A Time Line For Your OMC

18  to 24 Months Before Your OMC

• Contact your state On-Mission Celebraton office and set and secure a date for consultation and tentative date for your OMC.
• Enlist an On-Mission Celebration Coordinator and Vision Team.
• Assemble key church staff and other church leaders from your assocition to discuss key issues related to conducting an effective event. Ask yourself this question, "What three church's participation is essential to having a sucessful OMC?"
• Complete and mail an OMC Scheduling Form to your state OMC office.

12  to 18 Months Before Your OMC

• Develop an OMC Financial Plan
• Enlist an Associational OMC Coordinating Team
• Enlist local churches to commit to particiate in the OMC.
• Develop promotion plan.

7 Months Before Your  OMC

• Train local church OMC leaders.
• Communicate the number of participating churches to the North American Mission Board.

4 Months Before Your OMC

• Contact your guest missionaries.
• Finalize travel plans related to guest missionaries.
• Pray for guest OMC missionaries by name.

1 to 2 Months Before Your OMC

• Communicate expectations and schedules with guest missionaries.
• Finalize all associational and local church plans.