CONTENTS How the Bible helps us embrace diversity .............................................. 2-3 New Harvest Workers ......................... 4-5 News ....................................................... 6 Q&A with an SIM leader: Watson Rajaratnam................................. 7 Core Values – the same, but different.... 8-9 Called: Tawanda Masango................. 10-11 Leader appointments ............................ 12 Heart-to-heart with a barber................. 13 Giants of Covid-19............................ 14-15 Faithful Witness.................................... 16
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SIM'S MISSION
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Convinced that no one should live and die without hearing God's good news, we believe that He has called us to make disciples of the Lord Jesus Christ in communities where He is least known.
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HOW THE BIBLE HELPS US EMBRACE DIVERSITY BY JOSHUA BOGUNJOKO, SIM INTERNATIONAL DIRECTOR
There is a very good reason why SIM’s first core value states we are committed to biblical truth. We recognise this truth as the foundation for our faith, the guide for our lives and the ultimate truth for living. Nothing else in the world could take its place in the life of a believer, community, society or church.
In the summary of our Core Values, which we have been working on this year and about which you can read more on pages 8 and 9, that commitment Out of a desire to read to biblical truth remains God’s word for ourselves, central. my younger brother, It is why we Ezekiel, and I decided to are committed work and earn money to to teaching the Bible in all buy our first Bible. contexts and ministries, and also translating it into people’s heart languages. It is exactly one of those translation efforts that made my own love story with the Bible possible. I was raised in a small village in Nigeria, in a nominally Christian family. My parents attended church, but also worshipped idols. Although I was active in church, I did not know that I needed Jesus or could have a personal relationship with God. Out of a desire to read God’s word for ourselves, my younger brother, Ezekiel, and I decided to work and earn money to buy our first Bible. We obtained this Bible when I was 11 years old. Two years later, we earned enough to buy a second one. These were very precious to us, and I have always loved the Bible. Something amazing about my Yoruba Bible was that it was the inspired, infallible word of God, just like the English Bible of the first SIM WWW.SIM.ORG
