By Prayer is SIM’s motto because it is truly by prayer that we praise God, seek his direction, request resources, and call upon the Holy Spirit to empower our ministries. By Prayer is a call to action, emphasizing important work to be done. We must intercede for those living outside a saving relationship with Jesus, many of whom have never heard his name. Will you join us by praying these prayers every month?
First, you must witness Him
What compels us to care about the more than 3 billion people who have no opportunity to make even one Christian friend?
The Faithful Witness teams are not unlike SIM’s founders, who believed God had called them to make disciples of Jesus in the Nigerian bush, the unknown interior of the continent. There were no mission offices where they were going. That is where Jesus was least known. They encountered hardship, sickness and death. But now, over 130 years later, there are millions of believers in Nigeria.
SIM’s Faithful Witness initiative aims “to share the gospel with people who have never heard of Jesus Christ.” They place teams globally in communities where there is no church and virtually no Christian witness. They send multi-ethnic, multi-skilled teams from anywhere the church already is, to everywhere that it isn’t yet. This global initiative pushes SIM back to its roots, bringing the founders’ DNA to life again.
What compelled the founders? What would compel us?