Kidzworkx: Helping Kids Grow
For many years One Challenge has implemented a training called Lifeworkx to help workers process who they are and what God’s purpose is for their lives. “Lifeworkx is a self-discovery based experience...
View ArticleTraining Youth Leaders Worldwide
With roughly 52 percent of the world’s population being under the age of 30, training youth and their leaders is essential to the Great Commission. Leadership catalyzes and sustains transformation, so...
View ArticleWhy do Mission Agencies Charge Overhead Fees?
One of the most frustrating things about raising financial support is often the amount of money that missions agencies place on top of the amount you need to raise for life and ministry in your target...
View ArticleTeaching in Ethiopia – a Story in Pictures
Even though he left Africa many years ago, Bob continues to travel there periodically as part of his ministry with Near Frontiers (an OC ministry, formerly called OC USA). From a recent trip to teach...
View ArticleWelcome Home One Challenge (Video)
Depending on your family, the words “family reunion” may bring joy, anticipation, excitement, anxiety, or maybe, for some, even dread. At the first family reunion of One Challenge alumni, held in late...
View ArticleTransforming the Nations Who Live Next Door
Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as...
View ArticleServing Immigrants in Spain
Refugees and immigrants continue to arrive in Europe in waves, many without access to a common language, a home, or the means to sustain themselves. They need practical help, but they also need the...
View ArticleInvesting in Axochiapan Mexico
One Challenge seeks to partner with the local church, helping serve to create healthy and growing churches. Steve and Janice Griswell, One Challenge mission workers, have served in different parts of...
View ArticleLifeworkx in Uganda (video)
Lifeworkx, a ministry of One Challenge, is a life-changing experience that is expanding globally. Recently, Steve and his team, Nate and Mark, returned from an incredible Lifeworkx event in Uganda....
View ArticleOutland Adventure in the Philippines
In many cases transformation through the Holy Spirit happens outside a formal setting. It happens during coffee, at meal times, at play groups, on basketball courts, or even sometime on ropes courses....
View ArticleFAQs about Pastoring of Pastors (PoP)
In One Challenge acronyms are used to describe many ministries and Christian terms. Some acronyms are common, others foreign, and many unique to OC. One such acronym is PoP, standing for Pastoring of...
View ArticleHighlights from the GProCongress in Thailand (video)
Healthy churches are vital to the Great Commission. That’s why One Challenge is invested in creating and sustaining healthy churches and her leaders. One avenue OC does this is in partnership with...
View ArticleHelp with Earthquake Relief Work in Nepal
About a year and a half ago two earthquakes rocked Nepal to its core, significantly damaging not only the physical structures but the societal ones as well. One Challenge worker Gill has been twice...
View ArticleRevving up the CMA Season in Europe
The white crosses shine from afar. It’s a statement in itself … the United Kingdom’s uniqueness in the worldwide organization known as the Christian Motorcyclists Association (CMA). “We do display the...
View ArticleWomen in Ministry … Mulheres em Ministério
In the world of missions we use the word “movement” to describe many things: disciple-making movements, church planting movements, even something as broad as missions movement. But what does that term...
View ArticleA Summer with Sports Ambassadors
Sports are a connector between believers and non-believers. Interactions on the court or field are not about differences; they’re about similarities. One Challenge has been in the sports ministry game...
View ArticlePEP: an Opportunity to be Heard
One Challenge’s commitment to care for its mission workers is an essential part of its DNA. Beyond one-on-one care, pastoral care, and other care provided by the MemberCare department, the larger OC...
View ArticleTransforming Spanish Youth – Festival 180º
Art, music, sports, and fun coupled with biblically based teaching and speakers that challenge the status quo – that’s Festival 180º. The pictures in this story include concerts, Líder180 (time with...
View ArticleLifeworkx in Korea – Listening and Prayer
You follow One Challenge on social media or take time to read the God stories on the website. So, you know as an organization we care for people. This takes shape in many ways … most noticeably in the...
View ArticleJourneying Forward, One Step at a Time with SOL
We are all sojourners in this life on earth. It’s our privilege to walk the journey with Christ. SOL or Step Outside the Lines took its inaugural steps in Màlaga, Spain, July and August of 2016. Its...
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