United Kingdom

What’s it like planting a church in the middle of a pandemic? Tim moved from the USA to the UK with Dutch wife Renske and their family at the end of 2019, and launched City Church Wolverhampton in the spring of 2020 — during the first national lockdown.
England’s old industrial heartland has many inner-city areas where most families speak Urdu or Punjabi, and mosques dot the skyline. In one such area, OM writer Nicky Andrews spent the day at the Welcome Place Hub* (WPH) a Christian community project led by OMers Stefan* and Louise*, blessing Muslim residents through service and friendship.
Jamie Bell (left), Gareth Rouch (centre) and Chris Harris (right) are part of the team that maintain and develop OM's intranet system, a vital behind-the-scenes part of ministries around the world. Photo by Ruth W.
Jamie’s IT degree and industry experience provided him with exactly the right skillset to step into OM’s international IT department at a critical moment, keeping the organisation’s intranet system afloat and developing it for greater ministry impact across the world.
Canadian youth hand out Christian literature in Birmingham city centre during an open-air outreach. The team from Oakville, Ontario were in Birmingham for a one week mission trip involving a variety of opportunities to share the gospel.
Emilie had always wondered if God was calling her to India. She recently discovered it was the right people but not yet the right place.
“During our leisurely stroll, we came across a pigpen,” remembers Inger. “No more finely kept grass; it ended where the enclosure began. Beyond the fence, the inhabitants had trampled the turf into deep, moist mud. I commented on the squelchy state of their pen. To my surprise—and slight dismay—my father reached over the fence and started to scratch one of the pigs behind its ears...We watched. The pig appeared to like it.”