LEADER APPOINTMENTS North Africa Director Started January 1, 2022 The new director has been living in the Mediterranean, from where he has served as North Africa Acting Director, since 2012. He served as a church pastor for 10 years and then planted churches in Eritrea and Ethiopia before taking on his current role. God has blessed this work by expanding SIM’s presence to almost every country in North Africa. Chiu Eng Tan
SIM International Board of Governors Started January 1, 2022 Chiu was born in Cebu City, Central Philippines, a third-generation ethnic Chinese in the Philippines. She studied at the Biblical Seminary of the Philippines (BSOP), the only Chinese seminary in the country, and went on to become a pastor in Bethany Church, Cebu. She later joined the BSOP faculty, serving as Academic Dean from 1996 to 2019 before retiring in 2020. Dave MacDonald
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Global Director of Operations Started February 1, 2022 Dave has been serving in this role since February, 2019. He has held many leadership roles, including on the board of SIM South Africa and as lead pastor of Table View Baptist Church, Cape Town. He has wide experience in farming, project management, building and carpentry. He is a former chair and president of the Baptist Union of Southern Africa and holds a diploma in theology from the Bible Institute of South Africa.
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NEWS Chadian Arabic Bible published in full The entire Chadian Arabic Bible was published for the first time in May 2021 (pictured right). Soon afterwards, 100 Bibles arrived for use in Dar Sila, Chad, where SIM's Faithful Witness team is serving. A second shipment of 100 arrived in October. One SIM mission worker said, "We are so excited to have the entire Bible in a language most people in Dar Sila understand." The translation, by Chadian churches in partnership with Wycliffe and WEC International,
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Jonathan Finley
Faithful Witness Lead Started February 2022 Jonathan has a doctorate in Intercultural Studies and served in church planting and leadership development in the multi-ethnic Paris suburbs. He founded a mission agency which was integrated into SIM France in 2017. For the last 18 months, he has served as SIM USA’s Integration Coordinator. Michael Chay
Acting Singapore Director Started August 2021 Michael is positioned to strengthen our partnership with Singapore churches, theological institutions, other mission agencies and with mobilisation of new workers. Prior to joining SIM, he held key positions in business development and marketing. Michael has served as a lay pastor and Chairman of Elders’ Board of Bartley Christian Church.
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Videos for prospective mission teachers Megan Patterson, SIM’s ministry point person for transformational teaching, has produced nine great videos for Christian teachers. They show how teachers can reflect a Christian worldview and how they might bring pupils and colleagues to Christ. They can be used as discussion starters for took more than 20 years and was teachers or candidates in SIM supported by a wide range of other Arabic speakers. SIM workers helped and beyond. They are available on Port at in proof-reading and checking. Point Persons: Transformational Pray for the distribution of the Teaching: Videos. Bibles in eastern Chad. WWW.SIM.ORG
