AFRICA Christ-Centered Churches Feb-May 16 Among all African Peoples www.aimint.org news Christ-Centered Churches Among all African Peoples PRAYER PRAYER Christ-Centered Churches Among all African Peoples guide guide Christ-Centered Churches Among all African Peoples See your 2016 Prayer Guide inside Asia-Pacific Mobilising Region 2016 2016 Region Mobilising Asia-Pacific AfricaInlandMission.org/auPRAYER guide — 2016 • 1 1 • 2016 — guide PRAYER AfricaInlandMission.org/au In this issue: AIM Korea steps up Page 2 2015 at a glance Pages 4-5 Cover The Ik people of South Sudan and Uganda are unreached. An AIM TIMO team will live among them from mid 2016. More teams will go to the unreached in 2016 See Page 7 AIM Korea Just orea is Africa Inland Mission’s Early AIM Korea workers included newest Mobilising Region. Gloria Kim, serving on a TIMO team Briefly AIM Korea began as a among the Luo people in west Kenya; Pacific2Nations events will be held Kcommittee in 1985, became a Council Joseph and Lois Kim at Kericho, Kenya, during 2016 in Australia and the USA. in 2010, and was part of the Asia-Pacific and Sonya Kim in Lesotho. Early Pacific2Nations is a movement initiated Mobilising Region. Korea became AIM’s workers came to Australia for English in New Zealand to mobilise Pacific seventh mobilising region in October training and lived with the David and Islanders into mission to reach the 2015. Alan Checkley families. unreached. In its first two years, more AIM Korea is led by Director, Rev. Inaugural General Secretary, Dr Son than 80 have been mobilised into short- John Kang with his wife Hey Ran and a Young Jun led AIM Korea from 1985- term and long-term mission and many Council of 13, chaired by Rev. Dr. Kim 1995 with help from Australian Director trained for mission. Pray as these events Keun Soo. There are now 20 Korean David Checkley who served 1981-1996. are planned. workers serving with AIM. (David died in May 2015). Somalis are coming to Jesus Former International Director, Dr. Korean missionary, Gloria Kim graduating from Sydney Missionary and Bible College in At the AIM International Council in Dick Anderson recalled that he and then 1989 with then AIM Australia Director David October, two Somali Christians shared Australian Director, David Checkley Checkley and wife Betty. their testimony and about their ministry were welcomed to Korea on 14 June to their people. They reported Somalis 1984. are coming to know Jesus Christ as their “Our most significant experience was Saviour. Pray for this couple as they teaching in the four-week Missionary reach out to fellow Somalis through the Training Institute of Chongshin internet, social media and face to face. Seminary. As a result several students An AIM Australia orientation was volunteered for missionary service.” held in Gosford in November for new members. Please pray for Jeremy and Felicity Aitken as they prepare to serve Ruth Mitchell among the Laarim people of South Sudan; Rob and Tianne Varicak are ormer long-time missionary in training at Crown Street Women’s preparing to work among the Didinga Africa, Ruth Mitchell, died on 9 Hospital. of South Sudan. Both aim to leave December 2015. In Kenya she served the Kalenjin Australia mid-2016. Pray for short- FRuth went to Africa in 1959 with people and became fluent in that termers, Mikaela and Daniel Leach, the Alan Checkley family returning language. Ruth’s ministry was largely to doing a medical elective and ministry after furlough. They sailed to Mombasa women and girls but included providing at Kijabe in Kenya from mid-January to arriving on Australia Day 1960. Africa maternity services. However, the zenith mid-February. was the focus of her ministry and life for of her ministry was at Kapsabet where Africa-Based Orientation in Kenya the next almost 60 years. she took responsibility for the Kalenjin during January-February includes two Alan Checkley recalled Ruth spent literature ministry. This involved Australian couples. Craig and Helen years in preparation including business writing, translating, editing and typing Waldock are in with the Namibia studies, Bible studies at the Sydney material for the people. She worked TIMO team; and Norm and Noeline Bible Training Institute, and midwifery together with Pastor William Kosgei. Scott are on their way to Tanzania. T 02 4322 4777 or +61 2 4322 4777 T +64 9 281 4595 E [email protected] E [email protected] AFRICA W W AfricaInlandMission.org/nz Feb-May 16 AfricaInlandMission.org/au www.aimint.org news New Zealand T + 64 9 8899 406 English-language magazine of E [email protected] PO Box 13457 Onehunga Africa Inland Mission Asia-Pacific Region Hong Kong Committee Auckland 1643 New Zealand published three times a year. PO Box 70238 Kowloon Central Hong Kong Editor Len Lesleighter