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FOR FREEDOM ONLINE COURSE
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SIM’s For Freedom point people, Sarah Scott-Webb and Karine Woldhuis, are excited to offer their introductory course on human trafficking, For Freedom Basics. It takes an hour and can be accessed through the SIM e-Learning Centre (on LearnUpon). To set up a LearnUpon account, email: international.elearning@sim.org When we understand how trafficking works, we can better address the real risks people are facing, even more so with the impact of COVID-19. This course is appropriate for all SIM workers and provides basic knowledge useful for all ministries. Intl.ForFreedom@sim.org
MAY 2020 • VOL 2 ISSUE 2
SIM’s Dr Benjamin Hegeman is offering a video lecture series called Advancing the Impossible. Watch them in any order and at your own pace. Topics include: 1. Qur’an, Hadith and Shari’a 2. Islamic history 3. Islam in the 20th and 21st centuries 4. Ministering to Muslims and missionary history 5. Conversion, discipleship and church planting Ben has served in Benin, West Africa, for 30 years and his speciality is the Qur’an, the origins and history of Islam, contemporary radical Islam and animist or Folk Islam. www.liliastrottercenter.org/copy-of-ltc-global-courses
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SIM Learning Cafés are 75-minute webinars available on Zoom to everyone in SIM. They foster SIM’s value of lifelong learning and support our desire to flourish. Watch the many previous Learning Cafés on Port. Click the ‘International Leadership and Services’ button on the landing page, then go to ‘People Development & Care’ from the ‘Related
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