Approximately twelve speakers per year including foreigners and government officials address the seniors. OMS is a member of the Council on Aging and the Executive Director of CCT sits on its Board of Directors. OMS has personnel from the Department of Social Services to come to the Tillery Community Center to register participants for Food Stamps, energy assistance and the supplemental food program. OMS has provided literacy classes for the senior population and participates in the rural Meals on Wheels program and the Senior Expo. OMS participates in the Halifax County Senior Games annually.
Members encourage and have consistently participated in voting an election education.
Each week OMS news is published in the local newspaper, the Daily Herald 's Senior Forum and monthly in CCT's News Notes . OMS participates in CCT's Annual Family Day, CCT's Holiday Fellowship Hour and area towns' and cities' Christmas Parades. OMS sponsors field trips to places such as Nag's Head, Morehead City, Happy Acres Peach Farm, Lakeland Arts Center, and the State Fair in Raleigh. They regularly attend the Roanoke Valley Aging Conferences sponsored by the Halifax County Council on Aging and the Halifax County Cooperative Extension Office. OMS hosted Junebug Productions and Roadside Theater Group.