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“Who is partnering with
whom?” was my first
thought about my
partnership with Ishaya.
I met Ishaya when I took
over the responsibilities of
the guest house in Maradi,
Niger.For seven years, we worked
together and even though I was the
employer, I never looked at Ishaya as
an employee. I think it was because
he saw his job, not as a paid
position, but as a ministry. He didn’t
need to be told what to do; he just
did it without being asked. When I
made changes, I always asked Ishaya
what he thought. How would this
affect him, and how did he see my
decision affecting the guest house
and the guests? Even in those early
years, Ishaya’s gift for sharing the
gospel was evident. Even though at
the guesthouse, Ishaya worked with
all Christians, he did not stop using
his gift of evangelism when he went
to buy supplies or other errands. (P2)
Partnersshare the
same goal...a growing
church By Gail Klippenstein
By Prayer
APRIL 2013
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know that God partnered us together
the day I started to run the guesthouse.
God gave Ishaya a vision for our ministry
in 2010, and it is that vision which
propels us forward. While I was on
home assignment, Ishaya continued to
share the gospel to two other villages
and saw 30 men come to the Lord over
eight months. I see Ishaya as the
evangelist, and Ishaya sees me as the
discipler. We have the same end goal:
a growing church in these villages.
The evangelist, Ishaya, can only see that
there are more people with whom to
share the gospel, and I, the teacher,
want to make sure that those who have
accepted Christ are well grounded in
their new faith. So, I guess the answer to
my question is that we have been
divinely partnered so that we can have a
balanced ministry. Hopefully, with God’s
power living within our two gifts, we will
see a church planted and lead by those
God has chosen.
Church Planting among the Kel Geres
Tamajaq people is part of the
Outreach Cause at
.
Donate to the Outreach Cause and
impact not only this project but
others like it, spreading the gospel
around the world!
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www.causecafe.org
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(From P1) He often would ask me for help
finding a tract or buying a Bible for
people he shared the gospel with. My
intention when I first arrived in Niger
was not to the run the guest house but
to teach literacy and to disciple new and
old Christians. During this time,
however, I took advantage of the
opportunities to do literacy and
discipleship work with ladies in my
church.
In 2009, things began to change after
Ishaya started to share the gospel in a
village just outside of town. One day,
Ishaya asked me if I would like to teach
Chronological Bibles Stories and teach
literacy to the women in the village. We
partnered with the women in Ishaya’s
church, and I had the opportunity to
share the gospel with these ladies twice
a week. Unfortunately, after five
months, the village did not let us
come back.
Just as this opportunity closed,
another opened for Ishaya when he was
given solar powered MP3 players with
the gospel story on them to give to the
Tamajek people. It was an open door for
Ishaya to share with his own tribal group
which he had never known. At first, my
involvement was simply to give him time
off from work to go and share on the
weekends to a village two hours north
of Maradi. But within five months, I was
teaching his first new believer how to
read, helping with a four day camp for
300 Tamajek people, and writing up a
project to fund our trips and literacy
program in this new village. Two years
later, we both have left the guest house
ministry and are sharing the gospel full
time in three villages. Three days a week
we live in the village, sharing the gospel
to between 30 and 200 people and
teaching literacy to between 30 and 50
people every day we are there.
So who is partnering with whom? I
p Ishaya sharing the gospel among the Kel Geres
p Gail with Ishaya and his family
q Gail discipling through literacy classes
3SIMNOW2
“...we live in the village, sharing the gospel to between
30 and 200 people and teaching literacy to between
30 and 50 people every day...”
Do we still need ‘western’ missionaries?
SIM exists to connect God’s children to God’s work around the world. We mobilize and equip people from all walks of life for mission work.
However a comment we sometimes hear is that we should simply leave it to the indigenous Christians. The conjecture is that locals do it best and we should just leave the work up to them.
It’s an argument that has been around for 200 years since missiologist’s Venn and Anderson articulated the Three-Self Rule, that truly indigenous churches must be self-governing, self-propagating and self-financing. It was developed to respond to the golden rule of “he who has the gold… rules;” a backlash against dependency concerns.
But when someone says ‘we should leave it to Nationals,’ are they referring to equipping, empowering, partnering or financially supporting? What does the Bible say?
When Jesus was taken up into heaven he gave us this commandment: “… you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.” (Acts 1:8). In other words, we are commanded to take the Good News to the world beginning in our hometowns, to people outside our circle but within our culture, and then to different cultures throughout the world. The Lausanne movement well articulates that mission needs to be “from anywhere to everywhere,” or “from all continents to all continents.”
The fact is that some 3 billion people still with little access to the Gospel, the task requires EVERYBODY to bring their gifts, energy, and strengths to the task for as long as it takes. This will require a harvest force that crosses cultural and other barriers to get the job done, from wherever they come. What SIM can do to facilitate this around the world is both strategic and vital.
God calls us to work in partnership. There are no biblical examples of people working independently of others to do His work. Effective partnerships recognize each party has resources to share; a giving and receiving. In the West we often think the only resource necessary is money, and indeed whenever possible both parties must contribute financially to ensure ownership and dignity. However, while stewardship comprises an aspect of money, it also includes people; their time and talent, from anywhere to everywhere, the mobilizing of a mission force.
At SIM we seek to move beyond arguments of “who” does it best, to a driving desire and determination to be an authentic, apostolic community of believers, working in partnership with others to glorify God and win the lost to Christ. We seek not only to serve and equip local indigenous leadership, and the local church, but also to empower them to be “senders.” Brazil and Ethiopia are great examples of countries where SIM has co-laboured with the local church and the result is they have moved from being a mission field to a mission force. In this magazine you can read about South Korea sending missionaries to Canada.
Effective mission is about partnership; the ultimate global witness for God. Is it easy? No! True partnership is about dying to self, something as sinful people we're not very good at. But we praise God that despite our weaknesses and shortcomings He calls each and every one of us to join him in reclaiming his world.
What do you think? Send your comments to . [email protected] n
know that God partnered us together
the day I started to run the guesthouse.
God gave Ishaya a vision for our ministry
in 2010, and it is that vision which
propels us forward. While I was on
home assignment, Ishaya continued to
share the gospel to two other villages
and saw 30 men come to the Lord over
eight months. I see Ishaya as the
evangelist, and Ishaya sees me as the
discipler. We have the same end goal:
a growing church in these villages.
