Monday, August 30, 2010
Thursday, August 12, 2010
Titus Evan Williams = our first grandchild!
Titus Evan Williams - born Aug. 12, 2010 at 12:52 pm - 7 lbs. 8 oz., 20.5 inches
Tuesday, June 1, 2010
Monday Memo - 2010.06.01
This Monday Memo is late not only by a day, but also by several weeks. Our ministries have been filled with activity and we are planning for a very busy summer!
May was busy with several special events at our church in Timisoara. We had our monthly Christian Children’s Club (an evangelistic outreach) and again had over 40 in attendance. As a result, we have had an average of 23 children in our Sunday School and Junior Church each week. There have also been visitors from among their parents. On the 15th, a group of 15 teens convoyed through Timisoara on bicycles, arriving at a lakeside park for a picnic and praise time. Our youth director, Cosmin, and his family have been doing a great job teaching and leading the youth ministries of our church. He is a postal worker and Ioana is a pre-school teacher, and they have 2 boys, David (5) and Tomas (3).
Last Saturday, we had a church picnic at our house and there were about 40 people, most of whom we transported from the city to our home in Buzias. We ate and played together, as they also welcomed Rebekah back for the summer. She had arrived the day before and was a bit "out of it", but everyone was so happy to see her again. There was a real sense of fellowship in the Lord and everyone said, "Let's do that more often!"
Our full concentration and energy is currently directed toward the coming of a large group from Eastland Baptist Church in Tulsa. We are looking forward to "striving together for the faith of the Gospel" (Phil. 1:27) and have planned special outreach events during their time with us. Please pray for traveling mercies and for wisdom in all ministry efforts. We want to allow the Lord to work and to be His servants to accomplish His will.
By faith, we are printing 10,000 copies of the DONE book in Romanian, at a price of about 50 cents a copy. We gave the printer an advance of $2500 and will need to pay the rest over the next 2 months. Please pray for this need.
I'd like to share with you a personal request. We would like to have John home for a couple of weeks this summer. It has been a year and a half since he was here, but the cost of travel has increased so much that it may not be possible for him to come. He just finished his 3rd year at West Coast Baptist College and has been paying his own way through school and serving on the music staff of Lancaster Baptist Church. We only ask you to pray that the Lord will provide a way if it is His will.
Darci and Derrick are doing well in Macon, GA, and we are waiting rather impatiently for the arrival of our first grandson in August. Debra plans to be there to help in any way she can.
Your prayers and financial gifts greatly appreciated and are having an impact in Romania! Thank you for your faithfulness.
May was busy with several special events at our church in Timisoara. We had our monthly Christian Children’s Club (an evangelistic outreach) and again had over 40 in attendance. As a result, we have had an average of 23 children in our Sunday School and Junior Church each week. There have also been visitors from among their parents. On the 15th, a group of 15 teens convoyed through Timisoara on bicycles, arriving at a lakeside park for a picnic and praise time. Our youth director, Cosmin, and his family have been doing a great job teaching and leading the youth ministries of our church. He is a postal worker and Ioana is a pre-school teacher, and they have 2 boys, David (5) and Tomas (3).
Last Saturday, we had a church picnic at our house and there were about 40 people, most of whom we transported from the city to our home in Buzias. We ate and played together, as they also welcomed Rebekah back for the summer. She had arrived the day before and was a bit "out of it", but everyone was so happy to see her again. There was a real sense of fellowship in the Lord and everyone said, "Let's do that more often!"
Our full concentration and energy is currently directed toward the coming of a large group from Eastland Baptist Church in Tulsa. We are looking forward to "striving together for the faith of the Gospel" (Phil. 1:27) and have planned special outreach events during their time with us. Please pray for traveling mercies and for wisdom in all ministry efforts. We want to allow the Lord to work and to be His servants to accomplish His will.
By faith, we are printing 10,000 copies of the DONE book in Romanian, at a price of about 50 cents a copy. We gave the printer an advance of $2500 and will need to pay the rest over the next 2 months. Please pray for this need.
I'd like to share with you a personal request. We would like to have John home for a couple of weeks this summer. It has been a year and a half since he was here, but the cost of travel has increased so much that it may not be possible for him to come. He just finished his 3rd year at West Coast Baptist College and has been paying his own way through school and serving on the music staff of Lancaster Baptist Church. We only ask you to pray that the Lord will provide a way if it is His will.
Darci and Derrick are doing well in Macon, GA, and we are waiting rather impatiently for the arrival of our first grandson in August. Debra plans to be there to help in any way she can.
