I don’t have a commentary on this news, but thought it was important for readers to know. From the Baptist Press:
LONDON (BP)–Patrick and Sarah Sims*, International Mission Board team leaders for London, believe in practicing what they preach.
“Our job is to engage the unengaged,” Sims says. “We can’t ask our team members to do something we’re not modeling ourselves.”
The question, during their transition to a new strategy, was this: “In the mind-boggling ethnic kaleidoscope of London, which unengaged community should we approach?”
They had been working to reach south Asians in a Sikh-dominated area of west London. Sarah was teaching English as a Second Language when she was asked to take over a class for Somali women. More than 150,000 Somalis have streamed into London as refugees and asylum seekers since civil war began tearing apart their homeland in the early 1990s. Proud, clan-oriented, wary of outsiders, strongly Muslim, they have a reputation as one of the most self-contained groups in the city.
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