If you're involved or interested in mission or Christian work overseas, OSCAR, the UK information service for world mission, is your gateway to useful UK related information, advice and resources.

In OSCAR's own words, "If you're involved or interested in missionary or Christian work overseas, OSCAR, the UK information service for world mission, is your gateway to useful UK related information, advice and resources."

OSCAR is seeking to provide a service that will further the mission of Jesus Christ throughout the entire world, and have specific aims to provide an information service that is useful for:

• Missionaries and overseas Christian workers on the field.
• Prospective missionaries and overseas Christian workers.
• Missionaries and Christian workers recently returned from the field.
• Christians open to the possibility of working overseas/abroad.
• Supporters of missionaries, overseas Christian workers and world mission in general.
• Non-UK Christians coming to the UK as missionaries or Christian workers.
• Anyone responsible for `resourcing' any of the above.

This site is basically a specialised directory of services about mission and for missionaries. They have really thought hard to produce a useful and easy-to-use web site, that is minimal in graphics and other high bandwidth technologies, allowing for fast access to those with limited Internet connectivity.

They also have their own forum for anything to do with missions which again is simple and easy to use. There are not too many posts in this forum but I can see there is promise here as people make use of this facility.

OSCAR also have other ideas for interactive facilities which they have given the collective title "OSCAR active".

Whatever your relation to mission and mission work, it will be well worth your while to have a look at this website.

Hayden Andrews
Reviewing: OSCAR - UK Information Service for World Mission