Colombia is situated on the northwest corner of South America and it is the fourth largest country and most populous nations on the continent. The country is divided between huge mountains in the west of the country and forests and plains in the east. Colombia has large oil reserves and is a major producer of gold, silver, emeralds, platinum and coal.

The population is around forty seven million people and seventy per cent of these people live in the urban areas of the country. Although the official language is Spanish, there are a total of seventy-seven languages spoken in the country.

There is also a wide gap between the traditionally rich families of Spanish descent and the majority of the mixed-race population.

The church in this northwest corner of Latin America has been characterized by a slow response to the Gospel. Despite all this, the national church has grown very slowly but steadily. Mission is still a foreign concept for the majority of the Evangelical churches.

The Andean Region Field was created in 2003 as an OM Latin American initiative with the purpose of pulling together the resources and potential of four small countries in the northwest corner of South America.  The Andean Region is made up of Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador & Peru.

There has been no formal OM presence in Colombia as a local ministry serving the church, although many people have been challenged by the ships ministry and have joined OM’s short term programs.

The OM Andean Region exists to challenge, encourage and equip the national church in Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru to engage in local & worldwide evangelization and to meet the needs of the neediest.

In order to accomplish the purpose of OM Andean Region in these countries, the team have focused our efforts in five different streams:

Evangelism - the team aims to work alongside the church and Christian organisation in church planting projects, community evangelisation, and children’s evangelisation, adopting special projects and targeting un-reached groups.

Literature distribution and sales - the team aims to promote a reading culture, providing Christian literature in a variety of subjects to meet the spiritual, emotional and psychological needs of the local community.

Equipping & training; the team aims to provide formal and informal education to train those willing to serve locally and overseas, and to equip the churches who are willing to stand behind them. The OM team have developed a formal training school for Cross Cultural Communication and Missions, as well as a variety of curriculums for workshops to equip and train the national church.

Community Development -The OM Andean Region is bringing hope to prisoners, high risk children, orphans, needy communities; providing crisis prevention, education and distributing goods.

National Church Mobilization for Local & Worldwide Missions -The team are committed to challenge and encourage the church through our different seminars, workshops, global challenge and global action programs to be national champions of worldwide missions.

We would like to see many missionaries and short term volunteer coming to this country to serve the local church and to mobilize Colombians to bring the gospel overseas

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