Tim’s Blog

Thank you so much for your prayers. Robin continues to improve. Last night, she had enough energy to call Amanda, which is a good sign, and I can start to hear her returning to her normal mind. She’s even laughing at funny things.

This morning, her temperature was down to 99. She still has a fever and was sweating last night. The antibiotics are giving her a horrible taste in her mouth and altering the taste of water and food. I suppose that’s to be expected?… Now she’s up out of bed doing a load of laundry, so that’s another good sign.

Thanks for your continued prayer as she has 5 more days of these pills to endure.

t.

Would you be so kind as to pray for Robin. She’s got an infection (UTI) which she feels may have reached her kidneys. She said she’s never had pain in her back like this with a UTI. We have a doctor at the school right now teaching a class and he has been such a kind provision from the Lord as he came to the house and examined her and wrote her out a lab test sheet and a prescription for antibiotics. The lab test came back just an hour ago showing severe bacterial infection with elevated numbers.

She was holding off on antibiotics as long as she could, but has now decided to take them. She’s got a fever of 103 and has been laying down all day.

Thank you,

t.

Here’s a little update video on the Studio:

While Alec and Sacha were here in the studio, I set them at the podmics and headsets so they could hear themselves how it sounded with the professional mics and headphones. They had a little fun conversation and then I thought to hit the record button and caught the last bit of their conversation. Today, I decided to doctor it up a little with the features I am learning on the recording equipment and the software. Alec was not really up close to his mic and there were a bunch of bump noises as well as email notifications that were coming in on my computer at the time the recorder was going. Even still, I tried to clean it up as best I could (I’m still very green at this stuff) and then add some effects so that I could send them a copy as a fun memory. It was a good learning experience for me to explore more features and I think it will be special for them to hear.

They left yesterday, so I was a little sad. I sent them the audio file just now (haven’t heard back from them yet), but I thought I’d pass it on to you too so you could hear their voices and maybe be inspired in your prayers for them. On Sacha’s leg, she has a huge tattoo. Within the tattoo are two scripture verse references. One says “Psalm 25”, and the other says “2 Corinthians 12:10”. Reading the Pslam may tell you something that is in her own heart if she has had it tattooed on her body. May the Father draw them to Christ in true conscious union with the Lord Jesus.

Some other exciting news I received today from Russell regarding radio broadcasting is that through a rather miraculous event today, Russell was able to acquire some AM broadcasting equipment (which new would cost well over 1 million dollars, but Russell got it for about 40k!) This means that the programs will not only be broadcast on SW and FM but now also all through the night on AM, which likely the P’s will be able to hear even on  regular AM radios! This is a huge addition!

Another wonderful piece of news is that we finally figured out what the interface problem was on my brand new equipment here for music. It was a defective cable. We bought a new Thunderbolt 3 cable and voila!… it worked! So, soon I will delve into the music side of the ministry again. For now, I’m trying to keep up with one radio Bible teaching lesson per day, as the Lord leads.

Thanks again for your prayers and supporting-encouraging words.

t.

Over the past several weeks, I have given priority to rehabilitating my health. I continue with the biking, stretching and swimming, limiting the tennis. While at the gym, the Lord connected me to Sacha, who is a very dedicated, talented and knowledgeable therapist. She has been working with me each day, educating me about muscles and exercises I never knew existed. I’m encouraged to continue on her program as I continue to be headache free. It is so nice. Thank you for your continued prayers.

As in all things, the Lord has more than one purpose in the things He leads us in. During my many sessions with Sacha, topics would come up in which I would engage as I would sense the Spirit giving me thoughts to share. Topics about life, character, inner battles, relationships, emotions, etc. She has been through some difficult things in her young life. I was also especially pleased to meet her boy friend Alec during the sessions. I felt an extremely genuine connection with him. What a wonderful, pleasant young man. They are about to leave San Carlos, as Alec has to continue his nursing program in the US. I felt led to invite them out for lunch. We went to Jax Sacks at 1pm and had a wonderful two hour visit. As we visited, I asked Alec what he meant by “spirituality” (he had mentioned that spirituality was part of his life) which led into some interesting topics on God. At the end of about a 2 hour visit, they asked what I was going to do the rest of the day. I said I would be going to my office. They said “what do you do there?” and I mentioned I had a radio program. Their interest perked when, as they continued to inquire, I told them about the P’s. They were actually dumbfounded, really. I asked them if they would like to go see the studio and they totally wanted to. So, I brought them here and we sat on the floor till dark (7pm) as I shared our journey, showed photos of our life in the jungle, played and translated one of the radio programs, etc.

Alec has spent about a year in a church in his past. He was full of spiritual questions about God, the P’s, Jesus. They both just seemed to drink in what they were hearing as in their own words, they said it seemed like the authentic form of belief in Christ. As the time lingered, I realized Robin would be now wondering of my whereabouts (we moved temporarily to a new location here which takes about an extra 40 minutes on the bicycle to get there and now it was dark). One thing led to another and the next thing we knew, Alec and Sacha were coming to dinner at our house (well, not “our house” but Jerry’s house. The same Jerry who also has the purple house from last year. He and Leigh opened their guest suite to us since we were in need of a place to stay). The funny thing is that whenever the Lord seems to be doing things here, Jerry seems to be not far away. Alec and Sacha got on their motorcycle and I on my bicycle. As I was leading the way along the dark street, who shows up but Jerry in his car to pitch in.

To shorten this part of the email, Alec and Sacha stayed till 11pm and we continued the conversation about God, life, truth, and our different adventures and histories. I wanted to share this with you since I know beyond a shadow of a doubt that this is another one of those God events that you just don’t plan or foresee. Please see Alec and Sacha’s photo above after dinner at ‘our’ house. One of Alec’s questions to me what “why would I have to believe that Jesus died for my sins?” They both admire Jesus, but don’t seem to realize who He is. After quoting several of Jesus’ statements, I said to Alec, “it really all depends on what you do with Jesus”. If you would pray for them, I sense that the Lord has a wonderful journey ahead for them and that the Father is drawing them to Jesus. Maybe even missions as they were so impacted by our story. But it might be kind of nice if, along the way, they were born again. (lol)

On to the other photo and the other prayer request. Russell texted me this photo a few days ago. It is a large roof structure which will be used for an annual gathering of tribal pastors from all over Colombia and Venezuela. Many of them will be P’s. Russell invited me to attend. The conference is in June. The location is near the border of Venezuela, but not too close. He said it is a secure location protected by a military base of which the commanders there are his friends. So, this is kind of a very nice opportunity for me as the P’s would love to come to see me in person and it could be a great spiritual event for us all. I am seriously considering going and so would ask for your prayers for the Lord’s leading.

I have more news on the studio and the radio programs which are coming along nicely. I hope to send a short video soon on those topics in the days ahead.

t.