Understanding Addiction: A Guide for Christian Ministry
Posted on 1st September 2025
Alcohol is the world's most consumed drug, and for many it can be consumed without any harm occurring. But for anywhere up to 10% of people who consume alcohol, they are likely to develop a drinking problem. Drinking problems that are identified early and corrected can stop the problem from...
Moving Back and Managing Big Feelings: How to Support Your Child’s Emotional World
Posted on 30th July 2025
When we talk about Third Culture Kids (TCKs), we often overlook the challenges they face in embarking on a journey they had little or no control over. Having spent many years living abroad and supporting TCKs in my role as a School Counsellor and Play Therapist, I have become very...
Pray for Revival Where You Are
Posted on 27th February 2025
Faith: The Foundation of Revival
Many of us struggle with doubt over whether our prayers really make a difference. Often, this doubt is not about God’s power but about our own significance. Who am I that what I do is important? This doubt strangles our prayers before we even have a...
OSCAR at 25
Posted on 26th February 2025
1st March 2025 marks OSCAR's 25th birthday. Mike Frith, OSCAR's Founding Director, takes stock at our Silver Jubilee.
Here are the stats after 25 years:
The Impact Online
Days online: 9,130
Visits to website: 5 million
Page views: 16 million
Jobs/opportunities advertised: 21,000
Events advertised: 4,800
The Impact Offline
Days spent advising and resourcing at events: 700
People helped at...
Faith-Based Opportunities: How to Find a UK Sponsor for Mission and Ministry Work
Posted on 1st February 2025
Most people hoping to come to the UK for mission or ministry find it a daunting prospect to discover faith-based opportunities with organisations that will sponsor their work. This is because of several challenges including, but not limited to, strict immigration rules, language barriers, cultural differences, job market competition, etc.
Despite...
Building More Financially Sustainable Mission Partnerships
Posted on 1st January 2025
Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day, teach a man to fish and he’ll eat for a lifetime.
Or so goes the adage.
Is it possible in mission partnerships? Is it possible to move from dependence to greater interdependence?
What is a ladder for? “to elevate and support...
Rest & Renewal for Mission Workers
Posted on 31st January 2024
As a development worker and missionary, you NEED your free time, but alas… Going back home is not always the answer. Before you know it, you are hard at work in your home country and again… you don’t have time to focus on your goals for the near future, haven’t...
COST: Grants for Mission Trips
Posted on 1st December 2023
Did you know there's a trust that gives small grants to those embarking on mission trips, placements or gap years?
Christians in Overseas Service Trust (COST) was established in 1972 to assist short term volunteers to obtain initial funding, which enables and facilitates them through the provision of monetary grants. COST...
Crossing Cultures Survey
Posted on 1st November 2023
Christine Paterson from Field Partner International gives us her personal takeaways on a survey they conducted earlier this year amongst cross-cultural Christian workers.
At FieldPartner International, we believe that anybody who serves in the field cross-culturally should be properly trained, well-resourced, and wholeheartedly supported by their sending church. We did a...
Single People on Mission
Posted on 1st October 2023
Growing up I had a tendency to think that women on the mission field had no dress sense! Now I am part of that demographic I am beginning to understand that one’s wardrobe gets so full of culturally appropriate clothing that you can risk looking rather dowdy when you get...
