This huge region stretches from countries that border Europe all the way east to Japan and south to Indonesia. There is tremendous spiritual need, but the region is also home to China’s estimated 60-80 million Christians, and South Korea which is the world’s largest non-Western, missionary-sending nation.
After training with OM, Arif began leading DBS groups and teaching his disciples to start their own groups. They quickly started seeing multiplication! Even though some of the disciples are not yet ready to follow Jesus, they have been sharing what they learn with their families and friends.
Over the past two years, more than 50 teams from Bedok Methodist Church in Singapore have gone on short-term mission trips through the church’s Missions Release mobilisation initiative. The church has not looked back since.
In the primarily Muslim North Caucasus region, an OM team shares God’s love with young people and teenagers through youth clubs, creative evangelism and events.
One day, during her World Religions class at university, Anisa confidently explained that Christians worship one God, not three. Later, a classmate asked her if she could have a Bible.
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"Today, the world we live in is far more crowded — with noise, with opinions, with systems and strategies. And yet, many churches are sensing a shift," shares Thilini.
For years, James, a partner of OM, has trained and sent Jesus followers into North Korea. Despite the risks, he believes that there is hope, even in one of the most spiritually closed nations on earth.
In a city with very few Jesus followers, Ali and Zahra are sharing the gospel in multiple ways.
In the Caucasus, prayer opened the door for Arvin and Cristina to connect with people and share Christ's love.
Aslan and his disciples have started a discipleship school in the Greater Caucasus. The disciples trained at the school are boldly sharing their faith, making disciples and starting Bible studies amongst Muslim communities.
While serving in the Greater Caucasus, some Azerbaijani teenagers learnt that loving Jesus meant loving their neighbours and enemies.
Lucas and Elena longed to share hope with a least-reached people group in the Northern Caucasus. They prayed and asked God to show them the way, and He did. Going before them with signs and wonders, God connected them to a person of peace.
