(SIM Chile's Hans Ziefle, centre, and friends)

In response to the findings of ‘Seize the Day’, SIM’s recent review/evaluation process, International Director Malcolm McGregor wrote:

The Church in Africa, Asia and South America is vibrant, and growing to such an extent that the centre of gravity of the Christian faith has moved south and east. We are now in a new age of mission, in which God’s global Church is taking the gospel to those who haven’t heard or haven’t believed. . . .  Mission is now a two-way street, with traffic going both ways and, at times, bumping into each other.

In addition to communicating the gospel, planting new churches and mentoring new disciples, SIM wants to encourage Christians around the world to get involved in mission. Our goal is to mobilize those whose lives have been changed by Jesus Christ—so they can share with those who don’t yet know him.

In fact, one of our ‘Faith Effects’ imperatives (resulting from the ‘Seize the Day’ review) says: We will collaborate enthusiastically with emerging mission movements from the churches of Africa, Asia and Latin America.

The SIM team in Chile is committed to educating, encouraging and challenging Christians to get behind the still-emerging mission movement. From Bavaria, SIMers Hans and Carmen Ziefle, with their three children, are confident that God will raise up hundreds of churches who are willing to send out missionaries.

The Ziefles are ‘world mission promoters’. They cultivate friendships with pastors and church leaders across denominations, seeking to help and work alongside them. They organize and participate in mission conferences, and produce mission-related printed materials to inspire and challenge the Chilean churches.

‘Our goal is to help a variety of congregations grow in their holistic vision of world mission,’ says Hans.

‘Our vision is to serve the Chilean and Latin American Church through mobilizing, training, encouraging and creating sending and training structures within denominations, and to see congregations send missionaries to minister strategically in those as yet unreached areas, in Latin America and to the ends of the earth.’ (Read more about the Ziefles' ministry in Chile.)

If you share SIM’s concern to support and encourage emerging mission movements, we’d love to hear from you.

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