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Prior to the merger with SIM in 1998, the Africa Evangelical
Fellowship (AEF), through its predecessor organisations,
traced its history in South Africa back to 1889 when
outreach ministries commenced in Cape Town. Later, outreach
started in other parts of South Africa through both foreign
and South African missionaries. As the work grew, a Sending
Office (as opposed to the existing Field Office) was started
to concentrate on recruitment for these ministries and those
in neighbouring countries into which AEF had entered.
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Having started overseas, SIM opened a sending office in
South Africa in 1945. Outreach ministries in South Africa
under SIM only commenced in the 1980s to peoples among whom
no other organisation was already working.
The merger at international level between SIM and AEF
widened the scope of all the ministries of both
organisations and continues to strengthen the missionary
sending base from South Africa to other parts of SIM's
world.
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