OM Australia presents some unique challenges and opportunities. With 140 languages spoken in the country, it represents a global village which needs to hear the Gospel. OM Australia's role is to recruit, encourage, inform and send Australians to serve around the world. OM Australia works closely with churches and other mission groups to share the vision and opportunities for mission involvement.

The Australian church is mainly middle class, fairly apathetic, and needs its missions vision increased. With 120 Australians serving around the world with OM, support staff are needed to run the OM Australia Home Office, based in Melbourne. People who can work in personnel, administration, bookkeeping, and people with ministry and recruiting skills are needed to make this possible.

We have an exciting ministry to Muslims in Sydney called MAP (Ministry to Australian Peoples). There are currently openings for people with a heart to reach Muslim people in Australia. Practical involvement in friendship evangelism, discipleship, and special training about Islamic culture and beliefs are part of the program.

Part of OM Australia's recruiting strategy is the establishment of a discipleship and training program known as "D2." We would welcome people gifted in people skills, administration, training, teaching and discipleship to assist in the further development of D2.

OM Australia also wants to develop an OM Presentation Team ministry. We need people gifted in public speaking and creative ministry to travel around Australia for up to six months per year presenting and promoting the work of OM. The language used in OM Australia's Home Office is English. Those joining MAP will seek to learn the language of the people to which they are called, where the target groups are not able to effectively communicate in English.

Australian missionaries are serving in 25 different locations within OM. Why don’t you become part of the sending operation or consider being part of ministry within the country?

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AUSTRIA

Austria is a small country in the center of Europe with a population of about 7 million. With around 74% Catholics, the majority of Austrians will call themselves Christians. Although the evangelical community has grown during the last decade, they still make up less than 1% of the population.

1. To motivate the church to get involved in world mission
   
2. To motivate young Austrian Christians to get involved in Global Challenge and Global Action
   
3. To train young Austrian Christians to become "Great Commission Christians"
   
4. To reach non-Christians through our bookshop in Vienna

To help us attain these goals, we have opportunities for people who love working in an office, can help with administrative and secretarial work, or who know more about computers than we do. In addition to this, you can join our Vienna bookshop team to reach Austrians with the great news about Jesus.

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BELGIUM

Thousands of tourists flock to visit Belgium each year. This small Western European nation has a rich cultural heritage and architecture to rival any in the world. Cities like Brussels, Gent and Brugge are home to beautiful buildings, fountains and statues. Priceless art treasures adorn the churches and cathedrals.

The Belgian people pride themselves on their culture and good taste. They are renowned for their exquisite chocolates and intricate lace. But all this is a facade that hides the spiritual poverty of an outwardly prosperous nation.

Statistics are not enough to explain the need. There is a tiny evangelical church, between 0.5 and 0.7% of the population of 10 million, but the overwhelming majority of Belgians are completely ignorant of--and totally indifferent to--the Gospel.

OM Belgium is based in Gent, just a 45-minute drive northwest of the capital city Brussels. OM Belgium's evangelistic ministry is demonstrating and proclaiming the love of God. OM Belgium has planted a bilingual international church in Gent, reaching both Belgians and the many international students and immigrants in the city. The team is working to strengthen and to develop the church through ongoing evangelism programs. The Alpha course has played a significant part in the strategy. Many have been introduced to the church and to a relationship with Jesus through this tool.

OM Belgium Youth events and OM's TeenStreet program are strengthening and encouraging Christian teenagers throughout the country. A number of Belgian young people have joined Teens In Missions (TIM) programs, learning how they can share Jesus with others.

OM Belgium team members work to discover their own evangelism "style" and to develop evangelistic programs and methods best suited to their personality and gifting. This allows for creativity and flexibility in sharing the Gospel through friendship, service, language learning, Bible study or Alpha groups, street work, music and much more.

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BOSNIA-HERCEGOVINA

Bosnia-Hercegovina is one of the least-evangelized European countries, with approximately only 700-1,000 believers in a population of 3.5 million people. The country is divided into two entities: the Republic of Serbia and the Federation. Its population consists of Serbs who are mostly in the Republic of Serbia, and Croats and Muslims, mostly in the Federation. Even though the war has succeeded in ethnically dividing the people, most cities are still made up of a mixture of the three ethnic groups, with strong majorities in each.

