“And the things you have heard me say in the presence of many witnesses entrust to reliable men

who will also be qualified to teach others.” — 2 Timothy 2:2 (NIV)

LeadersFor Life

Empowering

Imagine A World Without Pastors

It’s hard to imagine a group of new Christians in Asia, Africa, Europe, Central Asia, Latin America or the Caribbean having to spiritually grow on their own, without a guide, without a shepherd. In North America, when one of our churches needs a pastor, we interview several worthy candidates and, usually, within a relatively short time, a new pastor can be found. Unfortunately, that is not the case in most of the 47 countries where OMS International serves. Trained pastors are rare. For example, today in China there are five churches for every one trained pastor and in Bangladesh our partner church has grown from 29 churches to 817 in just ten years. Where will the needed pastors come from for these countries?

In each OMS field of ministry, our national partners are asking us to help them disciple and train those God is raising up to reach their nations for Christ. Last year alone, God used OMS to be a part of more than 140,000 conversions. Because of this, we recognize the urgent need to strengthen our biblical training programs around the world.

Today, through our Empowering Leaders for Life initiative, we will expand training in strategic countries in a determined effort to ensure new believers have pastors to guide them. Imagine how amazing it will be when we celebrate in God’s presence with the thousands of people from every tribe and nation that you helped to reach and train.

Thank you for partnering with OMS to assist our missionaries and national co-workers around the world. Together, we will take great strides in reaching those God deeply loves.

Strengthening the global Church together,

David LongPresidentOMS International

David LongPresident

OMS International

“ Trained leaders are needed to preserve the fruit of a great harvest.”

— Wes LytlePresident, U.S. Plastic Corporation

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Empowering National Leaders

“ The best way to reach a nation for Christ is through its own sons and daughters.”

— Charles Cowmanco-founder, OMS International

The Heart of OMS InternationalWhen two of our founders, Charles and Lettie Cowman, began the work of the Oriental Missionary Society in 1901, they believed the best way to reach a nation for Christ was through its own sons and daughters.

In the 1970s, the Oriental Missionary Society became OMS International to reflect our growing global ministries. Throughout the years, our ministries have expanded into 47countries.

Today, OMS International is celebrating the 100-year anniversary of our church in Korea, the 80-year anniversary of our church in Taiwan, and the 65-year anniversary of our church in India. Now, with more than 1.2 million church members worldwide, affiliated churches around the world are significant partners in global outreach and discipleship.

As we look to the future, we make fresh commitments to:

• Intentional Evangelism: Leading people to commit their lives to following Jesus Christ

• Church Planting Marked by Multiplication:

Encouraging new believers to form churches that are thriving, life changing and multiplying • Discipleship-Focused Training: Providing training that

meets men and women where they are academically, practically and spiritually in their faith journey and equips them to train others

• Strategic Partnerships: Working alongside national church partners to help win their land and the world for Christ

Through the Empowering Leaders for Life initiative, we’ll stand strong with our missionaries to mobilize needed people and funds for essential biblical training around the world.

The Greatest Need We Can Meet

“ I tell you, open your eyes and look at the fields. They are ripe for harvest.”

— John 4:35 (NIV)

Millions of new Christians compel us to make biblical training an urgent priority

More than 4.5 billion people live in the 47 countries in which OMS International ministers. In many regions, the

response to the Gospel is in the millions. This is unprecedented in history. Such positive response astounds us as we witness the very center of Christianity shifting from the West and North to the East and South.

Yet, in the midst of this amazing church growth, our faith in Christ has come under attack through different forms of persecution. Now more than ever, for the sake of healthy, strong churches, OMS bears enormous responsibility to disciple and train leaders who understand the times and will stand up for the Gospel.

Whether the training program is formal or non-formal, residential or non-residential, biblical education, with an emphasis on discipleship and being involved in practical ministry during training, must be greatly expanded.

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ChinaAn emerging Church with passionate faith and vision for the worldThe surprise of 65 million or more Chinese Christians, emerging after decades of isolation and persecution, is the most astonishing church multiplication story of recent centuries.

Every day, we marvel at the opportunities we have to experience this multiplication first hand. Consider this example … At one training location, we only had room for thirty to forty house church leaders. Those who attended were selected by their peers to take notes and share copies with the 200 others who could not attend! The Lord is moving powerfully in China and preparing His people for service around the globe.

