Before I would say anything I want to THANK YOU all who have been keeping my team and myself in your prayers in this journey we have started last year in September.

 I really mean it when I am telling you that I belive the Lord has used your prayers and financial support to bles this year extremly, abundantly more than I could have ever imagined!

Thank you so much for being part of this ministry through your prayers , encourahgements, keping in touch with me, being interested in what was happening down in Mexico, supporting me financially as well.  With the Lord's help we did it my freinds! How cool!!!

These past nine months have been the hardest months in my life. I know though that the Lord allowed this so that he could teach me some huge , great lessons. Without the hard times, the trials and moments when I have seen who the "old Timi" really is, I would have not been able to see and learn who I really am IN CHRIST!!!! Then to embrace and to enjoy who I am in Him and the freedom He gives all of us His children!

I could go on and on sharing many of the lessons the Lord thought me, but since it would take your whole day to read it:0) I just decided to share with you the greatest one. I learned that the greatest thing in God's Kingdom here on Earth is loving one another! Not that  did not know this before, but I am so thankful to our Father that now it really sticked:0)

It sticked that it does not matter what denomination we are, what our religious background is,the most important thing in the eyes of our Lord is to love one another just as He loves us!!!! And that is BIG! And not easy! But it is POSSIBLE!!!! Because He is there to help us!!! Ahw, it is soooooooooo exciting, isn't it?!!

Now you see why I am so thankful for lal you prayres? Alone I would have not been able to learn this and oh my, so many other things! And as I am moving on with my life into another stage, joining Word of Life Hungary as full time missionary, I would like to ask you to keep praying for me!

If you would like to know more about Word of Life's ministries, and are interested in what I will be involved in Hungary,please let me know, I would love to tell you more about it!

May God bless you tons tons as you continue your path with Him! remember, he is there always and in all ways for you!!!

In Him,

Timi

Dear MOMs!

This morning I went out to the ocean to see the surise. And the first thing that came into my mind when I saw the sky was

 Psalm 19:1 "The heavens declare the glory of God, the skies proclaim the work of His hands"

Then I remembered that it was Mothers' Day in the United States today. As my greatest desire is to become a mom one day myself for many kids:0), I thought about this: I want to live my life in such a way that when that day comes the Lord willing, the Timi translation Bible :0) would say:

"The Moms declare the glory of God, Mothers proclaim the work of His hands!"

All this to say that I am so thankful to the Lord for this great job that He created: to be a MOM!!! And I am so greatful that he has blessed many of you to be Moms and proclaim in this way His greatness, glory to this generation!

I am praying for you who read this and are Moms:0)! I pray that the Lord wold bless this day for you greatly, and you would see His love in an extra special way today! I also pray that as you continue yor everyday life with Him, you would turn to Him being your source of joy, love, strenght and everything you need! 

Carol and George are a sweet couple from Roan Mountain, Tennessee. They have one daughter, Stephanie and two beautiful granddaughters. I met them a few times while I was staying with my friend Trisha, next door in Roan Mountain where they live.

They are sooo nice, so nice! You know, one of those people that you meet once and you go like: " Wow, they are so nice and kind! "

The sad thing though is that George has cancer. For a while now he has been in the hospital for treatments. I don't know in what stage his cancer is, but what is even more sad, is that he does not know the Lord as his personal Savior:0(. Eighter does his wife , Carol.

Trisha and myself as well we have tried to witness to them , tell them about Jesus, but they always turned the conversation to something else. But we have decided that no mater what, we will not give up on praying for them, cause the Lord doesn't eighter.

When I left TN to come to Mexico, at that time Stephanie, their daughter did not want to know anything about God.

But here comes the good news!!! The Lord is so great!!!

I talked with Trisha on the phone yesterday and found out that Stephanie tarted to read her Bible due to her dead's situation, to look for comfort somewhere. She stopped by at Trisha's house to tell her that reading her Bible and going to church with her husband and two little daughters, has been the greatest experience so far in her life.

We don't know what has realy happened in her heart, but praise to the Lord's grace, goodness, and greatness, she is determined now to share with her dad next time she visits him about what God has done through Jesus for her and her parents as well. Isn't this awesome!!!???

According to what she said to Trisha, she is concerned mainly about her mom, Carol's reaction when she will tell them about God, not so much her dad. But she is so eager now to share our Father's love with her father! She said that she does not want him to die and go to hell. Wow! That just gives me chills!!! It is so mazing how the Lord works!!!!

