Dear Friends and Co-Laborers
Blessed be the name of the Lord for all of His benefits. We are rejoicing in the Lord in all of the things that have been occurring with the Hendricks family and TNTI Ministries.
On a family level we are thrilled to announce that Alisha and her husband Jonathon are expecting twins in February!!! We are excited and extremely blessed. Alisha and Jonathon have not been able to have children in the first seven years of marriage and we have prayed with them for God’s grace to work in their lives. Michael is celebrating a birthday today and Matthew will be on Friday.
Joy Hendricks was caring for my parents for the last many years and since their passing has decided to come and work with us here. As I have stated she is a pianist and vocalist and we are excited that she is here with us. Yes! she came down almost three weeks ago now and has already been a blessing in a Mission’s Conference as well as in Misión Calvario that we have here in San Francisco where we live. So many of the people in several churches are excited with her being here because of our lack of knowledgeable and skilled teachers in Christian music. She came down without gathering support and was blessed by gifts from her home church; Morningside Baptist Church in Greenville, SC, members of the church, and others who have desired to help. She also sold her car to invest what she could in her new ministry and adventure. Please pray the God would supply her needs as she desires to do His work and give her life for the spiritual needs of the Mexican people.
As mentioned we just finished with a Mission’s Conference in the Mount Carmel Baptist Church on the south side of Aguascalientes. It is a new work begun by a Mexican and has five families in the church. A missionary to Venezuela was with us and I was the speaker for the week. On Sunday morning our group loaded up in cars and went there. I thank the Lord that the two families that are faithful with us went. Rafael, his wife; Ana, and his daughter; Vanessa, have been saved and attending Calvario for about six weeks. PTL! On Thursday of last week I went to their home and they had invited their older daughter and her two children. Yadira, the daughter, was saved. AMEN! She also, with her two children, went with us on Sunday morning. Juan, Laura, and their five children were with us. All together with Merritt and Teresia we took 15 people. Our little room here on our property will fill up with 24. Please pray that we will fill up soon and then look for a store front building to rent. This is our goal and the families with us are seeing the vision of a church here in San Francisco.
August 23rd I will be traveling to El Salvador to visit our brothers and sisters in Christ with whom we have worked in the past. I will be there one week and will be in the new church in Playa San Diego, the church in San Vicente, and the church in San Miguel. I am excited about this opportunity and ask that you pray for me as I travel. I will be going with a group from Morningside Baptist. I still need about $200.00 for expenses while there. The airfare has been taken care of, PTL, and the tickets bought. I will be flying out of Aguascalientes this time and the tickets were a bit more. I have two stops with about 7 hours of layovers in all. I actually will be in Miami for 5 hours.
The Bible Institute will begin the second Monday of September. Please pray the the 19 students that have shown interest will return and bring more with them. I believe that the Lord has His hand on the Institute and we will see it grow into a major training place for students from around Aguas and very possible around all of Mexico. We are beginning to see interest from many and again ask that you pray as this will require great amounts of time, money, and energy, as it kicks off. All of which I seem to have to fight harder to have. God is able! We are in His hands.
In December, 2012, Ben, Amanda, and my grandchildren, will be returning to Mexico for about 9 months. Ben has a great desire to learn Spanish personally, and as a tool to reach the Spanish-speaking people of the United States as well as trips into Mexico. His DVD presentation can be seen on <www.biblerevival.com> . We are looking forward as the Lord allows he and Amanda to help in the music ministry here as well as the ministry of the preached Word.
As you can see our schedule is full and we are happy to be being used in the Lord’s work here in Mexico. Please pray for our safety and the Lord’s blessing on our lives and ministry.
In His Service
Tim and Teresia Hendricks