An Encouraging Report from Sudan
"God is clearly using SIM missionaries to accomplish great things in Sudan, but every one of our missionaries
still needs your continued prayers."

As SIM missionaries settle into Sudan, they must overcome incredibly difficult circumstances. After years of civil war, Sudan has almost nothing left--no buildings, no electricity, no running water, and no roads.

Despite these challenges, our missionaries are training teachers, instructing pastors, and helping communities obtain safe water, medical care, and other necessities of life.
The majority of American churches today are not mobilized and effectively engaged in missions. To address this reality, SIM USA is launching a renewed effort to partner directly with churches to help them get mobilized into missions--to "connect the church here with the church there."

With guidance and vision from Joe Warring, SIM's new Director of Church Partnership, SIM
has developed a powerful partnering program that seeks to relationally connect with churches, equip them to have value-added impact, mobilize them in short-term team projects, and empower them for long-term effective partnership with national churches in a mission field.

The effort includes working with healthy churches already engaged in missions, but also has a strategic focus of partnering with the majority of churches in the United States which have no effective missions involvement.

But reaching out to thousands of churches across the United States with a robust training and partnership program will require significant new resources. Aside from building the infrastructure needed, we also hope to subsidize the initial cost for smaller church partners, allowing them to reinvest into SIM with financial support once the fruit of growth born from a mission commitment is realized. We believe this kingdom-minded investment approach will pay eternal dividends as these partners become mobilized and connected with our national church partners overseas.

Please join us in praying that God will provide the resources needed to fund this worldwide effort. Pray also that God will use our efforts to mobilize the Church in America to more effectively spread the gospel of Jesus Christ around the world.
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