Dr Sven Ohm has served as a Baptist ministers for more than 50 years. He served at the beginning of his ministry local churches in Småland, Dalacarlia and Stockholm. He has been serving the Baptist Union of Sweden in various capacities from 1952 to 1989 and was before his retirement the Senior Minister of his home church, the Kungsholmen Baptist Church in Stockholm, Sweden, for six years until 1995.

    Rev Ohm was born in Malmö and was baptized as a believer when he was nine years old. He had his first training for the ministry at the Örebro Bible school in 1945. His first church was in Linneryd in Småland, where he also found his wife.

    Sven Ohm is now retired, but continues to serve in various capacities. He is serving the Baptist Union in several ways, is now preparing a group travel arrangement for the Baptist World Alliance in Melbourne Australia in January 2000 including visits to Japan and China. He serves the Läkarmissionen (Swedish Medical Mission) on its Board and Executive Committee. He is also serving his Church, the Kungsholmen Baptist Church, of which he is a member since 1957, preaching and working in the Elders´ Council, its Mission Council and Social Council, especially for the refugees and for its Friendship Churches in Estonia and Japan and special projects in e g Thailand. Ohm also visits Churches and Theological Seminaries in various parts of the country and other parts of the world preaching and lecturing about International Ministry. He is also quite active in producing articles for newspaper and weekly magazines.

    In addition to serving as the minister of the Kungsholmen Baptist Church until 1995 dr Ohm has recently been the Chaplain of the Central Jail, Kronobergshäktet, in Stockholm. He has also during that period served as Chaplain in the St Erik Hospital. For some years he was the Chairman of the Stockholm Free Church Council, comprising about 100 churches of all Evangelical denominations, as well as of the Kungsholmen Ecumenical Council, where all churches at Kungsholmen are members. He has for several years served as Lay judge at the Stockholm City Court. He is now serving in the Stockholm county (including the City of Stockholm) in its Supreme Taxation Council and is also a Controller of the Administration of Council of the Chartered Accountants of the City of Stockholm.

    Sven Ohm has until 1989 been the Secretary of the International Ministry of the Baptist Union of Sweden for 25 years. He was earlier responsible for Youth Work and Christian Education of the Union and in the 50's he was a National Evangelist of the Baptist Union of Sweden leading many Crusades all over the country.

    Dr Ohm has been a member of the Board of the Swedish Medical Mission (Läkarmi-ssionen) since it was formed and is now also a member of its Executive Committee. He has also for 20 years been the chairman of the Scan-dinavian Committee of the Scandinavian Seamen's Mission in San Francisco, California.

    Sven Ohm has for many years been deeply involved in International fellowship and cooperation. He has been affiliated with the Baptist World Alliance (BWA) since 1947, has been a member of its General Council for many years and the chairman of the Conference of International Mission Secretaries of the BWA for 12 years. He has attended ten BWA Congresses from the first Congress after World War II, in Copenhagen, Denmark in 1947. Ohm has throughout the years visited more than 60 countries and has during the last few years now and then visited countries like Thailand, Sri Lanka, Japan, China, Australia and Ukraine representing the Baptist Union or e G Läkarmissionen.

    Sven Ohm is a graduate of the Bethel Seminary of Stockholm, Sweden. He did postgraduate work at the International Theological Seminary in Rüschlikon, Switzerland in the 1950's and has two honorary degrees, D D, from the Central Baptist Theological Seminary of Kansas City, Kansas, and the Baptist University of Dallas, Texas.

    Dr Ohm has for many years taught part time at the Bethel Seminary in Stockholm and the Free Theological College in Örebro. He has lectured at theological seminaries in many countries including the United States, Lebanon, India, Germany, Switzerland, Japan, Thailand, the Central African Republic, Zaire, Brazil and Argentina. He has also been the main speaker in many international conferences.

    Sven Ohm has been deeply involved in the cooperation with and the support of Churches and Baptist Conventions in Eastern Europe after having attended the first Conference between leaders of the Baptist World Alliance and of the Baptist Union of the Soviet Union held in Rättvik, Sweden, in 1953.
He met then and worked with early Russian leaders like Rev Zhidkov Sr, Rev Alexander Karev and Rev Arthur Mitchkevitz Sr.

    For many years he regularly visited the former Soviet Union since his first visit in 1970. . He has twice been in Ukraine, the last visit in 1996 teaching for two weeks at the new Theological Seminary in Odessa.. Other Eastern European countries he visited often since his first visit to countries like Yugoslavia, Poland and Checkoslovakia in 1959.

    Dr Sven Ohm has been the editor of one Swedish and one International Periodical and has for several decades written regularly in three Swedish weeklies. He is the author of ten books and is the editor and/or co-writer of another 20 books.

    Sven Ohm has been the interpreter of many internationally well known visitors to Sweden, among them dr Billy Graham and dr Martin Luther King Jr. as well as his father dr Martin Luther King Sr.

    Sven Ohm inherited his name from his ancent fathers, who lived in Germany. His great great grandfather was born there in 1796 and his great grandfather immigrated to Sweden via Denmark in 1862. One of those, who have made the name Ohm wellknown all over the world, was George Simon Ohm. He was a professor in Munich, Germany, and discovered 'Ohm's Law', the law of resistance in the electrical world. More about the Ohm family in Sweden can be read on the web page www.ohm.se.

    Sven Ohm is since 1951 married to Ann-Britt Ohm. They have three children and nine grand children.