In the 1950’s an American housewife named Dorothea Clapp began to pray faithfully for the students in her local High School. She asked God to touch the world through the lives of those young people. She gave a Gospel of John to one of the students, who later gave his life to the Lord at a Billy Graham meeting. That young man was George Verwer, the founder of Operation Mobilisation.
At college, George and two friends met regularly to pray. They became burdened by the spiritual needs of Mexico. In 1957 the three friends sold some of their own possessions to raise money and gave up their summer holiday to distribute Gospels and other Christian literature in Mexico. The friends returned the following summer and the next…
Now, 50 years on OM International has more than 6100 workers in over 110 countries bringing the good news that Jesus saves to literally millions of people each year. Here in the Australian office we are proud to be an important part of that work offering training, finances and workers to fields all around the world.
