About SIM
Our passionate desire is to be used by God to change our
world! We are convinced that God's primary means
of relating to and transforming the world is the church.
Thus, where there is no church, we are committed to
evangelism and starting churches. Where a church
exists, we are committed to strengthen the church
through teaching the Bible, developing leaders, and
equipping the church to fulfill Christ's Commission.
Our ideal church-mission relationship is a dynamic
interdependent partnership that reaches out
together to love the unreached world.
SIM is not a church denomination, yet our primary purpose is to facilitate local churches to send cross-cultural missionaries. We seek to humbly serve and boldly challenge churches in their obedience to God's mandate to be witnesses in all the world. In many countries, the emerging church is catching the vision for cross-cultural missions but needs help to establish sending agencies. Our desire is to assist churches to set up mission boards with the hope that some of their missionaries may be dual members with SIM. We desire to be a church-planting mission and a mission-planting mission!
We are a General Mission. We appreciate and work closely with specialized missions in Bible translation, radio, development, evangelism, medicine and aviation. Our distinctive is not our methodology, but our church-focused vision. We are seriously involved in Bible translation, hospitals, radio, development and aviation, but all these are a means to plant, strengthen and partner with churches. Our focus is the church, not a strategy.
SIM: Serving In Mission has about 1,600 active missionaries, from 37 countries serving in over 40 countries in South America, Africa and Asia. We are made up of united organizations that began more than 100 years ago, including Africa Evangelical Fellowship, Andes Evangelical Mission, International Christian Fellowship and Sudan Interior Mission. Our field ministries work with about 15,250 congregations with about 9 million members and adherents. (More information)
Our core values include a strong commitment to dependence on God, prayer and the Bible.
There are thousands of ways we can help you to be
used of God to change the world. Let
us hear from you.