Sue and I have been here in Japan for 25 years. I retired from the Air Force in 1994. My wife is a registered nurse, homemaker, homeschool teacher, co-pastor with me, & a missionary. We have 7 children (4 boys and 3 girls) & 3 grandchildren.
Our ministry continues to expand year after year, but this has been a very challenging year with new areas of responsibility. I started as an assistant pastor of Yomitan International Church & within a year I became the senior pastor. We founded Asian Relief& Medical Services (ARMS) in 1994 as means of going to other nations in Asia & seen over 120,000 lives touched & well over 50,000 professions of faith over the years.
By 1997 I was appointed the Director of Far East for Christians in Action Missions International. My area of responsibility included the churches already established in Okinawa, the Philippines, Macau China and South Korea. In 2007, I was asked to serve as the VP of CINAMI & was appointed as the Field director for Okinawa. We have expanded ARMS into LatinAmerica & trained & assigned missionary couple over this region.
We have planted another church in Okinawa this year, now we have 4 churches. Our Japanese leadership team is taking on a greater role in teaching the Bible & translating. We need more translators. Japan is less than 1% Christian. Okinawa is the poorest prefecture & is approximate 3% Christian. Another area of prayer concern is getting our official documents in line with Japanese laws.
This year Sue & I have been able to minister together in Korea, Singapore, Hong Kong, & Cambodia. In April we will lead another team of 100 plus people in Bicol, Philippines.
Sue’s term as chairman of the board of directors for Okinawa Christian School Internationalis coming to an end but the school has asked her to stay for another three years. The school reaches out to Japanese, Amerasians, & foreign children, who cannot attend DoD schools.
This past year my youngest son Daniel, our youth director, has grown tremendously & is doing an outstanding job in discipling our young adults (20-30 high schoolers). He is married to Lisa Metz, a graduate of APU in youth ministries. He is also the Athletic Director of the OCSI & coaches the Girls soccer team.
Our church in Japan is still remodeling & recovering from the typhoons. We need to get favor with the city officials to assist us in protecting our property from future flooding. Your prayers are very much needed in this area.
As Sue & I look back on what has transpired in the past 22 years of ministry we stand in awe at what the Lord has done. We are grateful that He has seen fit to train, teach, & trust us in this area of Japan and Asia. We are eagerly looking forward to what is to come. Thank you for being a part of our support team. One last thought & area of prayer concerns our furlough & transitioning our children to live in America. We have not been on a furlough with our family since 2006. We very much need your prayers in this area. We need someone to come for at least 2 to 3 months & pastor the church while we take a very much needed break. Again thank you for being there for us in support, love &
prayers. God smiles!

Dear Prayer Supporters,

Happy new year and thank you so much for what you do for this ministry. Prayer is a vital part and involves people from all over the world into the work that God is doing here in Tecate. Thank you for that. We are off to an interesting start to this year and have many things beginning to line up for this coming year. Please pray for some of the following:

1. Please pray as my team is branching out and starting their own ministries this year. They are currently finishing their ministry plans and looking for and building their own teams. They are excited and it is interesting to see how the ministries are aligned with Vision72 and what God we see is doing in the bigger picture in Tecate. Please pray for this, that the Lord would bless, protect, and help grow the ministries to bring much glory to Himself and lasting fruit. We have 6 ministries identified, 3 that we are implementing now including

a. A ministry to Christian business men and women, to help formulate and establish their vision with a Kingdom purpose and promote Godly living and principles.

b. A ministry to help align or realign a Christian leader’s calling according to their gifts, passion and purpose for which they were created.

c. A ministry that sends out messages and devotionals written by one of our team members to the citizens of Tecate.

2. Please pray for the incorporation of our ministry as a non-prophet. That the Lord would guide as we formalize in this way.

3. Please pray as we are looking for and selecting to rent an event center. We’ve located one that is “super bien” in the heart of Tecate that can host up to 500 people. This will help cut on expenses and give us a “home base” to call people together to on neutral ground. Please pray for direction, discernment, timing and finances to pay for such a facility.

4. Please pray as we coordinate Wagener Leadership Institute to come down to Tecate again to do a conference the 27 of February. Please pray as we look for the participants, that God would lead us to the correct people and start a movement in the area of business with Kingdom purpose in this city.

5. Overall please pray for wisdom, protection, blessing and most importantly filling of God’s spirit this year in my heart and in the heart of my team, that the Lord would fill us and we would work with passion and freedom.

Thank you for your continued prayers! Please stay in touch.

Tim Nash
https://www.facebook.com/tim.nash.798

As an outreach to the local community of retired people, we hold bi-weekly ESL classes at the Woodbridge Inn, just down the street from WCC.

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» PRAY
» ASSIST with ESL class (help with worksheets, etc) Wednesdays and Fridays at 12noon.
» BE a conversation partner with a student

Contact person: Betsy McCullough