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

Prairie College is an interdenominational Christian college in Canada and has 100 years of experience in training kingdom workers and offers a variety of online programmes from Pastoral Ministry to Intercultural Studies. See the full programme list here: https://prairie.edu/online/

Prairie College can offer online undergraduate programme completion to selected international students for a single annual fee of $CDN100. To recommend someone who could benefit from a programme, fill out the referral form (https://form. jotform.com/200657147603048).

For further information or if you have any questions, please contact james.fraser@prairie.edu.

Putting kids on track for mission

Inspiring the next generation into mission is one of the great challenges for any mission agency and SIM’s culture kits are designed to do just that.

The kits, written by an SIM teacher and put together by an SIM graphic designer, cover four regions of the world – South Asia, the Middle East, East Africa and The Andes of South America. Other kits are in the pipeline.

They are produced in pdf format and give children a superb overview of each region. Featuring a wealth of great pictures, they detail the geography, the climate, the people groups, the faiths and the cultures.

The designer said: “The aim is to give children a flavour of the region, in the hope it will get them thinking a little more deeply about people in other parts of the world.

“Of course, because the regions are vast, we can’t cover absolutely everything but there are prayer points, recipes from the region and even introductions to some playground games. Throughout, the aim is to show children the richness of other cultures, while also teaching them that there are large parts of the world where the name of Jesus is not known.”

The culture kits can be downloaded for free at sim.org.

They can be used in any setting – home schooling, church Sunday school, or parents learning alongside their children.

They are suitable for children aged from around six to early teens, or perhaps even older in some cultures, and have a wide range of interactive activity pages.

THE GOD-GUIDED LIFE

A new book on the life of two former SIM workers, Norman and Mattie Nunn, has just been published.

Written by their daughter, Gwen Stavely, it details their life and ministry with SIM in Sudan after they were sent by SIM Australia in 1938. They spent 35 years in Sudan and helped pioneer SIM’s work in Khartoum. The book is available on Amazon.

ID SEARCH TEAM START INTERVIEWS

Th e search for our new International Director has reached the stage of interviewing candidates. Before the interviews, each candidate was asked to submit documents explaining how they felt God had equipped them for the role. The aim is to announce a new director by the middle of 2023, with Joshua Bogunjoko planning to step down early in 2024. This will allow for an efficient and effective handover.