The doors a business can open
When Lucy Pius Mwiru decided to go to Oman as a housemaid, the goal was to eventually become economically stable and serve others, but things didn’t go as planned. The wages weren’t as much as she had been promised, and the job was tra...
Read MoreMalawi’s broom – sending together
A lone broom strand can do little, but bound together with other strands, it becomes an effective and unbreakable broom.
Not so many years ago there were no Malawian missionaries, but all that began to change in 2010. Today, 147 chu...
Read MoreThe Gospel and candy
Two young men I started evangelizing when they were eight years old are set to join me as missionaries in a few weeks. If I ever doubted that getting children involved in missions was profitable – and I never did – then this is the assurance I...
Read MoreKids pop out on kindness
“Two of my Sunday school kids were in the car when we saw the woman and her children by the roadside. We were returning from a party and the kids had been given some gifts. To my shock, four-year-old Esther popped out of the car and went...
Read MoreGoats and garlic for the Gospel
“Purple Horizon is the name of our farm. ‘Purple’ refers in part, to a special tree that turns purple every October, and its significance as a place of prayer. It also represents the royalty and majesty of the Lord Jesus. ‘Horizon&...
Read MoreErrors redeemed: a missions school is founded
Grace Foundation, a mission agency based in Nigeria, sent out missionaries for 31 years before they realized what they were doing wrong. Today, they are seeing fruit they never expected through a unique programme for training kingdom worke...
Read MoreOn the wings of national service
The official at the National Service Secretariat was baffled by the adamance of the two recruits. Why would anyone insist on posting to a remote village when a town with better amenities was available? Most recruits would have paid money for the o...
Read MoreEngage programme seeks workers
The Engage programme of SIM UK is a form of reverse missions which addresses a need of the UK evangelical church to share the gospel cross-culturally with people from diverse nations embedded in their communities. While the UK church has been send...
Read MoreFrom Ethiopia to London
My name is Mary Haile. By the grace of God, I am a missionary from Ethiopia serving in London through SIM’s ENGAGE programme. I’m based at a central London church, where I lead ministries teaching English to migrants and running life-skills...
Read MoreA fresh eye to financing the Great Commission mission
In 2000, I conducted a training in Sudan for 12 evangelists. One day, someone raised an important question: How would they be supported to evangelise their people since I had been financed to evangelise them?
I struggled with this d...
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