Office 16 The Christian Ministry T (852) 2770 5380 Asia-Pacific and Australia Council Centre 297A Church Street Onehunga E [email protected] PO Box 328 Gosford NSW 2250 Australia Auckland 1061 New Zealand W AfricaInlandMission.org 2 • Africa Inland Mission — www.aimint.org African Church Ready to Lead the Way in Outreach frica’s church is alive and well summit with representation and is keen to lead the way to from countries including reach the remaining unreached Nigeria, Zambia, Algeria, AAfrican people groups. Kenya, Ethiopia, the Middle This is according to Robbyn East, South Africa and the Lesleighter from the Africa Inland USA, UK and Australia. Mission Australian office, following her Please pray as AIM partners attendance at the Movement of Africa with the African Church in National Initiatives (MANI) prayer this enormous task of reaching Summit in Ethiopia late last year. the remaining 1008 unreached “The African church wants to own people groups of Africa. Pray the task of reaching other African more from the African church Robbyn Lesleighter from AIM Australia (right) with unreached people groups. will own the task. delegates to the MANI Prayer Summit in Ethiopia. “They want to partner with western AIM’s vision 2020 includes mission agencies in the task. “ mobilising 400 Africans to work cross- and training 4,000 Africans to lead More than 30 people attended the culturally among unreached people sustainable Christ-Centred churches. Introducing Eva Zhou va Zhou is AIM’s new part- Eva is experienced in graphic design usually on Tuesdays and time Administration officer in and visual arts, as well as administration Wednesdays, the Auckland Office in New and working with Christian groups. Eva P (09) 281 4595 or on EZealand. Eva was born in China but has will assist in operating the office, process E [email protected] lived in New Zealand for about fourteen applications for service in Africa and will years. She came to know Jesus in New help AIM connect with churches. Eva Zealand about seven years ago. can be reached in the Auckland office is on the Pacific2Nations NEW AIM New organising committee. Opportunities exist for two new board members. Zealand Board The board operates as an astor Max Guptill has recently wife Gillian and daughter previously AIM committee in the joined the Africa Inland Mission served as short-termers with AIM on Asia Pacific. International, New Zealand two occasions. The most recent was Board.P The board’s inaugural meeting for 12 months in 2011. Max serves as a was in September 2015. Max and his community pastor in Mt Wellington and Construction Team in South Sudan IM Short-termer Jason Broad will work alongside local contractors More is set to join a South Sudan preparing housing for the Laarim Focus opportunities exist construction team in February. Team starting in mid-2016. for short-term A construction workers Jason is pictured with his wife Lyndell Australian couple Jeremy and Felicity and children Erica and Daniel. Aitken and family are preparing for this in South Sudan. Jason has a passion to serve and two-year Laarim Focus team. AFRICA news — February to May 2016 • 3 Annual Review for Australia and Snap Shots from New Zealand Africa 2014-15 children responded in repentance and Praise God for faith. They are actively reaching out to at a some of their marginalised neighbours, His blessings inviting them to come and share some Glance food while they too share a Bible story. in 2015. Our Peragé even gave her neighbour some clothes, and these new acts of kindness AIM workers are bearing fruit. That neighbour has have seen God now begun attending on Sundays. 5full-term workers touch lives in sent out of Africa. Here are 3these workers went to snap-shots from unreached people groups. just a few. appointed workers Marlene van Tonder in 5 preparing to go to Africa South Sudan in 2016. On a Sunday in June, five Lopit people stood in church at the invitation to receive Christ — Kairo, Augustine, Akara, Ikai and Stella. Some weeks prior to this Robert, from the team, and Aaron, a local church 18full-term leader, had opportunity to visit Stella workers serving Christ Tyrrell enacting a story while walking through Ohilang village. in Africa. Stella is a witch doctor in training, but Chris and Fiona Tyrrell the conversation they had gave them in Rwanda much hope for her salvation as they supported workers, Chronological Bible story-telling has could see the Lord moving in her life. 5 and staff serving in AIM borne fruit in the lives of Rwandans from mobilising offices in Australia a marginalised people group. and New Zealand. Chris and Fiona have been By the end of working part-time ministering among a marginalised the service both 3 among Africans in people group in Rwanda alongside Australia.