July 2025
This report, seemingly written for a secular audience, gives an interesting introduction to the challenges and opportunities missionaries face in their various situations. It serves as a good, complimentary summary of what many missionaries go through on a daily basis in the course of following their calling. Published on ABC News Australia.
This new book, by Traugott and Hanni Boeker, is a member care training manual for churches and agencies in newer sending countries. Developed and tested in Indonesia over ten years in cooperation with a team of Indonesian practitioners, the manual is now available in English. Several translations are underway.
Women in Missions is a new network dedicated to empowering, supporting, and uniting women missionaries across Africa. Their goal is to care for those on the mission field through support, partnership, or prayer.
Every adult should make a will and update it when any life circumstances change, like when you get married, have children, change your occupation or move countries. OSCAR's Wills & Legacies section can help you sort your will out. If your situation and wishes are fairly straightforward, you can even use a FREE service called Free Wills. It's easier than you think!
From 1st July, you can subscribe to our Gold or Platinum packages for the rest of 2025 for half the annual price. If you haven't taken the plunge so far this year, now is a good time to do it and try out our inclusive job advertising offerings.
June 2025
This article by Robert Hamilton reminds us that you don't always need to travel far to find a cross-cultural mission opportunity. Robert served as a missionary in Italy (1989-2008) and now works in a pastoral capacity in Newtownards, Northern Ireland.
Vulnerable mission is about giving up rather than using power in cross-cultural Christian ministry. This book is an introduction to vulnerable mission that is both comprehensive and compact.
Registered only last month, this new charity provides low cost transport solutions, like bicycles, scooters & motorcycles, for indigenous missionaries all over the world.
In case you didn't know, OSCAR has 4 regular email lists: 1. OSCAR Update (for everyone), 2. Opportunities Update (for job seekers), 3. Church Mission Update (for churches) and 4. Advertiser's Update (for orgs who advertise with us). You can see a more detailed description and request the first 3 using the form via the link below. If you would like to receive the 4th one, just ask us.
We are exhibiting at The Gathering in the second half of June. It's a weekend festival for men run by Christian Vision for Men. OSCAR is hosting a jobs board in The Mess Tent, the dynamic space where the delegates hang out with refreshments and activities. We will have our usual jobs/opportunities and resources board, so book now if you want to be featured. Come and see us, if you're there.
May 2025
This article by Anna Glenn focuses on something at the very core of our faith and testimony that is often taken for granted but becomes a major challenge when we're trying to connect with people from different cultures ... forgiveness. Anna served as an agricultural missionary with her husband in Liberia, West Africa from 2016-2022. She now writes about her experiences integrating back into American culture, reflects on her time in missions, and advocates for better missionary care and support.
Nik and Ruth Ripken spent decades walking alongside believers in the toughest regions. They discovered that caring for missionaries starts long before they are sent—it begins before they are even born. A church committed to missions weaves a sending culture into its very DNA, shaping every generation to fulfill Jesus’ command. This little book shows how missions isn’t just a program—it’s who you are as a church.
Learn how to inspire God’s people to fulfill their global mission while being transformed into fruitful and effective advocates for missions. This course will equip you with the tools, insights, and strategies to become a powerful advocate for missions, enabling you to mobilize your community toward greater awareness and active participation in Jesus’ call to “go and make disciples of all nations.”
Rekonnect camps offer mission children and teenagers five fun-filled days with others who have lived overseas and now find themselves back in the UK. There are camps for those aged 6-12 (rekonnect kids) and those who are 13-18 (rekonnect teens) planned for this Summer and they still both have spaces!
OSCAR provides a flexible range of mission-related training products that can be applied to a huge variety of situations. We can also tailor-make sessions with exactly the things your team, group, organisation or church needs and deliver them for you in any location or online at very reasonable cost. Contact us with your requirements.
April 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.
March 2025
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?
February 2025
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!
January 2025
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?