A New Book

A few years ago I wrote a devotional if you remember.  I enjoyed that very much and about a year ago I felt led to start writing a book.  Crazy.  Up until about three months ago it never was something I wanted to really dive into and commit to, but the more I teach in YWAM schools, churches, etc..the more I have felt the desire to put much of my teaching material into a book form.  So I decided to take the plunge and do it.  I am working with my good friend who runs a publishing company called Overboard Ministries who published my devotional.  My editor is amazing.  Pray for her.  I would not want to edit my stuff at all!  Anyway, the book is about evangelism...big surprise there.  My hope is to have it published by summer time.  Once I get closer to finishing it up, I'll let you know how to order it!  I am very excited for this opportunity, and my prayer is that this book will help people to share the Gospel with others.  Still have not thought of a title yet.

Fruit On a College Campus

We ask for your prayers in regards to the ministry we are doing at one of our local college campuses here.  Simply put, God is blessing us with tremendous fruit.  This past month we have seen multiple people give their lives to Christ, and our week schedules are consisiting of follow up coffee meetings more and more.  It is amazing.  When students give their lives to Christ, we do follow up with them, and then we try and get them plugged into an ongoing college campus ministry like Ambassadors, or Intervarsity.  I am blown away though at the response at this campus.  Ministry downtown has been very difficult, and we have faced a lot of opposition in many ways.  The situation is just the opposite at this college campus. The Gospel is piercing the hearts of students every week.  Literally, since January 1st we have seen students come to Christ every week. Pray for us as we do follow up with these students and pray that they would stay true to Christ as they are new in the faith.

Many Witnesses!

The above picture is of our Winter DTS students.  Every Wednesday afternoon, we have the priviledge of taking them out on outreach in our city.  We split them up into 3 groups.  Two go to different college campuses and one group stays in our downtown center.  God is doing amazing things already with these students.  Please keep there outreaches up in your prayers.

2017 "State of the Gospel Guy Union" Address!

The start to 2017 has been an exciting one for sure!  This past month we had our "State of the Union" meeting where I talk about what are goals, hopes, etc.. for the upcoming year will be. It was a great encouraging time as we look at the strengths, weaknesses, bottlenecks, etc.  Some of these Goals for 2017 include:

• Continued bridge building with local churches
• More people doing evangelism with us from local churches
• Once a month running a Saturday outreach in our city to provide outreach for people who cannot in the regular 9-5 work day.  This we will start in May. Please be praying for these times!
• Increased financial support for the GGN
• Start up of our Youth Ministry wing of the GGN.  This will happen after summer.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!  It was a great 2016 year and we look forward to 2017.  We are truly grateful for you all and your faithful prayers, support, and belief in our ministry here with YWAM in Salem.  This is our 17th year in YWAM!  How time flies.  This year we saw God's faithfulness in so many ways.  Hundreds of young high schoolers changed through Mission Adventures.  Over 8,000 people in our city this year were told of Jesus through the Gospel Guy Network.  And the first ever Outward Apologetics School was a tremendous success.  This next year will be one of transition in many ways for me (Tim).  This summer, I will be passing the baton of leadership over in Mission Adventures.  I have been running this program 14 years, so it will be a big change.  I will still remain involved very much, and committed to the international side of things, but the day to day running of the program here in Salem will be passed on to another person.  This will free me up for more time to invest into the Gospel Guy Network. I am very excited for this.  In May, we are hoping to go to the 20th Anniversary Celebration of the Mission Adventures ministry which will be in Thailand.  Please pray for provision.  On the family side of things, we could not be more grateful.  Kids are healthy and growing!  Thank you all for supporting us so much!

OAS 2016

On December 16th, we graduated our 13 Outward Apogetics Students. These past 3 months have truly been amazing. Could nit be more proud of our students. We look forward to next September when we run the school again. Thank you all so much for your prayers over the past 3 months. 

One More Week of the OAS!

A new outreach we do.  Simply ask people what things come to mind when they see certain pictures. Great ice breaker.

We officially have one and a half weeks left of our Outward Apologetics School!  The past 3 months have flown bye, and our students have been absolutely amazing.  Since our last update, the topics we have covered have been: Bible Overview, Evangelism, Islam, Cults and the Occult, and Church History.  Every week our students have been fire housed with new information, coupled with 12 ours a week of outreach with Gospel Guy. In this school we have seen around 10 people come to know Christ through the bold witness of our students.  One story in particular that really stands out is one of our students Hosanna has been meeting regularly with one girl she met while doing outreach. Last week, this girl gave he life to Christ!  Hosanna was so encouraged! Our last week of lecture will be on the topic of heaven and hell, followed by three final days which consists of an outreach up to Portland, a final 100 question test, and our students will be split up into three groups and will be teaching in different churches in our city on the topic "Five Reasons I am A Christian."   

Three rugby players I witnessed to in the mall. the guy on the right gave his life to Christ.  It was beautiful.