OMS Global Impact Report Global Impact Report 2018-19 | Page 24

First published in 1925, Streams in the Desert, compiled and written by One Mission Society cofounder
and fourth OMS President, Lettie B. Cowman, is one of the most loved, best-selling devotionals of all
time. In the more than 90 years since its publication, Streams has been published in 140 editions in
English alone, and it has been translated into multiple languages.
Fun 1
Facts
Several One Mission Society missionaries are second- or even third-generation
missionaries, often serving on the same field where they grew up or in the same
homeland office where their parents worked. One current OMS family has mem-
bers in the fifth generation living and serving in Asia.
2
3
1908
Juji Nakada
One Mission Society has had only 11 presidents in its 118-year history; the four cofounders include Charles and
Lettie Cowman, Ernest Kilbourne, and Juji Nakada, who led the mission before it was officially incorporated in
1911. The current OMS President is Bob Fetherlin.
1911
1924
Charles Cowman Ernest Kilbourne
1928 1949 1969 1982 1986 1992 2004 2014
Lettie Cowman Eugene Erny Wesley Duewel Ev Hunt Ed Erny JB Crouse David Long Bob Fetherlin
www.onemissionsociety.org
317.888.3333
PO Box A, Greenwood, Indiana 46142