Heb 7:24  but He, because He continues forever, has an unchangeable priesthood. 25  Therefore He is able also to save to the uttermost those who come unto God by Him, since He ever lives to make intercession for them.

Greetings Dear Saints In the worthy name of our Lord Jesus Christ,  Isn’t it great to realize we have a faithful high priest who “ever Lives” to make intercession for us. We trust you all are drawing near and cleaving to Him.  Thanks so much for all your prayers and support for us.

 Below is our most recent update

Update on the work in Ireland

Waterford Assembly :  The Assembly is growing slowly but surely both numerically and spiritually.  The mid week bible study which for a long time had been very vibrant with a number of folks coming has recently been missing quite a few.  The reason being that a number of folks are now working in the evening and are unable to come so David + Matt would value prayers in regard to how to help remedy this and once again see it going well. 

          The Wilson ’s have decided to wait till the spring to put their house back up for sale.  The offer they had fell through and so they have decided to wait a bit.  I’m sure they would value prayer in regards to selling their home and relocating to Waterford .

Future outreaches

As we look towards the summer with it will (Lord Willing) bring a team from South Florida as well as the usual TNT team and a team as well from Northern Ireland .  So it looks like we will have our hands full with teams and trust the Lord would bless the effort and all those that come would be challenged afresh of the need for outreach in the Republic of Ireland .

BX (Bible Explorer)

I have 2 schools lined up to do upon my return in April and look forward to this time again in the classrooms

Update on the Outreach Work in N.America

The bible study outreach in Vernon which was started in Oct has been fairly good  with a number of people coming, although recently the numbers have trailed off.  We are going through the book of Romans and currently are in chapter 13 Again if you could pray for this outreach that we could perhaps see some new people come out.

Florida trip

Just recently Linda and I had the privilege of getting away for a week to S. Florida while there we had an opportunity to work with Boulevard Bible Chapel with an outreach at the beach.  This was really encouraging to us as about 30-35 people from the Assembly came along which made the openair a great time and of course a large crowd draws a crowd so we had plenty of people to preach too.  We pray for the seed sown through both preaching and tract distribution.  One couple who were on holiday from London Ontario who heard the preaching came over to talk with me after I finished and then asked where the “church” was.  They ended up coming to both meetings on Sunday and seemed very encouraged.

Toronto area trip

          I was able to go to Toronto for 2 weeks and visit my family (mom + 2 brothers) although I didn’t really get a chance to witness to them as much as I had hoped I did get a good witness in with one of my niece’s for which I am thankful; I was also able to visit some Assemblies around the area. The people I met were very encouraging to me and many stated they learned several things about Ireland and will continue to pray for the work.

Future events

I have several more speaking engagements with a conference as well in Vancouver at Easter time and then on April 16th we will head back (Lord Willing) to Ireland and trust the Lord will go before in all these plans..

On the home front

Jerry

Has been enjoying skiing of late he’s been up 4 times now and is getting pretty good at bombing down the hill and doing turns and such.  He also has been out skating with me on the local lake near by which he also enjoyed.  Spiritually speaking he has continued to memorize scripture and has Rom 1 + 2 nearly fully done.  He also recently told me the message he heard at Monday night bible hour (it was the serpent on the pole) he was able to tell me that people today can get saved the same way by “Just Looking to Jesus”  he said the last bit with quite some enthusiasm.

Melody + Esther    continue to reach out to their many friends by bringing them to church and also witnessing to them one on one.  They both also help their mom on the Friday night youth outreach by doing puppet skits.  They continue with their voice lessons and dancing lessons and enjoy them very much as part of their home schooling. 

David  

   Has started working with a friend from church in building a house and is kept fairly busy with this.  At the present he doesn’t have any long term plans but continues  to help with his youth group and trying to disciple young men in his church.

Sean and Valerie + Mila + Jenna

 Continue to work with the youth at their church and also do a lunch hour bible study at a local high school.  Their home cleaning business continues to grow and keeps them very busy as well.

Steven + Carly    

They both continue with their jobs and seem to be doing well with them, they also are quite busy with their church; both of them help with leading the music there.              

