SIM Mozambique

We desire to reach the least-reached people in the northwest of Mozambique where few mission efforts venture. We long to see communities reconciled to God, participating in Christ-centred churches and living as God’s ambassadors throughout Mozambique and across the globe.

Key Ministries

  • New youth mentoring and discipleship ministry
  • Biblical and theological training at INTEL – Instituto Teológico de Lichinga
  • Foundations for Farming – an agricultural and evangelistic ministry
  • After school tutoring, evangelism, and discipleship ministry
  • Evangelism through sports, English, and small business ministry
  • Literature distribution – resources to help the church grow.
  • Care for those with disabilities and for the marginalised

Future ministries:

  • Evangelism through English to university students
  • Administrative services in leadership and finance

Spiritual Landscape in Mozambique

Mozambique is a secular state. According to the most recent 2020 estimate, 55.8 per cent of the population is Christian, 17.5 per cent is Muslim (mainly Sunni), 0.5 per cent had no religion and 26.4 per cent adhered to traditional beliefs or practised other religions.

Communities Where Christ is Least Known

YAO

It’s said that to be a Yao is to be a Muslim. The Yao people typically mix traditional African beliefs with Islam to form a Folk Islam. Today, most of the 500,000 Yao in northwest Mozambique are subsistence farmers. In the past 10 years, the number of Yao Christians in Mozambique has grown from around 300 to 4,000, so God opened a door and SIM responded by starting a vibrant agricultural and evangelistic ministry. Pray for continued fruit.

MAKUWA-METTO AND MAKUWA-CHIRIMA

There are about one million people in each of these groups. Most are subsistence farmers, working their fields with handheld tools. There is a growing trend of Makuwas moving to towns and cities, where unemployment and promiscuity are prominent.

Most adhere to Folk Islam or Folk Catholicism. In urban areas, where some small churches exist, well-trained leaders are needed. A new Bible translation in the local language is facilitating evangelism and discipleship, and SIM is working diligently among children, the youth, and with the local church.

Contact SIM Mozambique

Email: Connect@sim.org

Please pray

  • Foundations for Farming agricultural ministry
  • For past students at INTEL serving in their churches, and the discipleship of our current students
  • Fruitful harvest of new believers, and for ongoing discipleship among the Yao
  • For IPELVA, a church plant in Lichinga, and its youth mentoring ministry
  • After-school ministries and discipleship in Cuamba with tutoring, sports, and English
  • An end to the insurgencies that have occurred during the last ten years in northeastern Mozambique
  • New mission workers to join the administrative team – for a director and treasurer
  • For short-term teams to proclaim Christ through English classes offered to university students

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