturation praying is praying in which we share, then unite our hearts with other believers, and zero in on the target with specific and full coverage of [...]
by Dr. Will Bruce Every Christian in our modern world is under constant satanic pressure and attack. We must bear one another’s burdens as we see these pressures escalating. We can and must do it [...]
by Alex Smith Praise the Lord of the Church that “a people for his name” will be established among every unreached Buddhist nation, tribe, people and tongue. (Revelation 7:9-10) Bind the forces [...]
by Dr. Will Bruce Why do we say: “Brothers and sisters, pray for us”? There are many reasons, including those listed below. The full-time missionary must have the intercessory missionary working [...]
By Will Bruce A delegation of American pastors visiting Charles Spurgeon asked him the secret of his success. In response, Spurgeon led them to the lower level of his church and quietly opened [...]
“Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, … For where your treasure [...]
Article featured in 2013 East Asia Insight Q3 The Chinese church continues to grow and respond to new challenges and opportunities in an ever-changing social landscape. But much work remains. [...]
Article featured in 2013 East Asia Insight Q1 Shama Xier lives in a small village in a remote, underdeveloped part of Southwest China. Her family has lived there for many generations, raising [...]
Article featured in 2012 East Asia Insight Q4 OMF International is looking for committed Christian medical workers to share Christ’s love through the witness of their lives in southwest China and [...]
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