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The church in Sweden today is marginalized. It has little authority or respect in a society, which believes that absolute truths cannot be tolerated.

12 - 21% of the population of Sweden are immigrants and they come from all over the world.  High unemployment plus social isolation means that integration into Swedish society is difficult for many, and there is an atmosphere of hopelessness in many communities.

“Sweden needs Christians who are willing to get involved in issues such as justice and racism”.

This would speak powerfully to people who feel like they have no way of being heard or changing the situation in which they live.

About OM Sweden:

OM Sweden was started in the late 60's, and its office is situated in a suburb called Råslätt. Today the office team consists of about 10 people serving more than 40 people on either Global Action or Global Service.

OM Sweden is running a field team in a suburb called Råslätt outside of Jönköping. The team today consists of two young women, ministering towards teenagers at a the local junior highs school. Råslätt is a suburb with many immigrants. They consist of about 50 different nationalities.

The plan is to increase the size of the field team in the future. Soon we hope to be able to welcome non swedish people to this ministry. Almost all the young people in the area speak English, which will make it easy for people from other countries to settle in.

Another plan is to launch a Global Challenge campaign on Råslätt using sports as a tool to reach out to people. Look out for more information about this in the future. Perhaps this would be something for you? If this is the case, then let us know.

For more information please contact This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it or visit our website www.omsverige.se.

 
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hopd05572.jpg<br>Landskrona, Sweden :: Logos Hope in the shipyard in Landskrona. Global Action<br>Global Action Coordinator Daniel Berglund hanging in the trunk of a tree. Teamday in Tenhult<br>New Field Leader Martin Ström together with Sara, Tomas and Annika during a teamday in Tenhult outside of Jönköping. Office transformation at OM Sweden<br>The Swedish OM office is being transformed. Martin, Daniel and James are moving furniture around. Sweden Field Leader Martin Ström<br>New Field Leader Martin Ström together with Sara, Tomas and Annika during a teamday in Tenhult outside of Jönköping. Praying for Martin and Anna Ström<br>Martin and Anna Ström were prayed for at a ceremony due to Martin taking over the OM Sweden Field leadership.

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Job opportunities in Sweden

  • World Partner Co-ordinator
    We are looking for two persons (one older and one younger) who has been out with OM, long-term or short-term, and who enjoys building relationships and involve people in different ways. We need your help to engage ex-OM:ers in recruiting for missions in different ways, and to organize meetings for ex-OM:ers, helping them to find ways in implementing their vision for world missions.
  • Personnel Officer
    The job of Personnel Officer within OM Swedens personnel department involves the following:
    * handling applications
    * contact people interrested in missions
    * giving moral support to people on the verge of going out
    * keeping in contact with people on the field
    * welcoming Swedes back to Sweden who are leaving their fields abroad

    The Personnel Officer will be based 75% in the office, working with the tasks above. The remaining 25% we would like to see the person helping out with one2one recruiting in the aftermath of a meetings in churches or Bible schools.

    OM Sweden is situated in an immigrant populated suburb and there are plenty of opportunities to minister to the community together with the local church.

    OM Sweden is mainly focused towards motivating, training and mobilising people for missions.
    For this to be done efficiently we need enough people who have a passion for people and administrative gifts.
  • Recruiter/Inspirator
    The job of being recruiter/inspirator with OM Sweden is absolutely key to the expansion of missions mobilisation of Swedes to world mission.

    Sweden has a long history of sending out missionaries to other countries - mostly to africa. Unfortunately this is no longer true. Sweden is a highly secularised country and most churches in Sweden are declining. It is not an overstatement to say that Sweden needs to be re-evangelised and re-mobilised for world mission.

    The role of Recruiter/Inspirator is based 75% of the time outside of the office, taking meetings in churches and Bible schools. The remaining 25% is spent in the office, helping to follow up the results and keeping in touch with churches.

    OM Sweden is situated in an immigrant populated suburb and there are plenty of opportunities to minister to the community together with the local church.

Recent Stories from Sweden

Sent to Serve
22 Apr, 2008
Teenagers and children from eight different Swedish churches served in Ukrainian orphanages during the Easter holidays.

New team for OM Sweden
9 Oct, 2007
This autumn OM Sweden has launched a new team reaching out to immigrant teens.

Sunday School shares the greatest story
16 Apr, 2007
A team from OM Ships visited Sweden recently to do a recruiting tour. One of the highlights was a visit to an Arabic church in Stockholm. The team told the congregation about "The greatest story ever told" project, which provides every child that comes onboard OM ships a copy of the gospel in there own dialect in a cartoon form comic.

The team told them that 10 Swedish kronor could pay for four of these books to be printed. After the meeting, the Sunday school shared that they had been saving up money for months, so that they could all do something together during the summer (a Sunday school treat). But they had decided that the money should go to "The greatest story ever told" project instead, so that children around the world could hear about Jesus. They gave us the equivalent of over 50 Euro - all that they had saved! That's over 200 books!