FOMOS would like to provide resources and facilitate discussion forums that meet your needs and interests as mission leaders in local churches. Would you please review the following topics and rank each topic according to the level of interest and need for you and your church’s mission program?

Click on “Read More” to start the online survey. There are 16 questions altogether.

“I would say that one major thing that I learned in MCC was maintaining self-care. I also learned about the priority of care – it is first & foremost about Master Care. That moves the burden of caring from me to our Father, so that our people will not only look to us to feed them, but to our Father.” – Ann Ho

Organizer: YWAM
Contact: +65 6745 9700
Email: tooailing@gmail.com

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Every three years OMF International holds the Asian Frontiers Missions Conference (AFMC) in different Asian cities.

This year OMF will hold the 6th AFMC on August 26-29, 2010. This is a missions conference for all who are interested to know more about missions, opportunities and how to be involved as sender, goer, prayer partner and a variety of different ways. It is open to college students, professionals, pastors, church leaders, and missions committee members.

Location: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Organisers: OMF International
Contact Koh Yong Hong at sg-cmob@omf.net
Telephone: (65) 65103130

• More Info at The AFMC Website.
• Download Brochure
• Download Registration Form

Have you a crisis or a contingency plan for your missionary in place? Come learn & network at the next Contingency & Crisis Managment Seminar II organized by FOMOS.

Date: 31st July 2010
Venue: OMF Singapore, 2 Cluny Road.

For registration enquiries,  please call 9759 2601 (FOMOS)

Click on the links to view (in new window):

• Program Schedule
• Registration Form

For registration enquiries,  please call 9759 2601 (FOMOS)

Hello there! Warm New Year greetings to you in the glorious name of our Lord Jesus Christ! We at FOMOS are very excited about launching this web newsletter and what a great privilege it is for me to write the first article.

I am sure all of us know certain aspects about mission—the preparation, plans, programs and the process of going whether as long-termers or as short-termers. There is always a place for everyone because every heart without Christ is a mission field but every heart with Christ is a missionary!

Just the thought of going on a trip to an unknown or less-chartered territory stirs up great anticipation and expectancy! The medical and rescue mission, the social concern mission are all well and good, but I believe the main thing about mission is to glorify God through sharing His love to the people we minister to.

Sometimes in the midst of all that we are doing whether by our words or our works in toil, sweat and blood, we might forget the main thing about mission!

Mission is more than doing good, it is about God’s glory covering the waters of the seas and the nations of the earth as we bring the good news that God’s favor is upon mankind because of Jesus Christ. No amount of good we do can and will substitute that even though the good can lead to that or open the door of opportunity for that to happen.

The mission endeavor is a little like the incarnation ministry of the Lord Jesus Christ. He came that we might have Life, and Life that is both meaningful and abundant. God’s glory is found in a man/woman who is fully alive—in the image of God and having the likeness of Christ. He came not just to heal, teach and restore, He came to save sinners first and foremost!

Jesus was always busy but He was never ever in a hurry. He had time for the masses, but He also found time for a twelve year-old girl, a woman with blood problem, a rich young ruler, an out of favor tax-collector, an elder legal statesman, a loose woman as well as one caught in adultery.

In the midst of “doing His mission,” the Lord Jesus never fail to tell the good news about God’s favor on mankind. He was always consumed with the glory of God in the salvation of mankind. His manifesto is found in Luke 4:18, 19: “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because He anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor, He sent me to proclaim release to the captives, and recovery of sight to the blind, to set free those who are oppressed, to proclaim the favorable year of the Lord.”

I am sure He wants us to be about our main business, which is: “To find a need and to meet it; To find a hurt and to heal it; And to find a lost soul and to win him/her to Christ!”

Together In God’s Mission,

Rev. Edwin Lam
Chairman
FOMOS Ltd.

WY.U.MI is an adventure camp organised by NTM Singapore & partnering churches for challenging Young Adults to Reach Asia for Christ. The camp will have two tracks running simultaneously.  One will be catered for youth, ages approximately 13-16 and the second for young adults aged approximately 17-26.

