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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.  This has been the focus of Tim’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 she’ll not be ‘going home’.  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. 

Could you support Tim and Heather in this work?

Latest Prayer News

Ann, one of our workers based in Chad, asks us to pray with urgency for the situation facing her American colleagues in Chad. In response to President Trump refusing further entry of Chadians to the USA, the Chadian President has refused to allow Americans to enter Chad. This is having a significant effect on the missionary community, with people having to leave suddenly because their visa is running out. Some have been there for many years, and their ministry is ongoing. But they can do nothing. They don’t know when/if they will return. AIM has several people affected. What will happen to their ministries? What should they do with their belongings? Difficult questions. Pray for a change of heart in the respective governments and wisdom for those affected.

Amelia* serves in West Africa, sharing the gospel with those in a region that is very opposed to the message of Jesus Christ. One thing her team has been working on is praying in the local language. Amelia really wants to get to the place where she can pray freely and fluently, and obviously one of the best ways to do that is to pray with someone who does just that. It has therefore been a little frustrating to have a language helper with whom this could happen and yet who always just wanted Amelia to pray. However, recently the language helper was watching the news about the ME conflict when Amelia arrived, and she announced that today she was going to pray. It was a beautiful moment – the first time Amelia had heard a local woman really pray. Their lives have been very different, and yet they are both children of our Father in heaven, and they both live in a broken world that needs him. Ask that praying together would become the highlight of the week for both of them. Currently there is a gathering head of steam around language learning among workers, including a short Bible study in the local language after their Sunday house church. Pray this would continue and that they would all become better equipped for kingdom work.

Ruth* works on an Indian Ocean Island, seeking to share the gospel with people who have never had it explained to them. A new believer, Natalie*, came to the monthly Bible study recently. When she arrived, she was nervous as she realised her relative, Nora*, lived next door, so she came in quickly and didn’t want to be seen by anyone as she entered. However, just a few minutes later, Natalie* said, ‘Why am I so bothered? Everyone will know soon enough what I believe!’ and at the end of the study she left slowly with her head held high, not afraid to walk in her new beliefs! (As it happened, Nora wasn’t there.) Please pray for Natalie*. She is highly educated and has a good job. She is travelling overseas this month for work.  Ask that she would remain rooted in God as she travels and that she would continue to see the cost of following Him as worth it.

Pray for Tim and Heather Matthews. Tim serves as Director for AIM’s Asia Pacific Mobilising Region, leading a small team in Australia and coordinating teams in Hong Kong and New Zealand. One of Tim’s responsibilities is to ensure AIM sends the right people to be disciple-makers, who are suitably equipped, and not everyone who is willing to fill an urgent need is ready or suitable, so pray for needed grace and wisdom. In May, Tim connected with a couple of church leaders interested in partnering with AIM to work towards new ministry in a North African country that still has very little gospel ministry taking place. Please pray this new partnership initiative will take shape.

John and Zoe Putman serve at Rift Valley Academy (RVA); AIM’s boarding school which educates and disciples the children of missionaries, in Kijabe, Kenya. Every school break, students travel far and wide on buses, planes and trains to return to their families. One girl from their dorm travels 20 hours on the bus across the border to Uganda with her sister. The Putmans have started a tradition to lend her one of their Maasai blankets for the journey as it gets cold overnight. She may only be 14 but she trusts the Lord! Pray for the Putman family and other RVA staff and students; for safe travel over the summer and good times with family.

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