Bill is currently a special representative for SIM in North America.  God is using Bill's gifts and rich experience in Ethiopia as a conference speaker to challenge and reaffirm the priority of world missions.

His ministry focuses on mobilizing students, laymen, and churches to be part of God's heartbeat for the nations. 

The ministry of  Bill and Grace Harding began in Ethiopia in 1983.   Because Ethiopia was a Soviet satellite under a communist dictatorship, Bill entered the country as a water engineer.

Through drilling wells and capping springs in drought stricken Ethiopia, Bill was not only able to give clean physical water, but introduce many to the "Spring of Life" the Lord Jesus Christ. For eight years Bill and Grace served the Gedeo people of southern Ethiopia through a ministry of evangelism, discipleship, and church planting.

Later, as Outreach Administrator for SIM-Ethiopia in the capital city of Addis Ababa, his main goal was to serve the Lord in facilitating the development and expansion of SIM's overall outreach in cooperation with the Kale Heywet Churches (the SIM related churches which now number over four thousand.)

Bill's responsibilities included developing strategy and mobilizing resources to reach the unreached people groups of Ethiopia. Bill was involved in an extensive conference ministry, speaking in Amharic. Grace served in a rewarding ministry of outreach to the Ethiopian community through Bible studies and her gifts of hospitality

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Ethiopia 2009

Thank you for praying for our journey to Ethiopia. Never did we think that we would experience such great joy
this side of heaven. First: It was amazing to see the leadership of the SIM related church known as KHC or Word of Life Churches (now over 7000 with over 7 million members) at the national level and regional level honor my Dad for his years of service and three generations of Hardings serving with SIM in Ethiopia.   [ click to read the full report ]