Have you ever wondered how to reach out to your neighbors, especially as people from all around the world are moving into our local neighborhoods? Bob Rasmussen (OC-USA’s director) and Daniel Dow of Seattle have developed a course Ministering in a Multicultural World with a focus on our cities and the many and varied peoples […]
OC’s Global Research Department offers valuable resources to the Body of Christ through a new website, www.OCresearch.info. This site showcases some of best work of OC mission workers and offers information, practical “how to” wiki articles and resources for all mission researchers. Features of the website include: • Blog-style articles about OC research. • OC […]
On September 13-14, 2013 the OC International Board of Directors conducted their semi-annual board meeting at the US Mobilization Center. Some of the major items which the board processed during this meeting included: A thorough review of OC’s financial health and the approval of the 2013-2014 budget. The establishment of One Challenge USA as a […]
At OC International family isn’t just a value – it’s a real practice. The largest culmination of this value is at OC’s Personnel Enrichment Program, or PEP. This is an opportunity for mission workers to come together for a time or rest, rejuvenation and reflection. In the midst of a busy furlough or at the […]
Your neighborhood has just been put on voluntary evacuation status. This is the last level of readiness before the police call for a forced evacuation. What should you pack in your car? What precious items will you try to relocate through family and friends? These were the questions that some of our US-MC families and […]
Jeff Boesel, OC’s Director of Mobilization, writes: “How do you go about doing what only God can do: move the heart of someone to leave all they know in order to serve God somewhere else? This question has followed me for the last eleven years over which I have held the title of ‘mobilizer.’” In […]
On Monday morning, March 18th at the US-MC chapel meeting, Dick McCaskill, Chairman of the Presidential Search Committee, joyfully announced the Board’s unanimous approval of the election of Dean Carlson as our next OC US-MC president. Friday, March 15th, the day the decision was made, “was a great day of rejoicing,” said Dick. Greg Gripentrog’s […]
“Member care itself is caring for people,” says Deänne Boesel, Director of OC MemberCare. “It is an ethos of who we are as a mission. It is our responsibility to make sure that we have healthy people going to the field and on the field. Healthy in spiritual, physical, and emotional ways.” Care is a […]
Celebrating OC’s 60th year as an organization spanned all of 2012 and culminated in five celebration dinners. Each dinner was held at a partnering church to celebrate the Lord’s work throughout the nations and the role the Lord gave OC in that work. The theme throughout the year was Celebrating the Past, Embracing the Present […]
