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SERVING IN MISSION SIM is a community of God's people who delight to worship Him and are passionate about the Gospel, seeking to fulfil the mission of Jesus Christ in the world. Welcome Wamukelekile Wamkelekile Contact Details: SIM Southern Africa P O Box 30027 Tokai, 7900 Tel: 021 715 3200 Fax: 021 715 3220 Email: sim.sa@sim.org Links: www.sim.org; Lily of the Valley; Positive Ray; International Nepal Fellowship; Welkom World mission is the task of all Christians. There is no opting out. God calls some to spend their lives abroad. Some are called to support the front-line workers by their giving. God calls us all to pray. Whatever our role, spreading the good news of Christ is our mission. The apostle Paul had a strong sense of partnership with the people in the churches. Take his letter to the Philippians, for example. He speaks of their 'partnership in the gospel' - Phil1:5. And in the fourth chapter he calls the gift they had sent their 'sharing with me'. In Paul's mind, we are all in it together. So giving is sharing in the task God has given us. Our gifts fulfill our gospel vision by enabling someone else to go, or a project to be completed. Elsewhere Paul inspires us with the impulse of gratitude. He reflects on Christ 'who loved me and gave himself for me' Gal 2:20. And he calls believers no longer to 'live for themselves but for him who died for them'. He points us to the example of Jesus Christ who 'though he was rich, yet for your sake he became poor, that you through his poverty might become rich' 2 Cor 8:9.