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Southern Africa … Connecting with God’s Heart Up Close
How do you connect with what God is doing around the world? When have you seen and felt God’s compassionate expressions of love and care for the impoverished and lost? What experiences have convinced...
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Southern Africa Vision Trip: Surprises and Impact
Last month we wrote about the vision trip a group took to South Africa and Zimbabwe with OC Africa, Southern Africa … Connecting with God’s Heart Up Close. This month we want to share with you some of...
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Sharing the Gospel on Barcelona Beaches – Personal Testimony
When one thinks of a place to share the gospel, the beaches of Spain may not be an obvious choice. However, that’s where the Lord directed one of the summer’s Sports Ambassadors (SA) teams. Kari (an OC...
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A Growing Mobilization Team
At One Challenge, we’re always grateful for those who God brings to us. This month we are celebrating Connor, who joined OC’s Mobilization department officially as Short-Term Coordinator. OC and...
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How Christmas is Celebrated in the OC Global Alliance
The OC Global Alliance is a voluntary association of OC mobilization centers for the purpose of sharing resources and experience to fulfill a common mission, vision, and strategy, and sharing common...
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New Beginnings in Italy
New. What comes to mind when you read that word? Is it excitement? Trepidation? Longing? Dread? For many the idea of “new” means a paradox of feelings, a mixture of loss and hope. After living and...
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Empowering Global Ministry through MK Education
“Without the work you do – the education and care of our children – we could not do our ministry.” This is a common sentiment shared from parents to teachers at schools for mission kids (MKs) across...
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OC Global Alliance … Small Footprint – Big Impact
“I believe OC can be one of the most leveraged mission agencies with the greatest impact through the smallest footprint (in terms) of personnel,” says Murray Moerman, 24-year Outreach Canada/One...
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Sometimes we just celebrate – God at work in N. Africa
This is not a One Challenge story. It’s God’s story. It’s Nabil’s story. We simply celebrate and share as members of His kingdom. Nabil’s Story Nabil grew up in a Muslim home in North Africa. His...
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Summer Programs – Focusing on the Individual as a Whole
Holistic – what a buzz word! Slap the ‘holistic’ label on something, a business or ministry, and it immediately sounds informed, deep, and connected to the world – real people solving the real...
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Prepare for Impact … OC Mobilization
A change of name but not a change of purpose. Recently, the mobilization department of One Challenge decided to change its external name from the generic “mobilization” (an insider mission’s term) to...
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The OC Global Alliance … Ten Years Later
Ten years ago, OC leaders from nations around the world met together in Manila to seek the Lord’s direction concerning how OC could more effectively respond to the growing number of mission workers He...
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Connecting Cultures … Southern Africa Chinese Outreach Network
The Southern Africa Chinese Outreach Network (SACON) is a network of Chinese believers, South Africans who were former workers in China, as well as other local believers who are reaching out to the...
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Expanding Reach of Lifeworkx in Southern Africa
The mark of a transformed life is a motivated person, someone who has been profoundly impacted and desire to impact others. This is a cornerstone of what Jesus did in ministry. He came with words of...
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Christmas Reflections
Merry Christmas from the One Challenge family. We hope this time is filled with joy, laughter and a refocus on the reason for the season – Christ Jesus. We’d like to share Christmas poems written by...
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Lives, Communities, and Nations Transformed … Because You Prayed
Without the partnership and prayer of the One Challenge community, we could not do the ministry to which the Lord has called us. As it says in Ecclesiastes 4:12, “Though one may be overpowered, two...
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Futures Think Tank 2.0
For two days, the southside wing of One Challenge’s office building in Colorado Springs buzzed with chatter, laughter, passionate conversations, and a spirit of collaboration. For these two days of...
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Emergency Fund for Global Alliance Workers in Light of COVID-19
Someone once said, “storms give us a story to tell about God.” As the storm of COVID-19 stretches around the world and touches humanity, we can be confident that God is with his children in the storm....
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Can We See God Working?
God loves Italy We made this sign Dio Ama L’Italia (God loves Italy) and hung it on our balcony as an encouragement to people who might pass by our building. We’ve gotten mostly positive responses....
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Never Before…
We are living in a historical moment. In terms of international health, never has a pandemic had the physical, economic, and social impact of COVID-19. But, we are also seeing an unprecedented moment...
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