The evangelist, Ishaya, can only see that
there are more people with whom to
share the gospel, and I, the teacher,
want to make sure that those who have
accepted Christ are well grounded in
their new faith. So, I guess the answer to
my question is that we have been
divinely partnered so that we can have a
balanced ministry. Hopefully, with God’s
power living within our two gifts, we will
see a church planted and lead by those
God has chosen.
Church Planting among the Kel Geres
Tamajaq people is part of the
Outreach Cause at
.
Donate to the Outreach Cause and
impact not only this project but
others like it, spreading the gospel
around the world!
u
u
www.causecafe.org
n
(From P1) He often would ask me for help
finding a tract or buying a Bible for
people he shared the gospel with. My
intention when I first arrived in Niger
was not to the run the guest house but
to teach literacy and to disciple new and
old Christians. During this time,
however, I took advantage of the
opportunities to do literacy and
discipleship work with ladies in my
church.
In 2009, things began to change after
Ishaya started to share the gospel in a
village just outside of town. One day,
Ishaya asked me if I would like to teach
Chronological Bibles Stories and teach
literacy to the women in the village. We
partnered with the women in Ishaya’s
church, and I had the opportunity to
share the gospel with these ladies twice
a week. Unfortunately, after five
months, the village did not let us
come back.
Just as this opportunity closed,
another opened for Ishaya when he was
given solar powered MP3 players with
the gospel story on them to give to the
Tamajek people. It was an open door for
Ishaya to share with his own tribal group
which he had never known. At first, my
involvement was simply to give him time
off from work to go and share on the
weekends to a village two hours north
of Maradi. But within five months, I was
teaching his first new believer how to
read, helping with a four day camp for
300 Tamajek people, and writing up a
project to fund our trips and literacy
program in this new village. Two years
later, we both have left the guest house
ministry and are sharing the gospel full
time in three villages. Three days a week
we live in the village, sharing the gospel
to between 30 and 200 people and
teaching literacy to between 30 and 50
people every day we are there.
So who is partnering with whom? I
p Ishaya sharing the gospel among the Kel Geres
p Gail with Ishaya and his family
q Gail discipling through literacy classes
3SIMNOW2
“...we live in the village, sharing the gospel to between
30 and 200 people and teaching literacy to between
30 and 50 people every day...”
Do we still need ‘western’ missionaries?
SIM exists to connect God’s children to God’s work around the world. We mobilize and equip people from all walks of life for mission work.
However a comment we sometimes hear is that we should simply leave it to the indigenous Christians. The conjecture is that locals do it best and we should just leave the work up to them.
It’s an argument that has been around for 200 years since missiologist’s Venn and Anderson articulated the Three-Self Rule, that truly indigenous churches must be self-governing, self-propagating and self-financing. It was developed to respond to the golden rule of “he who has the gold… rules;” a backlash against dependency concerns.
But when someone says ‘we should leave it to Nationals,’ are they referring to equipping, empowering, partnering or financially supporting? What does the Bible say?
When Jesus was taken up into heaven he gave us this commandment: “… you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.” (Acts 1:8). In other words, we are commanded to take the Good News to the world beginning in our hometowns, to people outside our circle but within our culture, and then to different cultures throughout the world. The Lausanne movement well articulates that mission needs to be “from anywhere to everywhere,” or “from all continents to all continents.”
The fact is that some 3 billion people still with little access to the Gospel, the task requires EVERYBODY to bring their gifts, energy, and strengths to the task for as long as it takes. This will require a harvest force that crosses cultural and other barriers to get the job done, from wherever they come. What SIM can do to facilitate this around the world is both strategic and vital.
God calls us to work in partnership. There are no biblical examples of people working independently of others to do His work. Effective partnerships recognize each party has resources to share; a giving and receiving. In the West we often think the only resource necessary is money, and indeed whenever possible both parties must contribute financially to ensure ownership and dignity. However, while stewardship comprises an aspect of money, it also includes people; their time and talent, from anywhere to everywhere, the mobilizing of a mission force.
At SIM we seek to move beyond arguments of “who” does it best, to a driving desire and determination to be an authentic, apostolic community of believers, working in partnership with others to glorify God and win the lost to Christ. We seek not only to serve and equip local indigenous leadership, and the local church, but also to empower them to be “senders.” Brazil and Ethiopia are great examples of countries where SIM has co-laboured with the local church and the result is they have moved from being a mission field to a mission force. In this magazine you can read about South Korea sending missionaries to Canada.
Effective mission is about partnership; the ultimate global witness for God. Is it easy? No! True partnership is about dying to self, something as sinful people we're not very good at. But we praise God that despite our weaknesses and shortcomings He calls each and every one of us to join him in reclaiming his world.
What do you think? Send your comments to . [email protected] n
In October 2012, history was made at Egbe Hospital when all eight local village chiefs along with over 500 volunteers from the town and surrounding villages arrived to show their support for the revitalization project and take down the walls of the 6,500 square foot outpatients wing.
It was a Nigerian style occasion with drums, singing, and dancing. Hundreds of men, women, and children worked to the beat removing the debris, balancing great slabs of concrete on their heads and carrying buckets full of bricks. Brick by brick the 60 year old walls came down as the community cleared the old building to make room for the new - a 10,500 sq. ft. building.
Local chiefs and pastors led the group in giving honour to God. What an incredible and humbling sight!
This event was the most recent of many where strategic partnerships led to huge changes within the community, dating back more than 100 years.
Pioneer missionaries, Tommie and
Ethel Titcombe, were the first to work in the rural Egbe area. The Titcombe’s home church was Philpott Memorial in Hamilton. The church continues to partner with SIM today.
Tommie and Ethel established a health clinic which led to Dr. and Mrs. Campion building Egbe Hospital in 1952. Since then, many SIM missionaries and hospital staff have worked together to grow the hospital to include 2 surgical theatres, 3 wards, an eye clinic, HIV/AIDS clinic, a School of Nursing and Midwifery and a Family Medicine Residency Program.
In the 1980’s, ownership of the hospital was transferred to the Nigerian mission organization ECWA (Evangelical Church Winning All, formerly the Evangelical Church of Western Africa).
Now, sixty years after its founding the hospital is undergoing significant upgrades to revitalize Egbe Hospital to become a self-sustaining, Christian hospital known throughout Nigeria for integrity, excellent medical care, quality medical training, and remarkable patient care. In 2010, a partnership was established with ECWA, SIM, and Samaritan’s Purse/World Medical Mission with the goal to:
upgrade the hospital infrastructure u
by Betsie Campion Smith
...it’s a team
effort
4
materials, storage space and labour to gather and pack shipping containers full of building materials, hospital equipment, pumps, generators, tools and several vehicles.
