Recap & Looking ahead

2025! (Tim’s brief recap)

We moved to Thailand in February/March of 2021; got settled in to our tiny home, bought necessary furnishings for family and school; graduated a successful 1st class of Asaph’s Journal at Christmas. (This is all thanks to God and those who gave their time, money, and prayers!)

Into 2022, had some visa/passport issues, returned to the US in March for 3 months; Misty returned in May, Timmy and Tim returned in August; started our 2nd term of school in October; graduated 2nd class in February of 2023.

2023, we entered a difficult season of waiting, praying, mourning, among many other emotions/feelings. (Thank you to all those who gave and prayed us through that year; it was tough!) Found/were invited to a house of prayer and worship. (This helped sustain us while navigating through previously mentioned emotions/feelings.) By the end of the year, around the end of October into November, God started calling us out, through 3 or more different people in different and from different locations.

February 2024, moved to new location; cleaned property, cleaned housing; bought needed furnishings for new home and school; started term 3 in April! (Again, God provided, through people helping, praying, and giving!) In May, became worship pastors/leaders at our new church; found a few good cheap places to take students swimming because of the heat; graduated our 3rd class in June; had July to restock supplies in time to start a 4th term in August; FLOOD happened in September! Students, instead of getting to swim for fun, got to play in water while shoveling mud out of people’s homes and buildings; they persevered through that, and losing (a departure) a member of our team towards the end of school; the 4th term graduated in December with one of the most memorable speeches to be given!

Which brings us to this year. January to March was a time to wrap up unfinished things from the end of school term; what we thought would be a time to rest, was not! There was new/reaffirming information acquired through teaching from guests, healing, forgiveness, open doors and hope. Timmy got baptized! We put a new roof on the Windmill house, and did significant repair to both vehicles. We had an intern stay with us in March prior to his year serving in the military; and another one came to help out in April. EARTHQUAKE happened. April, we welcomed a guest/new friend. Timmy finally got his THAI driver’s license (much work and travel and headache on Misty’s part); some former students interning, some going into other service, and some needing prayer and a friend. Discipleship, worship and translation remains at the forefront of what we do here.

This has been a wild, crazy at times, fun, nerve-wrecking, faith shaking, questioning God at times, last 4 – 5 years! I wouldn’t trade it for going back to who we were before, knowing who He has called us to be, and who He’s allowing us to help! We refuse to play the numbers game to quantify fruit - but we've seen people saved, healed, delivered, restored, called, and released. (And in the doing, we were also learning and helping other like-minded ministries - laborers are few).

IN THE WORKS:

●   The next couple of months we are compiling reports, copies, photos, interviews, and preparing the expensive and exhaustive process to have Misty’s volunteer work permit renewed for another year.

●   In July/August our entire family also has to pay / appear to renew our Visa to remain in country. This year is tricky because:

○   Thailand has required additional paperwork from the foundations that offer these visas - and there is a backlog of site visits to grant the paperwork approval. Most missionaries are finding themselves denied the 1 year visa and having to start all over again with the 90 day visa, which requires overnight trips every 90 days outside the country and re-entry. This is an interruption to any normal schedule and also gets expensive. Please pray for foundation paperwork to get pushed through and for favor, and Visa approval. (If we get denied the 1 year, our “grandfather” status ends and then Tim will also have to seek his own volunteer visa and work permit thereby doubling our expense).

○   Also, Timmy ages out this year as my dependent so he has to find a new reason for remaining here and a Visa of his own. He has applied for admission to Mae Fah Luang University in Chiang Rai and should have his admissions interview this week. This will keep him about 30 minutes from home and still able to attend church with us and go out for ministry in evenings and weekends.

●   Misty will be going with a few other ladies from church in Mae Sai to minister in India in June. Details are purposefully vague but feel free to reach out to her privately for details. She is excited to be able to take one of our Asaph’s Journal School alumni with her on this trip. Tickets are already purchased, but we are still believing God for about $600 to cover hotel, in-country travel and food for this trip.

●   We have opportunity to show our books to two different sets of Burmese translators this week! Please pray:

○   That they would be willing to take on the controversial topics such as “Holy Spirit” and “Prophecy” and begin putting these books into the Burmese language. We are only 30 minutes from the border and have already had Burmese speakers in past school terms. They have persevered to study in Thai or English, but these are not their first languages. We can influence so many by finishing this translation project.

○   We greatly dislike asking for money.  But we have 4 books to translate and will have to pay for the translator’s time and service; and then will have to pay the printing company to create the books. I know for the Thai translation process, it cost us approximately $500 per book for translation and printing 50 copies)...now that the translation is done, we only have to pay to have more copies printed…. we will find out this week the cost of the Burmese translation, but it should be somewhere in that ballpark.

○   Also, we have already sent for translation, a 3 part course on the Prophetic brought here by a ministry in South Africa. This team came to minister and did a phenomenal job ministering and teaching - but they were severely handicapped because much of the terminology is so foreign to most Thai christians. We have taken the material and sent it to the lady who translated our four books, so that they can return and the Thai people will be better equipped to track and return to their churches with the written aides. This will also cost about $500 for this project.

●   We should obtain possession of the new(er) school truck in July just before time for school to begin. Thank you to those of you who have given to this need.

●   We have set a start date to begin the next term for August 1, 2025. I know God has big plans for those planning to attend.  Please pray:

○   We need an interpreter for Thai and possibly some command of other local languages.

○   God would move on the students He has for us this next term to begin bringing in the next class. (We do not have any full time staff or an advertising budget, so everything we do is by word of mouth and referral.)

Thank You ALL, so much, for keeping in contact with us, praying for us, giving into us and the ministry! Thank You truly doesn’t capture it! GOD is Amazing; and He remains our biggest adventure. You are a part of everything we do. Just... "Thank You"!

With Love and gratitude

Timothy Jr    Misty      Timothy III