Ministry News

A new series featuring 17 OCI ministries will air on Hope Channel beginning on April 7 through the end of June. During the past year and a half, OCI President Steven Grabiner and two OCI team members traveled to six continents to film footage for a 13-episode video series. The series highlights the work that…

Staff and students from Advent Home Learning Center Inc., an OCI ministry in Tennessee, gathered for the first Family Forum of 2013. Advent Home works with at-risk boys 12 to 18 years of age who have academic, emotional, and spiritual needs. The family forums are designed to bring the entire family together for face-to-face communication,…

In May, Mount Akagi Institute in Japan will host a mission group to help provide a much-needed facelift to its lifestyle center. For more than 50 years, Mount Akagi has facilitated medical missionary work in Japan. In 1978 three families from Eden Valley Institute, an OCI ministry in Colorado, helped to expand the work there….

In January, a fire destroyed a building where church members in Cameroon, Africa, were meeting to study the Bible. OCI member Bantu Hope Ministries, shares Jesus’ love with remote villages in Central Africa. Two years ago, Bible workers started witnessing to people in Bafou, Cameroon. Jaques Metenou and his wife, Marie, were among the first in…

This month, The Hope of Survivors was recognized as a 2012 Top-­Rated Nonprofit by GreatNonprofits. “We are excited to be named a Top-­Rated Nonprofit,” says Samantha Nelson, vice president & CEO of The Hope of Survivors, “and we are proud of our accomplishments this year.” The Hope of Survivors is an OCI ministry located in…

From October 31 to November 4, more than 100 people gathered in Colombia for the first OCI Latin America Leadership Retreat. The meetings were aimed at encouraging and strengthening workers from supporting ministries in Latin America; OCI ministry leaders and staff came from Bolivia, Ecuador, Peru, Honduras, Uruguay, Mexico, Brazil, and the United States. Inspirational…

Three OCI ministries are collaborating to restart the medical missionary school in Dominican Republic. For more than 15 years, Seventh-day Adventist lay-workers have faithfully endeavored to operate a small supporting ministry in Dominican Republic, called Country Life Institute (also known as Liga de Servicio Cristiano). In earlier years, the ministry had a vibrant educational program…

Last November Congo Frontline Missions’ Three Angels Radio (107 FM) went on the air in Democratic Republic of Congo for the first time. The ministry never anticipated the miracles God would work to help it impact the community. The ministry’s 1,000-watt transmitter should only extend about 62 miles, but the station has been reaching listeners…

For the first time in three years, the International Medical Missionary Training Center at Herghelia Institute in Romania will offer its training program in English. When the school opened in 1999, the majority of students were international, which created the need for classes to be taught in a common language; however, more recently only Romanian-speaking…

A category four cyclone pommeled Madagascar’s eastern shores earlier this week, passing over an OCI ministry, Fanantenana Training Center On Tuesday, February 14, Cyclone Giovanna struck land in Brickaville, about 65 miles south of Fanantenana. According to Reuters, the storm is responsible for the death of at least 16 people, with 65 injured and about…