Any young people attending this camp will leave with a new perspective on missions and with a challenge to be a part of what God is doing to complete the Great Commission in their lifetime.

Brad Buser and Darryl Palmer, missionaries with New Tribes Mission will be our featured speakers again.   Missionaries from other organizations will be assisting with various modules and the camp programme.  Brad, along with his wife Beth, and their four children, served with New Tribes Mission in Papua New Guinea reaching the Iteri people (1979-1999).   They are now living in San Diego, California where Brad serves as mission pastor in his home church.  Brad also teaches “Cross-Cultural Church Planting” modules at The Master College, at Eternity Bible College, the book of Acts at Ecola Bible Institute, Perspective courses all over the US, as well as serving as an National Representative for New Tribes Mission.

Brad has been involved in conducting 3 youth camps in Germany, speaks at youth conferences every year in Mexico, and takes numerous speaking opportunities at Christian colleges in the US:  Biola University, Heritage College, Westmont University, Azusa Pacific University, Liberty University, Ecola Bible College, Masters College and others.  Obviously, Brad communicates and relates well with youth.

Darryl Palmer was on staff at New Tribes Mission’s mission training centre in Camdenton, Missouri for about 5 years, teaching phonetics, culture and language acquisition before he and his wife went to Indonesia to serve in reaching the Taliabo People.  Darryl and Kyla are featured missionaries in the award-winning videos, “The Taliabo Story” and “Delivered From The Power Of Darkness.”

Ken Springsteen served for 20 years assisting in outreaches to tribal people groups, doing member care to missionaries and providing administrative leadership for the New Tribes Mission field of Papua New Guinea before coming to Singapore to serve as NTM Singapore Coordinator

For more information, plase contact New Tribes Mission

Join the Global Consultation on Music and Missions (GCoMM Asia 2010) for the first time in Asia, 4 – 7 July, 2010.

If you are a missionary, a musician or a creative artist working in a cross-cultural setting, an ethnomusicologist, a leader of a Christian church or organization from Asia or anywhere in the world, you are invited to be a part of this event. Be prepared for a rewarding and enriching time of learning from one another.

Date: 4 – 7 July, 2010
Venue: Various Locations in Singapore ( View Venue )
Registration Open : 12 Oct 2009 – 30 Apr 2010
Early Bird ($30 discount): Before 31 Jan 2010
For more information, please visit: GC0MM Asia 2010 Website

Plenary Speakers:

Promo Video:

What will you do if your missionary needs an emergency medical evacuation for his child? Where can we seek help beyond our usual means when mission workers are kidnapped by a terrorist group? Pastors, church & mission leaders and missionaries – Be prepared.

Two security experts from Crisis Consulting International lead this seminar to teach and discuss topics like:

• Crisis resolution protocol
• Risk assessment
• Ezra software for risk assessment and forecasting
• Strategic risk forecasting & tactical risk assessment
• Crisis management teams
• Contingency planning
• Understanding the terrorism threat.

Crisis Consulting International conducts training seminars and consults with organizations on a wide variety of topics related to organizational and member security, especially in dangerous and hostile environments.  The organization also provides hands-on assistance during emergencies.  These services include hostage negotiations, evacuation management, response to extortion, risk assessments, site surveys, etc.

Speakers:

Bob Klamser is the co-founder and Executive Director of Crisis Consulting International, a non-profit organisationganization that provides security and crisis management services to the missionary, humanitarian and NGO communities.
Bob retired from a twenty-three year law enforcement career in 1994.  During that career he held a wide range of responsibilities, including command of a criminal investigation unit, command of a hostage negotiation team and command of the operations section of a municipal government’s emergency operations center.

Guy Sier served with the U.S. military for 9 years.  During that time he was a Special Forces operator engaged in covert operations and counter-insurgency.  Later he became an instructor at the Special Forces Institute for Military Assistance at Fort Bragg, North Carolina.
Guy has provided assistance in the evacuations of Liberia, Ivory Coast, Colombia and regions of Indonesia.  He has also been involved in multiple crises experienced by New Tribes Mission (NTM) over the past 20 years, including kidnappings in Panama, Colombia and the Philippines.

Download Brochure and Application Form here