As walls are erected, the hospital’s 60th anniversary theme “Come, Let Us Rebuild the Walls” is clearly visible to the community. The new 10,500 square foot will house six doctors’ offices, outpatient department, x-ray, lab, ICU, records, and pastoral offices.
Throughout the revitalization, the main focus is on building relationships with Nigerian co-laborers and hospital staff, encouraging them to be witnesses for Christ.
We are grateful for our partners working together to transform ECWA Hospital Egbe into a shining light of hope and healing equipped to serve the region. n
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www.egbehospital.orgwww.youtube.com/egbehospitalwww.facebook.com/egbehospitalhttp://blog.egbehospital.org
and medical equipment; build several new buildings recruit qualified staff restore water and electrical systems and install a reliable internet. Just two years later, incredible
progress has been made including four missionaries now serving at Egbe; stable water supply with boreholes, pumps and major repairs to the reservoirs and water filtration system; rebuilding and outfitting seven missionary homes; recruiting medical staff; installing reliable internet; and shipping seven containers of medical and construction equipment.
Through partnership with Samaritan’s Purse/World Medical Mission short-term visits from over 200 construction and medical volunteers from the USA and Canada have assisted local workers in the revitalization program.
The entire Egbe community and surrounding villages are donating their labour and time as they witness the hospital coming back to life for the benefit of the town and surrounding communities.
God continues to provide! North American and Nigerian business and government contacts have opened many doors for shipments, supplies and equipment. Companies have donated
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Blood donationopens headand doors
My wife and I spent 3 months, helping at Egbe with maintenance and construction. One evening, the on-call doctor told us that a patient was dying of a snake bite and was losing a lot of blood. The man, like me, was O+. I knew that I could help. I had given blood more than 50 times, so it was not an unusual experience for me.
After the blood donation, I felt tired but didn’t think much of it because it was late at night. I stood up and passed out - falling head first onto the cement floor - cutting my head, my lip and bruising my cheek. I passed out again after receiving a shaved head and 3 stitches!
Strangely, my conversations with local people, work crews and hospital staff were different after this event. People were encouraged and a little surprised that I was not angry that I had been injured through giving blood for this man. It made me realize that our lives as Christians are closely watched by those around us. The words about Christian living I had shared over the previous months were not as powerful as what I lived out in front of them. Our best testimony is how we live our lives. n
5
How SIM’s partnership with the local church,
Samaritan’s Purse/World Medical Mission
and the local community is rebuilding,
re-equipping, repairing and revitalizing a hospital
in Nigeria
u
u
Egbe Hospital Revitalization Project
is part of the Health Cause at .
Donate to the Health Cause and impact not only this project but
others like it, spreading the gospel around the world!
www.causecafe.org
SIMNOW
By Rick Bradford
u Watch the video
‘demolition by drums’
In October 2012, history was made at Egbe Hospital when all eight local village chiefs along with over 500 volunteers from the town and surrounding villages arrived to show their support for the revitalization project and take down the walls of the 6,500 square foot outpatients wing.
It was a Nigerian style occasion with drums, singing, and dancing. Hundreds of men, women, and children worked to the beat removing the debris, balancing great slabs of concrete on their heads and carrying buckets full of bricks. Brick by brick the 60 year old walls came down as the community cleared the old building to make room for the new - a 10,500 sq. ft. building.
Local chiefs and pastors led the group in giving honour to God. What an incredible and humbling sight!
This event was the most recent of many where strategic partnerships led to huge changes within the community, dating back more than 100 years.
Pioneer missionaries, Tommie and
Ethel Titcombe, were the first to work in the rural Egbe area. The Titcombe’s home church was Philpott Memorial in Hamilton. The church continues to partner with SIM today.
Tommie and Ethel established a health clinic which led to Dr. and Mrs. Campion building Egbe Hospital in 1952. Since then, many SIM missionaries and hospital staff have worked together to grow the hospital to include 2 surgical theatres, 3 wards, an eye clinic, HIV/AIDS clinic, a School of Nursing and Midwifery and a Family Medicine Residency Program.
In the 1980’s, ownership of the hospital was transferred to the Nigerian mission organization ECWA (Evangelical Church Winning All, formerly the Evangelical Church of Western Africa).
Now, sixty years after its founding the hospital is undergoing significant upgrades to revitalize Egbe Hospital to become a self-sustaining, Christian hospital known throughout Nigeria for integrity, excellent medical care, quality medical training, and remarkable patient care. In 2010, a partnership was established with ECWA, SIM, and Samaritan’s Purse/World Medical Mission with the goal to:
upgrade the hospital infrastructure u
by Betsie Campion Smith
...it’s a team
effort
4
materials, storage space and labour to gather and pack shipping containers full of building materials, hospital equipment, pumps, generators, tools and several vehicles.
As walls are erected, the hospital’s 60th anniversary theme “Come, Let Us Rebuild the Walls” is clearly visible to the community. The new 10,500 square foot will house six doctors’ offices, outpatient department, x-ray, lab, ICU, records, and pastoral offices.
Throughout the revitalization, the main focus is on building relationships with Nigerian co-laborers and hospital staff, encouraging them to be witnesses for Christ.
We are grateful for our partners working together to transform ECWA Hospital Egbe into a shining light of hope and healing equipped to serve the region. n
uuuu
www.egbehospital.orgwww.youtube.com/egbehospitalwww.facebook.com/egbehospitalhttp://blog.egbehospital.org
and medical equipment; build several new buildings recruit qualified staff restore water and electrical systems and install a reliable internet. Just two years later, incredible
progress has been made including four missionaries now serving at Egbe; stable water supply with boreholes, pumps and major repairs to the reservoirs and water filtration system; rebuilding and outfitting seven missionary homes; recruiting medical staff; installing reliable internet; and shipping seven containers of medical and construction equipment.
Through partnership with Samaritan’s Purse/World Medical Mission short-term visits from over 200 construction and medical volunteers from the USA and Canada have assisted local workers in the revitalization program.
The entire Egbe community and surrounding villages are donating their labour and time as they witness the hospital coming back to life for the benefit of the town and surrounding communities.
God continues to provide! North American and Nigerian business and government contacts have opened many doors for shipments, supplies and equipment. Companies have donated
uuuu
Blood donationopens headand doors
My wife and I spent 3 months, helping at Egbe with maintenance and construction. One evening, the on-call doctor told us that a patient was dying of a snake bite and was losing a lot of blood. The man, like me, was O+. I knew that I could help. I had given blood more than 50 times, so it was not an unusual experience for me.
