One of the things TIMO gets to be a part of by being within the AIM International family, is participating in international meetings where leadership comes together to discuss important topics that impact the entire organization. Sometimes that can be directors, or executive leadership and sometimes it can be personnel, or human resources, leadership. In late April, we had the privilege of joining several other humar resource and personnel leaders from around the world to discuss issues of retention, member care, emerging issues, and evaluating ourselves and others. It was a huge success as we got to hear and appreciate better the concerns of our Mobilizing (or Sending)
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Finished. The Chalbi Team has completed two years. Two years of training. Two years of ministry. Two years of challenges, hardships, language learning, vehicle breakdowns, fun, building, playing and laughing…together. It doesn’t seem possible.
But some of our finishes aren’t finished…relationships don’t get started and ended in two years. The impact of the Gospel on people’s lives doesn’t finish in just two years. The changes that have been made in us don’t get shed after we leave the Chalbi Desert.
And now we launch into new paths that the Lord has prepared for us, and paths we have been prepared FOR by being on a TIMO team. What will the eternal results be because of our lives? What legacy will we leave – in the Chalbi and wherever God takes us? Whose eternal destinies will be changed because we were obedient? Read More »
Many TIMO teams work among people groups who have no written Scriptures in their mother tongue, and are basically oral learners. Their knowledge does not come in the form of books or obtaining a degree. But rather from what they hear; whether it is sitting with the village elders under the community tree or gathering around the fire each evening in the family boma. This is where they learn the history of their family and their tribe, where they learn the intricacies of hunting, farming, fishing or shepherding, where justice is meted out and decrees are handed down. Read More »
On Tuesday, January 12th John and I left En Gedi at 6:30 a.m. We drove to town where we picked up Emma, a Tanzanian, the leader of the team to be stationed in the area we would survey. Let me explain… The organization I am working with, TIMO (Training in Ministry Outreach) is a training organization. It is a two to three year program where you go and live among an unreached people, make relationships, learn their language, and eventually teach them about Jesus. While the group is there, they have a curriculum in which they learn about the host culture, the people, and what it takes to be a missionary. So this trip we were heading out on was for the purposes of surveying the area in order to pick the exact village location and find homes for the team members that will be going there in September. We were traveling to several villages in area to try to accomplish this.
We headed southwest on the tarmac towards our destination. The paved tarmac ended about two hours outside of town and the four wheeling began. The road was bumpy, rocky, dusty and ….. Read More »
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 »
One of the things TIMO gets to be a part of by being within the AIM International family, is participating in international meetings where leadership comes together to discuss important topics that impact the entire organization. Sometimes that can be directors, or executive leadership and sometimes it can be personnel, or human resources, leadership. In late April, we had the privilege of joining several other humar resource and personnel leaders from around the world to discuss issues of retention, member care, emerging issues, and evaluating ourselves and others. It was a huge success as we got to hear and appreciate better the concerns of our Mobilizing (or Sending)
