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Word is spreading fast it seems and a lot of people are asking me questions about it so I decided to post here so you guys all can know.  I'm moving to Canada on Thursday.  Yes, Canada.  Never thought I would live there, but the Lord has worked tremendously and opened wide the doors for me to work with a ministry up there.  So what can I say, I'm going!  That's where I'll be for the next year or so. And I'm thoroughly excited about it!   So those of you who have my #, my cell phone will no longer work as of Friday this week.  So just drop me e-mails, and if you want to talk on the phone, let me know via e-mail and I'll try and call you from a Canada phone.

Keep me in your prayers!  I hope I don't come back saying, "dontcha know, eh??" all the time! hehehe..  God Bless you all!

Wow, it seems like just yesterday, yet forever since I updated my xanga.  So incredibly much has happened.  Way too much to even begin boring you with the details.

I've preached 2 series, done Bible Work for a 3rd series, drove to LA, flew to Domincan Republic, flew back to the US, drove back from LA to Sac, drove from Sac to Dallas, drove every day for a month, then drove back to Sac from Dallas.  The last of which happened yesterday morning at 3AM.  So yea, how's that for an update?    Not to mention how in a few days I'll be driving to Canada, and back.   And then probably to Central CA.  Yea, I am done driving.  My poor car is going to fall apart again.

But yea, I can't even begin to say how God has transformed me ever since the beginning of the year.  If you want to really learn to depend on God and commune with God as your personal, best friend, do a bunch of really challenging, ministry-oriented things reall tight in a row.  I'm incredibly excited because God has become SOOO real to me!  My faith has skyrocketed!  I can't even begin to describe it.  I should be a miserable wreck right now.  I am a living miracle, and my Heavenly Father loves me so much he answers my prayers and listens to my every thought!  I wouldn't trade it for anything in the world.  I can't seem to talk to Him enough!  I don't even want to talk to my other friends.(no offense ;) ).  There's nothing like it.  I'm so excited to be a Christian!  I'm just speechless!  I can't find words to describe it, and I don't want to.  I just want to tell you, whoever you are reading this... if you don't have a sweet, day-by-day, minute-by-minute relationship with God, I can tell you, it's the greatest thing you'll ever experience!!  Drugs?  Video games? nah... I'll pass.  I have God!  He's more thrill, excitement, challenge, joy, happiness and fulfillment than you can find anywhere!  And I am so ready to go home!  Let's put an end to this world already!  If the kingdom of heaven "is at hand" then why not reach out and grab it?!  What do you say??

wow... so it's finally here.  I move into the Amazing Facts College Of Evangelism Apartments this thursday.  I now have a car, I'm almost 18... and there's so much ahead of me.  I will be traveling to do the Lord's work after I graduate AFCOE in June.  A week after graduating, I'm going to the Dominican Republic with Global Evangelism to preach there, and then when I get back, about a week later I must go to TX to preach with ASI for the YFJ program.  The way these all line up one right after the other leaves me with no doubt that the Lord is calling me to each one.  It's just my earnest prayer that the Lord will transform me this year into somebody who is shining forth the love and character of Christ!  There is so much hurt and heartache around us!  So many people don't know what it's like to experience that peace that passes all understanding, that love and joy of being a Christian that nothing else can even compare to.  I want to be one of those Christians where when people look at me they will stop and say, "wow, I want to know Christ like this man." the same way I have said that to myself when I look at other Godly men that you can just feel the presence of God radiating from their very existence! This world is so desperate for people like that!  We need more, we need an army of them.  And I want to be one. 

“There is nothing that Christ desires so much as agents who will represent to the world His Spirit and character. There is nothing that the world needs so much as the manifestation through humanity of the Saviour's love. All heaven is waiting for channels through which can be poured the holy oil to be a joy and blessing to human hearts.”--"Christ's Object Lessons," p. 419.  {MYP 40.2}

That is my prayer for 2006.  I pray that the Lord will reshape my life as I give Him my all and my everything.  As I look back on the way I have treated people in the past year, and the way I have reacted to different situations, I can see so clearly that I have been such a failure to what Christ is calling me to.  What Christ is calling us ALL to.  I see so many differences when I compare my life to the life of Christ.  And I want to change that.  I want Christ to change that.  This is my desire for 2006.

Most of you won't be hearing from me as I will be so busy devoting my all to the work of Christ that I doubt I will have time to keep in touch.  However for those of you who have my cell phone #, don't hesitate to keep in touch that way.  It's the best way to get ahold of me.  I might have access to internet while I'm away but most likely will not use it.  So God bless!

-Tim