It is conceivable that the Church in China could reach 260 million—or 20 percent of China’s current population—within the next ten to twenty years, creating a significant and sustainable Christian influence within its own culture and the world.* However, church leaders there say that this will be possible only if they receive the discipleship and training that we can bring.

Therefore, we commit to • Expand the United Wesleyan Graduate Institute in

Hong Kong • Establish a regional training center in a major city in

Western China for training church leaders • Provide evangelism and church-planting leadership for the

factory/shop region in Southern China* Taken from Jesus in Beijing by David Aikman

“ Let us pray that students can take a step of faith into urban mission and, in the process, they can experience renewal and continued revival.”

— Rev. YuA Chinese Pastor

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Expanding the United Wesleyan Graduate Institute (UWGI)On the doorstep of China’s 1.3 billion people, UWGI is positioned to prepare students for service in China and train Christian workers for service in Hong Kong—an influential city of 7 million and a worthy ministry focus in its own right.

Our seminary now has 50 students, yet still operates as a two-room school, which serves as classroom, library and faculty meeting space. The countless opportunities for future ministry compel us to develop a modern, 15,000-square-foot facility for 200 full-time students. It will include adequate classroom and library space equipped with state-of-the-art technology, administrative space and guest faculty apartments.

More than half of our UWGI students desire to serve in China. The design of our program supports our commitment that students be active in ministry while in training. The program also supports the great need for Christian workers in the evangelical churches of Hong Kong.

Western China Training CenterA 4,800-square-foot, half-duplex in a major city in Western China will provide space for 40 people to meet and train. It will also include a men’s and women’s dormitory for those who travel there for short course, multi-day training.

Our Students have passion for serving in ChinaJoshua* is representative of UWGI’s passion for service in China. A recent master of divinity graduate, he has moved to Southern China to partner with a factory owner and Every Community For Christ for evangelism and church planting. In this region, one worker reached for Christ will influence ten fellow workers, and these ten will return home on holidays to influence their entire village with the Gospel. The challenge we’ve had with Joshua is to free him for ministry. He is such an excellent businessman that the factory owner was reluctant to release him to focus on evangelism and discipleship!

*Name changed for his security.

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This city in Western China has been chosen because of its influence on this region as a transportation and government center.

OMS is also involved with many North American college and seminary programs that would partner with OMS, sending their students to intern in China. An adequate training center with accommodations to house foreign students is critical for the students to experience an engaging term of ministry in China.

Factory Worker Ministry in Southern ChinaAs urbanization sweeps China, OMS is establishing evangelism team partnerships with Chinese believers to help plant churches in the shop/factory region in Southern China. The possibilities for extensive ministry are easily imagined when one considers that between 60,000 and 90,000 factories employ more than 40 million people in this region.

In recent travels, Dr. Jack Rea visited the dual purpose shop/church site of a family health and beauty company. Forty staff members are employed to conduct the business, and up to 10 staff are employed for “Kingdom” business.

As men and women meet Christ through ministries like these and are discipled to follow Him, their travels to and from every home province has the potential to significantly spread Christian influence across China.

This ministry platform is also excellent for UWGI seminary students who can serve in this factory worker ministry in China. In the shop or factory, there are opportunities to share the Gospel with workers and customers and to form worship and discipleship groups.

ChinaHelping Transform A Nation Pray for leaders being discipled and trained for:

• Assisting the Church to be grounded and equipped in the Word

• Reaching and discipling the many unreached groups of China

• Living out the love of Christ through incarnational involvement in society

• Exerting a transformational influence on the structures of society at a time when they are undergoing radical change

• Ministering cross-culturally beyond China’s borders

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Enormous Passion for Ministry Overcomes Challenging CircumstancesIn spite of the difficult situations in which our Haitian students live and work, they have a passion for ministry. The Emmaus Biblical Seminary is equipping its graduates to make a profound difference in their community, church, workplace and in their towns and villages. They have responded to God’s call on their lives and are eager to serve Him among the Haitian people.

A distinctive of the seminary is its rigorous four-year curriculum. Each student hones their leadership skill on a solid foundation of studies, which include:

• Five courses on teaching and preaching • Thirty three courses on books of the Bible • Leadership and administration • Ethics and apologetics • Christian education • Music and psychology

The new Emmaus campus will be able to graduate 25 of its 100 students each year. It is being built five miles west of the existing ministry compound and includes classrooms and offices, two dormitories, a dining facility, a chapel, a library and several

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apartments for faculty, missionaries and other personnel. A separate power station ensures an uninterrupted supply of power on the campus.

