Behind the Scenes
Behind the Scenes
September-December 2025 Volume 125, No. 3
Isn’ t Training
Boring?
I don’ t know about you, but I didn’ t grow up associating the word training with anything positive. Maybe Charlie Brown’ s teacher’ s voice comes to mind when you think of school training,
“ Mwah wah wah.” Or maybe you think of training for a marathon, which can be brutal when your coach says,“ Push harder. No pain, no gain!”
Well, the kinds of training we share in this issue of OMS Outreach might change your mind. We share exciting stories of how lives are being impacted because OMS places a high value on training of all kinds. We’ re leading training on how to share the Gospel simply, how to plant a church, how to train people to prevent human trafficking, and how to make disciples who make more disciples, among others. OMS is doing this in formal seminary classrooms, informally under baobab trees, and everywhere in between.
Dive into this issue with us and enjoy reading how God is using training to equip the sons and daughters of the nations!
Editor, OMS Outreach sloobie @ onemissionsociety. org
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Outreach Online equips Christians to make disciples of Jesus Christ through informative, inspiring, and involvement-driven articles, which leads to deeper missions participation through serving, giving, and praying.
Editor and Director of Communications Susan Griswold Loobie
Associate Editor Olivia Hogsett
Senior Graphic Designer W. Foster Pilcher
President Jeffry Max Edwards
Executive Director of Global Ministries Chris Williams
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Australia— Ian * www. omsaus. org
Canada— David Fortune www. omscanada. org
New Zealand— Karen Moar, interim director www. oms. org. nz
United Kingdom— Melvin Kelly www. onemissionsociety. org. uk
United States— Tom Overton www. onemissionsociety. org
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Cover Photo: Courtesy of Londrina Bible Seminary in Brazil
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