Sheona is AIM Europe’s Mission Advisor for Scotland which is a support-based role.

Before joining Africa Inland Mission as a long-term missionary in 2014, Sheona worked in nursing and midwifery for over 30 years. In 2016 she returned to the UK from serving on an AIM team in the Indian Ocean Islands and studied at All Nations Christian College for a year. 

Sheona served with Africa Based Support (ABS) in Nairobi, Kenya in 2018 as Personnel Coordinator. AIM and ABS place high value on caring for missionaries to ensure they are thriving in their cross-cultural life and ministry. Having people specifically working to provide this care is vital. Sheona’s work with ABS was very varied, and she provided support for missionaries in several different areas. She also provided administrative support, ensuring that systems and processes were followed.

Sheona returned to the UK in March 2020.

In November 2021 she was appointed as AIM’s Mission Advisor for Scotland. As a member of the Mobilisation team, her principal responsibilities are to promote the work of world mission, especially in raising the profile of AIM’s ministry. She also encourages and advises those exploring being involved in cross-cultural mission, as well as encouraging others to support missionaries through praying and financial giving.

A lot of her role involves building relationships with church leaders and potential AIM missionaries, wherever they are in their journey.

Scotland has a long history of sending missionaries overseas, so Sheona hopes to be able to encourage churches and individuals to have a vision for reaching Africa’s unreached peoples, in Africa and beyond.

Could you partner with Sheona in this work?