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“What impact can we have during a two-week outreach anyway?” asked a girl. The group from OM’s Missions Discipleship Training (MDT) was preparing for a short-term outreach. They found themselves working in the inner city of Pretoria with a ministry reaching out to homeless people. One day they met a homeless boy named Oscar. The team befriended him, and helped him get him off the streets and into a shelter for boys.

A month later the team went on another outreach organized by the same ministry. To their surprise they saw a familiar face. It was Oscar there, serving alongside them! One trainee said, “We actually got a glimpse of what God can do in one outreach!”

In fact, one of the trainees, Thabo, came to MDT in a similar way. He was living on the streets when trainees on an outreach found him and helped him get into the boys’ shelter. In the shelter he was discipled by an OMer who had been through MDT. Now Thabo has been through the six-month MDT himself and is hoping to join the Logos Hope.

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Photos South Africa

South Africa :: Attentive children listen to stories from Somalia.
South Africa :: Many Christian workers receive the call to missions at a young age.
South Africa :: Harry, with OM South Africa, teaches how to make memory boxes as a step towards accepting the loss of a loved one.
South Africa :: Children learn about Turkey at the Childrens Missions Event in South Africa.
South Africa :: The Re-birth team (Christo far left). These five young guys toured Europe sharing the gospel with those they met and relying on God to provide everything they needed.
South Africa :: Christo, a member of the Re-birth team, and five others travelled around Europe sharing the gospel and relying on God to provide everything they needed.
South Africa :: The Re-birth team prepare to spend the night in a train station. These five young guys toured Europe sharing the gospel with those they met and relying on God to provide everything they needed.
South Africa :: Space where OM Aids Hope is planning to build the play therapy workshop to help traumatised children.
South Africa :: Cooking over the fire during Rural outreach, South Africa
South Africa :: Ricardo serves with OM Young Hope in South Africa. His passion is to reach out to the fatherless generation and help them grow to have a relationship with God.

           

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