Growth in the Caribbean
The Caribbean strikes up multiple images, of pirates, sunny beaches and disastrous hurricanes. It has long been a melting pot of cultures and races. ‘Discovered’ in 1492, it was soon a target for many European countries to establish colonies. Even by 1520 there were complaints by a Catholic worker, Bartolomé de las Casa, about the exploitation of people in the islands and a lack of proper evangelisation. Syncretism set in...
OAC Congo
The Democratic Republic of the Congo is wide open to the ministry of OAC. David Wilson has found an excellent man in ‘Fred’, otherwise known as Nvunyinka Ngirabakunzi Freud, who has now been trained and equipped and is taking responsibility for the establishment of the work in this enormous country. Famous for its mines, wildlife and warfare, once a colony of Belgium, later called Zaire, the Congo has recently returned to...
Pray for Africa
OAC has had ministry in Africa for years, in Uganda and Kenya, but this year two new initiatives are opening up the Congo and Rwanda. Africa is a great and growing opportunity for the gospel. We have just accepted a request from one of our African workers to hold a Day of Prayer on Friday, April 5th. We have already established works in Kenya (staffed by Moses, Kamau, Daniel and Jacinta) and Uganda (‘Romans’, Tabitha and a...
Spring Break French (and German) Style
Mission with Pathway, March 2019 Thank you (especially Facebook friends!) for praying for our mission with the team from Pathway which took place over five days last week. The Pathway team was led by Niki and contained Katja, Sabine and Hannah from Germany. The girls all spoke excellent English. We were also joined for the whole time by a friend from Paris – Marcelle – someone Peter has done lots of evangelism with in the past. They...
Schools – reaching the next generation
Schools are one of OAC’s key ministries in a large number of countries across the world. Indeed, in several it is the ministry which occupies many workers most of the time. More videos like this on the UK channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/OACMinistriesUK/videos Every school day we are reaching thousands of children around the world. They hear the stories of Jesus, the Old Testament (as in the video), and other stories which...