Simon

Sent from Emmanuel Church, South Croydon

In 2005 Simon and Sue, with their two girls joined a TIMO team that spent two years living with the Datooga in the Lake Eyasi area. On the team’s completion, they felt a burden to remain in the area to continue the discipleship of Datooga believers, through Bible teaching seminars, and also to encourage and enable the local Africa Inland Church Tanzania evangelists and leaders, as they seek to reach the unreached in the area.

Simon shared: ‘In the last few years we have seen a few Datooga men and women make a commitment to follow Christ and feel the desire to share the gospel among their own people. This has resulted in a number of new churches being planted, often in rural and hard to reach places. Our role working alongside the Tanzanian church is to assist these churches as they seek to reach out to their Datooga neighbours.’

In 2018 they returned to the UK and Simon began work among African diaspora. He now leads outreach to diaspora communities here, focusing on those communities originating from Africa. The task is so great, though, that outreach cannot be the exclusive domain of the ‘ministry professional.’ Simon works with local churches to help them reach their unreached diaspora neighbours, helps facilitate short term teams to go to African communities in the UK and supports the international work of our Diaspora Region.

 

Latest Prayer News

Pray for the African Diaspora, the estimated nearly 19 million Africans living off the continent of Africa – about 11 million live in Europe, some of whom maybe your near neighbours. Many of the African Diaspora come from nations that are closed to missionary outreach, so their presence in Europe, Australia, and the Americas presents a unique opportunity to share the Good News with men and women who may have never heard it in their homelands, and who may one day return to their nation of origin transformed by Christ and eager to share their new hope with their friends and family. Pray for your African neighbours and for our teams working among the African Diaspora.

In partnership with the local church, Sandrine shares the love of Jesus with North African immigrants in Montréal, Canada. Praise the Lord for the 80 people they welcomed to the Children’s Club family Christmas Party. All clearly heard the gospel and more than half were of Muslim origin. Three families came to the Christmas party and meal organized by the church. Pray the Lord will draw these dear ones to himself in the coming year.

Give thanks with one of AIM Europe’s Borderless workers for a small church group who go door to door in a multi-cultural area in London, offering prayer and sharing the gospel. Ask God to continue giving them boldness though the Holy SpirIt and that those opening their doors would be touched by the love of Christ shown to them, would receive prayer and be happy to hear more about the gospel. Pray for protection over this group and that God will sow seeds in many hearts through this ministry. 

Give thanks for the activities, interactions and gospel conversations which have taken place at the AIM Borderless’ Community Outreach Week that concludes today. AIM workers and volunteers have been supporting a Midlands city centre church to reach out to the diverse community on their doorstep, including many people from a North African background. Pray for a good ending to the week for everyone involved. Pray that each person who attended the activities and classes hosted over the past week will continue to be moved by the love shown to them by Christians and that this will soften their hearts to consider exploring more about Jesus. Pray that God will bless each friendship made and that the team will be given the capacity and opportunity to follow up on conversations and interactions, long after this week concludes. 

Pray for God to provide more volunteers to join AIM Borderless’ Community Outreach Week team from 3rd – 11th August 2024. A Midlands city centre church is seeking to reach out to the diverse community on their doorstep. The church hopes to reach their local community from a North African background, and they have asked Borderless to provide a team to help them run a special events week. Pray that God will bless the practical planning of this week and that the team will have enough volunteers to run the week and share the gospel with African people in the UK. Could you join the team? Find out more here

United Kingdom & Europe

Ministry in the United Kingdom & Europe ranges from being a part of mobilising offices, to teaching in Bible colleges to being involved in work among the African Diaspora across the continent. LEARN MORE

Diaspora

Taking the good news of Jesus to Africa’s hardest to reach people does not always mean a move to Africa. Today, millions of Africans live outside of Africa: in North America, Europe, and around the globe – the African diaspora. LEARN MORE
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