Volume 3.1
The Diaspora - the scattered. These are the refugees who come to us, and these are those who leave their homelands and can reach out with the Gospel in their new countries. The least, the last and the lost are standing on our doorsteps. The Church must seize this opportunity and welcome, love and bless the world that has come to us!
Sharing the gospel with scattered people
A kind of earthquake is going on all over the world. Nations are experiencing cataclysms that are making people move “from everywhere to everywhere”. This dispersion of people is bringing unreached people groups within the neighborhood of the ...
Mission…right where I stand: engaging the diaspora peoples worldwide
The activity of Boko Haram in northeast Nigeria, Niger, Cameroon, and Chad has displaced millions. Many have fled to southern Nigeria, making it possible for the Church to reach out to them with the gospel. In response, CAPRO, a missions agency w...
Migration and media: open doors for the inaccessible
The name dalmar means “passing through lands”. It comes from the Horn of Africa, and describes those who are great travelers. Indeed travelling is part of the cultural heritage of this area. From a background of nomadic...
Embracing God’s immigration policy in Chicago, USA
God has an immigration policy with one sole purpo...
Diaspora churches are moving forward God’s purposes
Writing from the UK, I can observe a steady increase in the number of African diaspora churches, or churches of Africans who have been scattered far from their homelands. I believe that God is using migration to allow the body of Christ to be pre...
Called: Daphne Kabeberi
I was raised in Nairobi, Kenya, where I lived with my mum and two little brothers. My dad also stays in Nairobi, and I have other siblings in different parts of the world. Although I was raised in the church, I did not understand th...
Reaching the Indian diaspora in Malawi
“It’s all about relationships,” says Veronica, who heads up SIM’s Malawi work with the Indian diaspora in Blantyre. Malawi’s second city and commercial capital has a significant Indian population. Many businesses are owned and opera...
Engage 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 sen...
Book review: The Church
Written by the Rev. Dr. David Zac Niringiye, this book is a reflection on the state of the Church globally from the perspective of an African theologian, pastor, civic-political activist and missionary.
Niringiye is a restless thinker push...
People Groups: The Somali
Although 99 per cent of Somalis are Muslim, and 90 per cent speak the same language, they are divided into numerous clan and sub-clan groups that have been in conflict for centuries.
The five-pointed star on the nation’s flag represents ...
