Discover the curated highlights and resources from each month.
Being miles away from grandparents or grandchildren (or any other family member) doesn't mean you miss out on building those relationships. Anita Rahma, who grew up on the mission field and now raises her own family on the mission field, has some good advice and practical tips for keeping these friendships alive. Not just useful for those in different countries!
Grit to Stay Grace to Go helps with the challenges of ministry around the decision to stay or leave, through honest and humorous stories from the authors' own lives as well as testimonies from many other workers. The point is to help cross-cultural workers not just to stay, but to stay well, by countering lies with truth. This workbook provides thoughtful reflection questions, practical action steps, and suggested prayers.
HealthLink360's Remote Health Assessment has been designed to enable sending agencies to use HealthLink360’s health assessment services remotely when an individual is not able to attend their clinic in-person.
Did you know OSCAR has a whole page listing systems and software to help individuals manage their support partners and donations? We even added a new one last month!
You will now need to register with us to sign up to our various email newsletters. Just click on the My OSCAR button on any page and fill in the 'Create new account' form. Then go to 'My Email Settings' for our choice of newsletters. You can also unsubscribe there or by clicking on the Unsubscribe link at the bottom of every newsletter.
In this article, Peter Brock helps us think about what everyone can do to help mission workers when they return from overseas assignments. This is a crucial time where churches and individual supporters can make a huge difference to that transition time.
Navigating the Re-entry Journey is a compassionate and practical guide for global workers and those who care for them. Through a trauma-informed approach, Shonna Ingram outlines four key phases of re-entry and the emotional landscape of each. She then offers tools for churches, organizations, and friends to provide meaningful support.
This section of the FIEC website has a great range of recorded talks on aspects of world mission designed to inform and equip every Christian to engage and get involved, whether they stay or go.
Talent Trust are an insurance company set up specifically to provide medical insurance for missionaries and mission activity. OSCAR users can get a 20-35% discount depending on the plan. Just mention us when you enquire.
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.
During 2025 our website received 590,030 visits from 398,146 unique visitors (up 32% on the previous year) and advertised 1,524 jobs and opportunities. That's 1,616 visits every day or one every minute. By the end of the year, we had 732 organisations managing their own information and/or adding their opportunities, resources and events onto the OSCAR system.
The Sprint to the Finish, subtitled The Global Push to Complete the Great Commission in This Generation, is a new book by Douglas Cobb that outlines the most important thing happening in the world today ... the push to "make disciples of every nation". The book details inspiring stories of transformed lives in remote regions, highlights the strategic role of indigenous missionaries, and explores the biblical significance of completing the Great Commission.
In January, many people's thoughts turn to holidays. If you're in mission or ministry, you're probably looking for a holiday that's both affordable and conducive to Christians. OSCAR has a list of such locations in the UK for you.
Whether you're looking for a new 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 or weekly alerts (Saved Search) for the latest job adverts.
There's a slight increase in some of our charges for the New Year. Salaried jobs cost £10 more plus Gold and Platinum packages are up by around 5%. We reckon we are still the best value in the UK Christian sector for advertising jobs, by quite a way. Why not try us and see for yourself?