News - 2008

OBI Returns to Mongolia

November 2008

Following its highly successful inaugural visit in April 2008, OBI returned to Mongolia in November to conduct training for that country's defense representatives, specifically the unit psychologists appointed to support unit commanders....more

OBI Launches Chaplain
Training Project

October 2008

On, Monday, October 6, 2008, Richard (Dick) Stiliha, Director of Education Programs for OBI, departed for Kiev, Ukraine where Olive Branch International begins a new Chaplain Project...more

Siberian OBI-Friends Visit US

September-October 2008

Tanya Aksenova, interpreter for an initial 1992 trip to Russia that prompted the later formation of OBI, and her husband "Bob," visited the United States for three weeks, beginning on September 26, 2008...more

OBI Conducts 2008 English Camp

July 2008

From 5-18 July, 2008, twenty-two OBI volunteers were in Ukraine (UA) to conduct an English Camp for military dependents in Vorzel, UA...more

Ukrainian English Camp Alums Celebrate Friendship

January 2008

For the last seven years OBI has supported the Ukrainian Military Christian Fellowship in conducting English Camp for about 100 military teens and adults...more

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