OMF: ‘staying aligned’

Julia Cameron  |  Features
Date posted:  1 Dec 2015
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OMF: ‘staying aligned’

James Hudson Taylor, aged 29 | photo: OMF

Julia Cameron on the 150th anniversary of the foundation of the Overseas Missionary Fellowship

A spoof of the Bee Gees song ‘Staying Alive’, was sung by senior leaders at OMF’s 150th anniversary, as a gathering in July celebrated its beliefs, vision, mission and values.

There is something compelling about the China Inland Mission /OMF story. Its beginnings can be traced to Susannah Wesley and her prayers for her sons; and to a young stonemason, who decades later threw rotten tomatoes at John Wesley and his travelling preachers in Barnsley, West Yorkshire.

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