Over 5400 people from over 90 nationalities are serving with OM in over 110 countries to bring a message of hope to the peoples of the world.

We have one thing in common — we love Jesus and we want others to have the opportunity to hear about Him.

 

OM is radical.  Our goal is to see Christians walking close to the Lord Jesus Christ and from the depth of their relationship with Him, making Him known in the world.

OM is global.  Participants join together from all over the world, working in more than 100 countries, motivating and equipping people to share God’s love with people all over the world. In most nations the leadership is in the hands of national Christians.

OM is interdenominational.  Evangelical Christians from all backgrounds join together, united by the love of Christ and their desire to make Him known throughout the world.

OM is for all people.  While God has given us some real specialists in missions, the majority of us are very ordinary people who have offered what we have back to the Lord to be used in His service, for His glory.

The main focus of OM is the most unreached areas of the world.  We concentrate sharing the love of God in places where people have not yet had the chance to hear about Jesus.

Working in every continent and on every ocean (via three ocean-going ships), OM volunteers seeks to demonstrate and proclaim the love of God. In every situation OM teams adapt to the local culture and situation, finding the best ways to share Jesus.

Through literature, the creative arts, friendship, Bible studies, sports, multi-media, correspondence courses, relief and development work, and much, much more… by all means possible we will tell people how our lives have been changed… and how they can meet Jesus.

Wherever possible, OM works in partnership with the local church, encouraging and supporting local believers. Where there is no church… we seek to plant churches.

• We believe that the Scriptures, both the Old and New Testaments in their original texts, are fully inspired by the Holy Spirit, without error, and are the final authority for the Church.
• We believe that there is one God, eternally existent in three persons, Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
  We believe in the absolute deity and full humanity of our Lord Jesus Christ. We believe in His virgin birth, His sinless life, the authenticity of His miracles, His vicarious and atoning death, His bodily resurrection and His present mediatorial work in heaven.
• We believe in the personality and deity of the Holy Spirit. We believe He gives life, He sanctifies, He empowers and comforts all believers.
• We believe that man was originally created sinless. Tempted by Satan, man fell and thereby brought the whole race under the condemnation of eternal separation from God.
• We believe that man is saved through repentance and faith in the finished work of Christ. Justification is through grace alone.
• We believe that the Church is the body of Jesus Christ composed of all true believers. The present work of the Church is the worship of God, the perfecting of the saints and the evangelisation of the world.
• We believe in the personal and bodily return of the Lord Jesus Christ to consummate our salvation and establish His glorious Kingdom.

• Knowing and glorifying God
• Living in submission to God's Word
• Being people of grace & integrity
• Serving sacrificially
• Loving & valuing people
• Evangelising the world
• Reflecting the diversity of the body of Christ
• Global intercession
• Esteeming the church

Operation Mobilisation traces its roots to the prayers of an American housewife. In the 1950s, Dorothea Clapp began to pray faithfully for the students in her local High School. She asked God to touch the world through the lives of those young people. And God answered her prayers!

Mrs Clapp gave a Gospel of John to one of the students, who later gave his life to the Lord at a Billy Graham meeting. That young man was George Verwer, the founder and international director of Operation Mobilisation.

At college, George and two friends met regularly to pray. They became burdened by the spiritual needs of Mexico. In 1957 the three friends sold some of their own possessions to raise money and gave up their summer holiday to distribute Gospels and other Christian literature in Mexico. The friends returned the following summer and the next…

When they graduated in 1960, George and his friends travelled to Europe. They began work in Spain, sharing the Gospel and distributing literature. But the task of reaching the whole of Europe seemed overwhelming.

George and his small team realised that God’s plan was to mobilise His church to reach the nations. As they began to share their vision, hundreds of Christians responded. So Operation Mobilisation was born.

By 1963, 2,000 Christians had joined summer outreach teams in Europe. At the same time, the first year teams moved into the Indian sub-continent and the Muslim world. Their commitment was to reach those who had never heard the Gospel.

Such simple beginnings have shaped OM ever since. Today over 5400 OMers are working in over 110 countries bringing God's unchanging truth to literally millions every year.

Click here to visit George Verwer's fantastic website, full of missions resources.