Women have been a key part of AIM since our very inception. Margaret Scott was instrumental in leading AIM’s first missionary foray alongside her brother Peter. Our history is marked by the actions of remarkable women, who at great cost to themselves have pursued God’s commands to take the gospel to those in Africa who have yet to hear it.
If Africa still needs Western missionaries, it’s not because Africans cannot do it on their own – Africans are pioneering ministry without Western involvement. The main idea now is synergy.
‘Look up at the sky and count the stars…so shall your off-spring be’ (Genesis 15:5). Time and again in the long years that followed, Abraham would have been reminded every time he looked up at the night sky of this promise from God.
What has changed in 125 years? Missionaries from the early 1900s would not recognise much about the AIM of 2020. And today’s missionaries might not recognise the AIM of 2050. Or even 2030.
I would never have dreamt how God would bless these relationships or how he would lead us all in his service. I wonder how he might be calling you?
We are completely persuaded that the message of the gospel of Jesus Christ is the only answer, for the UK and for the whole world.
