Hello all.

Just wanted to send out a quick note.

Please be praying for my friend John. He is a sheriff’s deputy. I met him at the church where our children attend AWANA. The church has a police presence there for security purposes. At any rate I’ve been able to talk at length with John. He has had some pretty bad experiences with churches through break ups and other. But he has graciously allowed me into conversation with him. He also served as a translator in Germany for the army, so we have found a good common ground. He’s a great guy. Please pray as we are planning to catch coffee together in the next week or so. I am thankful for the relationship that is building and pray that the Lord will open his heart to the possibility of a real relationship with Christ rather than seeing the painful relationships inside of some church contexts.

Also, be in prayer for Jennifer as she finds her way into the strings community in Colorado Springs and area. Many of you have been blessed by her playing and so know what a blessing it is that she is getting connected here. In order to help our family make ends meet in our support shortage, Jennifer will begin teaching a strings class the summer and the fall, through the school district. It is an opportunity that God has provided through relationship and we’re thankful for.

Please also pray for a new friend Sabse. She's a German gal (early 20’s) who contacted me over Facebook a while ago. Initially she contacted me because we have a mutual friend in Austria. Then one day she saw I was on-line and she texted me and asked if I had walked with the Lord for a long time. I knew immediately where this was going. Since then we have been texting on Skype every week as I counsel her. She is the only Christian in her town outside of Stuttgart. She is alone and trying to figure out how to walk with the Lord in addition to dealing with a number of other issues. Her family is hostile toward her faith and her friends don’t altogether get it. It has been great to see her move from a place of hopelessness to joy in just a couple of weeks. We are also moving toward engaging her friends a little more on faith issues. I also have friends I Germany working on finding a Christian community to plug her into. Please pray with us that her family will see the incredibly irresistible light of Christ and be drawn to it and that she will get connected with other believers in Germany who can become her family and support structure.
Thanks

Tim for us all

broken bones

Hi everyone.

Please be praying for Jennifer. Last Friday Jennifer was skating again and broke her fibula o her left leg. So now one knee is healing (right leg) and one leg is casted (left leg). As a result her doctor has prescribed a bone density test for her.

I’m sure you can imagine how discouraging this can be. Jennifer was out of action for a month or two when she broke her knee, then had the stomach flu for 3 weeks, then bronchitis for 2-3 weeks and now she’s broken her fibula. Basically from December 26th until now she has been sick or in pain and healing. Thanks for your continued prayers -

My dog ate my homework

Well, it wasn’t exactly my homework but rather a pair of glasses. We finally found Tim’s glasses, hidden in our dogs hide-out with his bones and other toys. Nicely chewed the glasses are not much use any longer. Thanks for your prayers everybody, in God’s very own humorous way He did return them to Tim.

Tim’s trip to Illinois.:

The trip east was incredibly busy. He had multiple meetings every day sometimes driving between Wheaton and St. Charles. While we were not able to raise the needed monthly support commitment a dear friend of Tim’s gave a substantial gift which will help stabilize our account through most of the rest of the year.

It was a great opportunity for Tim to be able to stay with Mom and Dad during his trip and to be available to help out when his Mom had a partial knee replacement.

Tim also had opportunity to connect with Wheaton Bible Church as GEM is working together with them to prepare and send church based teams to serve immigrants in Europe. Tim has become part of the preparation team with WBC and is very excited about this opportunity.

The Journey Deepens was also a great time of serving. Thought Tim was sick all weekend and wound up with a sinus infection, he made some good connections with people who are using the weekend to listen and discern what their part is going to be in ministry.

Jennifer, who’s knee is still healing and getting bronchitis after I left, held down the fort with our three children (and a glasses chewing dog) who are already now becoming impatient for summer to come. She continues to help out at the girls school and the teachers have really come to rely on her heavily.

Back at work and business as normal Tim is trying to catch up and step into the new rolls that are developing.

Tim is still in the Mobilization department but is also working with Preparation in the Candidate Orientation process and still developing a Coaching system for our new missionaries.

Working within both departments Tim has become an important part in a developing linear process. Beginning with recruiting, to preparing and equipping and finally walking along side the appointees as a coach Tim is in a significant position to influence and encourage those heading into full time ministry in Europe.

Thanks for your continued prayers and support as we seem to have found a very good place to continue to be able to participate in the significant ministries of a continent we so love.

It was great seeing a bunch of you. The White family

Hey everyone.
Thanks for your many inquiries, no I have sadly not yet found my glasses.
Right now I am hoping that I will in fact be able to get out on my flight and to Illinois today. Our area in Colorado has been pounded by a winter storm for the past two days. We’ve gotten at least 15” of wet and heavy snow.
If I’m able to get out today I will be at Fox Valley Bible Church on Sunday, April 19th and at Wheaton Bible Church May 3rd.
Look forward to seeing a number of you while I’m back. This trip is an important one for us as it serves two purposes. One is that I will be attending a conference the weekend of the 28th for GEM. The second is to hopefully raise some more support.
Please be praying for travel safety
Please pray that as a coach at the conference I will be used by God to aid young people in their decisions making processes
Please pray that the Lord would give me wisdom and contacts and enable me to raise the financial support we still need.

Jazzlovers

For any of you Jazz lovers out there. A friend of ours, (Deanna Witkowski: Liturgical Jazz) from Wheaton College just did an interview with NPR radio about her new Sacred Jazz CD out in time for Easter (now past, sorry). Check it out.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=102998647

Santa... no Tim is comming to town

Sorry It’s been a while since I’ve posted a blog. Between Jennifer’s broken knee and a 3-4 three week bought with a bad stomach bug in our home, we’ve been pretty busy. Tim has also been working on getting his Christian Life Coaches certification and finished last week.
Why you ask? As part my position in Mobilization and Preparation I will be developing a system of internal coaching for missionaries. We will assign coaches to our new appointees who will walk alongside them through their first couple of years on the field. As a number of mission organizations have already implemented coaching at this level they are finding an increased value in longevity and health of their missionaries. This is too where we see a great need and GEM is moving in this direction.

Also, Tim is coming to town. Some of you will remember the ‘Journey Deepens’ that Tim attended in Pasadena last October. A conference designed to help potential missionaries identify what part God will have them play in furthering the Kingdom of God. He will be attending the upcoming conference in Elgin, April 24-26. He will be in town though from April 19th through about May 3 or 4.

Tim is still working out schedules right now and will let you know what Sunday he will be where.
Some of you may want to host an evening where Tim will be able to present our current ministry opportunities to new friends. Thanks to a number of incredible year-end gifts from you our account was able to get back out of the red and into the black. Now we are excited to see how God is going to raise the remaining $1,000 we still need per month.
Looking forward to seeing many of you soon.

Timothy, Jennifer, Connor, Katya and Marika

Hello everyone.
I know this is a quick follow-up to the last Blogpost, but I thought this was exciting and would covet your prayers for.
Many of you will remember my friend Hadschi, the radio announcer in Klosterneuburg, who loves the Lord. He has continued to stay in the catholic church with hopes of reforming it from the inside out. He just wrote me and asked if the church in Klosterneuburg was still there and suggested it might be time for him to visit.
That is a huge step for Hadschi. Please pray that the Lord removes the barriers and that he would visit with the body of Christ in our town and that he might find the fellowship of believers truly inviting.
Thanks again for your prayers and enjoy the excitement as we watch God continue to unfold the ministry in Klosterneuburg.

Tim for us all