Theological and Medical Training

In Botswana, theological and medical training are both areas where mission workers can help to support existing structures, bringing valuable Christian understanding and knowledge.

Theological Training

In 2021, discussion with the Africa Evangelical Church bishop led to the idea of establishing a Bible week for church leaders who had not had the privilege of going to Bible school, and as a refresher for others.

In 2022, the week of 30th May to June 3rd found 4 faculty (Motswana, Zulu, Zimbabwean and British) leading a series of topics on bible exposition, pastoral care, health and the church and children’s ministry. The great success of this has led to the planning of further refresher weeks for 2023 and has ignited the vision of re-opening a multi-denominational Bible school.

Medical Training

Botswana has an extensive government health care system and a relatively young university medical school, with several Christians working in both.

The university has need for some specialities in the teaching faculty and also opportunity for visiting specialist lecturers to contribute. Some retiring professors from other countries have taken positions in the university to fill the gaps.

Christian Medical Fellowship has been active in the student body but has not really managed to keep a fellowship going in the graduate population. We would like to see such a fellowship established

SIM is also seeking to develop a relationship with the Ministry of Health in Botswana to identify situations where mission personnel could fill vacant medical posts, especially in rural areas.

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Theological Education Coordinator

We are looking for someone who can draw our teams together and lead the process of re-establishing a Bible school. This would include attention to the areas of constitution, faculty, registration, curriculum, funding of structural renovation, etc.

Botswana,

Southern Africa

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Medical School Lecturers

The university has need for some specialities within the teaching faculty, and there are also opportunities for visiting specialist lecturers to contribute. Might you be one of them?

Short-Term

Botswana,

Southern Africa

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Christian Fellowship Coordinator

CMF has been active in the student body but would also like to keep a fellowship going in the graduate population. Deputy director in the ministry of health, Dr Patrick Masokwane, is seeking someone to help grow the fellowship.

Botswana,

Southern Africa

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Prayers

Pray for the growth of a Christian fellowship within the graduate body at Botswana's university medical school.

Ask that a Bible school might be revived to help equip many pastors for successful ministry in their communities.

Pray that SIM mission workers would be able to support the Ministry of Health and show a powerful Christian witness.

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Phil Bauman is SIM’s new International Director

Phil Bauman asumirá el cargo de Director Internacional de SIM cuando Joshua Bogunjoko deje el cargo a finales de febrero de 2024. Esperamos con confianza y fe lo que Dios hará con el SIM a través del liderazgo de Phil en los próximos años.

Gospel bears fruit in hard-to-reach places

SIM writer Lee Forland shares the joy of seeing how the good news is spreading and bearing fruit among the Yao people in the hard-to-reach rural areas of eastern Malawi.

How did he make you feel?

SIM Kenya director Dr. Peter Okaalet sadly passed away last year, having made a significant impact in the field of HIV/AIDS medicine, as well as in the lives of the people around him. SIM stories writer Tohru Inoue remembers his personal experience of the man behind the medic.

Bathtub baptism brings joy in North Africa

More than a year after stepping into a SIM woker's local church just to find out what it looked like inside, a woman in North Africa comes to faith and is baptised.

"Me? A soccer coach?"

Crippled from birth by polio, Pastor Gloh laughed at the idea of becoming a soccer coach. Now, trained by SIM's Sports Friends, he is seeing God do amazing things through sports for young people in his community.

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This conference will bring together the SIM directors who serve in Latin America to provide leadership development and training.

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