After a five-year war that ended in November 1995, the country is still struggling to get on its feet. There is still more than 60-85% unemployment. More than 500,000 Bosnians are still refugees in their own country, and thousands of Bosnians immigrate every year to countries like the USA, Canada, Australia and others where they believe they will have a better chance of being able to provide for their families.

The church, though small, has a strong vision to reach its own people. Church planting exists across denominations. Churches and mission agencies work well together in unity.

OM Bosnia has three focuses: A church-planting team in Bihac, ministry/church help teams in Sarajevo and office support teams. The church-planting team in Bihac is involved in friendship evangelism, discipleship, small group Bible studies, teaching English/computers, children's ministry and social ministries. Church-planting opportunities are numerous, and we are looking forward to starting another team in a different city within the next year. The team is looking for self-motivated people to join them who have a desire to learn church planting on the job, who are willing to try new things, and above all who are willing to invest in people. People joining this team will be involved in language learning and additional training to equip them for ministry.

In Sarajevo, the ministry/church help team is assisting local churches to reach out to their communities. The young church needs encouragement and discipleship training. People in these teams are directly involved with the local church and the local church leadership. This includes ministry opportunities in children's work, social work, youth and student work, discipleship, friendship evangelism and small-group Bible studies. Language learning is an integral part of living and ministering in Bosnia, with additional training throughout the year to train and equip people in ministry.

The office support team is involved in coordinating short-term outreaches, translating and distributing literature, overseeing finances, pastoral care, training, national and international communications, aid distribution, administration and lots more! The office support team is still developing.

Anyone joining for two years will also be trained through the Pentecostal or Baptist Bible School, depending on the denomination that you are working with.

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BRAZIL

Brazil is a country of 3.2 million square miles, 174 million people, with a growing church that represents 20% of its inhabitants.

The evangelical church in Brazil, numbering about 35 million, has great potential to make a huge contribution to world missions. Our main goal is to motivate, recruit, train, and help local churches to send believers to different parts of the unreached world. Already Brazil has 42 Brazilians serving in different parts of the world with OM, and it is because of the cooperation of many people from the evangelical churches from around the world.

OM Brazil offers a tremendous opportunity for specific ministries in training, teaching, recruiting, and evangelism.

--One of our greatest needs is for Global Service people with skills in teaching English who can come and establish our Language School.

--We challenge you to consider coming to Brazil for two to five years for a vital ministry of preparing the people of God in Brazil for mission in the 10/40 window. We started our first Missionary Training Base for reaching Muslims in Brazil. We still need teachers of Arabic, teachers of Arab culture, and people willing to reach out to Muslims in the region of Iguassu Falls.

--Every year, we have our Global Challenge Conference and outreach in Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo and Natal (Northeast of Brazil). At the conference, we spend one week training believers for creative evangelism, discipleship, drama, mime, and worship, as the kick off for the outreach which will be for one to three weeks.

We speak Portuguese, but if you don't speak it, don't worry, because we can teach you, if you want to teach us with your skills for enhancing the global ministry God has given us.

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CANADA

OM Canada's role in the body of Christ is to mobilize Canadians to go, pray, send and grow.

We challenge Christians in our own country to participate with OM in world evangelism, helping them to prepare for departure and find their own place on the field.

We recruit short-term workers for short- and long-term outreaches around the world.

We serve our Canadian missionaries who are on the field.

We channel funds given in Canada to designated ministries abroad.

We keep contact with thousands of Canadians through periodic newsletters, thank-you letters attached to receipts and numerous international prayer letters.

We represent OM in mission conferences, church meetings and other events through preaching and teaching, fresh reports from the fields and book tables.

Why do we do this? Because we are convinced that more Canadians need to be sharing their faith to people in the world who have never heard, who are living in places where they have little or no opportunity to hear the Good News. We want to be a part of God's Great Commission. To do the work God has given us, we have a great need for more support staff. There are opportunities for secretaries, administrators, a computer systems administrator and receptionist.