With each graduating pastor, it is anticipated that they will minister to at least 500 men, women and children in their community. This means that each year, the graduating class from the seminary will have a direct impact on 12,500 people! These men and women will foster an evangelical church that is capable of alleviating poverty in every sense—spiritually, educationally, socially and economically

“ For the Church in Haiti to be effective in evangelism and discipleship, pastors must be equipped and empowered to lead the body of Christ: the Church.”

— Dr. Bill CooperDirector, Emmaus Biblical Seminary

Win �00 to Christ in HaitiPaul Vilmer is one of our best students at Emmaus Biblical Seminary. He is a quiet, competent member of our fourth-year class. He is a graduate of the law school in Cap Haitian and pastor of a church near the airport. On any given Sunday morning, there are about 350 adults and children crowded into a 25’ x 50’ rented building. There is a sign on the wall of this little church that expresses the goal of this congregation – Win 600 to Christ in 2006.

Paul receives no salary for his pastoral work. He supports his family by raising chickens. Each Sunday, his congregation takes two offerings – one to pay the rent on the building, the other to purchase building materials to one day build their own sanctuary. When they accumulate $100, they purchase what building materials they can and add them to their building, little by little. They have neither sought nor received any gifts from believers in North America to provide their place of worship.

There is an atmosphere of quiet competence about this young man that bodes well for the future of his congregation. He is a great example of why we desperately need a seminary that adequately teaches new generations of Haitian pastors and trains leaders for the Haitian Church.

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AfricaChristian leadership … the key to healthy churches and long-term growth In 1900, Africa’s Christian population was only 10 million. Today, African evangelicals number around 116 million, and nominal Christianity is 46 percent of a population close to one billion people.* Yet, the shortage of Christian leaders is widely known to be the critical bottleneck for the advance of a healthy, biblical faith in Africa.

The discipleship and training of leaders is further complicated by challenging moral issues, ethnic and religious tensions, unemployment, illiteracy and low life expectancy—often due to the growing epidemic of HIV/AIDS. Churches are also faced with the challenge of training leaders who may not remain in that church. The temptation to leave village life or to leave one’s home country is strong.

OMS training programs in Africa equip leaders to be biblically and culturally effective without leaving their homes. Under strong regional leadership in South Africa and a veteran team of field missionaries in Mozambique, OMS now serves in 14 of 58 African nations with plans to soon be active in 20, including predominantly Muslim nations.

MozambiqueMore than a decade has passed since the civil war ended in Mozambique, but this nation is still considered one of the poorest on earth. The results of years of colonialism, Marxism and 30 years of guerrilla warfare have been hard to erase.

Yet, the Church in Mozambique is growing rapidly. It has doubled in size since 1988, and evangelicals are now more than 12 percent of the population,* making Christian education a strategic priority. The rapid growth of Christianity mandates that we disciple and train indigenous Christian leaders. Relevant training programs must then be presented to deal with the unique issues

*Statistics taken from Operation World, 21st Century Edition

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of unemployment, illiteracy and low life expectancy faced by Mozambicans today.

The relocation and expansion of the Maputo Biblical Seminary is nearly finished and could open its doors for classes in the first months of 2007, if completed on time. With a capacity to serve up to 200 students, graduates will fill top leadership roles for key churches and denominations. Students and graduates could plant hundreds of new churches in the next five years.

The full scope of this program includes: 1) pre-seminary training; 2) a two-year Christian Ministry Certificate; 3) capacity for 40 students per year to enroll for a bachelor’s degree in theology; and 4) gradual addition of higher levels of theological education. The school’s plan is for half of its faculty to be Mozambican within five years. This four-story (14,000 square feet) college and seminary will offer classrooms, a large chapel and a modern library for service to students and visiting pastors and evangelists.

Bruce Callender, recent field leader in Mozambique marks the many accomplishments there saying, “This year we celebrate the achievement of establishing an OMS-related church officially registered with the government and responsible to carry on this work. And now, with your help, we’ll also complete the expansion of the Maputo Seminary and extend its capacity to disciple and train leaders for the churches. Imagine what we’ll see the Lord accomplish through His people in Mozambique!”

