Europe – Restoring Hope

In partnership with the church, OM Europe seeks to use every opportunity to build friendships with Muslims and educate others to do the same by…

• Teaching Christians how to share their lives with Muslims through training in Holland.
• Sharing friendship over a cup of coffee and book in the UK.
• Offering language classes and after-care to immigrants and their children in Austria.
• Reaching out to Muslim neighbours in Albania.
• Running leadership camps for Muslim youth in Kosovo.
• Providing school bags, wheel chairs, walkers, a massage table and new shoes in Bosnia.
• Playing hula-hoop or play duck-duck-goose around the parachute with Muslim children in the UK.
• Participating in a one-year training programme to learn more about understanding Muslims, and how to build relationships with them in Holland.

In partnership with the church, OM Europe seeks to identify with the needy in society and provide them support wherever possible by…

• Taking food and winter fuel to the “poorest of the poor” in Bosnia-Hercegovina and Moldova.
• Helping drug addicts and alcoholics break free from their bondage in Switzerland, Poland and Russia.
• Giving a fresh start to women in Albania and Kosovo through practical skills training.
• Making friends among the Roma people in Slovakia, Montenegro and Romania.
• Befriending homeless people and offering them a hot drink, sleeping bag or simply a listening ear in the United Kingdom.
• In partnership with local organisations, restoring dignity and value to prostitutes in Greece and Switzerland.
• Showing Russian orphans and Albanian handicapped children that they are precious and loved.
• Providing a safe place and counselling for victims of domestic abuse in Spain.
• Sharing God’s love behind prison bars in Belgium and Greece.

In partnership with the church, OM Europe is restoring hope to youth and children and empowering, challenging and equipping them to share that hope with others. Right now you could be…

• Preparing action-packed children’s summer camps in Albania, Moldova, Romania, Kosovo and Ukraine.
• Presenting a radical Gospel message at youth events in Ireland and the Netherlands.
• Using puppets, drama and creative arts to explain the true meaning of Christmas and Easter to thousands of British school children.
• Seeing Jesus transform youth through coaching basketball and soccer in Ukraine, Italy, Hungary, Moldova, Spain and Bosnia-Hercegovina.
• Providing resource material for teaching children about world missions in the United Kingdom.
• Teaching gypsy children to read Bible stories and write in Romania and Montenegro.
• Encouraging thousands of European teenagers to love Jesus and reflect Him in their world through TeenStreet conferences in Germany.
• Running youth cafes in Holland, Germany and Montenegro.
• Equipping young Christians for world missions through training programmes in Eastern Europe, the Balkans and Scandinavia.

In partnership with the church, OM Europe seeks to restore hope to a “Christian” continent by…

• Sharing Jesus through drama, dance, fine arts, mime and music in the United Kingdom, Austria and Finland.
• Teaching national believers how to share their faith in Russia, Switzerland, Belgium, Moldova and United Kingdom.
• Organising prayer meetings and training for local Christians to share about Christ with their neighbours and colleagues in Norway and Ireland.
• Inviting churches in Sweden to visit orphanages and schools for handicapped children in the Ukraine.
• Developing resources for distribution on television, radio and magazines in the United Kingdom, Finland and Poland.
• Designing and producing Christian books for the former Soviet Union countries and Eastern Europe.
• Stepping out in faith to develop new fellowships in countries previously closed to the Gospel.
• Teaching English in Poland, Czech Republic, Russia and Kosovo.
• Providing Christian books and children’s programme at the ‘Lumen’ Music Festival in Slovakia.
• Running a Christian retreat centre for church groups and individuals in Italy.

In partnership with the church, OM Europe is challenging secular, atheistic Europeans to consider the truth about Jesus by…

• Inviting friends to encounter Jesus face-to-face through Bible study and discussion.
• Building friendships with Catholics in Portugal, Poland, Italy and Austria.
• Developing new fellowships in France, Poland, Spain and the Balkans.
• Recording ‘Word for Today’ Bible broadcasts for community radio in Ireland.
• Travelling through towns and villages in Hungary sharing the Gospel.
• Providing training for church and lay leaders in Greece, Ukraine, Romania, Russia and Moldova.
• Challenging youth to question God in Germany, Switzerland, Montenegro and Belgium.
• Inviting Swiss and Germans to dialogue about God through exposure trips to India.