Seeing Past the Obvious
“The little boy was using his bike to carry water jugs. What caught my attention was that the bike did not have a seat,” recalls an OM team member in Nepal. “I started a conversation with the boy and walked with him to a bike shop where I wanted to buy him a seat. When I asked…
The Women of Las Tablas
"You provide such a wonderful break from our reality. I hope you never get tired of coming," said Candy, a young mother attending OM Costa Rica's women's ministry in Las Tablas. The reality of Las Tablas includes families dealing with poverty, drug and alcohol abuse…
Displaced by Disaster
After a natural disaster, even when aid is available, many people are cut off from aid because of destroyed roads, illness, or bad communication. This is when teams on the ground are the most valuable. After last year’s flooding in Pakistan, teams fanned out all across the…
The Bedouin
Imagine that you are a Bedouin. You’ve never heard the name of Jesus. You’re sitting in a tent with your whole tribe listening to a foreign man tell a story. The story begins with a man and a woman in a garden, and the loving God who created them. He tells about how they ate they forbidden fruit…
Isolated Believers
An OM team took a drive with a local brother in the Lord. “As we drove into the village,” he writes, “a man was standing in the middle of the road. It was the man we'd just telephoned! He got in the car and directed us to his cottage. This local brother and I sat in the…
Hidden Peoples
Off the grid. These precious souls may be invisible to the world -- homeless, enslaved, or imprisoned -- but they are seen by God and He is asking us to find and uplift them.
