Open Air Campaigners
Presenting Christ by all means everywhere
Our International Structure
Our policy book states that...
Open Air Campaigners International is an association of autonomous OAC
Nations that are bound together by:
In other words, OACI is not a centralised international missionary society. OAC is registered in a number of countries, and these national organisations (or nations, to use our jargon) together make up OACI. The aim is to allow the work in each country to take on its own character under local leadership while maintaining a common direction and vision.
A worldwide conference takes place every four years (the next one is scheduled for 2000 in Brazil). The conference is chaired by our International President, currently David Wilson.
For practical reasons, the nations are divided into three regional zones:
- The Americas Zone
- The Asia Pacific Zone
- The European Zone
Statement of purpose
Again, our policy book states that...
Open Air Campaigners International is an interdenominational ministry of evangelism committed to preaching the Gospel to the unreached through open-air and other outreaches and mobilising the Church to do the same.
Our historical roots are very much in open-air evangelism, and many nations still spend much of their time in the open air. However, our desire is to be flexible in our methodology while maintaining a clear commitment to proclamation evangelism. In some circumstances we recognise that other methods are most appropriate.
By 'the unreached', we obviously mean those who have not responded to the gospel, but also that we focus our efforts on those who are not usually contacted through traditional church activity. OACI is committed to taking the gospel to the people, not waiting for the people to come to us!