INTERNATIONAL DIRECTOR SEARCH PROCESS

JUNE 1: DAY OF PRAYER AND FASTING

Everyone in SIM will soon be invited to send in nominations for the new International Director.

The current director, Joshua Bogunjoko, is stepping down no later than February 2024, by which time he will have served more than two five-year terms.

Joshua is asking all of us to dedicate June 1 as a day of fasting and prayer for the process of discerning who should succeed him.

The search committee, led by International Board chair Gill Philips, are most grateful to all who responded to the recent survey regarding the opportunities and challenges likely to face the mission over the next 5-10 years.

They have now written person and position descriptions and a ‘background to the mission’ document. They are about to invite anyone in SIM to suggest who they think has the right qualities to lead SIM for the next five years. Th e best way to do that will be to respond to an email (from international.idsearch@sim.org) that will shortly be sent to all sim.org users. In that, you will be asked for your nomination and the reasons for the suggestion.

Paul’s prayer for the church in Philippi is very much the theme of this search process: “This is my prayer: that your love may abound more and more in knowledge and depth of insight, so that you may be able to discern what is best and may be pure and blameless for the day of Christ, filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ – to the glory and praise of God.” (Philippians 1:9-11). We know the next five years will be just as challenging as the last five years, so our prayer must be that God raises up a gifted and godly leader.

This is very much a time of discernment, after which the search committee will consider the nominations and work towards producing a short-list of candidates for interview early next year.

Members of the search committee meet on Zoom