Timothy Training Institute In the past eight years, OMS partners have made it possible for 1,450 students to plant 1,160 churches! An innovative program of pastoral training allowed students to live, train and serve in their home communities.

In this program, 15 to 20 students are invited to a hub church, which serves as a model village church plant. The leader is a trainer schooled in church-planting concepts, and the students study Bible and theology through materials provided by the Timothy Training Institute. For four years, students attend school for one week every month while also planting a church in their own village.

The Empowering Leaders for Life initiative will allow us to enroll an additional 1,365 students from 15 countries! The capacity of this program for reaching small and large communities for Christ across Africa is one of our most strategic opportunities on the African continent.

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A heart surrendered to the LordTwo years of seminary training and a heart surrendered to the Lord—that’s what God has used to build His kingdom in Zambezia.

OMS International does not currently have missionaries working in Zambezia, a province in Mozambique about a thousand miles north of the capital city of Maputo, but our influence can still be seen and felt. Thanks to the efforts of Dinis Ramos, a graduate of OMS’ Maputo Biblical Seminary and a native of Zambezia, six new churches have been planted in the last two years. Without the seminary, Dinis wouldn’t have been trained to do what he’s done in Zambezia.

Integrity, influence and vision In just two years, the ministry in Cote d’Ivoire (Ivory Coast) has grown from four training centers and 60 student church planters to 13 training centers and 182 student church planters. Marc Krenedzi* leads one of these training hub churches. Through Marc’s faithful leadership, the team has initiated 113 new churches. And the students aren’t even finished with their training yet! Bruce Bennett, OMS International regional director for Africa, says, “Marc has integrity, influence and vision. He’s a godly man who can connect with people in humility.”

*Name changed for his security.

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MexicoA seminary perfectly placed for service in a city of �� millionThe Biblical Seminary of Mexico (SEMBIMEX) is located perfectly for service in a city of 24 million people where there are few evangelical churches. It is also within reach of seven key Mexican states that surround the city. In this part of the world, less than two percent of the population is evangelical Christian. The fruitfulness of the seminary is easy to appreciate when you consider that the president and all 11 pastors of our partner church, Families United in Christ, were trained through the seminary.

In the next few years, another four churches are planned, and they will also receive discipled, well-trained SEMBIMEX leaders. Other denominations and city churches have benefited too. Most recently, its program expanded to include laymen preparing to become church planters. This new Great Commission Institute accepts 12-15 students every two years into their intensive full-time program. Already, the first graduating class has supplied the needed workers for OMS’ Every Community for Christ teams who are involved in active church planting.

The school also fosters a spirit of partnership by working closely in two strategic alliances. First, the Mexico Biblical Seminaries in Mexico City, Guadalajara and Torreón share professional resources and offer a unified degree accredited by an international agency. Second, the seminary also shares its campus with the exciting 400-member Campanario Church. They share costs in a way that allows the seminary to focus on providing strong faculty, a library and educational resources.

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Global missionaryLupita Rocha is from northern Mexico. Upon graduation from the Biblical Seminary of Mexico, she worked with the Evangelical Methodist Church of Mexico in Torreón, directing their Bible Institute and setting the stage for its partnership with SEMBIMEX. The Lord is on the move in her life and is leading her to go to Spain as an OMS missionary where she will serve as a church planter, working with South American immigrants to establish house churches. Lupita’s role will be to train the pastors of this house church movement. You’ve made her ministry possible.

OMS International is the sole provider of interdenominational theological education in all of Mexico City, the world’s second largest city.

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BangladeshMinistry Reminiscent of the Book of ActsSince the beginning of our partnership with Bangladesh in 1997, 817 churches (fellowships of 25-50 people) have been planted, and 40,021 new believers have been baptized! To support and expand this ministry, eight regional training centers are key to the strategy of our national church partner there. These centers serve as hubs for the development of churches all across the country. The vision of our national partner church is to plant a church in every “thana” in Bangladesh. A “thana” is a political district, consisting of a police station and a voting station.

The training facilities OMS has helped develop allows for intensive short-term and recurring training for more than 1,500 local elders, 200 supervising circuit pastors, local evangelists, and women and youth serving in children’s ministries.

