Our video presentations give examples of projects OA is supporting, from our Appeal materials and seminars.
The videos are smaller and fuzzier than the real thing (which weighs in at about 200MB just for this short 5 minute presentation). There is normally also a ten minute version, and/or a children's version, on the same DVD or video.
If you would like the full version on DVD, please get in touch.
Sri Lanka - Growing Skills in Sri Lanka
In Sri Lanka, Operation Agri supports the work of LEADS and Farms Lanka among poor rural communities.
Watch the five minute video presentation here. A version with subtitles, a longer video, and a version suitable for children, are available on DVD (on request).
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Nicaragua - Fit for Life
In Nicaragua, Operation Agri supports the work of AMOS Health and Hope among the poor of a remote region of the country.
Watch the five minute video presentation here. A longer video, and a version suitable for children, are available on DVD (on request).
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Jubilee Service, Bloomsbury
2.00 p.m., Saturday 11th June 2011, at Bloomsbury Central Baptist Church.
This service celebrating 50 years showing Christ's love to some of the world's neediest people was recorded (audio only). Click on the following items to hear the recordings.
- Interview with Joyce Stockley
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- Interview with Debbie Wilson
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- Andy Matheson of Oasis International
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- Thailand BMS Youth Action Team
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- Sermon by Paul Beasley-Murray
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Jubilee - Harvest of Hope
The video presentation for our 50th anniversary Jubilee looks at three of our current projects:
- helping refugees returning to their land after the civil war in Gulu, Uganda - honey production in Trapia, Brazil - a coffee co-operative helping ex-drug addicts build a new life in Thailand
in each case helping people produce a Harvest of Hope.
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Jubilee Timeline
This short video timeline presentation was prepared by the BMS communications department for our Jubilee - you might have seen it at the Assembly in Blackpool.
Watch the 90 second Timeline video:
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Nepal
In Nepal, Operation Agri supports a wide range of sanitation, clean water, health training, income generation and community empowerment projects.
Watch the Nepal video.
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Bangladesh
In Bangladesh, Operation Agri is supporting health and medical work through the Christian Hospital, Chandraghona, and education in a Dhaka slum with the Duaripara project run by Oasis Bangladesh.
Watch the Bangladesh video.
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Uganda
In Uganda, East Africa, Operation Agri is involved in agricultural help to poor rural communities. Pastor Paul Kyalimpa, a trained agriculturalist, shares his experience with pastors and community leaders. Operation Agri has provided teams of oxen, so farmers can cultivate more land for a bigger harvest. Watch the Uganda video.
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India
In India, Operation Agri supports rural and urban development. See work we support with farming in a remote part of Orissa, and in a Mumbai (Bombay) slum with pre-school children.
Watch the India video.
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Congo
Congo (the Democratic Republic of Congo) is a country with great resources and potential. Sadly, ever since independence in 1960 it's been racked by war and corruption. But the cry today is one of hope for the future, and hence the theme of Operation Agri's 2006 appeal - Congo Calling.
Watch the Congo children's video.
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AIDS Seminar
Operation Agri held a special seminar at the 2008 Baptist Assembly weekend in Blackpool: which looked at the ways in which AIDS undermines rural people's livelihoods and considered options for helping poor, rural families to recover from the ravages of AIDS.
The speaker at the OA seminar was development economist Dr Rachel Sabates-Wheeler (pictured), who is a trustee of Operation Agri. She is a Fellow of the Institute of Development Studies, and is the daughter of former BMS missionaries David and Yvonne Wheeler. She and her husband Ricardo are members of Holland Road Baptist Church, Hove.
Listen to Rachel's talk Rebuilding Rural Livelihoods Amid AIDS:
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Rachel spoke about how the AIDS pandemic needs to be treated as a livelihoods crisis, rather than simply a health crisis. While screening, prevention and treatment remain of fundamental concern, we need to recognise that the disease sharply reduces the ability of a family to support itself and entire livelihood systems are being undermined. Effective intervention must include ways of replacing lost livelihoods and preventing affected people from becoming lastingly dependent on outside aid.
OA Chairman Russell Ashley-Smith says: "This is a timely airing of the subject of great concern to those with a heart for world development. It is also very relevant to our appeal focus this year, which is development work in Uganda, one of the first countries to be ravaged by AIDS."