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CENTRAL AMERICA

Central America, with a population slightly over 36 million, is the seven-country subcontinent that unites North and South America. It starts at the southern border of Mexico with Guatemala and Belize, and ends at Panama's southern border with Colombia. The seven countries are Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama. Spanish is the main language, though in all of the countries several Amerindian languages are spoken. In Belize, a British colony until 1981, English is the main language with Spanish a close second. Catholicism is the main religion. A large percentage of Catholics are devout. About 13% of the Central American population is Protestant.

Four of the Central American countries make up OM Central America: Guatemala, El Salvador, Costa Rica, and Panama.

There is a growing understanding and commitment in the area churches toward missions. In every one of the countries there are missionary sending groups.

Each local OM office has one or two evangelistic outreaches in its country. Also, once a year, OM Central America has an evangelistic outreach in one of the Central American countries during Easter week with the participation of all four local offices.

OM Guatemala has an outreach for displaced Amerindians in the northwestern part of the country. OM El Salvador promotes two evangelistic outreaches each year within the country. In Panama, the OM team is initiating a training program that will take place in February of each year. A developing team of OM workers in Costa Rica has a support role to the OM leaders and ministries throughout Central America.

Since the OM Central American office is in its developing stages the greater need is for office personnel with practical and organizational skills.

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CENTRAL ASIA NORTH

The Northern area of Central Asia covers the former Soviet republics of Kazakstan and Kyrgyzstan. More specifically, we are working with the Kazak, Kyrgyz, Uighur, and Hui peoples, not only in the above countries, but also in neighboring regions. These two countries continue to experience religious freedom, however caution in evangelism is necessary away from the main centers.

God is doing an awesome and a quick work among these peoples. Workers are needed now to ensure that the discipleship of new believers is undertaken in an organized and consistent manner. Many opportunities exist in church planting, leadership training, and open evangelistic outreach.

Team members currently have access into several orphanages and prisons; we would like to strengthen and expand these ministries. OM also operates a recording studio and a desktop publishing ministry. Trained or experienced personnel are urgently needed. Much work is still to be done in the areas of literature development and distribution. A self-motivated and innovative person is needed to coordinate this distribution ministry.

Development projects are now underway in Kazakstan. We are involved with relief distribution, cottage industries, ESL, medical services, and the establishment of micro-enterprises. We are looking to grow substantially with this aspect of ministry. Qualified or experienced professionals are in high demand, including school teachers.

We would prefer interested applicants to make an initial commitment of two years; however we will look at shorter periods for personnel with needed qualifications. The majority of teams use English as the team language and in all field business. In ministry, use of the local languages is preferred; hence, language and cultural acquisition is a priority during the first year.

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  CENTRAL NORTH AFRICA

The Central North Africa field (CNA) ministers among the 45 million Muslims of Algeria, Tunisia, and Libya.

Long-term church planters in central North Africa work to evangelize, disciple, and nurture North African believers. Our two-year training program provides a bridge between short-term teams and long-term ministry.

Short-term teams led by experienced personnel contribute to the long-term work and gain insight into this region as they meet the people, share their faith, and pray.

Small traveling teams, coupled with other OM fields in our area, visit various countries touching major cities and remote villages. Creative distribution of print, audio and video materials, and personal witness are part of this stretching one-year opportunity.

Entry strategies and details of language and culture learning vary between our countries. Long-term workers will need to find or create an appropriate job which will be the means of obtaining a long-term residence permit. Flexibility is a requirement! We are looking for mature Christians with summer team experience to join these programs.

Support workers serve CNA with administrative, secretarial, bookkeeping and financial skills. (See Morocco Mauritania Ministries field, with the office in southern Spain, for details on this joint support team.)

CNA functions with English as the common team language. Team members, especially in their first two years, will place a high priority on learning the appropriate dialects of Arabic.

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CHILE

In 1988, a small office was opened in Chile following the second visit of the DOULOS, so that Chileans could join the ships' ministry. We have been focusing the work on informing and challenging the Chilean church about missions and sending out people to be involved in world missions.

It is our vision to visit churches over the entire country of Chile (2,500 miles), which involves a lot of traveling. We are traveling from the desert in the north to the green hills and islands in the south, with the beautiful Andes mountains forming the border with Argentina. We are also responsible for recruiting Bolivians into OM.

