Goats 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...
Read MoreHow can churches financially support their missionaries?
Once when I joined a missionary family for their commissioning day at a rural church, a middle-aged gentleman stood up and said, “Why must we share in supporting this family with other local churches? We can fully support them. We have b...
Read MoreHow our small church grew a big heart for mission
As pastors we can, to a large extent, help to shape the direction of our churches. It is a major part of our responsibility to exert Godly influence on the life and direction of the people under our care. That’s why we are called leaders...
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