Step 1: Talk to your church leadership and members of your church. Ask them to pray with you and advise you about participation. Their encouragement, evaluation, and support in prayer and finances will be vital to your mission experience. But more than that, it’s the church which sends you, with agencies like SIM working in partnership with them. 

Step 2: Enquire now online, or contact your local SIM office. We will then begin to work with you to explore how God is leading you, suggest some possible placements and begin the application process. There will be a series of interviews and assessments that you will be required to go through as part of the assessment process. 

Step 3: If your application is successful, we will work with you to finalise your assignment, and plan what you need to do in preparation for your time overseas. 

Step 4: SIM will continue to guide and encourage you as you go through the process of preparing practically, culturally and spiritually for your assignment. As well as gathering prayer and financial support, your preparation could include reading up on your country and its major religion, language learning and developing ministry skills. 

Step 5: As part of your preparation you will attend an orientation course which will be an opportunity to get to know SIM as an organization, to focus on some of the practical details of serving in another culture, and to prepare spiritually for your assignment.