We encourage young people to help us present missions and recruit Chileans and Bolivians for missions. We train those who want to know more about missions, then send them out, in partnership with their churches. We produce a bimonthly missionary bulletin, encouraging Christians to pray for missions and missionaries outside of Chile. We also sell and distribute literature.

The team language is Spanish, used in the offices and in all outreaches. Non-Spanish-speaking recruits will have Spanish classes.

We need enthusiastic and motivated (young) people who have a vision for recruiting and training Chileans for cross-cultural missions, who like office work, traveling and outreaches. We need people for recruiting, office administration, personnel manager, graphic designer, and an outreach coordinator.

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CZECH REPUBLIC

Despite its religious history, the Czech Republic is a very secular country. Since the "Velvet Revolution" of 1989, the country has been greatly influenced by foreign business and many kinds of religious and philosophical sects and cults. In a country that is becoming increasingly materialistic, most of the population still needs one thing: Jesus Christ. Approximately 80% of the people do not believe that God exists. The Czech Republic has a population of 10.3 million people, with an estimated evangelical population of less than one-third of 1% (0.23%). The younger generation is more spiritually open than their parents, and here lies the hope and the challenge: that they will get to know God as their personal savior.

Our purpose is to bring the Gospel to the Czech people and glorify God in partnership with the Church of the Czech Republic in order to motivate, develop and equip people for world evangelization, and to strengthen and help plant churches. Our objectives are to help the Czech church to evangelize and disciple Czechs, to energize the church in the Czech Republic for world missions, to facilitate the sending of Czechs out into the harvest field, to help establish new churches in the Czech Republic, and to provide cross-cultural missions training for foreigners.

The four ministry areas of the team are evangelism and evangelism training, church planting, bridge building, and support ministries.

The area of evangelism and training includes evangelistic outreaches with local churches (school ministry, street ministry, personal evangelism), training seminars (evangelistic tools, world mission, discipleship), and other evangelistic opportunities (children's work, friendship evangelism, language teaching). It also involves helping to organize one of the short-term outreaches, such as Global Challenge or TeenStreet. There is also the possibility of being part of a satellite team, spending six months or longer actively involved in evangelism and discipleship with a specific local church.

The area of church planting includes two main emphases: The first is on working in partnership with other missionaries and local churches in order to help Czech denominations reach their church-planting goals. This is accomplished through prayer, research, envisioning (mobilizing Czech leaders toward church planting), training, and mentoring. The second emphasis is on being part of an evangelistic team that works with a local church, seeking to plant another church in our target area of South Bohemia.

In bridge-building ministries, we want to build bridges to non-believers through a holistic ministry. We operate a school that addresses the great interest of learning English. More English teachers are needed.

Our support ministries include administration, personnel, communications, and finance. We also have a presentation team going around to churches and youth groups in the Czech Republic to recruit for missions. Our biggest need in this area is for a team leader/office leader, but we also need a personnel/recruiting officer, a study and training co-coordinator, a secretary, a graphic designer, a pastoral counselor, musicians and much more.

New recruits will spend five weeks at the Missionary Training School (MTS), followed by language learning with a language helper, and at least a month of living with a Czech family. The new recruit will then become involved in the team's ministry programs. Throughout the first two years, team members will also be involved in the Global Action training program and ongoing language study, as well as some practical work. In selected areas of ministry, it is possible to accept people for one year, but only by special agreement.

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FINLAND

OM Finland's main role is to serve and help the Finnish Church to be involved in world missions. We use different means to share the challenge of world missions by visiting the churches and keeping in contact with the church leaders. We publish OM News regularly, which gives a wide view of what's happening in different parts of the world.

Our team is involved in coordinating short-term outreaches, TeenStreet youth work, teaching and training new recruits for Global Action, visiting churches, overseeing finances, administration, computer support, church relations, public relations, publishing, personnel, and pastoral care.

Finnish speakers are naturally preferred for our office, but this is not an absolute. In addition, someone fluent in Swedish as well would be an asset for developing our ministry along the south and west coasts of Finland. In Finland, we have many opportunities to share missions. We need people who are willing to communicate the Great Commission to the Finnish Church, especially to the young generation.

