Refugee ministry – Lesvos island and Germany experience

SIM SA missionary Henry Jooste reflects on what he learned during his recent trip to a refugee camp on the Greek island of Lesvos, just off the coast of Turkey. I have just spent two weeks on the island of Lesvos helping with refugee ministry in a camp. I want to...
Bearing fruit for the true vine

Bearing fruit for the true vine

In 1955, Tina and Ned* – young in body, marriage and faith – stood together and offered their lives to God’s missionary work. To some, it may seem that He never called them. They never joined a mission. They never worked in full-time ministry. They never moved to a...
New mentoring program seeks to help missionary appointees

New mentoring program seeks to help missionary appointees

Missionaries preparing to serve through SIM Southern Africa and adjusting to life on the field will soon have more help from those who have already travelled that road. A new mentoring programme will provide each appointee with an experienced missionary serving in...

SIM reviewing its work in Angola

ANGOLA – Two SIM missionaries serving in South Africa traveled today to Angola to help conduct a full review of SIM’s work there. Marcus Baeder, Emma Brewster, and six others will spend the next two weeks gathering information about SIM’s members, ministries, and...

Developing front line leaders for God’s army

In the military you train leaders or you die. As Christians we face a spiritual battle that is more intense and more real than the conflict a soldier faces in combat. But we are not as intentional as we should be in rigorously training and developing people to...

Pray for South Africa

Pray for people in authority in the nation To have their hearts directed by the Lord: The king’s heart is in the hand of the LORD; he directs it like a watercourse wherever he pleases. (Proverbs 21:1) To recognize their authority as under God: “Do you refuse to speak...