People: Mission worker

Robin and Maddy’s heart for mission is taking them to work with the Wolof people in Thiès, Senegal.

John is going to serve in East Africa. Having previously served in the region, John is moving to South Sudan to serve on a church ministries / discipleship project.

Ewan and Dao, serving in Bang Saen, Thailand, have planted The Landing – a growing church and outreach centre reaching students and young professionals.

Hugh and Helen and their two children Jesse and Grace, are sent by Christ Church Endcliffe, (Sheffield), to Kenya, where they share the love of Jesus through medical care.

Debbie and Julian serve in Madagascar. Having made a short-term mission visit a few years ago, they felt impelled by the Holy Spirit to serve here long term.

Ewald and Lianne currently serve in Kano, Nigeria, with their two children.

Stephen serves as the Director for the Middle East, North Africa, and Central Asia (MENACA) region.

Caitlin is serving in Ayutthaya, Thailand, with a Faithful Witness team seeking to reach the least-reached.

S and K serve in the Middle East. with a focus on the Kurdish community.

Michael and Georgia, along with their children are serving in South Asia.

James and Anna, along with their children Max and Phoebe, are planning to relocate to Liberia to serve at Trinity Dental Clinic.

Now based in the UK, Gary and Anna began their service in Pakistan in 1993. Gary serves as Regional Director for South Asia.

Retired GP Stephen and his wife Heather are serving as associate members in West Africa, where they help train health professionals in palliative care.

Sarah serves in Bolivia, with disabled children and their families, providing support groups for parents, as well as free workshops for the kids themselves.

Ben is the Director of Training for Sports Friends, which uses sport to build relationships with young people and share with them the hope of the gospel.

Matt and Lisa and their three children Joshua, Charis and Lydia, have been sent by Avenue Community Church, Leicester to serve in Jos, Nigeria.

Simon, a doctor, and Ally, a teacher, are serving in Ethiopia.

Lawrence and Elizabeth serve at Harper Church, Glasgow, where their main focus is on sharing the love of Christ with African diaspora, refugees and asylum seekers.

Ram and Keshari serve among refugees, asylum seekers, and South Asian people groups living in Rochdale.

C and J, with their two children, are sent by a church in Northern Ireland to work among one of the largest unreached groups in South East Asia. 

David, Maribel and their family are serving in a least-reached part of Mexico called the ‘Circle of Silence’.

Roland and Liesbeth are serving in West Africa among nomadic cattle herders.

Based in the UK, Peter serves in a multicultural context through refugee and migrant ministry that builds a bridge between Europe and the Middle East.

Mark and Helen serve with SIM Ecuador in Loja, one of the least-reached areas of Ecuador located in the southern mountain region.

David and Helen live and work in a multicultural area of a northern city in the UK, focusing on building relationships through a new church plant.

Donald and Ruth served in Nigeria from 2013 to 2024. Now living in the UK, Ruth continues to provide remote admin support to the SIM Nigeria team.

Megumi and Helen serve as part of the SIM Malawi team.

Through SIM’s Engage programme, Mary (Meron) works alongside Inspire Saint James, based in central London.

Janetta serves in Bolivia. Her main ministry is Personnel Coordinator, and she also manages the SIM guesthouse and is involved with a home for abused children.

Donald and Becky serve in central Mexico, helping train up local church planters to see people transformed by the gospel.

Ted and Rachel Watts, with their two boys are sent by Beeston Free Evangelical Church to work in Madagascar, at the Good News Hospital of Mandritsara.

Pam works in the Upper East Region of Ghana, where she encourages local churches with children’s work.

Steven and Jo Wheatley, supported by St Mary’s Church, Maidenhead, are currently serving in Nanjoka, Malawi.

Lizzie is from Barnabas Community Church, Shrewsbury and has has been serving in Peru since September, 2014.

Stephanie heads up SIM Malawi’s Health and Wholeness Cluster and leads the Wholness Ministry.

Penny is SIM Ghana Director and leads the multicultural team there.

Claire Robinson has been training teachers as part of her role as head teacher at Mukinge Hill Academy.