Linda:  

 Has been having physical problems again this time with a sinus infection that has lasted 6 weeks and she has gone through 2 different antibiotics to try to clear it up.  Besides this she has kept busy with homeschooling and ladies bible studies. Recently we got away for a week by ourselves (Linda and I) to Florida .  Valerie our oldest daughter looked after the younger ones.  It was a refreshing time away and also was great to see the saints again in Florida .

Prayer request :  As you may be aware getting prepared to move can be very stressful as there are always so many things to do.  So if you could keep us in prayer we would be most thankful

So again thanks so much for all you do on our behalf in His Grace Tim for the Hoods

Greetings in the name which is above all names our Lord Jesus Christ.  Firstly we would just like to say Thank you for your continual prayer support for the work. We do pray you will be encouraged and the Lord blesses all that you for Him

Take care in His Grace Tim for the Hoods

Below is our most recent update

2Co 9:15  But thanks be to God for His unspeakable free gift.

Dear friends as we head into this “thanksgiving” weekend let us truly reflect upon the profound truth found in the above verse.  We are SO very blessed indeed.

Update on the work in Ireland

Work in Ireland

Waterford Assembly : I really enjoyed my recent trip this past month, again seeing all the saints and seeing some new ones that the Lord has brought to the Assembly.  Since our absence in March the Lord has brought a new couple Wayne + Kara from South Africa to the Assembly. Also Rekah a lady who came about a year ago from India has now been able to bring her husband Saljan over.  Saljan has proven to be a real blessing to the Assembly and it is great to see so many from different parts of the world coming together to worship the Lord. 

          Also recently there is a young brother (Johnny) coming to Waterford as he has been  commended to the work for a year.  He should be a good help to David and Matt as they all work together

Home bible study

In Ireland the home study continues to be a blessing currently they are going through Matthew’s gospel and again they have gotten a few new people that have come to check this out.  Again we pray that as the word of God is opened that it will meet the needs of the people who come

Future outreaches

They just received the calendars to hand out for this year 15 thousand an increase of 3,000 from last year. This will prove to be a large undertaking as in the past I have been able to help with this so they will be short 1 person so please pray for David and Matt as this is going to take a lot of strength…

BX (Bible Explorer)

On my return to the schools things went very well.. Thanks for your prayers!  There was only one school who I had taught before that declined to do it this time saying they had just too much on for the year.  The other schools though were very receptive, and so David Wilson has taken on the responsibility to teach in 3 of them so far and I will also do some when we return (Lord Willing) in March or April..  There are also a couple of other schools that have shown interest but at this point haven’t made a commitment to the program

The Ongoing Work in N.America

We started up the home bible study outreach for Vernon Assembly last night and there were a few people missing but those who came seem to be encouraged and there seems to be a desire to see more come to this so pray for the believers and there contacts to be able to bring them to the study as we continue to go through the book of Romans.  Pray also for the oversight in Vernon that the Lord would renew their vision for the work there.

Future outreaches

          I plan Lord Willing to start Wed evening’s with door to door work in Westbank. I have talked to a number of the saints (at the Assembly) here and there is a small group who said they would like to help in this regard.  We hope that this will help to renew our vision for a lost and dying world that need the Life giving message of the gospel.

In November  I  plan on going to Florida (Lord Willing)  to visit a number of Assemblies to tell of the work in Ireland and also spend 2 weeks teaching on evangelism with an Assembly in Hollywood.

On the homefront

Jerry

Has memorized the first chapter of Romans and has just started his schooling.  He is progressing well and hopefully before the end of the school year he will be able to read.

Melody + Esther   

Continue to reach out to there friends bringing them to church and also the Friday youth group.  They two have just started back to school and this is keeping them quite busy.  Both Esther and Melody are also taking voice lessons.

David  

 Is still very active in his church especially with the young people and they continue to go out weekly and evangelize at the local hangout for young people.  He also just recently started a new job as a maintenance man and seems to be enjoying it.

Sean and Valerie + Mila + Jenna

There business is growing well and Sean + Val are kept quite busy.  The baby is growing and is now able to sit up but still hasn’t started to walk yet.  

