So in case you’re new to my blog, or you’re a regular reader
but need things spelled out for you, I love missions. Just because I’m no longer on staff with AIM
doesn’t mean that my desire to devote my life to global missions has
diminished. And so with that heart, I’m
excited to share that I’ll be leaving on March 29th for Mexico City
for a week. Now this means two very
important, and exciting, things.
- This will be my 2nd birthday I
celebrate overseas.
- I get to expand my Spanish vocabulary from 8
words to potentially 10!
But seriously, in our time down there we’ll be splitting our
time even amongst 3 ministry opportunities that I’d like to spotlight.
For the first half of the trip we’ll be living at a
Salvation Army Orphanage and 2 of our days will be dedicated to playing with
the kids, doing work around the orphanage and supporting the staff that have
given their lives to this place and those kids.
For those of you who followed my first World Race in 2009, you know that
I have lots of experience living in orphanages and loving kids for my
ministry. And you also know how
important of a ministry it is to these kids.
The second half of the trip we’ll be leaving in a men’s
shelter in Tepito. You can click on the
link and read the Wikipedia article on Tepito but for the rest of you, Tepito
is a lower class area in Mexico City where the drug cartels and mafia do their “business�. Our other two days will be spent with a
church run by a man and his wife who used to be corrupt cops in Tepito but when
Jesus got a hold of them they quit and started a church in Tepito. Because of who they are, even though they no
longer work with the cartels or mafia, they’re still respected and are left
alone! We’ll be with them doing
evangelism and possibly helping them in a venture to plant a second church in
Tepito!
And finally two more days will be spent ministering to
ladies in two women’s homes. In Mexico,
if you ever get tired of your mother, wife, daughter or sister you can, by law,
take them and drop them off at one of these government run facilities where
they’ll live out the rest of their lives.
The living conditions are pitiful but more than that, these women have
been discarded and need love.
As the group has prayed about this trip, a common word that
keeps coming up in conversation is hope.
That we are not only to bring hope, but that we should be hope. Give them something to hope for. Proverbs 13:12 says “Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a desire fulfilled is a tree of
life.�
We were made to eat from the tree of life and there are tons
of people who have hardened their hearts because the sickness has gone on too
long. We believe that tree’s of life can
spring up all over Mexico City.
Please pray for us as we leave. As well if there is more you feel led to do,
I still need another $500 to pay for this trip.
Now keep in mind that this trip is not through AIM, it’s through my
church. So I setup a PayPal account that
you can easily give through (just click the button at the bottom) or if you
want a tax deductible receipt, you can send a check to:
Main Street Baptist Church: 126 North Main Street, Kernersville, NC, 27284
Just make sure you put somewhere on the check that it’s for
Tim Dixon. My work and what God has done
through me these last few years wouldn’t be possible without your support and
prayers. Thank you again for helping
spread hope.
