SIM Botswana

Our small team in Botswana seeks to share the good news with those who do not know Christ and equipping them to become disciple-makers globally.

 

 

Key Ministries

  • Children and youth ministry
  • Disciple-making and counselling.
  • Theological training.
  • Outreach into schools and colleges.
  • Shame Honour Identity Now and for Eternity Africa.
  • Work among medical students and doctors.

Spiritual Landscape in Botswana

While the gospel is known in Botswana, there is insufficient good teaching or discipleship and significant nominalism. There is also increasing secularism.

Communities Where Christ is Least Known

Remote dwellers of the Kalahari Desert

The San are considered to have the oldest culture in the world. Beautiful San rock art can be seen throughout southern Africa, where the San lived as hunter-gatherers. They are expert hunters, using bows and poison-tipped arrows. Hunting is a collaborative exercise, and the meat is always shared among the group.

Over the past 2,000 years, the San have slowly been pushed to live in the arid sands of the Kalahari Desert. Today, the San find it very difficult to maintain their traditional culture and lifestyle. The land they used to hunt on is increasingly being used for grazing cattle.

In partnership with the Africa Evangelical Church, SIM has engaged with the !Xoon San of the Kalahari for more than 30 years. For 16 years, the ministry was carried out by full-time mission workers living in the desert. These mission workers retired in 2018, leaving a translation of the gospel of Luke, around 90 recorded Bible stories, Sunday school material, and a worship CD as their legacy.

Contact SIM Botswana

Email: Connect@sim.org

Please pray

  • For Botswana SIM appointees who are developing prayer partners and raising support, that the Lord would lead them to the place he has prepared for them
  • For more believers to hear the Lord’s calling into ministry of mission
  • For local translators among the remote desert dwellers of the Kalahari, that they would persevere in their ministry without the support of expatriate mission workers
  • For the work of examining shame/honour perspectives of biblical theology and applying them to strengthen a good understanding of God’s instructions
  • For children and young people to grow in their faith and apply biblical truths in their daily lives
  • For people bound by animistic traditions to be set free
  • For theological training for many untrained pastors in various churches
  • For new workers to join these opportunities

 

  

 

 

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