India
Ukraine
Colombia
Brazil
Recently, Marla and Micah Routon, OMS missionaries serving in Brazil, were unloading equipment from
their car for church (they rent space in a hotel right
across from a busy beach) when a hotel employee
named Sergio came to help. He told them that he was
a believer and asked if they were the church that had
done the baptism service at the beach about four months
earlier. They said “yes!” Then Sergio said to them, “You
are not going to believe this, but my daughter accepted
Jesus at your baptism service. She was just walking by
and began to watch the service, then started to cry. Her
life has changed now … and since then her husband
has also accepted Jesus. She’s looked for your church,
but couldn’t find it. I told her to just come to church with
me for now, and God would provide a way for her to find
your church. And now, here you are!”
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Moody Radio announced
in September 2014 the
completion of the Bible
in the Kuna (Guna) language. OMS participated in the beginning
of this project from
1945-1950.
In the OMS book, His
Banner Over Me Is Love,
author and OMS missionary
Florence Cavender tells the
amazing story of going from
Medellín, Colombia, to the
Kuna Indians 300 miles
away. Along the
way, she faced
incredible
hazards.
She lived
in the home
of the Kuna
chief and led his
family and the tribe
to Christ. She learned
the language, trained in
linguistics, and began
the Bible translation, working
with Wycliffe. However, the
Lord led her to turn the project
over to them, leaving her more
time for evangelism and teaching.
Seven people accepted the
Lord at an OMS English outreach camp in Kiev, Ukraine.
Since the completion of the
camp, 15 of the 26 students
have been actively involved in
a weekly life group, and 8 are
now in one-on-one discipleship each week.
Recently, OMS missionary Tim Roehl, a
lover of books and former pastor with
an extensive library, asked the question,
“Lord, what should I do with
my books?”
Knowing that OMS
partners with more
than 100 seminaries
and Bible colleges
around the world,
Tim decided to donate the majority of his
books to India, a country
that needs more printed resources. After
consulting with OMS theological education director, Bill Vermillion, the Roehls,
along with five other book contributors,
donated about 100 boxes of books, containing more than 4,500 books that will
go to 3 seminaries and 10 Bible colleges
throughout India.
Mozambique
God is awakening the leaders of the Living Word
Evangelical Church to a new era of spiritual strengthening
and sanctification. In obedience to God, and in order to live
with integrity, many church couples are starting the process
of legalizing their marriages before God, the church, and
the community. This bears powerful witness to lives being
transformed by the Gospel.
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