Linda:  

Continues to care for her parents and has had quite a few good opportunities to share the gospel with them but as of yet they still haven’t seen there need of the Savior.  She also has started a home bible study with the ladies and that is going quite well.

Steven + Carly    

Are also quite busy with there church, both of them helping with leading the music there.  Recently Carly who started working as a teller at the TD Bank after the second day working with the public was robbed by a person who came in and said he had aids and had only a few months to live.. Anyway he managed to get away with about thousand dollars.  Carly was a bit shaken up with this but has continued with her job.  It is the first time the bank has ever been held up.

Linda’s mom + Dad :   

Linda’s mom has now finished her chemo treatments and seems to be doing fairly well, they will test her again by Christmas but so far it appears they have held off the cancer.  Linda’s dad has had more testing on his neck but they are uncertain as to why he has had this new infection. He is scheduled to go in a few weeks to have a CAT scan hopefully this will reveal the extent of any problems.  There still however doesn’t seem to be any movement spiritually with either of them although Linda has had some good chats with both of them

August 30th, 2006  

Work in Ireland

Waterford Assembly    The work continues right along in our absence with David Wilson and  also Matt Wright working with the people.  They have had a rather busy summer with 2 different outreach teams and have been able to plant much seed.  The local believers continue to grow in the Lord and David says he has been encouraged  by their development. 

Home bible study

In Ireland the home study continues to be a blessing with many coming to this and we trust as as the scriptures continue to be opened that the Lord would continue to bless with some new souls won to the Kingdom as well as building up the saints

Outreach  Teams

There were 2 teams that helped with outreach one from N. America (TNT) and also a group from Northern Ireland .  David said they concentrated most of their outreach in one area to see what would develop and they have now gotten a few new contacts to follow up on.  Also the children’s work went quite well with a large number coming to the meetings.

BX (Bible Explorer)

Please continue to pray for this ministry as there are many teachers now in the Republic of Ireland that are presenting the gospel in Catholic Schools.  I will be traveling (Lord Willing) on Sept 11 back to Ireland and with this time hope to contact some schools and set up for teaching Bible Explorer. So please continue to pray for this that many schools may continue to remain open.

The Ongoing Work in N.America

The outreach for Vernon Assembly has been going fairly well with a good number coming to the home (evangelistic) bible study.  I have been teaching through the book of Romans and it has been received quite well . There have been a few unbelievers who have come to this as well and seem to enjoy hearing the word.  Pray again for this and also for the oversight in Vernon that the Lord would renew their vision for the work there.

Recently I was up at 100 Mile House for a week of training the saints for outreach in door to door and openair.  Along with this I also helped brother Rob Brennen with outreach. It was a good time of fellowship which consisted of door to door and going  to an Indian (First Nations) Reserve which Rob has spent much time in the past.  At the reserve there was a very good crowd everyday to (both play floor hockey) but also to hear the gospel message. We trust the Lord will bless His word which was sown. 

Bible Camps

            This summer I spoke at 2 flyfishing camps for teens (13-18) which went very well.  We trust the Lord would again bless the word spoken.  The really good part about this camp is that the campers are isolated for a whole week and so there is much opportunity to present the gospel without any outside distractions.

            Also this past week I spoke at another teens camp for a week and again felt that many of the teens responded positively to the word spoken.  Again we trust the Lord would apply His word to their hearts.

Future outreaches

            Lord willing I will be doing a seminar on evangelism on the labor day weekend at 100 mile House. Please pray with me that the Lord might use this to help believers to witness and evangelize the lost.

            As stated earlier I plan (Lord Willing) to go back to Ireland Sept 11 till Sept 27^th and with the time there I hope to both set up Bible Explorer times in schools as well as help with outreaches in Waterford.

            In November  I  plan on going to Florida (Lord Willing)  to visit a number of Assemblies to tell of the work in Ireland and also spend a week teaching again on evangelism with an Assembly in Hollywood .

            In Late Jan or early Feb  again (Lord Willing) I hope to go with brother Dan Webster to Ghana to help with some evangelism..  Daniel says that the door is WIDE OPEN RIGHT NOW there and feels that I might be able to be really used of the Lord.  Anyway we will continue to pray about all this as ask you to please remember us in prayer.