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FRANCE

France has a population of 59 million people. It is the most visited country in the world, with over 70 million tourists flocking in every year. It is also one of the founding, and still today one of the leading members of the European Community, boasting the fourth most powerful economy in the world and a rich cultural heritage.

France remains one of the most spiritually poor countries in Western Europe, with only six evangelical Christians for every 1,000 inhabitants; 94% of the administrative districts have no evangelical church. Seventy percent of the people claim to be Catholic, but only 12% practice regularly. Many have little or no understanding of the Gospel. Due to the influx of immigrants from North Africa and the Middle East, Islam has become the second largest religion after Catholicism. Only a small minority of the 4.5 million Muslims have ever heard the Gospel. Official secularism masks a great spiritual hunger as many people turn to mediums and occult practices in their search for hope and meaning in their lives. France remains a country of great contrasts-- and yet also one of great need.

We have a team that is located in the Loire Valley involved in a pioneering church-planting project and two teams in Paris, one working among people of North African origin and the other being our vital support team.

The Loire Valley team works in a beautiful and culturally rich area with its historic buildings and castles in the west of France. Yet it is one of the regions of France with the fewest churches, and Catholic influence is strong. French is the team language, and those with little knowledge of the language will spend time learning the basics and practicing it with church members and other local contacts. Evangelism will be done through door-to-door work, the selling of calendars, coffee bars, youth work, and evangelistic evenings.

Squeezed into the capital, Paris, is about 18% of the population of France. This includes more than a million French Muslims, many of whom are immigrants from North Africa and the Middle East. OM France has the vision to set up a team working with other missions and churches in Paris. We are particularly looking for people with a long-term vision for reaching Muslims in France with the Gospel. Involvement in this team would also be an excellent starting point for those considering ministry in French-speaking North Africa in the future.

Having seen the real need among young people as well as the churches who would like to serve them, we would like to develop TeenStreet and Teens in Mission (TIM) into a full-fledged youth ministry. For this, we will need a full-time youth work coordinator to oversee this ministry with French churches.

Our office team in the Paris headquarters provides logistical support in administration, computer management, personnel, finance, recruiting, and organization of short-term events. Key people are needed in the following areas: bookkeeping, communication and computer management. People who work in the office must speak French very well.

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  GERMANY

Mosbach is the home office for about 200 German OMers working all over the world. Our main purpose is to inform and mobilize the German church to take the responsibility for missions. The office facilities are in a renovated mill on the outskirts of a small town in southwest Germany, providing an ideal setting for a conference center.

OM Germany is known for its hospitality, not only to individuals, but also as host to OM conferences throughout the year. OM Germany recruits hundreds of participants for international short-term outreaches and also organizes TeenStreet, OM's international congress for teenagers.

Germany is also home for a lot of foreign people. We have started a team reaching these foreigners with the love of Christ and look for mission workers with experience in the 10/40 Window. A team has started home groups with them, offers book in the center of a city near Mosbach and visits people who are seeking asylum to build relationships with them.

We need people who see their gifting more on the practical side and who would like to be involved in missions behind the scenes. For the office, we need bilingual secretaries (fluent in German and English) with organizational skills. We also need an accountant, a bookkeeper with a knowledge of the German language, maintenance/household/kitchen staff, and a carpenter. Office staff should expect to make a commitment of at least a year. The team language is German, so a basic knowledge of German is required for recruits coming for one or more years.

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GREATER EUROPE TEAM (GE)

For 30 years, the Greater Europe team in Austria has been producing and distributing Bibles and Christian literature. After the dramatic collapse of Communism in the Eastern Bloc countries in 1989, this literature ministry moved from being "undercover" to being able to operate openly. Those who formerly received literature in secret were able to sell it openly. Distribution from other countries is now legal although not without its challenges!

Because technical capability in many countries is limited, and weak economies mean that money is scarce for book production, the Greater Europe team provides the skills to produce the books and raises the finances to subsidize their production. This means that quality books can be purchased at an affordable price in Eastern Europe. We produce literature in 19 different languages for Eastern Europe and Central Asia and add new languages to these nearly every year.