So, please please join with me in prayers for this family!!!! God definitely is able to work miracles if He chooses to! Pray that George would be healed not only physicly but as well spiritually and that Carol would have an open heart to listen and receive what God has to share with her through Stephanie!

Thank you very very much!!! And I will definitly get back to you as soon as I find out any news about them!

Thank you again for your prayers!!!

Hello, hello! :-)

Well, our time is little by little coming to the end here...sad in a way cause this whole good bye process had alread started this past week. And ahw...it is so interesting to experience this love/hate thing as I am so excited about what the Lord has for me for the fututre at Word of Life, but on the other hand it will be hard to leave these people here....

Right now I would just like to ask you to keep us in your prayres as we are finishing up, visiting our mexican friends for the last time this coming week. Please pray that we would be intentional in saying good bye to them.

Also pray as our team is going to South Padre Island in Texas the coming weekend for debrief. It is so neat to already see some fruits of our  ministry in the mexican people's lives as well in ours. ( I will share more about this soon!) Praise be to the Lord for this and for the fruits and blessing we will see in Heaven!!! :0)

And the Lord is , definitely is working in soooo many different ways in each of our lives as we come to closure of this time! It is such a blessing to experince this! Just please pray that all of us would be open to let Him do what he has to do in our heart!

THANK YOU SOOO MUCH!!! I really appreciate your prayers! May God bless your week!!!

Praying for you too!!

      What comes in your mind when you think of a bouquet of flowers?

       Last week Dick and Sue Elley ( on the picture abowe with our mexican friend, Kata) came down to Matamoros from Georgia to teach our group about worship. We had a great week, learned a lot about how worshipping the Lord basicly should be our lifestyle. They got the chance to come with our team to visit some of the mexican families we are friends with.

       Since Kata, this lady on the picture abowe was so nice and hospitable with us, the second time we went to visit her while they were here, Dick felt the Lord leading Him to bring her a gift. Not and ordinary gift though:0). A bouquet of flowers.

       When we gave it to Kata, she had a huge bright smile on her face, with these words:" No one ever gave me flowers before".

       Wow!!! I was so touched.... Now, Kata is in her 50's, can you imagine that???

      It was just so encouraging from the Lord to never ever underestimate little random acts of kindness and love He puts on our hearts, cause we never know how does that touch others!!!

So, I challenge you all as myself as well, to look for opportunities to minister to each other, love on one another just as the Lord Jesus shows His love to us!

I love you all and thank you for reading my blogs!!!

There are some things we learn about Mexico that make us ( my team)  say " Oh, Mexico!" Here are some for you too, enjoy it!!! Maybe try it out as well!! Lol

"There is a time for everything..."

...says Eccl.3:1.

Well, yesterday as I was laying in bad taking advantage of the looong extra houres I had with the Lord because of having a stomach bug, I was just smiling as I thought about this verse.

When I heared missionaries talking before about their experiences in the different countires they have been, every single one of them mentioned of some kind of sickness, diseas they got. Hm, I thought I have not yet been sick since I am here in Mexico, how cool that is. Though I kinda wanted to have that experience to be quite honest with you :0)

Then on Saturday night at 1:20 (AM) I think the Lord thought: " Okey Timi, this is the time for that wish to become true:0) " Oh, if I would just know what I was wishing for...severe diarreah ( sorry I do not mean to gross you out) bad headache, on and on feelings of vomiting, no balance at all. Praise God, today I feel completly well, but oh that Sunday!!!!!:-)

As it turned out yesterday, one of the girls from my team got some parazytes and an infection in her intestines, then another girl as well as myself got hit by it:0) Yuyks!

We are all feeling better now thankfully. Just thought to share with you my experience of having the sickest day of my life 2 days ago. So, better be prepared if you are planning on ministering in a different country! :0)

But I really praised God for the rest He gave me through this time, as well as for the extra time I could have with Him, and the fellowship with Tamara and Jenny ( the two other sick girls).

P.S. By the way, the picture has nothing to do with the story, I just love sunsets:0) ( this pic was taken in South Padre Island in Texas)  

I really have to tell you guys this!!! I am sure this will be an encouragement to all of you :-)

Just  a few houres ago my little team ( consisting of Jeanne and I:0) ) came back from visiting one of the mexican families we usually visit like two time a week. This time we had two visitors with us from Ohio. At the end of our visit with the family the lady started telling them how appreciative she was of us visiting her and her family, because we love them so much...Hm...these were her words:

" These girls love us so much! They dont care if it is muddy or rainy, or hot out, they come all the time to visit, to hang out and help us, and that means so much to us. We love them so much..."