Each center also provides teacher training for on-site primary schools, which serve church members and the community at large. Classrooms also support a wide range of conference services, including micro-credit and primary health care programs and a variety of community development workshops. The training center strategy also includes facilities for a children’s home for the poorest of the poor in each region, and our medical team ministry uses the training centers as a base from which to serve.

To date, two existing training centers have been established in the northwest regions of Bangladesh and are already self-sufficient! The Satkhira Training Center is our next focus and will serve the southern area of the county.

Ministry in Bangladesh serves people holistically, meeting spiritual, physical and social needs as we share the Good News of Jesus Christ.

“ Where there are training centers established, churches clearly mature more rapidly. One hundred fifty-five churches will be supported by our new training center in the Satkhira (southern) area of Bangladesh.” — National Ministry Leader

(name withheld for his security)

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OMS Medical Missions Team Discovers Center’s Impact Arriving at our first clinic, which also serves as a leadership training center, we were greeted by more than 150 singing children. These children are the youngest castoffs of a third-world society. With no other place to live, they have taken up residence with a caring staff in a center dedicated to helping them. Also, on the same grounds is a school for an additional 300 local children. These children were brightly dressed in school uniforms and sitting in neat rows. Their spirit and enthusiasm immediately captured our hearts.

On the way to our second location, we stopped to observe a local Christian church at work—a church not run by missionaries but by citizens of our host country. We came to a place in the middle of a rice paddy where about 150 locals had been conducting an all-night revival service. The scene was like an extension of the Book of Acts. It was there that we saw new believers being baptized. In fact, this ministry has brought tens of thousands into the kingdom over the last 10 years. Today, there are more than 800 Christian churches formed, and all run by nationals. Praise God!

It was then that we began to realize the magnitude of what we had been seeing and why we were called to a country so far away. It was not about medical help, but it was about the witness of God’s love to a people with great needs.

— John Cooper Career Engineer and Layman

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Increasing Our Capacity to Train Means Expanding

Our Capacity to Support

INTERNATIONAL THEOLOGICAL CONSULTATIONSAs the population centers of Christianity shift to the two-thirds world, we anticipate an increasing number of leaders from these nations and more missionaries from the churches of these nations to be reaching out to the unreached and resistant peoples of the world.

Today, more than 5,700 students are preparing for effective ministry at 45 formal OMS training institutions around the world. To facilitate cross-cultural communication between leaders of key training programs, OMS established a bi-annual International Theological Consultation (ITC) to bring together approximately 75 top training leaders from countries representing Latin America, the Caribbean, Asia, Africa, Europe and Central Asia.

Together, consultation participants develop contextual strategies to encourage church-planting movements to train pastors and lay workers to handle God’s Word effectively and to solve financial and administrative challenges. The cross-cultural fellowship that is developed through our consultations is an encouragement to all participants—providing them a forum for sharing their vision and testing their ideas with their peers from around the world. They discover a loving and supportive venue for academic growth, spiritual nourishment and fresh vision casting. They continue to pray for and communicate with colleagues in other countries, understanding what each faces on a day-to-day basis. They return to their schools encouraged to prepare leaders to reach their nations with the Good News of Jesus Christ.

“ The International Theological Consultation has unified us to look for better ways to fulfill God’s call of redemption worldwide. Co-workers from around the world have enriched me. We have seen our diversity, yet, we form one body, the Body of Christ. I thank the Lord for this unique opportunity.”

— Jorge MogrovejoDirector of the

Biblical Evangelical Seminary in Cuenca, Ecuador

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OMS considers ITC to be an essential component of our strategy to stimulate development of cross-cultural partnerships for reaching the world for Christ.

Previous OMS consultations were held in 1998, 1999, 2003 and 2005. The next one is planned for 2007 in Seoul, Korea. More than 50 leaders have already been invited to participate in the celebration of the Korean church’s 100th anniversary.

Endowments and Reserves Dedicated to Support National Faculty and StudentsOMS endowments and reserves provide an essential financial safety net for key faculty and students. They support the discipleship and training of those who will lead effective outreach and who strive to develop mature churches in difficult and sometimes dangerous circumstances. The faculty and graduates we support are capable of solid theology and outreach beyond their borders.

