Key Ministries
- Business and community outreach
SIM workers across North Africa are building Kingdom-focused businesses that provide employment and foster community engagement. These enterprises serve as opportunities for gospel witness and relationship-building, particularly among urban youth and the unemployed.
- Education and technical projects
Teams are reaching the next generation through teaching and vocational training. Education offers a bridge into communities and a chance to model the love and truth of Christ in both word and deed.
- Medical work and trauma healing
Some team members serve in healthcare, offering physical and emotional support through clinics, trauma healing programmes, and community health initiatives. Their presence brings tangible hope and opens doors for gospel conversations.
- Discipleship and local church support
SIM partners with the small and often fragile North African church, offering pastoral care, leadership development, and discipleship training. Workers walk alongside local believers, strengthening the body of Christ in difficult contexts.
- Creative ministries and arts engagement
The team is exploring the power of arts and media – particularly music and visual storytelling – as tools to share gospel truth and connect with hearts in culturally meaningful ways.
Spiritual Landscape in North Africa
North Africa has deep Christian roots, once home to prominent early church figures such as Tertullian, Cyprian, Augustine, and the martyrs Perpetua and Felicity. However, centuries of Islamic dominance have left churches in ruins and Christian communities scattered.
Today, fewer than 0.03 per cent of the population are believers. Many face persecution from family, society, or government. Small gatherings of Christians exist across the region, but often struggle with isolation, limited leadership and mistrust. Despite this, seeds of faith are being sown and the gospel continues to take root quietly.
Please pray
- For persecuted believers, some imprisoned, many traumatised and almost all ostracised by their families
- For unity in the tiny church
- For more business people, professionals and skilled tradespeople to obey God’s call to North Africa
- For young people who are searching for truth; may they hear the gospel and follow Jesus
- For boldness, love and wisdom in equal measure for all our workers in these hard places
- For one country team as they develop their leadership and for other teams to grow through partnerships and the mobilising of many more workers
- For people of peace and openness amongst nomadic peoples
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