What in the world are you doing to change it?

From its inception in 1901, OMS has emphasized the training of nationals as church leaders and workers. OMS International began ministry in Japan in 1901 as the Oriental Missionary Society. Today, OMS ministers in more than 40 countries throughout Asia, Latin America, the Caribbean, Europe and Africa. OMS-related churches now number more than 7,000, with a combined membership in excess of one million people.

When Charles and Lettie (the author of the best-selling devotional, Streams in the Desert) Cowman, Ernest and Julia Kilbourne and Juji and Katsuko Nakada began the work of OMS, they believed the best way to reach a nation for Christ was through its own sons and daughters. So, they opened a Bible training school and trained the Japanese to serve as church planters and pastors.

In the 1970’s, OMS changed it’s name from the Oriental Mission Society to OMS International in order to better reflect our global ministry. OMSI, an evangelical, interdenominational faith-based mission supported by the gifts and prayers of churches, family and friends, focuses on intentional evangelism, planting indigenous churches (as led by Every Community for Christ), training national leadership in Bible colleges and seminaries around the world and joining national workers, churches and other ministries to reach the nations for Christ.

OMS strives to be holistic. Because of this, we also serve in several other areas of interest, including: camping ministry, ministry to children and youth, construction, teaching English and medical missions. Men for Missions International, the laymen’s voice of OMS, specializing in short-term mission trips (work teams, ministry teams, prayer teams and evangelism teams), radio ministry, sports ministries, support ministry (administration, computers, finance, communications, etc.) and teaching.