Over the last three years, we have developed a vision to meet both the spiritual and physical needs of the people of Eastern Europe. We are now regularly taking truckloads of food, clothing, hygienic products, and medical supplies to the needy people in Bulgaria, Moldova, Romania and Bosnia. The distribution takes place with the help of local churches and other Christian contacts in these countries.

The team is divided into departments of literature production, literature distribution, aid distribution, and a support team. The support team consists of vehicle mechanics, maintenance people, administrators, and bookkeepers. The literature distribution department is responsible for taking new books from the printers to a network of contacts in a variety of countries. The team language is English. We need typesetters, graphic artists, writers, communications people, a recruiter with OM experience, and maintenance people.

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  GREECE

The Operation Mobilization team in Greece is a part of the OM team in Albania and the Balkans. Our two focuses are reaching the half million Albanian immigrant workers in Greece and co-working with Greek churches. The Protestant churches are small and need partnership and prayer.

In Greece, there are many opportunities for ministry. Many of the young people are interested in learning foreign languages such as French, German, Spanish and especially English. Teaching and conversational teaching are a great way to get to know people. For recruits with gifts in sports and a desire to use sports ministry, there is a possibility to develop this on a local level.

In addition to this, we are setting up a home office to offer short-term missions training opportunities to Greek believers. We would like to have people to do bookkeeping, administration, publications, and presentations. All team members who work in the home office would also be expected to learn Greek and have a ministry outside the office for half of the week.

The Albanian ministry consists of friendship evangelism, discipleship, literature distribution, leadership training, networking with Albanian Christian groups in different places, and serving and encouraging the Greek churches in their outreach to the Albanian immigrants.

All recruits coming for the Greek or Albanian ministries first go through the five-week MTS (Missionary Training School), held in another Eastern European country, before traveling to the Balkans. Those who will be part of the Greek ministry will go straight to the team in Greece, while those who join the Albanian ministry will spend at least three months in Albania for language/culture study, before moving to Greece. Any members of the Albanian ministry who stay longer than two years will then be given the opportunity to study Greek. All team members will learn either Greek or Albanian.

We are open to take people for less than a year who have a special skill, like TEFL, sports, or music.

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HONG KONG

Hong Kong became a Special Administrative Region (SAR) of China in July 1997 and Macau did the same in December 1999. We have been going through major changes since then. OM Hong Kong has served as a home office, sending out recruits from the Hong Kong churches to many OM fields. OM Hong Kong has developed different outreach ministries with other organizations in Hong Kong and Macau. For example, a ministry to new arrivals coming into Hong Kong from mainland China, prison, and prostitute ministry in Macau, etc. Our goals are to spread the good news and the great commission to Chinese people who are living inside/outside Hong Kong and Macau.

The GA program started in 1999. Our goals are mobilizing Chinese Christians into world missions and preparing non-Chinese Christians for reaching out to different parts of the world. Training is given in urban and cross-cultural evangelism, the biblical basis of missions, concept of communism, Chinese beliefs, etc. Trainees spend more time on outreach than in the classroom. Training will be taught in English or Cantonese and interpreters will be provided if necessary. New recruits will be expected to learn language for ministry, but English is the team language.

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HUNGARY

OM Hungary is based in Erd, just outside Budapest. We are involved in ministry targeted at preparing the churches in Hungary to strategically evangelize the entire country, practically disciple new believers, and effectively plant churches. Our teams include both foreigners and Hungarians. Satellite teams are involved in helping Hungarian church planters fulfill the vision God has given them, while also receiving training and experience to prepare them to be effective church planters. These teams are primarily working among the Roma (Gypsy) people.

Everyone joining OM Hungary has the privilege of attending the Central European Training School, training and preparing for ministry. Foreigners minister and learn through a modern language program in the community. There are five primary ministry areas in Hungary:

The church planter/ministry helper teams among the Roma (Gypsies) need four to nine people. These teams work together with Hungarian church planters to plant Roma churches across the country. The Roma are a special people with a real openness to the Good News; yet there are few churches among them. We need people who have a desire to learn church planting on the job and who have hearts to be servants and resources to a Hungarian pastor or ministry. Team members are involved in training, evangelism, discipleship, small-group Bible studies, teaching language, children's ministry, sports ministry and other community ministries. The pastor is often responsible for three to six other fellowships, so the teams also assist in church growth through lay leadership training, one-on-one discipleship, and evangelism.