Strengthening Support OperationsThe OMS International World Headquarters operations are constantly in touch with OMS ministries around the world. When one considers the thousands of students and faculty, hundreds of evangelism teams, thousands of partner churches and supporting individuals, and hundreds of strategically placed missionaries, the service of the home team is extraordinary.

Expanding OMS training capacity around the world also requires that we prepare to serve and support greater numbers of new faculty, students and missionaries and keep the news of their vital training mandate visible for all to see.

“ Cowman was right! It will be the sons and daughters of a nation that reach their nations for Christ. Our role is to work ourselves out of a job! To do that, we need to expand our training programs around the world.”

— Bill VermillionSuperintendent of the

Pacific Conference of the Evangelical Church of North America

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Creating An Enduring Legacy

Can you envision training thousands of additional Christian leaders each year in key regions all around the world? You are an essential part of the missionary team in this world without pastors!

Veteran missionaries, Bruce and Mabel Callender, describe this partnership in the strongest of terms — “We see that God has put us into a living relationship with the churches our missionaries have started and the church leaders our missionaries have trained. The missionary team and church leaders have true Christian fellowship because we have struggled through many obstacles together.”

In the next few years, $7,408,000 will be used for the following:

China and Hong Kong –$�,���,000The relocation and expansion of the United Wesleyan Graduate Institute in Hong Kong is strategic as it sits on the doorstep of a nation (China) with 1.3 billion people and where there is only one trained pastor for every five churches. Facility expansion includes a training base in Western China for discipling and preparing leaders for hundreds of house churches. We will also develop leaders to establish churches in the shop/factory region in Southern China.

Haiti - $�00,000The new Emmaus Biblical Seminary will graduate 25 of its 100 students each year. A graduating class from the seminary will have a direct impact on 12,500 people! These men and women will support Christian churches and ministries that are capable of alleviating poverty in every sense — spiritually, educationally, socially and economically.

Africa - Mozambique - $��0,000Completing the relocation and expansion of the Maputo Biblical Seminary will open the doors for as many as 200 students and 40 graduates each year. With advanced training, our graduates will be prepared to provide top leadership for key churches and denominations and will open hundreds of new churches.

“We are investing in the future! The men and women we train will be our legacy. Let’s be passionate about leaving this mark … a younger, qualified generation of Christian leaders around the world.”

— Rev. Lisa Ausley Ordained Deacon in the

United Methodist Church

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Seminary Training: making a differenceIn Colombia, a Peruvian rector directs the activities of a faculty consisting of five nationalities. Students from all over South America attend because of the seminary’s reputation as one of the best seminaries in all of Latin America. But the most impressive thing is its graduates. Among them are:

• The Secretary of the National Evangelical Association of Colombia

• The Head of Prison Ministries of Colombia

• The Director of Every Community for Christ in Cuba

One seminary graduate is responsible for facilitating peace talks between a Latin government and a local insurgency group.

Pastors of mega churches and small rural churches come together to impact a continent for Christ. Together, in partnership with you, they are making a difference.

Africa – Timothy Training Institute - $�00,000Biblical and theological training for 1,365 men and women will equip them to serve in their local communities throughout Africa. Hundreds of additional churches could be planted during the next few years of their training. Imagine the multiplication of church plants as these leaders each establish hub churches to train 15-20 new leaders every year!

Mexico - $�00,000In a city of 24 million people, where less than 2 percent of the population is evangelical Christians, the Mexico City Biblical Seminary is critical for supplying leadership to our partner churches and for our Every Community for Christ church-planting teams. New capacity at this school provides for 30 seminary graduates each year and 12-15 Great Commission Institute graduates every two years.

Bangladesh - $���,000 To support and expand a ministry that has seen 817 churches (fellowships of 25-50 people) planted and 40,021 new believers baptized in nine years, a third regional training center is urgently needed in the southern region. The Satkhira training program will support 155 churches and the goal of planting an additional 750 churches in Bangladesh over the next five years.

�00� International Theological Consultation - $��,000A bi-annual International Theological Consultation (ITC) brings together 75 top training leaders from countries representing Latin America, the Caribbean, Asia, Africa, Europe and Central Asia. Consultation participants develop contextual strategies to encourage church-planting movements, to train pastors and lay workers to handle God’s Word effectively and to solve financial and administrative challenges. This forum strengthens their vision and provides peer input from around the world to test their ideas.

Together, we’ll foster cross-cultural exchange between key training leaders whose programs will prepare leaders to reach the world for Christ.

