We serve in most East and Central African countries, either directly through SIM offices or in partnership with others who share our heart to make Jesus known where He is least known.
We’re passionate about seeing lives transformed by the gospel and people equipped to live as faithful disciples of Jesus. We serve in the countries listed below, and in some that are not shown here. If you’re interested in a country not listed, we’d love to hear from you.
Where we work
Our multi-cultural SIM South Sudan is based in Nairobi, Kenya but serves the refugee communities in South Sudan by partnering with the local church, by doi...
Opportunities to serve in East and Central Africa
OneLife Africa
OneLife Africa (OLA) focuses on the next generation of young leaders in high school, colleges and universities. OLA offers educational support to bright and needy students, discipling them through life decisions and equipping them to serve Christ in their spheres of influence. The OLA youth campus based in Kabarak, Nakuru County, runs holiday camps for high school, college and university students as well as a three to six=month residential gap-year programme for pre-university students. The six evangelistic camps per year occur over the Kenya high school holiday breaks. Camps are open to sponsored OLA students, young people from partnering churches and communities. The LEAD gap year programme draws young leaders who have demonstrated leadership potential and want to grow in their faith in Christ. An estimated 700 students will come through the OLA youth campus each year.
Engaging the Church in global missions
We look to work with churches in Ethiopia at the national and local level, Instilling in them a passion and understanding of global missions. If you feel called to inspire the next generation of Ethiopian missionaries then we would love to hear from you.
Theological Education
SIM Ethiopia's theological education ministry focuses on equipping emerging church leaders with a biblical worldview of the mission of God in Christ from creation to new creation, and training to rightly handle and minister the Scriptures, that they might lead this Church into growth that results in passionate participation in the mission of God.
Stories from East and Central Africa
In South Sudan, SIM’s Doro Clinic is offering medical care, dignity, and the hope of the gospel. Through weekly outreach programmes, chaplains and health...
In northern Kenya’s arid regions, SIM Kenya board chair David Gargule serves as a modern-day shepherd, guiding both people and mission with wisdom.
The crows perched on the trees all lean into the wind. The wind here is strong and incessant. We are on the edge of the desert in a Gabra region of norther...
Refugee camp and village churches are growing quickly across northern Uganda, helped by a thriving training programme for leaders.
When Melanie and Sarah go to work each day, they are greeted with huge hugs and cheers.
In an outreach clinic on the outskirts of Kapsowar, Kenya, an SIM mission doctor met a young man whose life had been painfully altered by a tragic accident...
If our humble Kenya team started serving their years back-to-back, we would have an unbroken stream of missionary service stretching all the way back to th...
A man on a discussion panel recounted how a colleague of his in gospel ministry had been gunned down. He asked God, “Why!?”
SIM Kenya director Dr. Peter Okaalet sadly passed away on February 5, 2022 from cancer, having made a significant impact in the field of HIV/AIDS medicine ...
The children are learning that, even as they grow up amid the rubbish of Addis, they are made in God’s image.
When Diana Ayabei turns up for work in the Kenyan capital Nairobi she must be ready for just about anything.
Brian helps run learning and leading on SIM’s international health team. His passion is helping health ministries around the world carve out their minist...