After the blood donation, I felt tired but didn’t think much of it because it was late at night. I stood up and passed out - falling head first onto the cement floor - cutting my head, my lip and bruising my cheek. I passed out again after receiving a shaved head and 3 stitches!
Strangely, my conversations with local people, work crews and hospital staff were different after this event. People were encouraged and a little surprised that I was not angry that I had been injured through giving blood for this man. It made me realize that our lives as Christians are closely watched by those around us. The words about Christian living I had shared over the previous months were not as powerful as what I lived out in front of them. Our best testimony is how we live our lives. n
5
How SIM’s partnership with the local church,
Samaritan’s Purse/World Medical Mission
and the local community is rebuilding,
re-equipping, repairing and revitalizing a hospital
in Nigeria
u
u
Egbe Hospital Revitalization Project
is part of the Health Cause at .
Donate to the Health Cause and impact not only this project but
others like it, spreading the gospel around the world!
www.causecafe.org
SIMNOW
By Rick Bradford
u Watch the video
‘demolition by drums’
“a white man’s religion.” I stood up one day and said ‘I’m not white.’” Changsub shared his story of his father becoming a Christian out of a culture that includes shamanism, another connecting point between South Korean culture and First Nations. “I told them that my father started to know the real God - the whole God - when he began to read his Bible,” remembers Changsub.
“I can break down the stereotype of the white man's Christianity. I am a visible minority. I am an immigrant. I live in a small house. My English is not correct. They think that this pastor is not like the high priest, he’s like a normal person, he’s a poor immigrant, but he has faith, and he wants to be a friend with us.”
When he first arrived in Regina, things started small and slowly. A friend who had been involved with gangs became a Christian and shared his testimony of a changed life with other gang members. A Bible study grew. Changsub met in restaurants and coffee shops with First Nations friends who wanted to connect. He began a Sunday night Bible study that up to 35 people attended.
Then, one night, no one came. “I was so discouraged. I prayed and I stopped it for two months,” says
Changsub. The Bible study has started again very recently with a new name: Home of God. “I rethought the focus of my ministry. I concluded that my ministry is to be a friend. All of them come from broken families. They come to Bible study because they want to belong to a family group. We share the food, our life, they say ‘you are like my brother, my sister, we are like a family.’ I will focus more on the love of the family. That is my hope. A more home-like Christian ministry.”
Changsub also works with Regina's Korean Alliance Church, running their youth program.
“Running a program is easy for me,” says Changsub. “But to help even one person is amazingly hard. One guy said to me, ‘you are not perfect. You are in need. So, you can easily be friends with the people you want to help.’”
For Changsub, a South Korean missionary sent to Canada, friendship is what it is all about. n
Korean missionary
builds relationships
with First Nations
by Karen Stiller
6
When Changsub Kim stood at a cemetery for missionaries in his home country of South Korea, he was struck by the number of tombstones for Canadian missionaries laid to rest in his country.
One cluster of gravestones in particular moved him. They were for an entire Canadian family who had all died in South Korea
100 years ago. “We saw their devotion. We prayed at the gravestones and said ‘we will repay you, your life. We go to Canada to repay your gift to our country,’” says Changsub. “We still have a lot of gratitude to the Canadian church. We want the Canadian church to be blessed by their previous efforts.”
Changsub Kim and his wife Jina are part of the growing trend of other countries sending missionaries to Canada.
Changsub is a missionary with SIM South Korea (connected with SIM Canada), with a specific call to minister to First Nations communities in the Regina area.
He had been to Canada before, as an MDiv student graduating from Briercrest Seminary in Caronport, Sask. “When I was studying at Briercrest, I met a lot of First Nations minsters. I had a passion for the First Nations,” explains Changsub. He saw the similarities in needs and situation with work he had done with the underprivileged in South Korea. “They lack finance, they often lack family support, educational support. They are the poor of the urban area.”
Another thing Changsub noticed was how difficult it seemed to be for First Nations Christians to merge into a typical Canadian congregation. “The church treats them as visitors rather than a family member,” says Changsub. “...as projects, rather than people.”
Changsub’s identity as a self-described “poor immigrant” has not been a barrier to the Aboriginal people he works with - far from it - it has been an open door.
Changsub remembers a Bible study he attended, led by a friend of German descent for an Aboriginal group, who dismissed the presentation as
“ The church treats them
[First Nations] as visitors rather than
a family member...as projects rather
than people”
it’s no longer ‘over there’it’s actually‘right here’
Did you know that the home
missionary movement (like SIM
Canada’s Culture ConneXions) is
exploding across North America?
Accurate numbers are not known
but the phenomenon is noted as a
significant trend in the latest
‘Operation World’.
Mission is on our doorstep in our
culturally diverse neighbourhoods,
schools and universities.
Today, there are more than 20
SIM Culture ConneXions
missionaries ministering to
different cultures alongside urban
churches in Canada - and more are
icoming. Many are Canadians,
some are Koreans, even Australian.
Some of the Culture ConneXions
missionaries are looking for
interns. What about you? Are you
willing to learn to reach out to your
local neighbourhood and help
enable the church to be relevant in
their communities?
To find out more about how you
or your church can get involved, go
to
www.sim.ca/ccx.
www.sim.ca/givenow
www.causecafe.org.
You can also support the work of
Culture ConneXions missionaries
like Changsub Kim by donating to
project CA 90227 at
or give to the
outreach cause at the Cause Café -
n
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with Changsub and Jina
“a white man’s religion.” I stood up one day and said ‘I’m not white.’” Changsub shared his story of his father becoming a Christian out of a culture that includes shamanism, another connecting point between South Korean culture and First Nations. “I told them that my father started to know the real God - the whole God - when he began to read his Bible,” remembers Changsub.
“I can break down the stereotype of the white man's Christianity. I am a visible minority. I am an immigrant. I live in a small house. My English is not correct. They think that this pastor is not like the high priest, he’s like a normal person, he’s a poor immigrant, but he has faith, and he wants to be a friend with us.”
When he first arrived in Regina, things started small and slowly. A friend who had been involved with gangs became a Christian and shared his testimony of a changed life with other gang members. A Bible study grew. Changsub met in restaurants and coffee shops with First Nations friends who wanted to connect. He began a Sunday night Bible study that up to 35 people attended.
Then, one night, no one came. “I was so discouraged. I prayed and I stopped it for two months,” says
Changsub. The Bible study has started again very recently with a new name: Home of God. “I rethought the focus of my ministry. I concluded that my ministry is to be a friend. All of them come from broken families. They come to Bible study because they want to belong to a family group. We share the food, our life, they say ‘you are like my brother, my sister, we are like a family.’ I will focus more on the love of the family. That is my hope. A more home-like Christian ministry.”
