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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.

28 September 2012

REPORT BACK FROM A SHORT-TERMER IN ECUADOR

On June 27th Nicola Brown, from Portadown N.Ireland, and in her final year at Edinburgh University, set off for Ecuador to spend 4 weeks of her summer helping out with various projects including English camp, youth work and some practical work. She writes… My first few days were spent trying to...

28 September 2012

OMS-UK Prayer Initiative – November 1-10, 2012

Paul exhorted the believers in Philippi to: “Be careful for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.” Philippians 4:6 God engraved Philippians 4:6 on my heart ever since Pastor Lawrence Kennedy spoke on it at our 2010...

28 September 2012

MISSION HARVEST PRAISE EVENINGS IN NORTHERN IRELAND

You are warmly invited to our OMS-UK Mission Harvest Praise Evenings The first event will be held on - Friday 12th October 2012 at 8 pm Bethany Baptist Church 23 – 27 Gransha Road Bangor Co. Down BT20 4TN Singers:- Justified and Pastor Paul Acheson Epilogue:- Pastor Paul...

27 September 2012

Consider it Pure Joy

James 1:2-4 Consider it pure joy, my brothers, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith develops perseverance. Perseverance must finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything. The past few weeks have been busy,...

24 September 2012

Some sad goodbyes!

We are missing the team that came from S. Wales already. Andrew, Helen, Miriam and Sam were an encouragement, blessing, support, help, and became great friends to our family (Nisha and Anya especially loved having them around!), as well as to many other Mexicans here. They were here for two...

05 September 2012

Man shall not live by bread alone

We spent the weekend of the 17th-19th August in Johannesburg. Our return trip was over 1,200km – the children did very well! Our purpose was four-fold. One of the design features of these chairs - wide front caster wheels designed to glide over uneven surfaces! We are exploring how these...

03 September 2012

New Faces and New Roles

This is a photo of the team who will be arriving tomorrow (Monday) to work with us over the next two weeks. They are Helen, Andrew, Sam and Miriam (from left to right) and are coming from South Wales. We are really excited about what God may have in store over the next couple of weeks. It never...

31 August 2012

Marriage Preparation

Last month (16th July) we wrote about Sofia and her two kids, who came along to a Holiday Club we were running at the drop-in centre. We also shared about of her desire to get married to her partner, Joe, also an ex-street kid. They are pictured here with their adopted Mum and Dad who have...

31 August 2012

Struggle for survival after life on the streets

Today we met up with Eli and her two children, Samuel and Naphtali, and spent some time catching up with how the family are doing. Some of you may remember Eli from previous newsletters and blogs. Helen has known her since 2001 when she had recently come off the street and was living with Fidel...

31 August 2012

Northern Ireland Young Adults Weekend

N.Ireland Young Adults Weekend NOVEMBER 16-18 Moyallon Centre (www.moyallon.org) 117 Stramore Road Portadown Co Armagh BT63 5JZ The Theme of the weekend is “MISSION” A great time of fellowship, worship, teaching and missionary reports from around the world Guest Speaker: Jonathan Morton—Director...