Sam and Colleen Yim

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Sam: I was raised in a Christian home and I followed my parents when they went to church. When I was a teenager, I attended a Billy Graham’s evangelistic meeting and I made decision to follow Christ. When I was a high school teacher, I felt I need to be equipped to reach out to to high school kids, so I decided to go to seminary. During the mission course, I found there are many unreached people groups in India. At that time, I knew I would like to go to India to share the gospel with them.

Colleen: While working for the Department of Natural Resources in a rustic park, while working, my boss would always share the gospel with me. After a couple years of sharing and praying, I finally really understood what the scriptures he was sharing meant, and on June 10, 1981, I repented and started following Jesus.

My Current Role in Christar
We are ministering in Dearborn, MI, home of the largest Arab Muslim population in the US. We work along with a church in Dearborn teaching ESL during the week, hosting a Friday night outreach, visitation, and participating in another city wide outreach called Jiran, a time of Arab/English singing and Bible storying. We also give on-line training for an organization in HK called Oasis, who train Nepalis in HK for pastoral work.

Alliance Seminary HK: Sam just completed mentoring 2 D.Miss students and they have us both as second readers for their D.Miss program.

Writing is also a continuing ministry. Sam continues writing for Christian Times from HK.

Columbia International University: Sam continues to teach as an on-line professor to students in the mainland.

About Christar
Christar workers PARTICIPATE by planting churches in these LEAST-REACHED communities, where He is yet to be worshiped. The vision of Christar is to cultivate Christ-honoring transformation in communities where He is yet to be worshiped.

Christ-honoring transformation speaks to the process as well as the outcome. In the establishment of indigenous churches, we pursue a Christ-honoring influence on the community at large. As workers who partner with God in His work, we are a part of the transformation process that God is bringing about. God’s promise in Revelation 5:9 is clear. People from every tongue, tribe, people and nation will worship God in eternity.

Our vision is to go to those people who are not accounted for in the eternal roll call of nations!

Franky & Yuk Tse

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About Us
Franky decided to serve full time during a spiritual conference when he finished university. He felt called to the mission aviation ministry and moved to Canada to pursue this calling. He completed his Bible and mission aviation training at Prairie Bible Institute. Afterwards, he worked as a flight instructor to gain experience and accumulate hours in aviation. To qualify as a pilot in the mission field, he went to the US for mechanic training and aviation assessments. God eventually led him to join a mission team based in Kenya, serving missionaries and unreached people groups in East and Central Africa.

Yuk decided to serve unreached people during a mission trip when she was 20. She then went on several mission trips to Africa and confirmed her calling to become a missionary. She completed an education diploma and a Master’s in Divinity to equip herself. She served as a pastor in the mission department of her home church. She met Franky when she joined the same mission organization and they got married. They returned to the mission field as a couple in 2017.

Our Current role in AIM
Franky joined Africa Inland Mission (AIM) with a vision for aviation ministry. He is currently serving in Kenya as a pilot, aircraft mechanic, and IT developer. The aviation ministry supports many missionaries who serve in remote areas—places where they are often isolated and at risk. In addition to providing transportation in and out of villages, medical and supply deliveries, and any emergency services, the ministry offers various types of support as needed.

Yuk is involved in a local outreach team, ministering to an unreached people group in Kenya. She builds relationships and shares the gospel through teaching English, while also taking care of their daughter.

About AIM
Africa Inland Mission(AIM) has been leading people into meaningful cross-cultural ministry for more than 125 years. We send workers throughout Africa and among African diaspora around the globe. AIM serves and partners with churches to advance the gospel among Africans who have the least opportunity to hear about Jesus.

Our passion is to see the worship of Jesus Christ spread across the continent of Africa – through individual lives fully committed to him, and collectively through Christ-centered churches. God has done a mighty work in Africa, where his Church is vast and growing daily, but the task is far from finished.

Pastor Renier and Isamary

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About Me
In 1995, when I turned 14, a neighbor told me about God and His Good News for mankind through Christ. He invited me to church, and on April 14, 1996, I was baptized.

Five years later, after serving in worship team and becoming part of the youth leadership, I started attending a mission teaching the Bible and shepherding people. At first, I had no plans to study or prepare myself theologically and biblically to become a pastor. But one day, I experienced a much deeper longing for the Lord’s work — a longing connected to serving full-time as a pastor. As I began studying in seminary, the desire to serve as a full-time pastor gradually solidified.

By God’s grace, we have already served fruitfully in three churches to His glory, not counting the fourteen years of ministry in our local church in Artemisa.

Current Role and Challenges
After 8 years, the church has grown and we are currently focused on teamwork and the initiation of new ministries. This year, the children’s ministry, the preaching ministry, the worship service leadership ministry, and the ministry for helping those in need have begun to operate more solidly. We want to soon establish the evangelism ministry and a ministry to help the elderly.The discipleship and worship ministries are still active, and we want to better adjust them in line with the current vision of the church.

Challenges – The greatest challenges are related to resources. Inflation in Cuba has reached a very high level. Income has dropped significantly after COVID. A basic worker’s salary is not enough to eat well for even a week. We would need resources to support the children’s ministry, the evangelism ministry (to open a location far from the main church). We would also like to support the elderly, as their pension is barely enough to feed them for ten days.Currently, our only means of transportation is a bicycle, which presents a major challenge for reaching several areas around Cienfuegos during these times.

About The Evangelical Convention of Cuba Los Pinos Nuevos
Our church belongs to “The Evangelical Convention of Cuba Los Pinos Nuevos”. The Convention’s headquarters is located in Oliver, Placetas, Villa Clara.

Our local church in Cienfuegos began in 2010. At the beginning of 2017, the National Board asked us to move from San José (Placetas) to Cienfuegos. Since that year, we have been working in this city to serve the Lord. At first, we were forced to spend a lot of time dealing with the legalization of the property, and later with the construction of the church building and part of the pastoral house—with help from the Convention for the first phase, a very small part from the local church, and the second-to-last and final stages with help from oversea churches.

Despite the construction and legalization work, along with the great emigration exodus of recent years, God has added several lives to the church. The church has continued to strengthen its vision and mission, with two discipleship groups currently active and new ministries operating continuously for the glory of the Lord.

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