About OM USA

Operation Mobilization's USA office serves in several ways, some focused on Americans working with OM, and others on mobilizing and partnering with American churches. Here's a brief list of some of the ministries we are involved in.

1. Recruit, prepare and place new workers. This requires recruiters, advertisements, organizing and traveling to conferences, phone calls, faxes, letters, and writing and designing brochures, and maintaining a website.

2. Send out approximately 300 short-term workers and about 60 new one- to two-year workers each year.

3. Care for and serve American OMers (currently more than 750, including about 175 serving in OM's year programs, 325 serving as long-termers, and 250+ children). This requires implementing personnel policies such as a health insurance policy, retirement, etc., visiting fields, hosting OM workers at OM USA, maintaining computer records, and much more.

4. Receive, issue receipts for, account for and transfer money given for OM's ministry. This requires data entry, bookkeepers, administrators, computers, an annual external audit and communication systems.

5. Communicate with the more than 60,000 people on the OM USA mailing list. This includes publication of InDeed (OM USA's quarterly newspaper), Peter Maiden's monthly International Update to a segment of that mailing list, and sending out newsletters for some other fields such as India, Pakistan, Turkey, etc.

6. Represent OM at mission conferences, church meetings and college events. This includes preaching, speaking about OM, hosting book tables and arranging itineraries for OM field representatives and presentation teams.

7. Help with financial resourcing for OM through contact with donors, foundations and churches.

8. Maintain relations with media.

9. Produce and distribute audiovisual materials to communicate the work of Operation Mobilization.

10. Minister to and help mobilize the huge evangelical church in the US by preaching/speaking on missions, helping them develop their own missions program, and exposing and training church members through short-term missions.

11. Order, receive and ship equipment, computer software and other items for OM ministries around the world.

12. Provide hospitality for visiting OMers, prayer partners, and other guests.

13. Network with national and international mission associations, agencies and other Christian organizations.