This picture is the mower they are looking to purchase for the camp.  It is a Craftsman Mower, with a 26 HP Kholer engine and a 54 inch mower deck.

They need to raise about $5,500. to purchase this mower.

The project name and number to use is:  Camp Pallatanga Equipment – Mower, and the project number is:  461480

You can give in a couple different ways to this project.  If you would like to give on-line, you can click on the Mower Link and it will take you to the OMS web site.  You can enter in the Project Name and Number and give.  MOWER LINK

You can also give via regular mail.  You can send a check, along with a note containing the Project Name and number,and send it to:  ONE MISSION SOCIETY, PO Box 1648, Monument, CO   80132-1648

If you have any questions, please E-mail me at: tbell@onemisionsociety.org

God bless,

Timothy Bell, Northeast Regional Director

Camp Pallatanga

Greetings!   Summer time is drawing nearer, and for OMS Hungary, that means one thing: Summer English Camp.  I am urgently needed in Hungary as some of the usual leaders are unable to participate in camp this year.  God is bringing together a good staff for this camp, and I would very much love to work with them.

Please pray that God will provide the way and the means for me to return to Hungary in time for camp. OMS would like to see me raise approximately $300/month in new faith promises before clearing me to return to Hungary.  If the Lord prompts you to give, you can click on this link and it will take you to my Missionary Profile on the OMS web site:  Carlson Profile

You can also E-mail me at: mcarlson@onemissionsociety.org and I can give you more information as to how you might partner with me in my ministry.

God’s timing is perfect, and whether he brings me to Hungary this summer, or a bit later, I trust him and I am confident of his plans. He is working in the hearts of Hungarians and our team is seeing many answers to prayer.  We have begun a new prayer initiative. We are looking for people who have  a heart for this country, and who will commit to regular prayer. If you would like to receive a weekly e-mail of prayer requests and answers to prayer from the field, please let me know.

Blessings to you this summer! Please let me know how I can pray for you also.

Melanie Carlson

ONE MISSION Society

DESPERATE NEED In Haiti

Our Haiti Field is in desperate need for a very knowledgeable person to come to the field to help with their Internet service.

We are not sure what time it will take to evaluate the situation.  Maybe a week or more.  It could require several visits –  We are just not sure.

The internet costs have gone through the roof, thus since Sunday evening January 1, we have been limiting our connection to the internet to between 3.5 and 4.5 hours per day.  This makes it very difficult for the field to function as we ought.

There are several possibilities that could be causing this situation.

-  We changed our Internet server in the summer of 2010 and it might not have been the best, but it was recommended by the rep from our former server and the new server.

-  There may be a virus in some of our computers that are using a lot of our allotted band space, thus adding to the problem.

-  There may be additional issues that we are not aware of.

Therefore, we are in desperate need of some assistance.

If you think that you might be able to assist OMS on this need, please get in touch with Bill Evans, in our Men For Missions Office at:  bevans@onemissionsociety.org

Or write Timothy Bell at:  tbell@onemissionsociety.org

“It is much worse there in Ishinomaki than one could ever imagine from the pictures.  The smell is overbearing.  Dead fish smell mixed with the smell of the rancid mud and who knows what else. . . I worry so much more about the people who try to stay in their homes and live with the smell and possible spread of disease because of lack of water for sanitation.

Two images I have that I cannot get out of my mind are: First, the sweetest elderly couple in their eighties.  I talked to the man and he said he had lived in Ishinomaki for over 70 years.   He was sitting there eating hot soup that our group had made and served.  I tried to tell him how sorry I was for the loss of his home and city.  I told him how I had been in Ishinomaki more than 50 years ago on a ministry trip. I can never forget seeing him and his wife slowly walk down the filthy, rubble-covered street toward the worst part of the town to their home that was still full of stench.   I cry every time I think of it.   I wanted to run after them and take them to a clean, safe place.   The second image is seeing a young couple standing on a mountain of trash while heavy equipment uncovered an area that I am sure must have been their parents’ or friends’ home. They just clung to each other as the equipment worked on the area. If you could see it, you would understand why not all bodies have yet been uncovered.

When I was in Kobe, helping after the 1995 earthquake, I could imagine how I could help people, because as bad as it was, I could lend a hand to help.  In Ishinomaki and Kesennuma, you feel so hopeless because there is so much rubble that if you started to try to help, you would only make larger piles of rubble.  I felt so helpless to help, except by patting the men on the back as we gave them food and supplies.  Many of them said thank you in English.   One lady had taken so many of the things we brought, that she could not carry them to her house.  She had five in her family.  So we put her treasures in our truck and took her home.  I cry even now as I think of these things.  The Japanese people are brave, brave people.”

If you want to know more of what One Mission Society is doing to assist the people of Japan and how you might get involved,  click on this link.   Japan

CONTACT: SUSAN LOOBIE

March 17, 2011

317.888.3333, EXT. 369

sloobie@onemissionsociety.org

Since the 9.0-magnitude earthquake slammed the eastern coast of the island nation of Japan, unleashing a 23-foot tsunami on Friday, March 11, 2011, Greenwood, Indiana-based One Mission Society’s on-field team of missionaries has been busy.

All 11 OMS Japan field missionaries were unharmed. OMS has received reports from their national coworkers and church members of some injuries and structural damage to churches and buildings, but nothing major. One OMS missionary family lives100 miles from the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear complex. Other OMS missionaries serve in Tokyo, which is 150 miles from the epicenter, or even farther south.

One Mission Society has been serving in Japan since 1901 when cofounders, Charles and Lettie Cowman, along with Juji Nakada, a national Japanese Christian, began the Mission in Tokyo. In these 110 years, OMS has added 56 more countries to the list of those in which they serve.

OMS missionaries on the ground are working in close partnership with CRASH (Christian Relief Assistance, Support and Hope), an organization that exists to help with disasters, and with the Japan Holiness Church, a large OMS-related church denomination in Japan, to assist in the relief efforts.

OMS missionary Steve King, from northern Indiana, along with a team from CRASH, recently left for Sendai with a truckload of water and other supplies. Snowy and icy roads made travel difficult, as well as concern for finding fuel, but Steve made it and hopes to return soon.

We are asking people to pray for wisdom regarding radiation issues. OMS is monitoring this closely in regard to future decisions.

One Mission Society has set up a relief fund, #404180 Japan Emergency Relief Fund, to provide physical and spiritual relief for the hurting people of Japan.

Go to the One Mission Society website at www.onemissionsociety.org for more information or to donate to the relief fund. You can also get up-to-date information about Japan and other prayer concerns and testimonies on our OMS Facebook page. If you are on Facebook, just type in OMS in your search bar and then click “like.” You will then receive current OMS information in your Newsfeeds or you can go directly to the OMS page to read them.

One Mission Society (World Headquarters located at 941 Fry Road, Greenwood, Indiana) is an evangelical, interdenominational faith mission. OMS has more than 500 missionaries emphasizing intentional evangelism, training national leaders for ministry and planting churches in Asia, Latin America, the Caribbean, Europe, the Middle East and Africa. OMS then joins in partnership with those churches to minister to the rest of the world.