The evangelistic social development ministry is a partnership with a Hungarian ministry, which is involved in long-term social development in many practical ways. This team is involved in maintenance, teaching English, counseling and skills development at a men's shelter, women's shelter, and ministry in an orphanage.

Our training ministry team is responsible for training churches in evangelism, discipleship and missions. It also trains and cares for those on satellite teams. This team is also involved in communicating the vision of missions to the Hungarian church and equipping them to be active in missions. The team does this training by holding seminars in our training center and in churches.

Our mobilizing ministry team is the support team that organizes an evangelism training conference each summer, followed by citywide evangelism. From the conference, teams work in local churches, practicing what they have learned. Other vital responsibilities are networking with other missions, operating a bookstore, pastoral care, recruiting, communications, administration, publications, bookkeeping, hospitality and maintenance. This team needs people interested in serving the whole body through their God-given skills and abilities.

We especially need people interested in training, teaching, and mentoring in the new teams and in the church-planting movement. We also need people to provide technical support in accounting, financial development, computer support, and pastoral care. The team languages are English and Hungarian.

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INTERNATIONAL COORDINATING TEAM (ICT)

Do you consider yourself a behind-the-scenes person who likes to make things happen on center stage? Are you a "techie" who thrives on understanding modern technology? Or maybe you are an administrative buff who puts the "C" in coordination? If you answer "yes" to any of the above, you might find your kingdom niche on the International Coordinating Team (ICT). Joining ICT would mean you would be assisting the global church in a changing world by working with OMers from 60 nations. Currently 40 international staff members comprise ICT, making it the dynamic hub and administrative heart of the Operation Mobilization worldwide network.

You may serve in a support role for the International Director Peter Maiden as well as bolstering ministries around the world through leadership, people development and corporate services. Peter Maiden is responsible to convene and chair a network of business meetings crucial to the effective leadership and management of OM. He also promotes the core values and vision of the movement. ICT serves as a base for this leadership position.

An experienced team of qualified people in ICT also serves OM through consultation, mentoring, resources and training. They also convene international committees and work groups to facilitate various personnel and people development functions in the areas of Personnel Administration, Member Care, Training, Leadership Development and Mobilizing.

Our corporate services people are involved in a wide scope of activity.

• Working with finances in over 30 currencies and assisting 80 autonomous national charities is a small part of what corporate services does on an international basis. Accounting and finance staff utilize accounting systems and controls that ensure financial integrity and adherence to international accounting standards.
  
• The financial development department not only works with partners who stand behind OM in financial giving, but trains workers to build a personal financial partnership team.
  
• The information technology department keeps abreast on rapidly developing technology. E-mail, web technology and international intranets are promising tools for worldwide mission work. Information technology also produces and maintains standard software systems for OM offices internationally.
  
• Communications is another group within corporate services which represents OM worldwide. This department streamlines the flow of information from the distribution of prayer needs to supplying feature articles, international videos and a photo gallery from around the OM world.

A one-year minimum commitment is preferred, but shorter lengths of commitment can be negotiated for special situations.

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  IRELAND

The Republic of Ireland (Eire) is the northern-most Roman Catholic country in Western Europe. Evangelical numbers have grown over the past 10 years and stand at 1.6% of the population, the lowest percentage of any country in the English-speaking world.

OM has had a long history of involvement with Ireland with outreaches and mobilization. The new Global Action team, which began in September 2002, is based in Donegal (Northwest Ireland) and is working along side local churches. Team members will receive training and have many opportunities for evangelism. Our first team has been involved in youth clubs, coffee bars, street drama, door-to-door evangelism, raising the profile of the church in the community, and daily involvement in the life of the church, including providing practical help. They also have had opportunities to travel within Ireland, working alongside other churches, helping them to fulfill their ministry plans. We have a double-decker bus that is used by the team mainly for kids clubs. The bus is an excellent tool for reaching out to children and parents in local housing areas.

