What do you do at SIM UK?
My role at SIM UK is Engage Coordinator, which involves working with the Engage team to receive gospel workers into the UK (primarily from the majority world) and placing them with a carefully selected receiving church.
Engage workers help resource the church they’re placed in, to reach out cross-culturally with God’s love and truth to local multi-ethnic communities.
What does your job look like day-to-day?
The job involves working with several entities – the UK receiving church, the potential gospel worker, the SIM global entity under which the worker’s being sent, and very often, the main sending church of the gospel worker in their home country.

My work with these entities helps to discern the compatibility of the worker to the receiving church, and then to discern the mutual call of God, so all involved are convinced that the placement of the gospel worker with the receiving church is God’s will.
This is a fundamental step that cannot be rushed and may determine whether there’s an open door to proceed. Once we’ve established the compatibility and call, work begins on the practical arrangements for the worker to come; such as support budgeting, partnership agreement, visa arrangements, orientation, housing, schooling (if receiving a family), initial objectives, and strategy.
What makes you passionate about your work?
I’m passionate about Engage because I believe first and foremost that it’s a part of God’s vision for mission – not just to send out gospel workers from the UK, but also to receive workers into the UK. The Great Commission nations are quite literally on our doorstep, and many UK churches are echoing the Macedonian call saying ‘Come over to Macedonia and help us’. Acts 16:9. At the same time, God is working in many of the majority-world partner churches, moving and maturing them to become fully-fledged sending churches.
How have you seen God working through your job?
I’ve been privileged to see God work at every level of the Engage initiative, from provision of resources to approval of visas, to the successful placement of gospel workers and to the abundant spiritual fruit of the worker’s ministry.
These aspects and many more besides, have been against the odds and seemed impossible at the time, but God has, and continues to be faithful, as we look to him in faith. It’s his work, and it’s exciting to be a part of what he’s doing.
In what ways do you continue your ministry in life outside of work?
To use every opportunity to share and inform others of what God is doing through Engage and how they can be a part of this.
How can we pray for you?
- For the active Engage workers: Ram and Keshari, Lawrence and Elizabeth, Mary, and Haroon and Mariam.
- For potential Engage workers Kirubel, Andrew, and Sharon.
- For SIM UK leadership to discern the Lord’s direction and leading for Engage and UK ministry, and to move hand in hand with Jesus.