In Depth:  Daniel Bullock

As we move into a Jubilee year celebrating 50 years of independence we are seeing wonderful things happening here in Zambia.

In November 2013 the Lord provided all of the funds to finish the OM training centre. The training centre will continue to grow the work of training future African missionaries. Construction is now at full speed with over 70 workers each day. We are building lots of accommodation, an office block, classrooms and a main hall as well as the skills training centre and bookshop which have already been completed.

On September 1, Lawrence Tong took over as the new international director of Operation Mobilisation (OM). He succeeded Peter Maiden who retired from the role after serving for ten years and George Verwer who founded OM in 1957.

Everyone expects big changes when a new leader takes the reins. So what can we expect from Lawrence? For the first time the position of international director will be filled with a non-Westerner, Lawrence is from Singapore and with that he brings his own certain Global South flavour. Another noticeable change, as Lawrence puts it, is that there will be ‘an intentional emphasis on the globalisation of OM — to make OM more user-friendly for non-Westerners’.