On the homefront

Jerry

Is continuing to enjoy having many friends in the area, and as I said before we have started doing some memory work and currently Jerry has memorized the first 28 verses of chapter 1 of Romans.  It is really amazing how he able to retain this.

Melody + Esther   

Have met many new friends and continue to witness to them. They often bring them to church with them.  Both girls have helped at 2 different camps and also have been to girls camp this summer which they enjoyed very much.  Esther as well has helped her mom as a partner with her in a puppet ministry up at the bible camps  and have been greatly appreciated.

David  

 Has continued along with a few friends to be actively involved in evangelism on the streets to young people and is growing in the Lord. He recently has just put in his notice at Starbucks and is looking for a different job.  He has been offered a couple and would like prayer regarding this.  He wants to make sure he has much free time in order to continue to help with the youth at his church.

Sean and Valerie + Mila + Jenna

Sean has just recently started a cleaning business and has been kept quite busy with this and hopes this will give them some extra money and also some free time as they hope to have a few employees as well.  They also just purchased a home and hope to move in Sept 1^st  

Linda:  

Has been busy with caring for her parents, children, husband etc… along with this she has helped at bible camp and also has done puppet ministry with Esther .  Currently she also has a bible study with 2 ladies at the chapel here and  they are all  thrilled to be able to study the word together. 

Steven + Carly    

Have just recently gotten married August 5^th  and have just gotten back from there honeymoon and have moved into a condo in Kelowna .

Linda’s mom + Dad :   

Linda’s mom has gone about ½ way with her chemo treatments and is doing fairly well considering.  Linda’s dad has had a bit of a setback with an infection in his neck and hasn’t felt well for a few days but overall seems to be a bit better than he was about a year ago.  Sadly there still hasn’t been any movement with them spiritually however, but Linda has had some good opportunities to tell them both of the Lord’s love and what is required in order to get to Heaven.  

So again thanks so much for all you do on our behalf  in His Grace Tim for the Hoods

June 4th, 2006

Work in Ireland

Waterford Assembly    The work continues right along in our absence with David Wilson and  also Matt Wright working with the people.  Although they have had a few ups and downs the Lord continues to bless and we have seen a few new folks coming to the meeting a couple which just moved from South Africa who were saved a year ago are now in the fellowship.  The other believers continue to grow also in the Lord.

Home bible study

In Ireland the home study continues to be a blessing with many coming to this and we trust as the scriptures continue to be opened that the Lord would bless and that it might cause some to trust in Him and also others to grow in Him.

TNT Team

The team is just now arriving to do work first they are going to NCW for 8 days and then 8 days in Waterford the reason for the split is that the team is small usually about 24-30 people his year there were only 17 and so they only made 2 teams and so have split their time between Waterford and NCW.  Please pray for the work they are going to do and all the seed that will be sown you can read more about them at http://www.tntteams.org/

BX (Bible Explorer)

Please continue to pray for this ministry as there are many teachers now in the republic of Ireland that are presenting the gospel in Catholic Schools also please pray for me (Tim) as I hope to go back to Ireland in September to get into as many schools as I can.\

The Ongoing Work in N.America

Since our return to Canada we have been fairly busy after our arrival On March 9^th (19hrs after leaving Ireland we got to our first destination Vancouver the last  2 ½  by car) the following day I spent looking for a vehicle and PTL I managed to find one very quickly and before the day was out we had our (new to us) 2000 Dodge Caravan licensed and ready to go.  At 3 in the morning we also were awakened to great news that we just became grandparents... to a lovely granddaughter Mila Redemption. So the next day we loaded up all our gear and headed up to the Okanogan valley where we got in about 3 pm we then had to take all our things out of storage and set up our home here… Visit our daughter and granddaughter and …..Phew well after a few days we managed to get most things sorted out.

