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Tim and Heather

Sent from Christ Church Liverpool

Tim is serving as Director for the AIM Asia Pacific Mobilising Region leading a small team in Australia and coordinating teams in Hong Kong and New Zealand.

Alongside supporting the 35 or so long-term missionaries sent from the region, there is an increasing vision to engage more widely and deeply with churches across the Asia Pacific area to enable them to play a fuller part in reaching the unreached peoples of Africa and to send more gospel workers to the African harvest fields.ย  This has been the focus of Timโ€™s work over the last few years, and his passion to see churches more effectively involved in taking the gospel to unreached people groups.

Heather, who is a nurse, will be looking for work in the Gosford area. Although she is an Australian her family will still be a 3.5-hour flight away, so sheโ€™ll not be โ€˜going homeโ€™.ย  It does mean that Tim has a route to obtain a visa, application process permitting!

Tim and Heather are currently raising support and are looking for people who would like to partner with them in their ministry through both prayer and financial giving.ย 

Could you support Tim and Heather in this work?

Latest Prayer News

Simon and Miriam Desboroughย are serving in Antananarivo, Madagascar, encouraging and equipping the Malagasy church for mission, and reaching out to vulnerable women. Miriam is rethinking the programme and business model for the ministry to vulnerable women. She hopes to start a central business which means the women can be much more intensely supported and discipled and can focus on one thing rather than all trying to run individual businesses. One of the recent graduates of the programme became a Christian and seems to be really genuine in her faith, although not all plain sailing. Six new staff volunteers have been trained which means more availability for visits, and can even have multiple meetings/visits simultaneously. During the volunteer training it came to light that one ladyโ€™s faith was nominal and she did not clearly understand the gospel despite being in church most of her life. Along with her pastor they had several conversations with her and, to their delight, she became a Christian! Pray for ongoing wisdom as this ministry develops.

However, the most pressing prayer need currently for the Desboroughs andย the Hofmannsย is the civil unrest, caused by peopleโ€™s frustration with the frequent power and water cuts which make life very difficult. Madagascar has been experiencing civil unrest since 25th Sept, with protests, riots, looting and shooting. Antananarivo has been the centre of the unrest but all cities, and even some towns, have experienced violence. Many shops and schools have been shut since then. They donโ€™t know how long it will continue for or what the outcome will be. Pray for peaceful dialogue and change to happen and for safety in the meantime.

Hannah is the Headteacher at Wellspring School in Chad.ย Since June, American visa applications and renewals to Chad have been refused. This is in response to President Trumpโ€™s limitations on visas being granted from certain countries (including Chad) to the USA. This has had a significant impact on mission organisations (and others) working there. Two AIM teams currently do not have workers on the ground, and two more teams will be affected in the coming months. At Wellspring, three of their families are living outside Chad becauseof this situation, and their children are either homeschooling or in other schools for now. There are โ€˜heartโ€™ elements to this situation – unexpected goodbyes and people unable to be present in the place and with the people they feel called to. Thereโ€™s also a โ€˜headโ€™ element โ€“ Hannah spent several weeks in June and July helping families who had to leave to get educational assessments and curriculum set up for schooling away from Wellspring. Then there are the โ€˜what-ifsโ€™ of the coming year โ€“ cover for staff members who will be on Home Assignment in 2026, and dropping student numbers if the visa situation doesnโ€™t change. Pray that Hannah will know how to wait well – actively thinking through options, but holding it all humbly and with open hands. The โ€˜spiritualโ€™ element covers all the above, but in particular, the impact on ministry. Some ministries are โ€˜pausedโ€™ (in the human sense) for now as workers have had to leave, and some look different with remote working and increased reliance on media and technology. Pray for the Holy Spirit to maintain and grow unity, to fight lies and doubt, and to battle any plans of the enemy that are at play there.

In partnership with the local church,ย Sandrineย shares the love of Jesus with North African immigrants in Montrรฉal, Canada. She asked supporters to pray for 40 campers at the childrenโ€™s camp โ€ฆ and the Lord gave them 42! She asked prayer for many children from Muslim families โ€ฆ and the Lord gave them 19! All of them heard the gospel through the story of the greatest promise made to Abraham and fulfilled in Jesus. Sandrine saw the Lord at work during the week, but also how real the battle is, with children who were clearly briefed at home to be resistant to Christian teaching (yet still came anyway โ€ฆ ). Please continue to pray for these children and their families, as the kidsโ€™ clubs are held on the first Saturday of every month this year. Pray that God would draw families to himself! And praise the Lord for Anna, who has turned to the Lord and wants to read and understand the Bible and go to church! She continues to read the Bible with Sandrine once a week. Pray that her faith may grow and take root and that she will join a church. Pray too for her two children.

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