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Behind the Scenes September-December 2018 Not-So-Humble Beginnings Volume 3, No. 3 Outreach Online equips Christians to make disciples of Jesus Christ through informative, inspiring, and involvement-driven articles, which leads to deeper mission participation by serv- ing, giving, and praying. Editor and Director of Communications Susan Griswold Loobie Senior Graphic Designer W. Foster Pilcher President Bob Fetherlin One hundred and seventeen years is a long time. I’ll even take a calculated guess that it’s more years than you’ve been alive. That’s how long One Mission Society has been ministering. Our not-so-humble begin- nings started in Japan in 1901. For the next 11 years, OMS held nightly evangelism meetings and witnessed 15,000 conversions. Then, from 1912-1917, OMS missionar- ies and Japanese coworkers hit the streets for The Great Village Campaign in which nearly every house- hold in every province in Japan was given the Gospel, a portion of the Scriptures, or a Gospel tract. The tire- less team visited more than 10 million homes with the Good News of Jesus! Since those early days in Japan, OMS has ex- panded ministry to more than 70 countries, includ- ing Korea, East Asia, Hong Kong, and Taiwan in the northern region of Asia. This issue of Outreach Online highlights a bit of how God is using OMS in this part of the world. Executive Director of International Ministries Rich Danzeisen Affiliate Countries Australia—Ian Bongers www.omsaus.org Canada—Mark Kroes www.omscanada.org New Zealand—Owen and Avalon Brown www.onemissionsociety.org.nz United Kingdom—Walter McCorkell www.onemissionsociety.org.uk United States—Travis Hamilton, interim www.onemissionsociety.org One Mission Society World Headquarters 941 Fry Road • Greenwood, IN 46142-6599 317.888.3333 • 317.888.5275 FAX [email protected] Cover: Stock photo of a man on the streets of Shanghai, China All photos courtesy of missionaries, volunteers, and partner churches of One Mission Society unless otherwise noted. By God’s grace, One Mission Society unites, inspires, and equips Christians to make disciples of Jesus Christ, multi- plying dynamic communities of believers around the world. One Mission Society is an evangelical, interdenominational faith mission that makes disciples of Jesus Christ through intentional evangelism, planting churches, forming strategic partnerships, and training national leaders in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Europe, Latin America, and the Middle East. OMS then joins with those churches in global partnerships to reach the rest of the world. Subscriptions and Contributions: Outreach Online is the official online publication of One Mission Society and is posted three times per year. You may subscribe for free at outreach.oms.media. Editor, OMS Outreach [email protected] Unless otherwise indicated, all Scripture quotations are from The Holy Bible, English Standard Version® (ESV®), copyright © 2001 by Crossway, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Used by permis- sion. All rights reserved. facebook.com/onemissionsociety twitter.com/1MissionSociety youtube.com/user/oms.media linkedin.com/company/one-mission-society instagram.com/onemissionsociety 2 Visit our website at www.onemissionsociety.org. Copyright © 2018 One Mission Society. All rights reserved.