After loading the two vehicles at the CAPRO School Of Missions on the outskirts of Nairobi, we were off at 6:15, Friday morning. But … the trip was not to be smooth, even without considering the pot holed roads! Around 9:00 pm, just under fifteen hours later, we pulled into the yard of the house where I (David) was to run the TIMO orientation and Language Acquisition course in North Eastern Kenya. At 8:00 am the next morning, we started the TIMO Orientation. We finished the language acquisition course the following Saturday at around 6:00 in the evening. It was an amazing time! Six Kenyans from four tribes, a couple from Rwanda with four kids, a couple from Sudan with two children and a Nigerian CAPRO Trainer overseeing it all! The team shared a house with several other individuals already living there, packed into every open space, while the CAPRO Trainer and I shared a room at a nearby neighbor’s home. Hot? Wow! It was incredible!….. Read More »
Recently we were saddened when our TIMO Team working among the Didinga in Sudan, was forced to end early. The Sudan team, working among people with little exposure to the rest of the world, were blamed for the lack of rain and suffered a dramatic threat to their lives. They pulled out after only 8 months (usually the TIMO program runs for two or more years). This early ending was sad for us and the team and many others within AIM and even elsewhere who had worked so hard to put this team in place. Yet in this situation we have seen evidence of God’s faithfulness. To the Sudanese Didinga, among whom the team had the privilege of sowing many seeds of the Good News, a Didinga evangelist named Hector went to continue the work. Read More »
Being involved in training the team leaders, evaluating team members and orienting our teams, allows me considerable opportunities to visit the amazing variety of locations in which the TIMO program works. From ridiculously remote bush villages to Urban Islamic Centers, we find ourselves in so many different types of places. And why wouldn’t we? Our teams go where people need to hear the Good News - often for the first time ever. And those places are literally all over the map. What strikes me, however, even more than the variety of our locations is the consistent willingness of our team members to sacrifice, persevere, adjust, endure, and ultimately thrive in whatever locations they find themselves. I watch them go from knowing no language, no culture, and no people to confident ministers of the Gospel in appropriate ways to neighbors they love in their neighbors’ language. We too have experienced this of course, but it still amazes me. God works, all over the place, and we get to be a part of it. What a great privilege! - MS
It was like your child getting their first A on a report card, their first hit in baseball or maybe your best friend winning that first competition. The sense of some great thing had been accomplished with the promise of further yet unknown wonders to come. That was the feeling we had as the first joint Bible Fellowship Church, Africa Inland Church and TIMO team arrived in mid July and began their orientation and language learning course. It all started some years ago with prayers, surveys, teaching, partnerships being formed and God calling some of His own to be sent by the local church. Some committed to go others gave sacrificially and many did the hard work of prayer. The Lord of the Harvest is there, among the Ndengereko people of Tanzania working His plan to bring this team of seven folks to the small village of Ruaruke along with the message He gave them to proclaim. Read More »
TIMO has taught me to be a true learner. After reading The Practice of Godliness by Jerry Bridges, I really evaluated my life as a Christian, a young woman, a team member and a fiancee and I realized I have much to keep learning.
Being on TIMO taught me a lot of personal qualities I desperately need to live out in my life. The TIMO Program pushed me literally to be honest with God, others, and myself. I had to push myself in language, in trusting others, in being vulnerable, and in in letting the fear of man be a reason for me not telling those I love the Gospel. TIMO also helped me to learn to rely on fellowship, to pray more, and to truly love.
Trust and unity was something I definitely battled with and being on a team, being in relationship, and being in ministry forced me to practice the fruits of the Spirit and to be someone that pleases God. TIMO taught me to be more obedient and more mature as a person and taught me to communicate more in healthy ways. I can honestly say that all of my challenges have made me a better person, a better Christian, and a stronger prayer warrior.
TIMO encouraged me in so many ways to strive for Godliness! To be attractive and feel attractive with living right and always learning - not settling for less. The program also encouraged me to be honest, love more, be willing to trust and choose to be unified. TIMO taught me life values.
After loading the two vehicles at the CAPRO School Of Missions on the outskirts of Nairobi, we were off at 6:15, Friday morning. But … the trip was not to be smooth, even without considering the pot holed roads! Around 9:00 pm, just under fifteen hours later, we pulled into the yard of the house where I (David) was to run the TIMO orientation and Language Acquisition course in North Eastern Kenya. At 8:00 am the next morning, we started the TIMO Orientation. We finished the language acquisition course the following Saturday at around 6:00 in the evening. It was an amazing time! Six Kenyans from four tribes, a couple from Rwanda with four kids, a couple from Sudan with two children and a Nigerian CAPRO Trainer overseeing it all! The team shared a house with several other individuals already living there, packed into every open space, while the CAPRO Trainer and I shared a room at a nearby neighbor’s home. Hot? Wow! It was incredible!….. Read More 
