Features for 2025

If you're planning an overseas trip, or regularly buy from overseas websites, a specialist travel credit or debit card is one of the cheapest ways to spend as it gives near-perfect exchange rates worldwide. This guide includes the top-pick travel cards, the cards to avoid, and how to check what your card's charging you. 

Moving to a new country? Overwhelmed by your task list? Weary of living some place far from home?
This new book aims to remove your fear, uncertainty, and doubt. Find clear, actionable steps for each phase of your transition and guidance to overcome the challenges of living abroad long term.

“Insanity Unleashed” is a video-based, multi-hour, game-changing resource focused on the issues surrounding how to do effective ministry in places of intense persecution or environments defined by freedom to practice one’s faith.

Would you like to sponsor a section of the OSCAR website? Costs start at just £10 per month for around 250 impressions of your sponsor graphic and 4 referrals (on average). This will raise the profile of your organisation and keep OSCAR online at the same time.

OSCAR is planning a Christian job and mission opportunities board at seven Christian festivals and exhibitions this year, including two for the first time. Bookings for job and resource cards at all of this year's events are now open.

Would you like to see revival break out right in your location? You can help bring that about. Kevin, Allison & Elizabeth Shorter are called to travel and pray for locations around the world and are currently travelling around Europe. Their article highlights the importance of your role in bringing about the revival you long for.

Stewardship are running their 40 Acts of Generosity Lent Challenge again this year. Join over 50,000 people who are spreading the love of Jesus through 40 days of intentional generosity.

Ramadan is taking place throughout March. The Prayer Tools website lists a range of prayer campaigns you can join in with during that time along with some great resources to fuel your own prayer times.

This brief illustrated video from Global Frontier Missions summarizes how best we can reach the unreached of today.

1st March 2025 marks OSCAR's 25th birthday! Mike Frith, OSCAR's Founding Director, takes stock at our Silver Jubilee. Did you know the OSCAR website gets one visitor every minute, 24/7?

At OSCAR, we get quite a few questions about UK sponsorship for those who currently don't have the right to work in the UK. This article, by Robbie Thompson of the Immigration Advice Service, outlines the criteria and process for non-UK nationals hoping to undertake mission or ministry work in the UK.

This book, published in August 2024, is designed to move from the theological foundation of being a sending church to its practical application. Authors Bradley Bell, Mike Easton, Larry McCrary, and Nathan Sloan have gathered their collective wisdom working within and alongside local churches into a journey revealing seventeen 'elements' that make up what they call a 'sending church,' and makes them doable for any church.

Money Matters is a new training course, from former mission worker Keith Webb, specifically designed for mission workers to give them money mindsets and financial tools to create financial sustainability so that they can fully live out their calling without money getting in the way.

We have updated our Bible Weeks & Festivals page so you can see what's happening across the UK during this year. As always, there are quite a few changes, so take a look and see what's new. OSCAR is planning to be at some of these.

During 2024 our website received 449,140 visits from 295,380 unique visitors (up 23% on the previous year) and advertised 1,665 jobs and opportunities. By the end of the year, we had 693 organisations managing their own information and/or adding their opportunities, resources and events onto the OSCAR system. See our one minute summary video!

Our first article of 2025, written by James Vaughton, CEO of Transform Europe Network, focuses on the need to build partnerships in mission that enable participation and empowerment at the same time as limiting dependency. Useful for anyone wanting to create good working relationships.

Relentless: We Press On captures the essence of unwavering faith and determination. Written by members of mission organisation Team Expansion, they share not only the narrative, but also the backstory too – the 'why' and the 'how' they press on. It provides hope and inspiration for navigating life's complexities – for you and all those you know.

Following on from the advent calendar last month, Global Trellis have put together a packet of materials to help you reflect on your mission or ministry at the end of one year and the beginning of the next. 

Whether you're looking for a career in Christian or mission work, or looking to change roles within the Christian sector, OSCAR has it all. We list more jobs for more organisations than any other Christian website in the UK. That's why OSCAR should be your starting place for your search. You can also subscribe to our daily alerts (Saved Search) or our weekly email ('Opportunities Update') for the latest job adverts.

We have adjusted a few small things about our advertising packages for the New Year. We reckon we are by far the best value in the UK Christian sector for advertising jobs. Why not try us and see for yourself?