We need your help to train pastors.

Together, we will train Christian leaders who will help reach and

transform their nations.

Thank you for your partnership!

Ways to GiveGod’s provision for the Empowering Leaders for Life initiative will come in many forms. Our team is ready to assist you complete gifts of

• Cash • Appreciated Stock or Real Property • Business Interests • Assigned Insurance • Royalty and Lease Income Interests • Life Estates, Bequests, Trusts, Annuities Gifts from foundations, churches and businesses are also welcome.

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School Endowments and Reserves - $1,000,000Ongoing distributions of $50,000 to $100,000 per year will provide our field leaders great flexibility to support strategic plans and respond to extraordinary and, at times, emergency requests. As we expand our capacity to train thousands of new students, we must expand our capacity to provide scholarship and operational support.

Together, we’ll provide sustaining resources to give our brothers and sisters in Christ the opportunity to establish churches and national faculties on every continent.

Critical Homeland Operations - $�00,000Each year, the OMS homeland team facilitates communications and planning among our sending country partners for opening and sustaining ministry fields, encourages our training institutions, and develops our church-multiplication strategies. We encourage hundreds of students and evangelism teams with helpful support by raising funds and providing training materials. As we expand evangelism and training initiatives, we must carefully expand our capacity to serve and support. Your support of our homeland operations provides a vital connection to direct ministry around the world.

Dr. Dennis KinlawOMS Trustee Emeritus; Former Chairman, OMS Board

of Trustees; Founder, Francis Asbury Society; Past President, Asbury College; Professor, Asbury Theological Seminary;

Esteemed Author and Speaker, Author of Preaching in the Spirit, The Mind of Christ and Let’s Start With Jesus

Dr. Stanley TamOMS Trustee Emeritus; Founder and President Emeritus of TAMCO Industries and U.S. Plastic Corporation; Esteemed

Author and Speaker, Author of God Owns My Business; Founder, Stanita Foundation

Rev. David LongPresident, OMS International

Rev. Lisa AusleyOrdained Deacon, United Methodist Church;

Teacher in Residence

Dr. J. Duane BealsVice Chairman of the OMS Board

of Trustees; Professor, Bethel College

Dr. Harold BurgessProfessor, Asbury Theological Seminary (Pastoral Ministries and Christian Education); Board of Directors, Francis Asbury Society

Dr. Robert ColemanEsteemed Author and Speaker,

Author of Master Plan of Evangelism; Professor, Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary

Mr. Dawie CrousOMS South Africa Board Representative

Mr. James CulverRetired Bank Officer

Mr. Jim FaulknerOMS United Kingdom Board Representative

Dr. Carl FliermansChairman/CEO,

Ecological Microbes Unlimited

Mr. Kurt FrersOMS Canada Board Representative

Mr. Bill GlaceFarmer; Men For Missions

International Representative

Rev. Clifford GoodSenior Pastor, Evangelical Church of North America

Mrs. Thelma GooldRetired Professor, Asbury College

Rev. Rudy HeintzelmanMinister of Programs, Frazer Memorial

United Methodist Church

Mr. Neil HoughtonOMS New Zealand Board Representative

Dr. Eugene KandelRetired Businessman and Veterinarian

Mr. Wesley LytlePresident, U.S. Plastic Corporation;

Board of Directors, Stanita Foundation

Mr. Clyde MooreRetired President, IROC Corporation

Dr. Ronald SmithChairman of the OMS Board of Trustees;

President, Wesley Biblical Seminary

Mr. Lynden TrickeyOMS Australia Board Representative

Dr. W. James TruittProfessor Emeritus,

Baylor University (School of Economics)

Dr. M. William UryProfessor of Historical and Systematic Theology,

Wesley Biblical Seminary

Dr. William VermillionSuperintendent of the Pacific Conference

of the Evangelical Church of North America

Hon. Jeffrey WalkerAttorney at Law

Dr. Joseph WangProfessor of New Testament, Asbury Theological Seminary

Dr. Edward W. WilliamsonGeneral Superintendent of the Evangelical Methodist Church

OMS International2006 Board of Trustees

“Look at how many people are coming to Christ each day! I am compelled to move now to strengthen our biblical and theological training around the world.”

—Dr. Ronald Smith,Chairman of the OMS Board of Trustees