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Rowland Bingham
In 1893 Walter Gowans and Rowland Bingham of Canada and Thomas
Kent of the U.S. landed in Nigeria intent to evangelize the
'Soudan' region of Africa. Though Gowans and Kent died of malaria,
Bingham persisted and established a base in Nigeria in 1902.
At the same time a Scotsman began work on the island of Ceylon;
two Australians established a base in India; and New Zealanders,
George and Mary Allan, reached Bolivia. After decades of independent
success, the four mission groups joined in the 1980s to form
an international ministry, now called SIM (Serving in mission)
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Our Vision Statement:
We are a community of God's people who delight to
worship Him and are passionate about the Gospel,
seeking to fulfill the mission of Jesus Christ in
the world.
Our
Motto:
By Prayer
We invite you
to partner with us to fulfill the
GREAT
COMMISSION!
international,
interdenominational,
Christian mission agency,
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Christians
from many countries and different churches with
various skills join SIM to serve in mission, bringing people to
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Christ and discipling them into churches through many different
ministry programmes.
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South
African Field Ministries
SIM area and field offices are in Johannesburg.
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SIM
is actively reaching out to HIV/AIDS sufferers through our
HOPE for Aids programme. This involves training in Home
care, establishing Orphanages, teaching on Prevention and
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For over sixty years we have been involved in medical ministry at Mseleni
hospital in Kwa Zulu Natal.
We encourage ongoing church growth in our affiliated churches.
Africa Evangelical Church(AEC) and the Evangelical Church of South
Africa (ECSA), have some 5000 members.
Church work, evangelism and discipleship are undertaken among Angolan
refugees and the Chinese communities.
In various locations in
South Africa
we seek opportunities to share the gospel with people of other
religions focusing essentially on teaching churches to reach out to
their neighbours.
Church planting continues in the
North West
Province
among the Tswana-speaking people.
SIM is involved in
theological education in various locations in
South Africa
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South
African Sending Office is based inCapeTown.
 This office is the intermediary between the South African
missionaries and their supporters, handling their finances and other
needs, currently covering missionaries in fourteen countries, spread
over five continents. Their respective spheres of service include
agriculture, finance, medicine, teaching, veterinary care,
evangelism and church planting.
The office, which is staffed by missionaries,
salaried people and volunteers, also has the responsibility for
promoting the mission and processing applications of South African
Christians who sense God is calling them to a foreign mission field
through SIM.
SIM’s Purpose Statement
By faith we see God glorified
as
we send called and committed
Christians to reach people for
Christ
Please contact us to obtain the following resources/
information.
“SIMNOW” our quarterly magazine The monthly “Pray
Today,” —daily prayer requests
Email us: To Webmaster
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