South Island Missions Representative/Prayer Group Coordinator

Mark and Anne Pavelka are OMS New Zealand missionaries. They spent nine years in Ecuador, serving in leadership training, church planting and economic development. The Pavelkas now serve in the OMS New Zealand office. They are involved in:
Promoting OMS mission opportunities:

• By challenging individuals (and churches) about God’s plan and purpose for mission
• By informing constituents about what OMS is doing to meet the global mission needs
• By encouraging a personal response and offering opportunities for involvement through OMS
• By visiting churches, home groups, church camps, Christchurch branch of BCNZ and university Christian Fellowship groups, etc.

Follow up:

• Of people who have had past involvement with OMS through short-term mission experience, encouraging further involvement with OMS
• Of people who have indicated interest in missions or are in the process of application to OMS
• By cooperating with the national director of OMS through personal visits (when possible) or phone calls, emails, etc. to help match gifts and calling with mission opportunities and facilitating the application process

OMS National Prayer Team coordination--Anne

• Developing an effective nationwide OMS prayer network
• Contributing a monthly article to ITH
• Encouraging the regular meeting and praying of the teams
• Communicating effective, up-to-date prayer needs to the team leaders in coordination with the national OMS office
• Connecting interested people to their local prayer team

Keeping in touch with Ecuador:

• To encourage and facilitate the process of sustaining the development of indigenous leadership within the Saraguro ministry (Southern Ecuador):
• Through maintaining an avenue of accountability for the micro-enterprise project that is in the process of being established to enable the leaders to become self-sustaining
• To provide encouragement to the leaders to overcome the obstacles to the ongoing success of the project through email, phone calls and personal onsite evaluations (every 18 months)
• To continue to assess the effectiveness of the leadership training program among the Saraguros
• To maintain my personal exposure to cross-cultural mission for the enhancement of my role as OMS South Island Representative

Future ministry--Church Planting Movements in Asia:

• To receive further training in the OMS-based “Church Planting Movements” in Singapore
• To assist in the ongoing training of Asian national pastors to plant churches within their urban and rural communities

Missionary ID # 803618