| Medical Ministries
• Mobilizing medical professionals who have a passion for God and for people and who desire to help reach the nations with the Gospel.
• Visit www.ommedicalministries.org for more info.
• AIDSLink is OM's international HIV/AIDS umbrella ministry, helping OM teams strategise, develop and implement programmes, finding resources, mobilising prayer and personnel. Visit the website: www.aidslink.om.org
India
• Emergency relief and long-term rebuilding efforts
for earthquake victims, including food, water, clothing, etc.
• Medical care and rebuilding efforts for cyclone victims
• Ongoing programs in slums including schools, clinics,
adult literacy and job training.
Afghanistan
• Supplied food, clothing, blankets, etc. for refugees
• Ongoing distribution of aid in villages
Middle East
• Childrens immunization & wellness clinics
for nomadic tribes.
• Produce farming through reintroduction of 1600 olive
trees.
• Computer courses for Palestinian Women & physically
challenged.
Papua New Guinea (Pacific
Islands)
• Facilitators in the reconciliation process
due to decade long war in Bougainville.
• Releif aid of clothing, medicines, and hygiene supplies.
• 10,000 books donated to local leaders, libraries,
churches and schools.
• 13 traveling teams reaching remote villages with aid.
Turkey (Middle
East)
• Emergency relief and long term rebuilding efforts
for earthquake victims.
• Rebuilding the Hasanpaba Primary School that had been
destroyed.
• Established 350 family shelters.
• Heating units for temporary "tent villages".
Mozambique (Southern
Africa)
• Supply food, clothing, and medical supplies to flood-devastated
families.
Liberia (West
Afrcia)
• Literature aid to schools, universities and prisons.
• 500 immediate care packages (food, clothing, school
kit & toys) to 20 orphanages.
• Restocking of medical supplies in hospitals.
• Twelve project teams aided in construction and crop
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Quotes from world leaders
about Operation Mobilization's projects.
August,
1995, ENGLAND
President Jimmy Carter, United States President
"I want to express my appreciation to the ship, it's
crew and all who come to work together from more than three
dozen nations... If you could go to Bosnia and let the people
see the spirit that is exemplified in this ship - I think
we would soon have peace there." (OM's land based teams
did have significant involvement in relief efforts in Bosnia
and are continuing to help Kosovo refugees in their resettlement.)
February, 2000, Manila, PHILIPPINES
His Excellency, President Joseph Ejercito Estrada, President
of the Philippines
"Your visit to our country will certainly contribute to
the strengthening of international understanding and goodwill
which you have been privileged to promote through similar
visits in over 85 different countries during the past 22 years."
September 1999, Bougainville, PAPUA NEW GUINEA
Mr. Noel Sinclair, UN Ambassador to Bougainville
".the ship was the last ship to dock at Kieta (Jan. 1990)
before the crisis, and it is now the first to do so after
the cease-fire (Sep. 1999). On this its final day in
Arawa the membership of the BPC is
present, and on this occasion they will be reconciling and
making peace among themselves. . (I would) like to express
appreciation and thanks to the Captain, the Director and the
crew of the ship for their presence in Arawa at this time.
I have listened carefully to the description of what you do
as you go from place to place, and my heart is touched." (After
ten years of a brutally destructive civil war, reconciliation
of main groups was declared onboard.)
March, 2000, Monrovia, LIBERIA
Mother Diana E Davis, President of the Union of Liberian
Orphanages and Children Welfare
"Indeed, your visit to Liberia at this time despite of
negative information that others may have had about Liberia
in terms of security symbolizes your love for the Liberian
people, especially the Liberian children." (The ship was able
to help hundreds of orphans with food, clothes, hygiene kits,
blankets, school books, and toys. Greatly needed medical supplies
and thousands of educational books were also donated.)
September 1990, Port Klang, MALAYSIA
Hon Datuk Stephen KT Yong, Minister of Science, Technology
and Environment
"May God continue to bless you in all your endeavors in
promoting international understanding and goodwill among the
peoples of this earth. We thank you for coming to Malaysia.
I hope that you will leave our shores with the joy and satisfaction
that you have brought hope and light to our people."
Kuwait City, KUWAIT
Dr. Suleiman Al-Askari, Gen Secretary of the National Council
for Culture, Arts & Letters
"Welcome in Kuwait. We assure you of our support
to your mission, which personifies the highest forms of human
giving. .Your noble message will be well received and appreciated
here in Kuwait."
February 1993, Colombo, SRI LANKA
Honorable Harold Heart, Minister of Foreign Affairs and
State Minister of Finance
"I would name your ship the ship not the oldest ship,
but the greatest ship in the world carrying the message of
peace, goodwill and harmony to the human race."
January, 2000, Monrovia, LIBERIA
Cllr. Eddington A. Varman, Minister of Justice, Attorney
General,
Republic of Liberia
"We are pleased to present our compliments and take this
time to officially welcome the vessel to the Republic
of Liberia to provide volunteer service to our citizens for
the promotion of international understanding and worldwide
education." (For many years, millions of educational books
have been donated to universities and public libraries, or
provided at cost to
over 30 million people visiting the book exhibitions.)
January 1994, Richards Bay, SOUTH AFRICA
His Majesty King Zwelithini Godwill Ka Bhejuzulu, King
of the Zulus
"You are a ray of sunshine in our troubled land. The young
Christians at your helm can do so much to spread the message
of goodwill to their peers in South Africa. You are living
examples of the solution to our crisis of violence - the message
of peace and love is the most important
message our ravaged communities need to hear."
June 1994, Istanbul, TURKEY
Mr. Erol Yalgin, Vice-Governor
"During history thousands, and maybe ten thousand ships
came to Istanbul. But the ship will always have a different
meaning to us. The ship is an expression of a deep longing
that we have especially in this age. We are longing
for peace and brotherhood in the world. But on the ship
we see people from 35 nations from different cultures and
languages and faces gathering together and learning to live
together."
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