Billions of people around the world need to hear about Jesus. Will you go and carry the love of Jesus and make disciples?
Could you be part of what Serving In Mission is doing today? Is God calling you to join one of our multi-ethnic teams, in one of 70 countries around the world?
Sharing the gospel of Jesus Christ is at the heart of what we read in the New Testament. From the birth of Jesus, his life, death, and resurrection, to the founding and spread of the early Church, there is one main theme … for the whole of humanity to be reconciled with God through the proclamation of the gospel in the power of the Holy Spirit.
Prayer:
Lord God, where are you calling me to carry your gospel? Who have you put on my heart? Equip me to share your love with them.
Who can serve?
Serving in Mission UK has more than 150 mission workers serving around the world in many different roles. We are part of a global mission organisation with 4,000 people working in multi-ethnic teams from 70 different countries. We have people from different cultures, ages, professions and cultures serving. There are opportunities for a range of people to get involved.
Meet some of our workers.
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Al and Rachel MacInnes, Charis and Lois
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.
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Simon and Grace Stretton-Downes
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.
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Liffy Gorton
Liffy is serving in Zimbabwe, working primarily with the Talitha Cumi project (SIM project: 96397). Talitha Cumi works in the Chimanimani district to identify girls who have dropped out of school due to poverty, bereavement, cultural customs, pregnancy or a host of other reasons.
Our Faithful Witness programme introduces the gospel strategically to communities living and dying without hearing the good news of Jesus.
Where can you serve?
We have hundreds of opportunities available to join different country teams across the globe. SIM works in more than 70 countries around the world. We work in massive cities like Tokyo or Mexico City, and rural areas in places like Thailand or Nigeria. We work in hospitals and theological colleges, as well as schools, children’s programmes, refugee centres, and many more.
We have church partners in every country where we are active, who invite you to come and work alongside them using your skills to support them in building God’s kingdom in their community.
Where is God calling you to serve?
Why serve with SIM?
Training
Before you travel to where you’ll be serving, we’ll get you well prepared through our orientation programme.
You will have training, orientation and language learning in the country you’ll be living in.
Support and care
There will always be experienced people to support you, offer guidance and provide member care.
SIM also has contingencies in place in case of emergencies.
Church Partnership
Your church is involved throughout your mission journey. We value our relationship with both them and you very highly. Those serving for more than 1 year will have a ‘Stronger Together Plan’ which we develop with your church.
Join a Global Organisation
SIM is made up of people from many nations serving alongside each other in multi-ethnic teams that display the unifying power of the gospel as we partner with the global church to make disciples of Jesus
Growing in your faith
This a significant opportunity for you to be formed and developed in your faith.
Just as the blacksmith takes a raw piece of metal and forges it into a beautiful and useful tool, so we want people to allow themselves to be shaped and enhanced by their service.
Making disciples
Jesus told his disciples to go and make disciples and this is at the heart of who are are and what we do.
Wherever you serve you will have opportunities to play your part in the Great Commission.
I experienced first-hand how God radically transforms lives and is moving way beyond my imagination.
Daniel McCalmont – served short term in North Africa
Priority opportunities
Every month, we highlight three opportunities that have been brought to our attention as urgently needing a worker to serve in. Often these are strategic ministries, or places where work can’t continue unless the right people are in place. Maybe you are the person who can be an answer to prayer?
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Kingdom Partners
Compelled by God’s love, we have dynamic and relational projects in communities across Ethiopia to bring hope and healing.
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With the Quechua
We long to see more urban indigenous people in Bolivia come into relationship with Jesus Christ.
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Sports Friends, Thailand
Using sports ministry as a tool, we seek to make disciples of Jesus Christ.
The
Forged
Programme
Everyone who serves with SIM begins on our Forged programme, to become familiar with the culture, learn the language, and grow spiritually.
We’re not looking to send perfect people, but people of gospel faith, who are ready to be shaped and refined by God, ready to grow in obedience, and to go all-in on the risky, yet beautiful life as a follower of Christ.
We’re looking to send people who are eager to offer their God-given gifts, take on new experiences, and discover more of what it means to live as disciples of Jesus through serving him.
Flexible duration
We have designed ‘Forged’ to find opportunities relevant to your availability and abilities.
You can go for a few weeks, or up to 2 years. It can be an experience by itself, or the launch pad for serving on long-term mission.
Support and care
Serving In Mission is a large international mission organisation with an extensive support system around the world.
Each country has key leadership in place to support all SIM workers in that region, to provide care and ensure their safety, support, and development.
Development
We see the Forged Programme as an opportunity for people to grow in their faith and develop their skills and gifts in a cross-cultural context.
This will equip people to be able to serve and lead whether that is back in a church in the UK, or in a cross-cultural context.
Serving Long Term
If you want to serve with SIM for more than two years, you will need to apply to become a Member when you are coming up to the end of your first two-year term. You can still apply initially with the intention of serving long-term, but we will ask that your first two years of service are as part of the Forged Programme. We then have a few extra steps for you complete to change you to a Member.
If you have previous experience of serving overseas, it can sometimes be possible to join directly as a Member. Please talk to us about this.
We journey with you. From the moment you enquire, through your application and preparation process, while you are overseas and when you come home, our People Care team are supporting you.
The sending church
It is the role of the church to send men and women as mission workers. Agencies like SIM support and facilitate mission activities and provide training, guidance and expertise to support workers and equip churches. Anyone that serves with SIM has to be rooted in a local church and responsible to the leaders of that church. So we encourage everyone, at the outset of their enquiry process with SIM, to include their church leaders in the discernment process.
Our People Care Team
It can be surprisingly complicated and take a lot of work to go and serve successfully overseas. That’s why we have a dedicated and experienced team to help support you and make sure your placement is well organised. They’re also there to support you when things don’t go as planned. Working in partnership with you and your church to help you carry the gospel to where God is calling.
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