Emerging Mission Movements

Until 1980, most mission workers came from Europe or North America. But today, God is building His church in Latin America, Africa, Asia and Eastern Europe, and the Church in these areas has caught the vision for world evangelisation. Now, nations that used to receive missionaries are sending them.

Since our beginning, we have committed to mobilising Christians from all nations to fulfil the Great Commission. Currently, 98 nations are represented in OM, and over 65 percent are from new sending nations. We seek to enable Christians from these areas to find their role in global missions by mobilising the Church, training and equipping believers, providing opportunities to serve and sending and supporting workers around the world.

Mobilising the Church

OM partners with the Church to empower believers in Latin America, Asia, Africa and Eastern Europe, and mobilises the Church in these areas to find its role in local and world missions.

Training and Equipping Believers

OM serves the Church by training and equipping believers to use their gifts to bring transformation to their own communities and to those around the world.

Providing Opportunities to Serve

Together with the Church, OM provides opportunities to serve, enabling more from Latin America, Asia, Africa and Eastern Europe to find their place in world missions, and encouraging more from Europe and North America to partner with the growing Church in these new sending nations.

Sending and Supporting Workers

With more than 5,500 workers in over 110 countries, OM has the capacity to open doors for ministry around the world that will allow anyone the chance to serve in missions. OM enables workers to go to some of the most distant and difficult places.

Heading up the Emerging Mission Movements initiative is Peter Tarantal, a native South African who has served with OM for over 20 years. For the past 14 years, he was the National Director for OM South Africa. He is currently the coordinator of WENSA (World Evangelisation Network of South Africa), and is the Southern Africa Coordinator for MANI (Movement for African National Initiatives). Peter’s vision is to see the Church in every nation find its role in world mission, and for OM to empower the Church to do so.

Read updates from Peter about Emerging Mission Movements within OM and around the world:

• A, B, C, discipleship... A, B, C, discipleship...  by Peter Tarantal. Someone recently asked me, “How could we miss such an elementary truth?” After all, Matthew 28:19 compels us to go and make disciples—not converts, although that’s what many focus on. Are we driven by zeal to bring[…]
  
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  8 Feb 2011 | 5:08 pm
• We can all gain We can all gain  by Peter Tarantal. In 1988, I stood at the Berlin Wall with five team mates. Returning from Poland to West Germany, we stayed overnight in West Berlin. I still have a picture of our team beneath graffiti that read “Jesus love world[…]
  
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  5 Nov 2010 | 5:16 pm
• Time for Emerging Mission to Take the Coffin Time for Emerging Mission to Take the Coffin  by Peter Tarantal. Last year when I was teaching on the history of missions on the Doulos, I was recounting the stories of how people like William Carey left from Europe and Adoniran Judson left from the USA to go[…]
  
  Created on: 31 Aug 2010 | 4:31 pm
  
  31 Aug 2010 | 4:31 pm

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