Changsub also works with Regina's Korean Alliance Church, running their youth program.
“Running a program is easy for me,” says Changsub. “But to help even one person is amazingly hard. One guy said to me, ‘you are not perfect. You are in need. So, you can easily be friends with the people you want to help.’”
For Changsub, a South Korean missionary sent to Canada, friendship is what it is all about. n
Korean missionary
builds relationships
with First Nations
by Karen Stiller
6
When Changsub Kim stood at a cemetery for missionaries in his home country of South Korea, he was struck by the number of tombstones for Canadian missionaries laid to rest in his country.
One cluster of gravestones in particular moved him. They were for an entire Canadian family who had all died in South Korea
100 years ago. “We saw their devotion. We prayed at the gravestones and said ‘we will repay you, your life. We go to Canada to repay your gift to our country,’” says Changsub. “We still have a lot of gratitude to the Canadian church. We want the Canadian church to be blessed by their previous efforts.”
Changsub Kim and his wife Jina are part of the growing trend of other countries sending missionaries to Canada.
Changsub is a missionary with SIM South Korea (connected with SIM Canada), with a specific call to minister to First Nations communities in the Regina area.
He had been to Canada before, as an MDiv student graduating from Briercrest Seminary in Caronport, Sask. “When I was studying at Briercrest, I met a lot of First Nations minsters. I had a passion for the First Nations,” explains Changsub. He saw the similarities in needs and situation with work he had done with the underprivileged in South Korea. “They lack finance, they often lack family support, educational support. They are the poor of the urban area.”
Another thing Changsub noticed was how difficult it seemed to be for First Nations Christians to merge into a typical Canadian congregation. “The church treats them as visitors rather than a family member,” says Changsub. “...as projects, rather than people.”
Changsub’s identity as a self-described “poor immigrant” has not been a barrier to the Aboriginal people he works with - far from it - it has been an open door.
Changsub remembers a Bible study he attended, led by a friend of German descent for an Aboriginal group, who dismissed the presentation as
“ The church treats them
[First Nations] as visitors rather than
a family member...as projects rather
than people”
it’s no longer ‘over there’it’s actually‘right here’
Did you know that the home
missionary movement (like SIM
Canada’s Culture ConneXions) is
exploding across North America?
Accurate numbers are not known
but the phenomenon is noted as a
significant trend in the latest
‘Operation World’.
Mission is on our doorstep in our
culturally diverse neighbourhoods,
schools and universities.
Today, there are more than 20
SIM Culture ConneXions
missionaries ministering to
different cultures alongside urban
churches in Canada - and more are
icoming. Many are Canadians,
some are Koreans, even Australian.
Some of the Culture ConneXions
missionaries are looking for
interns. What about you? Are you
willing to learn to reach out to your
local neighbourhood and help
enable the church to be relevant in
their communities?
To find out more about how you
or your church can get involved, go
to
www.sim.ca/ccx.
www.sim.ca/givenow
www.causecafe.org.
You can also support the work of
Culture ConneXions missionaries
like Changsub Kim by donating to
project CA 90227 at
or give to the
outreach cause at the Cause Café -
n
7SIMNOW
u Watch the interview
with Changsub and Jina
She brought the hammer down swiftly on top of the large chunk of rock at her feet, the rough edges splintering to the ground in shattered pieces. The sweat now beading across her forehead glistened in the hot, Ethiopian afternoon sun.
This was hard, physical work. Slowly
the rock before her began to take shape,
each hammer strike furthering the
transformation from inanimate,
“useless” rock to an important and
“useful” brick that would soon “pave”
the streets of Shashemene. Much like
the rock before her, Tigist Abera’s life was
transforming with each swift blow of
hammer on rock.
Tigist Abera was one of 30 people
participating in a month-long
Cobblestone Production training
workshop that provides HIV+
and unable to provide for my family but
the medicine (ARVs - anti-retroviral
medicines) has made me strong enough
to have this training and then I will be
able to pay for my children’s school fees,
and provide food, water, and clothing for
my family. Completing the cobblestone
production training has proven to me,
and my community that
I am strong and healthy
and able to care for my
family”. Hesitant to even
participate at the
beginning because of the
physical strength needed
to produce cobblestones,
Tigist realized within the
first few days that she would be able to
complete the intense training – and she
is thankful that she persevered.
SIM Canada, in partnership with the
Canadian International development
Agency (CIDA) and the Ethiopian Kale
Haywet Church (EKHC), provides
management oversight and funding in
watchWORLD
Incomegenerationrestoresdignity,hope and life
By Trevor Russell
beneficiaries of the Medan Shashemene
project training in a viable technical
trade. Tigist is HIV+ and has lived with
the discrimination and stigma that so
often plagues this vulnerable segment
of Ethiopian society. The mother of four
children, she believes that her training
provides her the ability to produce and
sell cobblestones to the
construction companies
that use them to “pave”
the roads of
Shashemene and she
will once again be seen
as an equal in her
community, despite her
disease.
She is able to be a productive
member of society and this fact alone
has eliminated the discrimination that
she has been living under for so long.
Speaking through a translator, Abera
shared the impact this training has had
on her life. “Before participating in this
training I was doing nothing. I was sick
support of people living with HIV and
AIDS in Ethiopia. The three organizations
realize that to truly have an impact on
the lives of people suffering from
disease and poverty we must all work
together. CIDA (funding), SIM Canada
(management), and EKHC (project
implementation) are three vital
contributors that enable the work in
Ethiopia to impact the lives of
thousands of beneficiaries.
The ‘cobblestone programme’ among
a host of others offer hope to those
living without it. Through effective
partnerships, lives are being changed,
people are being empowered, and
stereotypes and stigmas are being
chipped away.
Just as the rock in the hands of the
cobblestone maker is moulded into
something beautiful and useful, the life
of Tigist Abera, and thousands like her,
are being transformed with hope.
It’s the hope of a beautiful bright,
healthy, and productive future. n
FOR EVERY $1 YOU GIVE TO THESE HIV/AIDS PROJECTS CIDA GIVES $3! GIVE TO CA 67046
8
“...to truly have an impact on the lives of people suffering from disease and
poverty we must all work together.”
The Quechuas are the largest unreached people group in Bolivia. They live high in the Andes mountains. Taking the gospel to them in person is very difficult as most villages are remote and accessible only by foot.
