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  • OCF Mountain Central photo Mountain Central Regional Coordinators Steve and Miriam Shambach, right, on a recent visit to Fort Huachuca.

A look inside the role of OCF’s Regional Coordinators

OCF's Regional Coordinators are a small team of OCF staffers who each oversee a different portion of the map of OCF ministry. The heart of this position is one of a shepherd who develops, grows, and sustains relationships with OCF members, chaplains, and ministry co-laborers. An RC is a catalyst advancing the Lord’s Kingdom via OCF.

March 26th, 2024|Categories: Connected, Latest Articles|

January 2024 Prayer Focus

Scripture makes it abundantly clear that the Christian life is a mission that takes place in a battle, and therefore, spiritual readiness is a necessity. And it’s not something that we can choose to ignore or try to opt out of because the consequences are deadly. We have an enemy in that battle, one that we must be aware of, whose tactics are designed to kill, steal, and destroy each one of us (John 10:10).

January 2nd, 2024|Categories: Latest Articles, Prayer Focus|

4 Practical Steps to Knowing Peace

Many of us genuinely long for God’s peace in our lives, but we aren’t experiencing it. We think this lack of peace just impacts us. That’s simply not true. Your lack of peace not only prevents you from living the life God desires for you, it negatively impacts your witness.

December 13th, 2023|Categories: Command, Executive Director, Latest Articles|

December 2023 Prayer Focus

The songs filling the air during the Christmas season cover the spectrum of human experience, words and structure capturing the expression of our heart and soul. It’s in song, as recorded in the Gospel of Luke about the events leading up to and including the birth of Christ, that the joy and wonder of what God has done for those looking for Him is expressed. It’s Mary, chosen by God to bear His Son, rejoicing in “God my Savior” (1:47), and Zachariah proclaiming “the tender mercy of God” because of the coming Messiah (v. 78) that his own son “will go before…to prepare His ways” (v. 76).

December 1st, 2023|Categories: Latest Articles, Prayer Focus|

November 2023 Prayer Focus

So much of Jesus’ earthly ministry centered around the dining table. He shared meals with His disciples, friends such as Martha, Mary, and Lazarus, and even some Pharisees. He also dined with various others, most notably the fringe of society, those tax collectors and sinners who the self-righteous religious leaders looked down upon (Mark 2:15-16).

November 1st, 2023|Categories: Latest Articles, Prayer Focus|

October 2023 Prayer Focus

Against the unapproachable perfection of God, we don’t feel holy. Our words, actions, and attitudes as accomplished sinners speak volumes to that. And we aren’t holy—that is, in our own striving outside of Christ. Holiness is imputed to us only through Christ.

October 1st, 2023|Categories: Latest Articles, Prayer Focus|

Prayer first: Putting OCF’s Pray-Discover-Obey model into practice in your life

Proverbs 16:3 says to “commit your work to the Lord, and your plans will be established.” This is God’s invitation for us to transfer our ideas, plans, and wants to Him so that He can make our plans firm. This is also the essence of OCF’s Pray-Discover-Obey model, which emphasizes prayer first, planning second, and obedient action third.

September 25th, 2023|Categories: Connected, Latest Articles|

September 2023 Prayer Focus

One thing is crystal clear from the onset, from Genesis to Revelation and all other 64 books of the Bible in between: pride is the problem, and not one of us is immune from its lofty, lying lure.

September 1st, 2023|Categories: Latest Articles, Prayer Focus|
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