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

Pray that all in AIM would be Christ centred: compelled by Christโ€™s love (2 Cor 5:14) to love, pray for, and proclaim the Gospel to Africaโ€™s unreached peoples. Pray that our sufficiency, hope, and ministry would flow from our relationship with Christ. Ask that we would serve by His grace and strength and submit to His will.

Hannah Jacksonย is the Assistant Child Safety Officer for AIM. In the middle of June, she joined some Eastern Region Office colleagues and 12 newly-arrived short termers at the GO Programme in Mombasa for a few days. The ‘Goers’, who are from Zambia, Ethiopia, Australia, Brazil and Kenya, started with two weeks of orientation before going to their ministry placements along the coast. Hannah led a child safety training session and shared about her ‘journey to mission’. The sessions on the Friday were on Islam and they gathered to pray when they heard the call to prayer from local mosques. Hannah was excited by spending time with these individuals who are interested in cross-cultural mission and exploring how God might be guiding them! Pray that God would work in and through the Goers as they are now on their placements.

Africa Based Orientation (ABO) for workers new to Africa runs from 15thJuly to 5thย August. Steve and Sharon are leading this for the first time and 77 people are attending, including children! ย Pray for logistics, health, great teaching, fellowship, and fruitful preparation for these new workers.

Pablo*ย serves in West Africa, where he continues to use English teaching to develop relationships for the gospel. In the academic year which has just finished, Pablo led a team of six foreign and local teachers to: welcome 150 registered students, plus visitors; teach classes from ‘Debate’ and ‘Business English’, to ‘Acting’ and ‘World Cultures’; organise events from leadership skills seminars, to paintballing and beach parties; and make improvements to the English Centre, such as better library systems. Spiritually, Pablo is grateful for God orchestrating things, allowing him to meet the right people and be in the right places, where opportunities to share the good news have been so frequent. He has been able to disciple three new believers and welcome a couple of second-generation believers as students at the English Centre. Pray for fruit from the seed which has been sown and give thanks for safety and health in an oppressive place (politically, physically, and spiritually).

Pray for those working in North Africa facing the discouragements of those who once professed belief. ย E* explicitly told a team member to not chat about faith matters anymore. S* and C* have unfriended another team member on social media and have been intentionally avoiding her calls.

*Names changed for security reasons

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