A3 and SIM partnership sends more church-planting missionaries to Japan
Our missional partnership uniting A3 and SIM is aimed at sending more church-planting missionaries to Japan. By leveraging the strengths of the two mission agencies, we hope to maximize effectiveness toward the goal of sending more missionaries to places where Christ is least known.
A3 president Joe Handley explains, "SIM brings the stability of operational support that we needed and the mobilization horsepower to help us fulfill our vision and mission for Japan.”
A3 partners with SIM to recruit and send missionaries to Japan to plant churches. SIM assumes responsibility for recruiting missionaries, as well as the financial accounting and related human resources functions of missionary training and home-based care. A3 retains responsibility for championing the overall vision in Japan, managing the strategy of missionary deployment through its vast network of Japanese churches, and caring for Japan-based missionary personnel.
A3 and SIM remain independent, each maintaining our distinct and separate ministry and board of directors.
Headquartered in Los Angeles, A3 is a 56-year-old mission organization that pioneered short-term English-teaching missions to Japan. The organization now develops leaders across Asia to multiply churches. Founded in 1893, SIM works on six continents with 4,000 missionaries. SIM USA is based in Charlotte, N.C., and SIM globally sends missionaries from 65+ nationalities.
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