VAMOS!
New Spanish Training Manual Released

In March 2012, the SIM Spanish Communication team in Lima, Peru, presented the new interactive missionary preparation Manual in Spanish called Vamos (Let's Go). The 85 international leaders at the SIM Global Leaders Forum gave an overwhelming response.

A month earlier the new training Manual was presented at the Latin American Mobilization Conference, and the response was beyond what was expected. Comments included: "Everything is in one place!" and “Some manuals have said that they are interactive, but this one really is!”

More than 350 pages, 23 chapters, and lots of outside resources (PowerPoints, videos, readings) are now available to Latino missionaries from any mission agency. Candidates can work through the material with a mentor, as well as spend time on personal reflection.

With new sending initiatives in Africa, Asia, and South America, the multi-directional momentum of world missions continues to flourish. The SIM Paraguay team plans to make 2000 copies to help pastors mentor their missionary candidates. A mission agency in Costa Rica will use it in all of their missionary training. A Guatemalan pastor says this is exactly what he was praying for as he starts discipling a group of 40 young people interested in missions.

Given the positive responses, and the Manual's track record with Peruvian missionaries serving overseas, the next step is to translate the Manual into other languages.

Please pray:

• for new candidates to be well discipled and prepared for missions by the material
• for the Manual to be widely used for Christ's glory
• for translating and contextualizing the Manual into other languages
• for spiritual protection for the Spanish Communication team, and for those using the material

SIM is not only a church-planting mission, but a mission-planting mission too. Wherever we have helped to establish a church, we equip the church to carry forward the Great Commission. Joyfully we echo the Lausanne Covenant which says, "World evangelization requires the whole Church to take the whole gospel to the whole world." Amen!

This Manual can be made available to you, your church, or organization to use. To learn more, please contact contact your nearest SIM office.