By contrast, short-wave radio works well in the mountains and travels where missionaries cannot go. A few years ago, SIM established Radio Mosoj Chaski. It is the only evangelical radio station that is broadcasting in the Quechua language.
Materials are prepared in their heart language, and contextualized for their understanding. The Quechuas are very open to hearing God’s Word and many of them are now studying the Bible and sharing with others what they have learned through the radio broadcasts.
Quechua Literature and Radio Programming is part of the Outreach Cause. When you donate to this cause, you not only support this project but 4 other projects. Think about the impact you can make through one donation. n
Radio reaches ‘over the hills and far away’
9
Tigist is now able to ‘pave the streets’ p
u Scan the QR code to learn more about
the Cause Café or go to
www.causecafe.org
She brought the hammer down swiftly on top of the large chunk of rock at her feet, the rough edges splintering to the ground in shattered pieces. The sweat now beading across her forehead glistened in the hot, Ethiopian afternoon sun.
This was hard, physical work. Slowly
the rock before her began to take shape,
each hammer strike furthering the
transformation from inanimate,
“useless” rock to an important and
“useful” brick that would soon “pave”
the streets of Shashemene. Much like
the rock before her, Tigist Abera’s life was
transforming with each swift blow of
hammer on rock.
Tigist Abera was one of 30 people
participating in a month-long
Cobblestone Production training
workshop that provides HIV+
and unable to provide for my family but
the medicine (ARVs - anti-retroviral
medicines) has made me strong enough
to have this training and then I will be
able to pay for my children’s school fees,
and provide food, water, and clothing for
my family. Completing the cobblestone
production training has proven to me,
and my community that
I am strong and healthy
and able to care for my
family”. Hesitant to even
participate at the
beginning because of the
physical strength needed
to produce cobblestones,
Tigist realized within the
first few days that she would be able to
complete the intense training – and she
is thankful that she persevered.
SIM Canada, in partnership with the
Canadian International development
Agency (CIDA) and the Ethiopian Kale
Haywet Church (EKHC), provides
management oversight and funding in
watchWORLD
Incomegenerationrestoresdignity,hope and life
By Trevor Russell
beneficiaries of the Medan Shashemene
project training in a viable technical
trade. Tigist is HIV+ and has lived with
the discrimination and stigma that so
often plagues this vulnerable segment
of Ethiopian society. The mother of four
children, she believes that her training
provides her the ability to produce and
sell cobblestones to the
construction companies
that use them to “pave”
the roads of
Shashemene and she
will once again be seen
as an equal in her
community, despite her
disease.
She is able to be a productive
member of society and this fact alone
has eliminated the discrimination that
she has been living under for so long.
Speaking through a translator, Abera
shared the impact this training has had
on her life. “Before participating in this
training I was doing nothing. I was sick
support of people living with HIV and
AIDS in Ethiopia. The three organizations
realize that to truly have an impact on
the lives of people suffering from
disease and poverty we must all work
together. CIDA (funding), SIM Canada
(management), and EKHC (project
implementation) are three vital
contributors that enable the work in
Ethiopia to impact the lives of
thousands of beneficiaries.
The ‘cobblestone programme’ among
a host of others offer hope to those
living without it. Through effective
partnerships, lives are being changed,
people are being empowered, and
stereotypes and stigmas are being
chipped away.
Just as the rock in the hands of the
cobblestone maker is moulded into
something beautiful and useful, the life
of Tigist Abera, and thousands like her,
are being transformed with hope.
It’s the hope of a beautiful bright,
healthy, and productive future. n
FOR EVERY $1 YOU GIVE TO THESE HIV/AIDS PROJECTS CIDA GIVES $3! GIVE TO CA 67046
8
“...to truly have an impact on the lives of people suffering from disease and
poverty we must all work together.”
The Quechuas are the largest unreached people group in Bolivia. They live high in the Andes mountains. Taking the gospel to them in person is very difficult as most villages are remote and accessible only by foot.
By contrast, short-wave radio works well in the mountains and travels where missionaries cannot go. A few years ago, SIM established Radio Mosoj Chaski. It is the only evangelical radio station that is broadcasting in the Quechua language.
Materials are prepared in their heart language, and contextualized for their understanding. The Quechuas are very open to hearing God’s Word and many of them are now studying the Bible and sharing with others what they have learned through the radio broadcasts.
Quechua Literature and Radio Programming is part of the Outreach Cause. When you donate to this cause, you not only support this project but 4 other projects. Think about the impact you can make through one donation. n
Radio reaches ‘over the hills and far away’
9
Tigist is now able to ‘pave the streets’ p
u Scan the QR code to learn more about
the Cause Café or go to
www.causecafe.org
10
Walking into the office one day, I heard a new accent in the office. It was not the voice of a regular. At chapel, we were introduced to this guy named Simon Marrable. At our first meeting, I quickly recognized that he loves people and connecting them to ministry.
Over the next few months, I saw him sporadically and I wondered if he actually worked for SIM, especially with his sparsely decorated office. Of course he does, he just spends most of his time visiting pastors and churches. Thankfully, he isn’t chained to a desk and is able to use his skills and talents meeting people and sharing what God is doing through the ministries at SIM. Recently, I was able to track him down and ask a few questions.
My main role is to connect SIM to the churches - to build meaningful relationships. We want to come alongside Canadian churches and see how we can serve them. We have incredible people in the SIM family and the church would only benefit from working with them. I want to connect missionaries on the field to churches so churches can get excited about what God is doing. We want more than a picture on a church wall, we want to tell real stories, and foster real interactions. There is a hunger for relationships.
What is your role at SIM Canada?
How important is the relationship between the church and a mission organization?
This relationship is imperative. Relationship is key. People want to feel part of something great that God is doing. The church holds the people and the mission organization holds the means to get engaged. There is a natural connection between these two. We want the people in the church, not just the pastor, to form relationships with SIM Canada and our missionaries on the field. Our desire is to have the same heartbeat as the church - to join together and support the work of God both here in Canada and around the world.
I like to look at it this way: You go have a cup of tea with a person and they think, ‘nice guy’. You come back for a
second cup and they think ‘oh, he came back.’ Then, you come back for a third cup, and they think ‘oh, maybe he is serious about this.’ And the fourth cup of tea, builds that trust. We don't just want to come to you for one cup of tea but we want to have endless cups of tea.
Over the years SIM Canada has lost touch with churches. It was only the missionary who would interact with the church. We want to be the facilitator between the missionary and the church. We don’t want to take away from the missionary but rather add to the church’s understanding of what that missionary is doing. Add to the church's understanding of the ministries around the world that they can partner with. We have certain abilities as a mission and our goal is to see how we can help the local church.
