Diversity Marks New Leadership Team at SIM International

September 1, 2006 marks first day of working together for the new SIM International Leadership Team.

Gospel and Culture—Transformation or Destruction?

Anthropologists consider missionaries culturally destructive. In a sense, they’re right. Change does occur, and it should. Every missionary should leave the place and the people among whom he works dramatically improved, and their culture as well.

Growing Disciples

We couldn’t understand it. He had professed faith in Christ as a high school student. And now he had become so hostile to the Christian faith. His reason: we were teaching things that went against Herero (tribal) traditions.

Wasting No Time

“We are wasting time," the Dakoro Youth Choir members concluded. "Our neighbors are dying without knowing the salvation of Jesus.”

Extra: Return Visits

A second report from the outreach trips by the Dakoro Youth Choir.

New Methods for Today's World: Business as Mission

What does mission look like in the 21st century? We must craft our strategies in light of the realities of today’s world.

Church for All Nations

International Churches have a unique ministry, reaching out to expats and locals in cities with a large international population.

Extra: IEC Outreach Event

What do you get when you put 400 women from dozens of countries in one big room with some great food, and tell all the men they can’t come? A very fun Women’s Cultural Festival, which we recently had at our International Evangelical Church (IEC).

A Church is Born

For three years we studied the Bible with Paraguayans in small groups or one-on-one. Then at last came the day to bring them together for “church.”

Never Give Up

As I drove to our weekly Bible study, I prayed that God would free me from discouragement. After two years of meeting with my friends, the results were still unclear.