Visa Application Tips
Posted on 1st September 2020
Tips to Obtain Your Travel Visa for When You Go Abroad
If you’re planning to go abroad, then depending on your nationality and your destination, there’s a good chance that you need to obtain a travel visa to be allowed entry to the country you’re travelling to.
For example, Brits or Americans...
Insurance Update for Mission Workers
Posted on 1st August 2020
Significant issues remain even if you have insurance
Note: Many insurers have excluded cover for COVID-19. Please check to see what cover you have.
Even if your insurance plan does include cover for COVID-19, there remain significant practical issues when delivering medical treatment globally. Please research the situation wherever you...
Shipping through the Crisis
Posted on 1st August 2020
The good news is that when the world shut down, not all was lost. Transport lines stayed open as much as possible over the lockdown.
90% of what we use every day has been on a ship at some stage
Shipping adapted quickly and remains the most robust method of...
Mission Training in the New Normal
Posted on 1st August 2020
With All Nations and Redcliffe coming together (see the press release) and with the current COVID-19 crisis, we asked Martin Hickey, Head of Communications for All Nations Christian College, to reflect on mission training in and beyond the COVID-19 crisis.
Like many other colleges and universities, mission colleges have been driven...
Coronavirus: Into the Unknown
Posted on 1st July 2020
“Our world has changed forever.”
We have probably all seen these words in recent weeks. And while they do smack of hyperbole, we can see even at these early stages of 2020 how a tiny virus has become the vehicle by which a great shaking has been delivered to our world....
Coronavirus: What's Changed?
Posted on 1st June 2020
Processing the Present and Preparing for the New Normal
Like many of you our team has been facing the challenges of navigating through this crisis while living in another culture. We’re not strangers to change, transition, travel and visa difficulties and to having to be flexible. As mission workers we’ve come...
Coronavirus: Help after Lockdown
Posted on 29th May 2020
OSCAR has collected together a number of resources and links to help you plan for the months ahead.
This is a follow on from last month's article - Coronavirus: Help for Mission Workers, and can be regarded as an addendum.
'Global Transmission, Global Mission' is a free short e-book by Jason Mandryk,...
Coronavirus: Help for Mission Workers
Posted on 1st April 2020
There is already a plethora of information and advice online for the general public about COVID-19 and its effects, like for protecting yourself from infection, keeping in touch with family and friends, home working and conducting meetings (including church!). For the purposes of this article we have collected together...
OSCAR: Celebrating Twenty Years Online
Posted on 1st March 2020
1st March 2020 is OSCAR's 20th birthday! Mike Frith, OSCAR's founding director, takes a brief look back at the last 20 years to see how far OSCAR has come to what it is today.
The Vision
After God's call to mission in the late eighties, I worked as a pilot and engineer...
Your Mission is Our Mission: Working in Partnership
Posted on 1st February 2020
At OSCAR, Your Mission is Our Mission. OSCAR exists to support you and the mission that God has called you to.
With a wide range of resources to keep Christian individuals and charities from having to do it all themselves, OSCAR comes alongside each one in a variety of ways.
Fiona Mearns,...