Since coming back to Westbank I (Tim) have been kept busy with giving reports on the work in Ireland and preaching in various Assemblies. Just  recently the children and I went on a trip to California for 18 days. On the way I preached in Seattle , 2 churches in Oregon along with 3 places in California . At first Linda stayed behind because she had to look after her parents who both have cancer, but after the first 10 days Linda was able to come. She drove to Seattle and then flew to California where we met her and then she came back with us and so she was able to be with us for ½ of the trip.  We had a great time on the trip meeting new friends (the Peltiers in Seattle) and old friends (the Jansens in Oregon, and the Eason’s in Sacramento) and then when we got to Los Angeles we were able to spend a week with the Krieger’s (Max+Beth)  we all thoroughly enjoyed our time away and I also had a great time ministering in various Assemblies on the way down the coast and then also on the way back.

New outreaches planned

After ministering at Vernon and talking with the oversight there I agreed to come and start an evangelistic home bible study which will be interactive. We hope that with this format it might be very profitable and help the Assembly to grow so we would value your prayers for this

We also are going to start to have a home bible study here in our home on Sunday evening as there is no evening service anymore at the chapel we feel that this might be helpful so again we value your prayers we hope to start in 2 weeks.

Other outreaches planned are 2 fly fishing camps this summer and also one other bible camp where I will be speaking along with planned gospel outreaches at 100 mile house in August and also in Hollywood Florida in November.  Also in Surrey B.C the Assembly has 2 planned gospel evening where I will be preaching so again these are all Lord Willing and we would love to have you pray  for these planned efforts in the gospel

On the homefront

Jerry

is enjoying being here as there are many children his age around the neighborhood, he also got to play ball hockey for his first time and really enjoyed it. On a spiritual level we are currently just starting to memorize in Romans and he has 3 verses memorized and always asked good questions about the Lord.  Just today there were some JW’s going about the neighborhood and as I was watching them from our front window (they avoided coming to our house) Jerry said to me “they are bringing a false gospel right dad ?” Poor lost souls…  out of the mouth of babes…

Melody + Esther   

They had a blast on there trip but now are doing double duty getting caught up on there homework and school.  They continue to progress and are really enjoying there time back home.  They also continue to reach out to there many new friends and have brought 4 different ones to church on different occasions.

David  

 is studying for his final exam coming up next month and is continuing to work at Starbucks and is living at home.  Just recently while playing on the trampoline David did a backflip and ended up landing on the metal bar he thought he broke his back and it took him about 15 minutes to be able to get off of the trampoline and as he was coughing up some blood we brought him into emergency where they took several x-rays but they all proved to be negative for which we PTL… Although he still is very sore he is very grateful to God for sparing him.  

Steven + Carly    

have just finished there bible school which they both enjoyed immensely  and are now on a short term mission trip to Albania .  They will be there for 3 weeks and hope to be used of the Lord while there.  They both look forward to August 6^th  where they will wed (Lord Willing)

Sean and Valerie 

have been kept quite busy with the new baby (see photos below) and all that entails.  They also had a tragedy in that Sean’s grandfather died suddenly in Jamaica and both Sean and Valerie + Mila flew over to England to be with Sean’s grandmother and then to attend the funeral. Although they were unsure about Sean’s grandfather’s final destiny, Sean was able to give a challenging gospel message at the funeral.  

Linda:  

continues with home schooling looking after the household and also has started a bible study with a friend Laurie.  Her health has improved somewhat upon her return with no problems now with breathing although she still has some struggles with the fibromyalgia. 

Linda’s mom + Dad :    Linda’s mom has just finished the first month of chemo and is pretty weak but other than that seems fairly good.  Linda’s dad just had another operation and with this one it was so that he would be able to possibly eat again.  The operation proved to be partly successful however he still hasn’t been able to eat real solid food yet.  He is however drinking a bit and learning to use the muscles in his mouth and jaw again and we hope in the future they will be able to take him off of the stomach feed tube which he has bee on for over a year but this is still a while down the road. His mental health seems good although he still struggles with short term memory loss and gets disorientated easily but we continue to see some improvement even there.  Now we pray and continue to ask you to pray that the Lord would breakthrough to both Jean’s and Larry’s hard hearts and they would see there need for Him.

We are again reminded that we battle not against flesh and blood but principalities and powers.

So therefore we read in James 5:16b " The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much" so we say Thanks for all your prayers on our behalf. </