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Here's all the latest news from our overseas and homeland missionaries around the world. You can also find out more about events taking place within the UK as well as forthcoming opportunities to serve with OMS.

27 September 2010

Settling in

We arrived tired and sweaty on Friday afternoon. We praise God that we could move straight into the mission guest house. We will need to live out of suitcases until we get our own home prepared. It was a bit overwhelming to see how much we need to do to make it a home!! We are thankful...

27 September 2010

Journey to Mozambique part 3

On the day that Joshua and Abigail were 9 months-24th September-we started our journey to Mozambique. Abigail is looking out past her giant musical octopus given to her by her aunt, uncle & cousin. She loves it! Abigail and Joshua are such a blessing to us-they have been so adaptable....

27 September 2010

Journey to Mozambique part 2

Our flight arrived in Johannesburg on time and we were able to get the Citybug. The journey was smooth and Abigail and Joshua loved being in their forward facing seats and able to look around them! The journey took 4 hours. We were met by Steve and Liz. They were, and continue to be, such...

27 September 2010

Journey to Mozambique

Thank you so much for your prayers!! God really answered! We negotiated all the airports and God provided people right when we needed them. Thank you for praying about our luggage. All 11 bags arrived with us safely and we did not have to pay any excess baggage charges. The weekend...

26 September 2010

Future Plans

One of the main focuses for us as we arrived here has been to work along side our leaders to plan for the future. One exciting potential step for the future will be to see the work expand to other areas. The star on the right on the map shows where the drop-in centre is. It is just north of the...

26 September 2010

Independence Day

Exactly 200 years ago Mexico gained their independence from Spain, of course the country went absolutely mad partying and have partied every year on the 15th/16th of September since! As you can imagine being the bicentenary this year the country had an even bigger celebration than normal...

24 September 2010

On a mission in Ecuador

“I must be out of my mind” – I thought as I got on the plane to Ecuador on July 11, 2010. As I was getting on the plane all I could think of was God’s greatness for bringing me on this trip and for giving me His perfect peace. (After all it is quite rare to see a 17-year-old go off on her own to...

24 September 2010

A year on mission in the South Pacific

237 million people, 17008 islands, 840 languages, 1 main religion, 10 million hectares of rice fields and what have you got? The South Pacific: a land full of culture, colour and diversity, brimming with people of all shades and traditions. It was here that I got to experience a fantastic year...

17 September 2010