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

Please pray for one of our affiliates travelling to North Africa for a short visit. She teaches remotely at a school and visits in-person regularly. The mission team there recently completed two daysโ€™ of outreach in the community before the start of the academic year. Please pray for fruit from that. Pray too for safe journeys for the travelling teacher, a good start to the new term with students and new colleagues, opportunity to re-connect and have meaningful conversations with local unbelievers, and help with a heavier teaching load this year.

Pray for the 500,000ย Ndau of Mozambiqueย who live in the Zambezi Valley of Central Mozambique all the way to the coast, as well as in Zimbabwe. Please pray for the spiritual, mental, physical, and emotional health of Pastors Mateus, Vancelho, Isaac, and Joaquim along with their families and all the congregations they look after. ย Ask the Lord for perseverance and provision for the needs of the communities struggling with hunger as times are very hard.ย Please continue to pray too for the youth, that the Lord would raise up a new generation of Christian leaders amongst the Ndau!

Core Value: Creativity. We value continual learning, reflection, and creativity. The Lord does not change (Mal 3:6) but does new things (Is 43:19). Pray that faithfulness to Him and His calling will lead all in AIM to grow, adapt, and innovate to fit our changing ministry contexts.

Graham and Fiona* served in a creative access location and are back in the UK for their final home assignment before their retirement. A year after returning from Africa they are finally able to move into their home after a prolonged difficulty was resolved. Pray for them in these busy next few weeks, moving their stuff from various places into their own house and then going to the AIM Autumn Conference. After that, they will be visiting family in the USA before resuming their Scottish pilgrimage with a new beginning in Dunblane.

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About 18 months ago, a group of local Christian leaders in West Africa* were imprisoned. Through harsh conditions they stood strong and were released with tacit approval to practice their faith. Then a couple of months ago the body of a local believer, buried the day before, was exhumed by a mob and dragged through town. Following this, the believers were warned that they couldnโ€™t be buried in public cemeteries. In response, three local believers sent a letter to the governor requesting that they be given land for a private cemetery. What boldness! Itโ€™s incredible to see how each new pressure hasnโ€™t forced them down into fear and hiding, but up into even greater courage, stepping further out into the open. Imagine if this was approved โ€“ it would surely cement their presence in the region, pushing forward past anything that has happened here before. So, please pray for those making decisions. Pray also for the wider local community, that God would move hearts so they would come to gladly accept the presence of believers amongst them. Pray for these three men who put their names to the letter, as well as the rest of the church family. Whatever the outcome, pray that their hearts would be filled with peace, and they would know that God delights in them. Pray also for the right level of nationwide awareness about these events – so that, if helpful, many will hear and meaningful conversations will be sparked. Or it may be that less attention allows things to grow until they achieve a momentum that canโ€™t be stopped! God knows better than us what is needed, thank you for asking Him to do just that.

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