SIM
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Begun: 1891
Originally Refereed to as: Sudan Interior Mission
Also called: Serving in Mission
By Line: By Prayer
Web Site: By Line: By Prayer
Web Site: http://sim.org/
SIM is a community of God's people who delight to worship Him and are passionate about the Gospel, seeking to fulfill the mission of Jesus Christ in the world.
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[edit] Media
Below is a link to our founder's original promo video. They used this while raising support and informing churches of the work God was doing in Africa. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N767iRDSkq4
[edit] History
SIM has a rich history of founders who journeyed to difficult places to share the Gospel. Landing in Africa, Asia, and South America, these pioneers formed missions committed to reaching people who had never known the love of Christ.
A union of several organizations founded in the late 19th Century, SIM works today with the same passion that its founders began with over a century ago.
Mission in Africa
The South African General Mission (SAGM) was founded by Martha Osborn, Spencer Walton, and Andrew Murray in 1889. Murray, a well-known author who founded a university and a seminary, always considered missions "the chief end of the church." After Martha Osborn married George Howe, they formed the South East Africa General Mission (SEAGM) in 1891. SAGM and SEAGM merged in 1894. Because their ministry had spread into other African countries, they changed their name to Africa Evangelical Fellowship (AEF).
Soudan Interior Mission (SIM) began in 1893. Canadians Walter Gowans and Roland Bingham and American Thomas Kent had a vision to reach the 60 million unreached people of the Soudan in sub-Saharan Africa. Unable to interest established missions—most of which said reaching the Soudan was impossible—the three set out alone.
Malaria overtook all three. Gowans and Kent died of the fever, and Bingham returned to Canada. On his second attempt, he caught malaria again and was forced to go back home. Unable to return to Africa, Bingham sent out a third team. They successfully established a base 500 miles inland at Patigi in 1902. From there, the work of SIM began in Africa.
Mission in Asia
In 1893, the Ceylon and India General Mission (CIGM) began work among Ceylon's Singhalese Buddhists and Tamil Hindus. The mission founded by Scottish businessman Benjamin Davidson expanded from Ceylon into South India. Eventually CIGM's ministry reached across the Indian subcontinent and to the Philippines.
Also in 1893, Charles Reeves and M.E. Gavin left their homes in Australia for India. A Eurasian Christian from Poona had come to Australia in search of missionaries to work in his home area. Reeves and Gavin answered the challenge and set sail under the name Poona and Indian Village Mission (PIVM).
In 1968, these two India/Asian organizations merged to become the International Christian Fellowship (ICF).
Mission in South America
In 1893 British Keswick evangelists visited South America and published a report called South America: The Neglected Continent. New Zealanders George Allen and Mary Stirling read it and felt God calling them. In 1907, the newly-weds landed in Bolivia to minister to the Quechua Indians. Allan's Bolivian Indian Mission grew in the years that followed to become the Andes Evangelical Mission (AEM).
Serving in Mission Together
In the 1980s, AEM, ICF, and SIM joined forces to become SIM, which then stood for the "Society for International Ministries." AEF joined with SIM in 1998. In 2000, SIM adopted the trade name (or slogan) "Serving In Mission," for English-speaking countries, but our official name around the world today is simply SIM.
[edit] Ministry Countries
Africa & Europe
Angola
Benin
Botswana
Burkina Faso
Côte d'Ivoire
Central African Republic
Eritrea
Ethiopia
Ghana
Guinea
Kenya
Liberia
Madagascar
Malawi
Mauritius
Mozambique
Namibia
Niger
Nigeria
Reunion
Senegal
South Africa
Sudan
Switzerland
Tanzania
Togo
United Kingdom
Zambia
Zimbabwe
Americas
Bolivia
Canada
Chile
Ecuador
International
Paraguay
Peru
United States of America
Uruguay
Asia-Pacific
Bangladesh
China
India
Mongolia
Nepal
Philippines
South Korea
Thailand
[edit] Home Bases
SIM Australia
PO Box 42
Penshurst NSW 2222
Australia
Phone: (61-2) 9580-1422
sim.australia@sim.org.au
SIM Canada
10 Huntingdale Blvd.
Scarborough, ON
Canada, M1W 2S5
Phone: (1-416) 497-2424
Fax: (1-416) 497-2444
postmaster@sim.ca
SIM France
Quartier Les Mians
FR-84860 Caderousse
France
Phone: +33 (0) 490-51-00-69M
Fax: +33 (0)490-51-00-69
sim.france@sim.org
SIM Korea
- 602 Econo-Charmant B/D
- 166 Kumkok-Dong
Boondang-Gu Sungnam City
South Korea
Phone: 82-31-719-5314~5
Fax: 82-31-719-5313
sim@simkorea.org
SIM Southern Africa
P.O. Box 30027
Tokai
Cape Town 7966
South Africa
Phone: (27) 21 - 7153200
Fax: (27) 21 - 7153220
simsa@sim.org.za
SIM UK/Europe
Wetheringsett Manor
Wetheringsett
Stowmarket
Suffolk IP14 5QX
United Kingdom
Phone: +44 (0)1449 766464
Fax: +44 (0)1449 767148
postmaster@sim.co.uk
SIM Belgique
Secrétariat
Avenue de la Belle Voie 15
BE-1300 Wavre
Belgium
Phone: +32 (0) 10 22 50 98
sim.belgique@sim.org
SIM East Asia
116 Lavender St.
- 04-09 Pek Chuan Bldg.
Singapore 338730
Phone: 6-2983611
Fax: 6-2986751
info@simeast.com
SIM Italia
Via Rana, 386
IT-15040 Cascinagrossa (AL)
Italy
Phone: +39 0131 61 09 79
sim.italia@sim.org
SIM New Zealand
P.O. Box 38 588
Howick
New Zealand
Free Phone: 0508 47 46 69
info@sim.org.nz
SIM Switzerland
Société Internationale Missionnaire
C.P. 4051
CH-2500 Biel/Bienne 4
Switzerland
Phone: +41(0) 32 345 14 44
Fax: +41(0) 32 345 14 54
sim.suisse@sim.org
SIM USA
P.O. Box 7900
Charlotte, NC 28241
USA
Phone: (704) 588-4300
Fax: (704) 587-1518
postmaster@sim.org
SIM International
(The International Office is the administrative headquarters for the whole mission.)
1838 Gold Hill Road
Fort Mill, SC 29708
USA
Phone: (803) 802-7300
Fax: (803) 548-0885
webtalk@sim.org
