Hello everyone,
Well, the transition from Ives Missions to Roca Norte Missions is complete. (However, this is still Tim typing haha). With my new role as RN Missions U.S. Liaison, I will keep in consistent communication with Pastor Jose/Roca Norte leadership, serve on the RN board, maintain communication with supporters and maintain financial accountability on the U.S. side. I'm blessed to be able to still serve the Lord in this way. For those of you that have walked with my family throughout all these years, we are so thankful and we hope that you'll continue to walk with us into this new season. If you haven't seen our new Roca Norte Missions Support Presentation, I encourage you to check it out on our website HERE (it includes details of the transition, a short video from Pastor Jose and details about communication and finances moving forward).
In each email update, I will share an encouragement, major prayer request and/or testimony involving Roca Norte that I have gathered from my conversations with Pastor Jose and the Roca Norte leaders. I also hope, Lord willing, to visit Chihuahua often. So I will be able to share details and photos from those trips as well.
The key prayer point that we want to emphasize in this email involves broken marriages. You probably didn't know that Chihuahua has the highest divorce rate in all of Mexico. Priscilla and I saw it during our time there--broken marriage after broken marriage. The saddest thing is that a HUGE majority of the city of almost a million people have no clue that Jesus is alive and active today. They don't realize that He yearns to heal and restore their marriages. Roca Norte has been strategically placed by the Lord in the northern part of the city, right in the middle of countless neighborhoods consisting of thousands upon thousands of families--many of which are hurting and losing hope. At best, some of them have heard of Jesus but believe He only offers a checklist of dos and don'ts to try and be a better person. Very few have the slightest understanding that Jesus is alive today and wants to give them His resurrection power to see transformation in their marriage and their family (Eph. 3:16-17). For this reason, Roca Norte will be hosting a marriage conference on February 10th-11th. Pastor Jose has a heavy burden on his heart for the marriages in Chihuahua and is excited for what God is going to do through the conference. Please pray for the event--that God would move powerfully, that marriages would be healed and restored and that people would be saved.
Thanks again for your continued prayer, encouragement and support!
-Tim, Pastor Jose and the Roca Norte leadership
Eph. 3:20-21
Praise Reports
- The Romero family (Pastor Jose, his wife Keyla and their two boys Lemuel and Daniel) have been getting accustomed to Chihuahua and integrating well with the church!
- God is bringing new people to the church and 7 people have given their lives to Jesus in just the last few weeks!
- New ministries in the church such as a Youth Ministry and Women's Coffee & Bible Study have been going really well!
- A few churches and individuals have decided to come behind Roca Norte Missions and support the ministry through prayer and financial giving!
- Tim's grandma Bonnie is cancer-free and doing much better! His grandma Marty is also doing much better physically!
- God has provided jobs for Tim to support his family financially as they transition into this new season!
Prayer Requests
- For the Roca Norte Marriage Conference that will take place February 10th-11th.
- That God would continue to use Roca Norte to reach the lost in Chihuahua with the Gospel and make disciples of Jesus.
- For the Romero family, that God would protect them, provide for them, guide them and use them mightily for His glory.
- For more churches and individuals to join with Roca Norte Missions by supporting through prayer and financial giving.
- For the Inductive Bible Study Conference that Roca Norte has planned for March.
- For Tim's mom, Susan, that God would continue to touch her body and give her perfect peace in the midst of her chemo treatments and doctor appointments.
- For Priscilla's mom, Aleyda, that God would continue to heal her physically and spiritually. That she would be able to walk again soon and be guided by the Lord for this next stage of life.
- That God would bless the Ives family with work and provision so that Priscilla and the kids can visit California soon and to advance the transition back to the States.
