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COMING SOON TO ALL SIM.ORG EMAIL ACCOUNTS

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MULTI-FACTOR AUTHENTICATION - A BETTER WAY TO KEEP US SECURE

MFA is the fancy name for a process which will require you to confirm who you are when you log in to your SIM accounts. It will involve you authenticating yourself using your phone. You will be asked to confirm that it really is you who is trying to log in!

This might seem like an unnecessary step but it is becoming increasingly common in the digital world, as any of you with Google or Amazon accounts will know. Those companies use it to ensure your financial and personal information is kept safe; we are using it for much the same reasons and, perhaps more importantly, to help keep our workers in sensitive locations safe.

The process of giving all SIM accounts MFA has already begun – if your accounts haven’t yet been affected, they soon will be. Please don’t ignore the emails that come through about MFA. If you engage with it, and work with the SIM International IT team, you will find the process a lot less painful.

If you have any questions, email our IT support team (email@sim.org).

Cut-Price Degrees from Prairie College

Do you know an SIM worker from outside North America who would like to study for an online degree at Prairie College in Canada?

Prairie College is an interdenominational Christian college and is committed to academic excellence and spiritual discipleship. The college has 100 years of experience in training Kingdom workers and offers a variety of online programmes from Pastoral Ministry to Intercultural Studies. You can see the full programme list at https://prairie.edu/online/

Through the gifts of generous donors, Prairie can offer online undergraduate programme completion to international students for an annual fee of just CD$100. Visit the website for more information and details of how to sign up. We have updated our Cloud of Witnesses section on Port, with obituaries on several of our SIM colleagues who have gone to glory in recent months.

Cloud of Witnesses

The new obituaries are for John Thornhill, Mavis Jean Greenwell, Merle Steely, Charlotte Lochstampfor, Jan Falk, Phyllis Irene Lawson, Karen Ruth McLain Geysbeek, Esther Campion and Dave Schultz.

The obituaries can be accessed by clicking on the Cloud of Witnesses button on the home page of Port. If you want to add any obituaries, please contact SIM International's Internal Communications Editor, Dan Muchai (dan.muchai@sim.org).

Keep praying as we search for new International Director

As the time of nominations closes for the role of International Director, pray for the Search Committee as they examine them. May the Lord be clearly guiding and may we all have a spirit of discernment of his will.

For further information see the dedicated area on PORT or contact international.idsearch@sim.org.