Tailor-made placements
You may be responding to a specific advertised need of wanting to experience first-hand what God is doing in another part of the world. Or you may be seeking His guidance about your involvement in world mission and looking to find God’s place for you for the next few years.

If you’re 20 or older, SIM’s tailor-made placements provide an opportunity to serve alongside experienced missionaries, or put your previous experience into developing something new. Come with your gifts and passion for a specific country or people, or just for what God is doing around the world, and we will match your skills and interests to a suitable placement.

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Short-term placements

A short assignment may be a way to explore ministry opportunities and test how your skills and experience might be used in the future. Placements are usually for a minimum of three months up to two years.

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Longer-term placements
If your goal is long-term service, we can help you find the overseas opportunity most suited to you. You may already have some short term overseas experience behind you and are now ready to commit to a longer assignment. We will discuss with you what preparation and further training you may need to help you serve most effectively. Long-term mission is about building long-term relationships with people; a longer commitment of your life to change the lives of others. It may mean sacrificing many of the comforts of home in order to better relate to a new culture and its people. It sounds like a challenging step to take, but it could be the first step of the most wonderful journey of your entire life.

 

 

PACE teams
SIM Prayer And Cultural Exposure teams offer opportunities for groups from churches, Christian unions, or other Christian organisations to partner with established ministries overseas, offering their skills to the local church and enlarging their vision of God’s work around the world. Teams have the chance to visit and work alongside different projects and people. Trips usually last between one and four weeks.

 

 

Electives
Whether it’s a university, medical or language elective, SIM can help! Our elective programmes offer a number of openings for student medics to work alongside experienced colleagues and get some eye-opening and hands-on experience. Or as a language student, you could spend your ‘year abroad’ with SIM, serving God cross-culturally. Electives can be a good opportunity to explore whether God is calling you to use your professional skills in full-time service overseas in the future. Placements are normally for a minimum of eight weeks.

 

 

Bible College placements
These are tailor-made assignments that form part of your course at Bible College. These periods of overseas service offer a great chance to seek or confirm God’s guidance regarding future ministry, and test your call as you take on responsibilities in ministries such as discipleship, preaching, teaching and evangelism.

 

 

Second Career in Mission

There are many healthy, skilled, and active retired people today who have the ability and the time to give in service to God. You could bring your experience, maturity and spiritual insight to an overseas assignment.