When I go to a church, I ask the pastor when was the last time he asked his congregation who feels called to ministry as a vocation, not just a short
term trip. Many pastors say they have not in a long time. This is where we can help and keep the fire going for those in the church
who feel called but don’t know the steps to get there or are never challenged to go. We want to help the pastor lead those who are called to ministry full time.
Is this a new concept? How does SIM fit into a church?
God’s people toGod’s mission
It’s about connecting
By E.T. Mair
How does a church get involved with an organization like SIM?
What is your vision? Where do you see this going?
There are so many ways! We have Regional Directors across Canada as well as two dedicated mobilizers in Ontario. You can contact a Regional Director or Mobilizer nearest you by going to
or emailing your request to .
You can also request a speaker to come to your church. SIM would love to connect you with one of our missionaries or staff. Visit
to request one today.
SIM has also started a new way to take action - Cause Café. This is where we combine the work of our Canadian missionaries with the needs of their ministry. There are 10 causes that you can partner with and as a church you can consider raising funds, raising awareness or raising up prayer. When you support one of the causes, you are actually supporting all of the projects under that cause. Think of the kind of impact you can make. Visit
to learn more.
I would love to see SIM mobilizers across the country! We are seeking people with a passion to build relational partnerships with churches and individuals. We want churches and people in the pews excited about what God is doing through the ministries of SIM. I am travelling to Ethiopia to visit various SIM Canada missionaries and their ministries, and I know that this will fuel my desire to share their stories with others. We want to see this happen to others! Will you partner with us?
www.sim.ca/[email protected]
www.sim.ca/speaker
www.causecafe.org
n
11
“I want to connect missionaries on the field to
churches so churches can get excited about what God is
doing.”
u engaging the church
SIMNOW
u Want to learn more of
SIM Canada’s vision?
Check out this short video
Working together is part of SIM`s history
One of the highlights of my ministry career has been facilitating partnerships between Christians and churches in Canada, with Christians and churches in the developing world. Cross-cultural partnerships provide incredible opportunities for God's children to experience the rich and unique cultures God has created and the varied expressions of worshipping Christ. Our partners enable us to
read scripture afresh. Their faith and joy challenge us to greater depths in our own walk
with Jesus. We learn more about following Jesus together. The body of Jesus Christ - the church - needs to enjoy fellowship
together, encourage one another, learn from each other, help each other and share gifts and resources so that the whole body is enriched. That's when we get a glimpse of the vision the Apostle John saw in Revelations 7: 9.
Partnership is part of SIM’s history and ethos. Over our 120 years we have partnered, and sometimes merged with other mission organizations, the local church, and indigenous churches. Why? To further the Gospel in the most effective and efficient ways possible. These partnerships have produced tremendous fruit.
Did you know that SIM has planted over 18,000 churches? Forty percent of our global activities are focused on church planting, evangelism, discipleship and theological training and all our other efforts focus on allowing others to experience the presence of God.
What ministries are SIM missionaries engaged in around the world? Check out the snapshot below. n
1893-2013
John DenbokExecutive DirectorSIM Canada
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Business, Administration, Leadership 220 International Schools and MK Education 178 Health and Healthcare 143 Personnel Ministries 126 Home Office/Home Ministries (incl CCX) 121 Children, Youth and Young Adults 110 Relief and Development 88 Theological Education 85 Community Education 73 Miscellaneous 73 Technical Services 71 Language Services 59 Awaiting assignment 61 Media 28 International Office and Internships 9 Multi country ministries 1
TOTAL MISSIONARIES 1964
Church Planting, Evangelism, Discipleship 518
10
Walking into the office one day, I heard a new accent in the office. It was not the voice of a regular. At chapel, we were introduced to this guy named Simon Marrable. At our first meeting, I quickly recognized that he loves people and connecting them to ministry.
Over the next few months, I saw him sporadically and I wondered if he actually worked for SIM, especially with his sparsely decorated office. Of course he does, he just spends most of his time visiting pastors and churches. Thankfully, he isn’t chained to a desk and is able to use his skills and talents meeting people and sharing what God is doing through the ministries at SIM. Recently, I was able to track him down and ask a few questions.
My main role is to connect SIM to the churches - to build meaningful relationships. We want to come alongside Canadian churches and see how we can serve them. We have incredible people in the SIM family and the church would only benefit from working with them. I want to connect missionaries on the field to churches so churches can get excited about what God is doing. We want more than a picture on a church wall, we want to tell real stories, and foster real interactions. There is a hunger for relationships.
What is your role at SIM Canada?
How important is the relationship between the church and a mission organization?
This relationship is imperative. Relationship is key. People want to feel part of something great that God is doing. The church holds the people and the mission organization holds the means to get engaged. There is a natural connection between these two. We want the people in the church, not just the pastor, to form relationships with SIM Canada and our missionaries on the field. Our desire is to have the same heartbeat as the church - to join together and support the work of God both here in Canada and around the world.
I like to look at it this way: You go have a cup of tea with a person and they think, ‘nice guy’. You come back for a
second cup and they think ‘oh, he came back.’ Then, you come back for a third cup, and they think ‘oh, maybe he is serious about this.’ And the fourth cup of tea, builds that trust. We don't just want to come to you for one cup of tea but we want to have endless cups of tea.
Over the years SIM Canada has lost touch with churches. It was only the missionary who would interact with the church. We want to be the facilitator between the missionary and the church. We don’t want to take away from the missionary but rather add to the church’s understanding of what that missionary is doing. Add to the church's understanding of the ministries around the world that they can partner with. We have certain abilities as a mission and our goal is to see how we can help the local church.
When I go to a church, I ask the pastor when was the last time he asked his congregation who feels called to ministry as a vocation, not just a short
term trip. Many pastors say they have not in a long time. This is where we can help and keep the fire going for those in the church
who feel called but don’t know the steps to get there or are never challenged to go. We want to help the pastor lead those who are called to ministry full time.
Is this a new concept? How does SIM fit into a church?
God’s people toGod’s mission
It’s about connecting
By E.T. Mair
How does a church get involved with an organization like SIM?
What is your vision? Where do you see this going?
There are so many ways! We have Regional Directors across Canada as well as two dedicated mobilizers in Ontario. You can contact a Regional Director or Mobilizer nearest you by going to
or emailing your request to .
You can also request a speaker to come to your church. SIM would love to connect you with one of our missionaries or staff. Visit
to request one today.