Your prayers and financial gifts greatly appreciated and are having an impact in Romania! Thank you for your faithfulness.
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
2010 - first Monday Memo
Dear Prayer Partners,
This is my first Monday Memo of 2010 because we have been very busy through the holidays and first few weeks of the new year. God blessed during the Christmas season. We had several parents come for the children's Christmas program which had the theme: Christmas around the world. Each child was dressed in the attire of different countries and shared a bit about how Christmas is celebrated there, but always coming back to the truth that Jesus is the reason for the season. We also held our choir concert on 2 consecutive nights, which allowed room for more visitors to come.
On New Year's Eve, we had the teens from our church come to our home for a 2-day retreat. We played games, ate lots of good food (and junk food, too), and had 4 teaching sessions. There were 18 in our home. It was a blast and the teens have shown a greater dedication to the Lord and the church so far this year.
This past week we were blessed to have Rick and Kathy Houk with us from Lancaster Baptist Church in California. Brother Houk preached to our church on the End Times on Sunday, Jan. 10th; then on Monday and Tuesday, he preached a series of challenging and helpful messages on servant-leadership at our 5th annual Church Planters Conference. There were over 70 in attendance on Monday night and we used every chair we own! I have received messages from several of the 57 pastors, missionaries and workers who came from other areas of Romania and there was a common expression that God used the messages in a powerful way to challenge them in their labors for the Lord.
On a personal note, we have had several special blessings. Rebekah came home for Christmas with her boyfriend, Travis, and they were a great help and blessing. We also learned that Derrick and Darci (our oldest daughter) are expecting our first grandchild this August! John got to spend Christmas with Grandma and Grandpa Tyler in Missouri. God also provided financially in a wonderful way over the holidays. We were able to pay off some debt which we have incurred over the past few years due to college costs, home improvements and airfair expenses. We have been also able to purchase a few special items for the ministry, such as a guitar and tracts. This was truly a timely provision from the Lord through his people.
Thank-you so much for your faithful prayers and support, and especially for the special Christmas gifts!
Your servant in Christ,
Tim J. Tyler
Missionary to Romania
This is my first Monday Memo of 2010 because we have been very busy through the holidays and first few weeks of the new year. God blessed during the Christmas season. We had several parents come for the children's Christmas program which had the theme: Christmas around the world. Each child was dressed in the attire of different countries and shared a bit about how Christmas is celebrated there, but always coming back to the truth that Jesus is the reason for the season. We also held our choir concert on 2 consecutive nights, which allowed room for more visitors to come.
On New Year's Eve, we had the teens from our church come to our home for a 2-day retreat. We played games, ate lots of good food (and junk food, too), and had 4 teaching sessions. There were 18 in our home. It was a blast and the teens have shown a greater dedication to the Lord and the church so far this year.
This past week we were blessed to have Rick and Kathy Houk with us from Lancaster Baptist Church in California. Brother Houk preached to our church on the End Times on Sunday, Jan. 10th; then on Monday and Tuesday, he preached a series of challenging and helpful messages on servant-leadership at our 5th annual Church Planters Conference. There were over 70 in attendance on Monday night and we used every chair we own! I have received messages from several of the 57 pastors, missionaries and workers who came from other areas of Romania and there was a common expression that God used the messages in a powerful way to challenge them in their labors for the Lord.
On a personal note, we have had several special blessings. Rebekah came home for Christmas with her boyfriend, Travis, and they were a great help and blessing. We also learned that Derrick and Darci (our oldest daughter) are expecting our first grandchild this August! John got to spend Christmas with Grandma and Grandpa Tyler in Missouri. God also provided financially in a wonderful way over the holidays. We were able to pay off some debt which we have incurred over the past few years due to college costs, home improvements and airfair expenses. We have been also able to purchase a few special items for the ministry, such as a guitar and tracts. This was truly a timely provision from the Lord through his people.
Thank-you so much for your faithful prayers and support, and especially for the special Christmas gifts!
Your servant in Christ,
Tim J. Tyler
Missionary to Romania
Monday, August 31, 2009
VBS Memo from Romania-8/31/09
Dear Prayer Partners,
WHAT A WEEK! Our 4th annual Vacation Bible School was an awesome experience, both in activity and in challenge. Our high day was 90 on Wednesday (with a close second of 88 on Friday). Over 125 children came, and 4 of the older kids trusted the Lord as their personal Saviour! Our workers were exhausted, but we are all praising the Lord for what He did this week.
