together - January 2015
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strategic opportunity<br />
Prayer for a new initiative<br />
Over the past three years SIM in Asia has seen two<br />
friendship/evangelism/discipleship teams form<br />
amongst two different unreached people groups.<br />
First a mission partner would move in and learn the language and<br />
culture and there was much prayer for the people group, then God sent<br />
inquiries from other countries where people somehow became compelled<br />
that God was calling them to go to these areas. More partners arrived and<br />
formed teams committed to the long term goal of seeing these people<br />
reached with the good news about Jesus.<br />
Now in a new remote region a few people have come to know Jesus and<br />
local SIM leaders are convinced that God’s plan is for energy to be invested<br />
into a team there, with the vision of a local church led by local believers.<br />
The types of skills which are desired for this team are quite varied: SIM<br />
is happy to have teachers, retirees, ambulance drivers, recent graduates,<br />
doctors, pastors, engineers, website designers, nurses, musicians, architects,<br />
accountants, entrepreneurs, farmers and fashion designers. In fact, there<br />
are already people from each of these occupations serving on other teams<br />
in this Asian country and making a difference for the kingdom.<br />
The key here is not their occupation but that people are willing to learn<br />
the language and then use whatever their skills are as a member of the body<br />
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