|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Praises and Prayer Requests
1. We are amazed at all God has done over the past 8 months. Thanks for praying for us and for so many financially partnering with us.
2. Pray for wisdom and discernment as we hammer out our future goals and strategies.
3. Tim is the church coordinator for the Columbia Time to Revive. Pray for God’s Spirit to bring spiritual transformation to the Midlands. For details, please see www.reviveCOLUMBIAsc.org
4. Ask God for churches to invite Tim to preach and train in evangelism.
|
|
|
|
Highlights and stories from Tim’s mission trip to Uganda in May
-
An hour of prayer with the team at the beginning of each day set the tone for a mighty move of God through the day.
-
Tim preached the Gospel to a group of 950 prisoners in the town of Gulu.
-
The team preached the Gospel to over 2,500 people with many becoming hopeful converts. Tim saw more conversions in that three weeks than he has in the previous 28 years of ministry.
-
The team trained well over 1,000 pastors and key leaders in four very powerful Schools of Evangelism.
-
The Spirit of God was powerfully present. The team leaders said the team was “the best team we have ever had in over two decades of doing short-term missions in Uganda.â€
-
God gave Tim and others on the team a divine swagger to boldly proclaim the Gospel back in the States.
Tim preached the Gospel in an open-market setting for the first time on the afternoon of May 17. He was very nervous since he had never done open air preaching. He went up to a group of about 20 people and preached the Gospel for a solid 20 minutes with a translator as, all the while, one lady sitting nearby kept her back to him. As Tim called for those to repent of their sins and cry out for Christ to save them, Simi turned around, and with a tear in her eye, said she needed to repent and call on the name of Jesus. It was only later that Tim found out that Simi would not face him because she was very upset with him for stepping over her bananas as he first approached the group. Simi did not understand what a miracle it was for a mostly blind man not to step ON her bananas!
Tim was scheduled to preach the 6am and the 8am services (yes, you read that correctly!) at St. Mary’s Anglican Church in Lira. Nelson was to pick him up in the dark at 5:30am. Tim had his faithful flashlight, but there was no guard to open the gate at the hotel’s entrance. As Nelson kept beeping his horn, Tim frantically tried to find the gate and the wire that held the gate closed so that Nelson would stop beeping. Finally, Tim got the gate open and found his way to the car, but now Nelson’s battery was dead. Nelson told Tim he would have to first push the car backward, then forward. Fear gripped Tim again at the thought of pushing a car in the dead of night down a dirt Ugandan road he could not see! The Lord reminded Tim as He did several times during the mission trip, “Do not fear for I am with you. Do not anxiously look about you for I am your God.†(Is 41:10) Incredibly, with Tim running as hard as he could, holding onto the car for dear life,  the car jump-started, and they made it just in time for the service. And this was the gift to Tim from the church for his preaching that morning…mmmmm, good! Fried ants!
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