Sunday was a good day. We had several new children come for Sunday School and a few more showed up for Junior Church. This Wednesday afternoon we will hold our first monthly Christian Children's Club with the hope of continuing our relationship with the children who came to VBS. Please pray that this will provide opportunities to meet and minister to their parents as well.
In the month of September, we have scheduled Back to School activities, Ladies Bible study, a Teens In Action activity and our first Involvement Night where we will be challenging people in our church family to get personally involved (with training) in some aspect of the ministry of the Timisoara Independent Baptist Church.
We are once again without a church pianist, so I will be trying to play for services while teaching Bethany and a couple of others how to play congregational songs. I knew I should have practiced more over the years! Please pray for a skilled pianist for our church because we want to be able to always have Christ-honoring special music as well. I am praying that someone would be called of God to come and minister with us in the development of our music ministry. Will you also pray for this, please?
Next week, I will be taking my wife away for a 3-day trip to Venice in celebration of our 25th anniversary; so I may not get the Monday Memo out. Don't think we're going deluxe...we got both plane tickets for 100 euros, and the hotel was a special deal I found online! We are thankful for the goodness of the Lord that we can celebrate in a special way.
Thank-you so much for your faithful prayers and support!
WHAT A WEEK! Our 4th annual Vacation Bible School was an awesome experience, both in activity and in challenge. Our high day was 90 on Wednesday (with a close second of 88 on Friday). Over 125 children came, and 4 of the older kids trusted the Lord as their personal Saviour! Our workers were exhausted, but we are all praising the Lord for what He did this week.
Sunday was a good day. We had several new children come for Sunday School and a few more showed up for Junior Church. This Wednesday afternoon we will hold our first monthly Christian Children's Club with the hope of continuing our relationship with the children who came to VBS. Please pray that this will provide opportunities to meet and minister to their parents as well.In the month of September, we have scheduled Back to School activities, Ladies Bible study, a Teens In Action activity and our first Involvement Night where we will be challenging people in our church family to get personally involved (with training) in some aspect of the ministry of the Timisoara Independent Baptist Church.
We are once again without a church pianist, so I will be trying to play for services while teaching Bethany and a couple of others how to play congregational songs. I knew I should have practiced more over the years! Please pray for a skilled pianist for our church because we want to be able to always have Christ-honoring special music as well. I am praying that someone would be called of God to come and minister with us in the development of our music ministry. Will you also pray for this, please?
Next week, I will be taking my wife away for a 3-day trip to Venice in celebration of our 25th anniversary; so I may not get the Monday Memo out. Don't think we're going deluxe...we got both plane tickets for 100 euros, and the hotel was a special deal I found online! We are thankful for the goodness of the Lord that we can celebrate in a special way.
Thank-you so much for your faithful prayers and support!
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
VBS UPDATE - part I
SUNDAY-WEDNESDAY VBS MEMO
We are past the mid-point of our VBS, and WOW! is it exciting. Our attendance has grown from 65 to 90, and we have 2 more days to see the Lord answer our prayers for 101 (a request initiated by the prayers of Rachel Sewell, a WCBC student who spent a few weeks with us and helped with VBS preparations).We are also very aware of the spiritual warfare that is manifesting itself in very personal ways. Our youth director's wife was traumatized today when their 2-year-old boy was choking on sunflower seeds he had swallowed and stuck up his nose. Her husband was working at the time, so she had to run down the street in her house shoes trying to find a clinic in the area. They are new to the area, and it took nearly an hour for her to find someone to help her. It sounds absurd, but she literally asked dozens of people to help her, and they only pointed down the street and let her go on by herself. She also went to several clinics which were closed or "too busy" to help. She felt like her son would die in her arms before she could find help in a strange city. But he is ok, and they were faithfully in their places serving the Lord tonight! Yet when the night was over, she broke down in tears as she shared the details of the day.
I also asked the other workers how they felt today, and all of them admitted that there was a great trial just to get to VBS tonight. Our mini-van also died after dropping off the last child last night, and so we are trying to pick up about 30 kids with our church van and 2 borrowed vehicles.
Pray for us and for these dear children to understand the Gospel and to be saved. Several parents are also staying each night; so pray that we can reach them as well.
I will be posting updates and pictures on this blog site and on Twitter - http://twitter.com/tim2ro . Please feel free to follow us (our posts) as we follow Christ!
More to follow soon...
Thanks, Rachel!
Rachel Sewell was such a blessing to us! She recorded several accompaniments for our choir.
She also helped with the VBS decorations.
She modeled "service with a smile". We tried to convince her to stay with us, but she had to return home; but not before she got to see 68 children come for our first night of VBS! She is praying for 101, so we are gearing up for more to come!!!
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