The online editions of SIM South Africa’s SIMnow Autumn (March) 2024 magazine are available.
This is the seventh issue I have compiled and edited, and we continue to get good feedback about it from readers.
A challenge, though, is that getting the magazine to the readers is increasingly difficult. South Africa’s postal system faces many challenges itself, and those sometimes delay or prevent delivery for our readers.
We have long posted the PDFs of our magazine online to help alleviate this, but we recognize that PDFs of two-page magazine spreads aren’t easy to read on a phone, which is where most reading happens nowadays. While we are working to develop a more suitable long-term solution, we have created a one-page-wide adaptation of the magazine for distribution by WhatsApp, which is a very popular app in and around South Africa.
Luke 1:1-4 (NIV)“Many have undertaken to draw up an account of the things that have been fulfilled among us, just as they were handed down to us by those who from the first were eyewitnesses and servants of the word. With this in mind, since I myself have carefully investigated everything from the beginning, I too decided to write an orderly account for you, most excellent Theophilus, so that you may know the certainty of the things you have been taught.”
Articles this time included:
- a brief story about the founding of Young Legends, a youth soccer program in three cities of South Africa.
- a story about two of our workers developing a farm into a community and youth ministry center.
- a farewell message from SIM’s former international director and an article introducing our new one.
- an article and photos from a conference helping African churches send missionaries
- a “Why I Wrote” books feature by the founder of Sports Friends, a worldwide youth soccer program.
You can read it online or download a copy at SIM South Africa’s website (https://sim.org.za/simnow/).
The Heffron Family 