By the year 2050, it is estimated there will be 12 billion people in the world—8 billion of whom will be children, youth, and young adults. These are statistics Hannelore Zimmermann knows well. She has been active in children’s ministry since she was 13, and today she trains children’s workers in the highlands of Peru. Hannelore reminds us, “If we reach the children of today, we can change the world of tomorrow.”

Read updates from Hannelore below:

Crucial Moments

6 June 2008 — Crucial means “extremely significant or important, decisive”. This is why we call SIM’s network of children’s ministries “CrucialMoments”. It is extremely significant, important and decisive that we reach the children of this world for Christ.

Children's Ministry as Done by Missionaries in Partnership with Local or National Churches

28 February 2008 — Comments from Rev. Christopher Maphosa, the national coordinator for Nhasi Zve Mangwana (Today For Tomorrow) children's ministry in Zimbabwe, on the topic of doing children’s ministry in partnership between missionaries and people from the host culture.