SIM has also started a new way to take action - Cause Café. This is where we combine the work of our Canadian missionaries with the needs of their ministry. There are 10 causes that you can partner with and as a church you can consider raising funds, raising awareness or raising up prayer. When you support one of the causes, you are actually supporting all of the projects under that cause. Think of the kind of impact you can make. Visit
to learn more.
I would love to see SIM mobilizers across the country! We are seeking people with a passion to build relational partnerships with churches and individuals. We want churches and people in the pews excited about what God is doing through the ministries of SIM. I am travelling to Ethiopia to visit various SIM Canada missionaries and their ministries, and I know that this will fuel my desire to share their stories with others. We want to see this happen to others! Will you partner with us?
www.sim.ca/[email protected]
www.sim.ca/speaker
www.causecafe.org
n
11
“I want to connect missionaries on the field to
churches so churches can get excited about what God is
doing.”
u engaging the church
SIMNOW
u Want to learn more of
SIM Canada’s vision?
Check out this short video
Working together is part of SIM`s history
One of the highlights of my ministry career has been facilitating partnerships between Christians and churches in Canada, with Christians and churches in the developing world. Cross-cultural partnerships provide incredible opportunities for God's children to experience the rich and unique cultures God has created and the varied expressions of worshipping Christ. Our partners enable us to
read scripture afresh. Their faith and joy challenge us to greater depths in our own walk
with Jesus. We learn more about following Jesus together. The body of Jesus Christ - the church - needs to enjoy fellowship
together, encourage one another, learn from each other, help each other and share gifts and resources so that the whole body is enriched. That's when we get a glimpse of the vision the Apostle John saw in Revelations 7: 9.
Partnership is part of SIM’s history and ethos. Over our 120 years we have partnered, and sometimes merged with other mission organizations, the local church, and indigenous churches. Why? To further the Gospel in the most effective and efficient ways possible. These partnerships have produced tremendous fruit.
Did you know that SIM has planted over 18,000 churches? Forty percent of our global activities are focused on church planting, evangelism, discipleship and theological training and all our other efforts focus on allowing others to experience the presence of God.
What ministries are SIM missionaries engaged in around the world? Check out the snapshot below. n
1893-2013
John DenbokExecutive DirectorSIM Canada
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Business, Administration, Leadership 220 International Schools and MK Education 178 Health and Healthcare 143 Personnel Ministries 126 Home Office/Home Ministries (incl CCX) 121 Children, Youth and Young Adults 110 Relief and Development 88 Theological Education 85 Community Education 73 Miscellaneous 73 Technical Services 71 Language Services 59 Awaiting assignment 61 Media 28 International Office and Internships 9 Multi country ministries 1
TOTAL MISSIONARIES 1964
Church Planting, Evangelism, Discipleship 518
The combined “SIMNOW #121”, “World Watch #61”, is an official publication of SIM Canada and is published 4 times per year. SIM (Serving In Mission), is an interdenominational evangelical Protestant mission founded in 1893. SIM includes Africa Evangelical Fellowship, Andes Evangelical Mission, International Christian Fellowship, and Sudan Interior Mission. Send address changes to: The Editor, 10 Huntingdale Blvd., Scarborough, ON, M1W 2S5, Canada. Printed in Canada. © 2013 by SIM. Additional copies are available. Permission to reprint any material must be obtained from the Editor. FAX: 416-497-2444. E-mail: [email protected]. Subscription is free (Donations appreciated). Subscribe on-line at www.sim.ca or email [email protected]. International Editor: Suzanne Green. Canadian Editor: E. T .Mair. Designer: John Rose.
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Serving In Mission
SIM Canada’s latest missionary recruit comes to us wearing two hats.
but he will also be pursuing his passion to reach out to the Middle Eastern community in Toronto.
Erwin van Laar is the new Director of Development
Erwin brings 25 years of experience in engaging financial supporters with both large and medium not-for-profit organizations. His most recent role as Executive Director of Sat-7 Canada allowed him to focus on supporting outreach ministries in the Middle East.
“We are blessed to be a blessing and we are all called to be missionaries to a world that needs to hear the gospel - I am looking forward to hearing your story, your passion, your call and looking for ways we can engage this world together.
I am especially thrilled with SIM’s commitment to reach the world that has come to Canada through the ministries of Culture ConneXions (CCX). This is our opportunity to share the good news with new immigrants and even those who have been living in Canada their entire lives! We have been appointed by God to share the gospel with every Canadian and it will be our joy to watch Him change hearts and transform lives as they engage with His Word.
I am incredibly encouraged as SIM Canada seeks to be innovative in ministry and be led in prayer. We walk with God - an adventure that is only made more exciting as we yield more of ourselves to Him. My prayer is that I will discern what needs to be done to support the work and the team of SIM Canada. May He lead me to others who are just as passionate to see lives changed -perhaps that is you!
I am absolutely spoiled to be able to use my gifts here at SIM and thrilled that God has opened this window of opportunity. I look forward to meeting you and serving with you as we work to fulfill the mission of Jesus Christ in the world.” n
NATIONAL OFFICE10 Huntingdale Blvd
Scarborough, ONM1W 2S5
Canada
1-800-294-6918
T: 416-497-2424E: [email protected]
www.sim.ca
DONOR DEVELOPMENTErwin van Laar
E: [email protected]: 416-497-2424 (ext172)
Cell: 416-459-1790
ATLANTIC CANADAJim Longworth
Regional DirectorE: [email protected]
T: 506-472-6855
QUEBECAngela Brandle
Regional DirectorE: [email protected]
T: 514-425-6611
Willy BrandleQuebec Mission Consultant
Brigitte MarcellinRepresentative,
Eastern TownshipsE: [email protected]
T: 819-566-8676
ONTARIORick Bradford
Regional DirectorE: [email protected]
T: 416-497-2424 (ext. 176)
Simon MarrableChurch Partnership Mobilizer
E: [email protected]: 416-497-2424 (ext. 151)
Scott GarvieE: [email protected]
T: 416-497-2424 (ext. 155)
Doraine RossOntario Mission Consultant
E: [email protected]: 519-740-1422
PRAIRIES/MANITOBADan & Wanda Screpnek
Regional DirectorE: [email protected]
E: [email protected]: 403-886-5961
Cell: 403-352-2859
BRITISH COLUMBIAKeith & Cindy Frew
BC Region RepresentativesE: [email protected]
Cell (Keith): 604-217-2893
Phil & Marcia LeskewichBC Region RepresentativesE: [email protected]
T: 604-744-8159
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