We would like to see additional Global Action teams working with other churches throughout Ireland, helping with evangelism and building up the local church.

This is a time for major development of the work in Ireland. Although we will be concentrating on evangelism, we also need some office-based people to help us grow in other ministries. These include the vision to see the Irish church involved in a greater way in world missions. The team language is English.

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IRELAND AT A GLANCE

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ISRAEL

Israel is a beautiful country with a great variety in landscape, people groups, and religions. It is a very interesting country, as it is often the center of world news. It is also the country where Jesus lived and where the Bible comes alive. Israel has a population of 6 million people, while only about 3,000 are Messianic Jews and about 3,000 are Evangelical Arabs.

Our team has three main objectives:

1. The daily walk of growing closer to the image of Christ.
   
2. Reaching the lost in this land, regardless of race or religion.
   
3. Serving and strengthening the local body of believers.

We prefer a one- or two-year commitment. This will include a core study program, which involves the study of Jewish history and culture, Messianic prophecies, Arabic culture, and language study. You can choose later whether to study Hebrew, Arabic or Russian, depending on the people group of your focus. You will also be involved in team devotions, the OM weekly prayer meeting, and attend a local congregation. You can choose between a Messianic, Arabic, Ethiopian, Russian, or other congregation. In the church, you could be involved in children's work, youth work, worship, Bible studies, prayer groups, and many more exciting opportunities.

We do evangelism at least three times a week, plus special outreaches during holiday times. Some of the evangelistic methods are: door-to-door, open-air (with songs and mime), tracting (on the streets or mailboxes), questionnaires, the Jesus video project, and friendships. Literature is very important in the evangelism process, so you will help sow seeds, share, and give out thousands of books and Bibles.

In the first year, the focus is on training. In the second year, there will be freedom to develop your own ministry among a people group, with leadership input, and according to your gifts, calling, and interests. At the end of this two-year period, you may wish to make a longer commitment to our field or to another OM field around the world.

Long-termers have their own ministry among a specific people group or work as a tent-maker in their own profession and then join the team's activities. They begin with all or parts of the Global Action training.

The support team serves the team with their skills, like computer support, maintenance, and bookkeeping. Everyone on the field is committed to evangelism, so if you join the support team, you will go on outreaches at least twice a week.

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ISRAEL AT A GLANCE

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  ITALY

Italy is one of the most beautiful but also one of the most needy countries in Europe today. It has a reputation for political turmoil and spiritual darkness. Although 78% of the population is Roman Catholic, many are Catholic in name only.

Idolatry and occultism are widespread. The city of Turin boasts one of the largest groups of Satanists in Europe, where many pray for all missionaries to leave Italy! Other cults, such as Jehovah's Witnesses, are more numerous than evangelical Christians.

Over the centuries, the evangelical church in Italy has remained small and insular in the face of persecution from the Catholic majority. Only 1.15% of the population is evangelical, of which two-thirds are not of Italian origin.

OM began working in Italy in 1962. Over the past 40 years, short-term evangelistic campaigns have made a significant impact on the nation. Today, the Italian church is waking up to its own responsibility for sharing the Gospel in the nation and is asking for help. OM Italy exists to cooperate with the Italian Church in sharing the Gospel and introducing people to a deeper relationship with Jesus Christ through radical discipleship. OM Italy--when believing Jesus means living Jesus!

Support team
OM Italy's office in Ivrea, near Turin, works to encourage and mobilize the Italian church and represent Italians serving with OM around the world. Skilled personnel work in finance, communications, administration and personnel.

Evangelism
Three OM couples have established long-term evangelistic ministries in Rome, Ivrea and Torre Pellice. In Parma, OM Italy-Save Ishmael is reaching out to Muslims.

Youth
TeenStreet, Student Days, training seminars, meetings for youth, Bible camps and other events are held throughout the year.

Literature
We produce 240,000 copies of the evangelistic booklet The Only Way every year, and we publish a newsletter sent to over 6,000. We seek to meet the need of good Christian books in Italian by publishing important foreign literature.

Sport ministry
OM Italy is committed to exploring new ways of sharing the Gospel and reaching people through sports. Some pioneering