Friendships and Fuel-ups

Today, we are traveling along Interstate 90W in New York, headed from the Albany area toward Cleveland Baptist Church for this coming Sunday and reflecting on the last several weeks with joy and gratitude. We have been able to partner with ministries in South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, Pennsylvania, and New York, and in each of these places,  it has been evident that God was working on behalf of specific situations. For instance, in North Carolina, a 13-year-old boy saw direct answer to prayer as his mother and grandmother attended two of the revival services that week when, previously, they had only attended three times in the last five years.  God is at work in this young man's life and in the life of his family,  and we are eager to see how He will continue working in this situation in the future.   This week at Victory Baptist Church in Scotia, New York, we were able to see several unsaved and unchurched people come out for the Resurrection Sunday services, and one trusted Christ as her Savior that morning.   God has also given Pastor Jason Wampler good favor with his neighbors, and many of them attended faithfully during our Sunday through Wednesday services. We are confident that this is just the beginning of great things to come for Victory!

 Another highlight of our week with Pastor Wampler was the Pastor's fellowship on Tuesday hosted by Victory.  What a joy it was to see these men come together for the common cause of being encouraged in the Word and seeking to win their area with the gospel of Christ! It was a blessing to see our good friends, Pastor and Mrs. Steve Harness, from Wilton Baptist Church, and his assistant Jason Betts at the fellowship. We enjoyed a profitable week of meetings with them this past fall and look forward to being back with these men in 2019.

 The fellowship with pastors and their wives over this last month has been such a refreshing opportunity!  To see the burden they have for the folks in their congregation is both sobering and encouraging--sobering, because of the reality of spiritual battles taking place and yet encouraging, because "greater is He that is in [them] than he that is in the world." (I Jn. 4:4).  It is been a sincere privilege to partner with them over these last several weeks for the sake of the gospel and for the edifying of the body of Christ.  We have definitely left a part of our hearts at each of these ministries!

 Just briefly as we wrap up this update, we thought we'd give you glimpse into a travel day with the Thompson family. :).  We have found that when we plan a route to our next destination, that whatever drive time is estimated, we can tack on an extra two hours to the travel time for munchkins and equipment details.   Our habit for the last month has been to leave around 8 AM, just after everyone has had a light breakfast, so that we can get as much drive time in before noon.   Our little men are wonderful travelers! Seth (8 yrs.) stays busy with school during the morning drive time, Samuel (3 yrs.)  enjoys books, plays with matchbox cars, and eats snacks along the way, and Asher (10 mos.) keeps us all entertained with his sweet babblings until he drifts off for his morning nap.   Around noon, we typically stop at a truck stop in order to prepare lunch and allow Tim to fuel up and take care of any other equipment issues.   Not many a travel day goes by where I am not filled with amazement and gratitude to the Lord for how comfortable we are able to travel!  While Tim is fueling up,  I can start up the RV generator and warm up leftovers, make a pot of coffee, or just make sandwiches while boys wrestle and get the wiggles out in their room.  Typically, we make it to our destination church by mid-afternoon. We love sharing the gospel and ministering together as a family, and we are extremely grateful to the Lord for how He takes such good care of us and for how He makes this all possible!

New Year happenings

 We have been leaving updates on our Facebook ministry page (Tim Thompson Evangelistic Ministries) and just recently realized that we have neglected to update you here on our ministry website. Please forgive us, we're not bloggers by any stretch, and we will try to be more diligent to consistently leave updates on the website so that we keep YOU better informed. 

 So what has been going on in the ministry? Well, in December, we announced that we will be moving in August from our home on the Bill Rice Ranch and will be in our RV full time.  The last 15 years at the Ranch have been a tremendous blessing and experience for us. We will be continuing in the ministry of evangelism to which God has called us and are sent out of our home church, Nolensville Road Baptist Church in Nashville. 

 During the months of November and December, we served at Faith Baptist Church in Silver Springs, Florida, where we assisted Pastor Roger Walton during his time of recovery from cancer.   After that time, we joined Dr. Bill Rice III and his wife Mary for our annual Florida trip in which we raise awareness and money for the deaf ministry of the Bill Rice Ranch. 

 Since our last meeting in Florida at the end of February, we partnered with Dr. Bill and Bro. Wil Rice for a family conference with Pastor Greg Powell at Victory Baptist Church (Charleston, South Carolina). After that, we traveled to Tarboro, North Carolina, for a weeklong meeting at New Grace Baptist Church where the Lord definitely worked in the midst of that small congregation led by Pastor Michael Barnett.  Several folks attended the meetings that we are pretty confident needed to trust Christ. Their attendance was a direct answer to prayer for the church family.  We are praying with the Barnetts that these folks will attend the services on Resurrection Sunday and accept Christ as they hear the glorious message of the gospel again.

 We are currently traveling on interstate 81 north in Virginia, headed for Romola Bible Church in Howard, Pennsylvania, after a fantastic week with Pastor Larry Wright and Marlbrook Baptist Church.  The week began with a wild game dinner evangelistic outreach on Saturday evening.  Folks enjoyed an array of shooting galleries, exotic foods and fellowship with people in the community. As Tim shared the gospel at the end of the dinner, several raised their hands indicating that they wanted to trust Christ as Savior. We are grateful for these decisions and pray that these people will continue to grow in their newfound faith. 

Thank you for your continued interest in and support of the gospel ministry God has entrusted to us. May the Lord richly bless you!