Hilary and Marc Deneufchâtel (with Simon, Benjy and Eve) served in Benin from 2009 to 2020 where they were working in church development amongst the Monkolé people. Marc taught in the Monkolé churches, and Hilary coordinated the project translating the Bible into the local language.

Jonny and Olga serve in the new Quechua communities on the edge of the city of Sucre in Bolivia.

Andrew and Helen Curry, Thomas and Esther, supported by St Luke’s Church Hampstead, are serving in West Africa.

Tim and Rachel are both doctors serving in Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia. Tim is a paediatric orthopaedic surgeon, Medical Director at CURE Children’s Hospital of Ethiopia, and runs the PAACS orthopaedic training programme in Ethiopia. Rachel trains GPs at Addis Ababa University, and supports healthcare workers to integrate their faith and work.

Cat and Somchai serve with SIM’s Sports Friends ministry, which seeks to make disciples of Jesus Christ using the powerful platform of sport.

Ron and Irma are working to disciple church pastors in South Africa. Ron teaches at two Bible schools and Irma leads Bible study groups.

Emma serves with the international directors team as one of its global directors, helping SIM consider how to reach communities where Christ is least known.

Darren plays a vital role in the smooth running of Serving In Mission, by acting as Finance Director. Ruthie’s role involves encouraging and equipping prayer coordinators across the SIM world. The family, who are supported by Cheam Baptist Church, are based in Charlotte, North Carolina.

David and Debbie Colvin worked in Africa for many years, but are now based in Northern Ireland. They both teach mission courses at the Irish Baptist College and lead various informal Bible studies.

Victor and Rachel are long-term mission workers in Mseleni, South Africa. Victor is a doctor at the local hospital, while Rachel runs an orphanage and children’s home.

Paul and Hilary serve in Windhoek, where Paul teaches at Namibia Evangelical Theological Seminary and Hilary teaches at a local school.

Sent by New Life Bible Church in Wealdstone, Bev is Personnel Coordinator for the SIM Ghana team, based in Accra.

Sent by Long Crendon Baptist Church in Aylesbury, John and Abi Hunt have been serving in Jos, Nigeria for many years. They are involved in Bible teaching and literacy work.

Peter and Claire-Lise are serving just outside of Paris, France where Peter is in leadership at Église Protestante Baptiste Du Val D’Europe and Claire-Lise is a midwife.

Watler and Ella are part of a small Serving In Mission team in Zimbabwe.

Michelle serves at Mukinge Hospital, Zambia where she is an anaesthetist and takes responsibility for Serving In Mission’s Zambian member care.

Sent by Kells Presbyterian Church in Northern Ireland, Debbie serves in Madagascar in the ‘Together in Bible Translation’ project currently based in Toliara, a town in the southeast of the country.

Yvonne is serving in northern Ghana, where she is involved in helping Christian business people put the gospel into practice in their daily lives.

Jim and Megan served abroad for many years but are now based in Scotland. Jim is involved in training pastors in Benin, while Megan is SIM’s point person for education.

Sent by churches across the UK, Andrew and his family are involved in a wide variety of ministries in West Africa from Bible translation to strengthening groups of local Christians.

Graham is the Deputy Finance Director for SIM UK and treasurer for SIM Switzerland, whilst Trudy is working remotely for as SIM Ghana treasurer.

Tom serves as SIM Ethiopia Director and Jemma is HR manager at Bingham Academy.

Helen serves as the Personnel Director in the International Leadership Team and the International Operations Teams of SIM.

Malcolm is a former UK and International Director of SIM. They now support SIM leaders around the world and also have a role with Langham Partnership.

Liffy serves primarily with a project called Talitha Cumi, which aims to teach vulnerable girls in rural Zimbabwe about Jesus and to help finish their schooling.

Simon leads the dental team at a clinic at the Eternal Love Winning All (ELWA) Hospital in Monrovia. Grace is a nurse and supports medical staff and patients at the same hospital. The couple are sent by St Gregory’s Church, Crakehall, north Yorkshire.

Al and Rachel serve in Greece with their family. After a period of language study Al will work with European Christian Mission (ECM) as Country Coordinator and Rachel serves as Lead Mobiliser for the HowWillTheyHear refugee ministry collaboration.