Hispanic pastors partner with IMB missionaries in Southeast Asian city

Hispanic pastors partner with IMB missionaries in Southeast Asian city

Daniel Tuchez remembers the day he got the call. “Jason called me and said, ‘I need you to pray about this city in Southeast Asia because it is going to be opening up and maybe there are opportunities,’” Tuchez said. 

It was a big deal. But the call itself wasn’t a surprise. In the years before, Tuchez had accompanied Jason Carlisle, the International Mission Board’s (IMB) director of Hispanic mobilization, on many trips.

“The very big blessing is that Carlisle is not just challenging us to go to Latin America,” said Tuchez, who is pastor of Iglesia Bautista El Shaddai, Jackson, Tennessee. “He wants us to be cross-cultural people who reach people in the last frontier.”

So Carlisle encouraged Tuchez and offered him training through the IMB, and Tuchez started going on trips and partnering with IMB workers in different parts of Southeast Asia. Then Tuchez started encouraging other Hispanic pastors to go too — he’s taken pastors from several states with him over the years. 

“He has a real calling and a burden for Asia,” Carlisle said. “He’s very good at mobilizing other pastors and giving them a vision.”

So four years ago when IMB worker Edwin Feather set out to plant churches in every part of a large city in Southeast Asia, Tuchez was there. 

Amazing things

His team wasn’t just the first Hispanic missions team to come partner with Feather — it was the first team period. And in the years since, they have seen God do amazing things. Six pastors travel to the city each December and host a Christmas party and do outreach.

And in this tough-to-reach city more than 200 have professed faith in areas of the city where the gospel hadn’t made it before.

“God is moving Hispanics to America so that they can know Him, then He is mobilizing them to go on mission to the world,” Tuchez, who is originally from Guatemala, said. “He is using our church to reach Tennessee and plant churches here, but He is also using us to reach Asia. God is wonderful, and we are thankful for what He has done. It really is a miracle.” 

EDITOR’S NOTE — Names changed for security reasons. (Missions Mosaic, IMB)

How to Pray:

  • Pray for IMB workers and churches to continue to form partnerships to take the hope of Christ to unreached people all over the world.
  • Pray for God to continue to call Hispanic churches to engage the world with the gospel.