I just stood there with tears in my eyes...tears of thankfulness and praise to our Father for working in such powerful ways down here...Little things we might think that do not  mean anything, yes indeed mean sooooooooo much to these people.

So, yeah...:0) isn't this awesome??!!

Hey :0)! How are you all doing?

Knowing that you are praying not only for me personally but for my team mates as well, this time I thought to ask one of my Friends from the team, Jill, to share what the Lord taught her so far on this trip. Hope and pray that her words will be a huge blessing for you ! ( You can see her next to me on this picture below)

My name is Jill Andre, and I have been a fellow missionary of Timi's for more than six months here in Matamoros, Tamaulipas, Mexico.  When Timi asked me to blog about how God has impacted my life so far on this trip, I felt very honored.  This summary won't even come near to describing how Jesus has worked in my life this past year.  In fact, it would take a very long e-mail.  So I will try to sum up his work. 

The first semester involved a lot of submitting myself to the Lord and asking him to give me an other-minded perspective and passion for what he wanted me to do.   

A lot of my focus changed because of the prison ministry I chose to do with Timi.  These women in Matamoros are both in a literal and figurative prison because of the stronghold Satan has on their lives, whether it's drug addiction, alcoholism, fear, anger, depression or death worship through a cult called Santa Muerte.  When we are living in a Christian community in our church and friendship circles, we often forget how many people need Jesus and how great the need is for carriers of the good news.  My own prison that I was incarcerating myself into instead of living as the new creation I am (2 Corinthians 5:17) was suddenly spotlighted.  I am free!  Why not live that way?  From the beginning of this year until now, God has brought me back to the childhood I lost through my parents' divorce and other childhood trials.  He has helped me start over, in a sense -- not without difficult times, of course -- bringing me toward truth regarding my worth as his child and reassuring me of my salvation and the good works he is doing in me.  At one point, through a healing prayer session, he even called me "Jilly" through one of the women praying.  That's a name I haven't heard since I was seven. 

Most importantly, God has taught me how much he loves me, nay, is enamored with me.  I have never really had an emotionally affirming and consistently uplifting father figure in my life, so that void of male attention in my life is being filled by his immense love for me -- the only love that will never, ever fail me and the only love that can save me.  The only love that we truly all need.  Any day that I feel that is a good day no matter what happens. 

Finally, I have been learning to abandon the importance I put in other's opinions of me for my Father's opinion, for his love.  God has begun to show me, now that I am here, how much I am a conquerer because of his love, and as a result he is empowering with a passion to share that knowledge with others. 

Thank you all for reading this not-so-short-after-all story.  My greatest hope is that you would all know through it how powerful God is.  That's why I am here. 

So...:0) if we continue like this for the rest of our time down here in Mexico, I think by the time I go back to Hungary I will be able to build my own house!!! Hahah :0) This coming week my team is going to build another house - this time we will actually be the construction experts, not only facilitating and leading a construction team. Pretty exciting!

All that said to start sharing you about this past week that has been such a such a huge blessing from the Lord for me personally!

Building houses, doing VBS, sports ministry, living water ministry, medical care center, house visits, praying for people, cleaning stores, washing people's cars, meeting basic needs, physical as well as spiritual needs

All the above listed activities have been used as great tools to share the  great love of Christ, the message of the cross this past 5 days.

It has been such a great blessing and encouragement to see  the Lord at work! To see how had been blessing the willingness of a bunch of teenagers with awesome fruits bringing glory to Him: mexicans coming to a knowledge of saving faith only in Christ, others being encouraged, hearts, lives being changed, relationships built, basic needs met and ahw, I could just go on and on...

My responsibility was to be the ministry leader of one of the construction sight's. This ment to walk around the neighborhood and make sure all the above listed activities were going smooth, filling in if there was any kind of need, like helping with construction, translating, looking for opportunities to minister to the mexicans, facilitating thos eministries to the 20 groups that were in my team. They all were great, including their leaders! I thank  the Lord for the change in these teens lives I could notice in just a few days, as they took the time to spend it with the Lord to see what His agenda was for them for the day and not their own. I loved ministering to these american teens and got to see how much they still have such a special place in my heart.

I am so thankful to the Lord for this, as well for you guys too for praying for this time! Thank you , and look forward to hear about my next construction experience! :0)Me too am looking forward to hear from you, about you! And please, please if you have anything I can pray for you, let me know! I would love to!