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SIM Mission Connection (formerly SIMplicity) is our free monthly email newsletter that gives you up-to-date news of God's work through SIM around the world. Subscribe online now


Current/Sample Issue:

March 2008 Issue 2, Volume II



Also in this issue:

Compassionate Health Care (Sudan)

Easter Outreach (Bolivia)

Book Sets for Ethiopian Pastors (Ethiopia)


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My Journey to Mongolia

by Amanda, from Canada
Amanda with Mongolian friends

When I committed to serve for five weeks as a conversational English teacher at a medical college in Mongolia, I had no idea what God had in store for me.

God prepared our way

Our team prayed for opportunities to share the Gospel with the faculty and medical students. God more than answered our prayers. We were invited to teach city and provincial government officials, bank employees, the police department, and local community members!

God also made a possibility for a long-term connection with the college. The head of the nursing department had recently heard a speaker from the University of Toronto, my alma mater, and they wanted to build a relationship with the school. When they invited me to help, I realized that God had planned much more for me in Mongolia than these five weeks.

Sharing my story

Seeing the effects of alcoholism in Mongolia—wounded hearts, broken families, damaged relationships, and violence—tore at my heart. Standing in front of a small church, just a few days after arriving, I shared my story of living with an alcoholic family member, knowing that many there would understand.

I recognized the pain and the protective walls people built around themselves. It had taken years before I allowed God to break down those walls in my life. Now here I was sharing these things in Mongolia!

I am so amazed at how God has prepared me to interact deeply with the Mongolian people. God wants to set broken hearts free, and he has invited me to help! I am preparing to return to Mongolia later this year.

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COMPASSIONATE HEALTH CARE - SUDAN

Nurse feeding a sick baby on his mother's lap

As thousands of Mabaan people return to their homeland this month, the SIM Sudan health team is there offering compassionate care in Jesus' name. Builders are renovating the old SIM hospital, a Community Health Worker Training School is underway, and a Sudanese doctor is joining the team.

Get a glimpse of life in Doro from Dr. Rob Congdon, the project manager.

There is still a need for a technician to operate a small lab to test for malaria and tuberculosis. Find out how God can use you in Sudan


EASTER OUTREACH IN BOLIVIA

The Mallasilla Bible Church invited their friends for an afternoon of dramas, videos, and snacks so that they could share the story of Jesus' death and resurrection.

You can hear how God blessed their efforts in Lisa Miser's blog account about the Easter outreach planned by this new church in the suburbs of La Paz.

Read more SIM missionary blogs on the front page of www.sim.org


Bolivian girls eating bunuelos

BOOKSETS FOR ETHIOPIAN PASTORS

Rural pastor in Ethiopia

In Ethiopia, most pastors prepare sermons and teach their people without any reference books to help them. Through the Pastors' Book Set Conferences starting in April, Ethiopian church leaders will be able to receive a library of 40 Bible study books that have been translated and printed in Amharic, the national language of Ethiopia.

Please pray for these conferences and for the church in Ethiopia to be strengthened through this project.

Learn how you can provide a library for an Ethiopian pastor




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