Timothy Project GiG
God is Good!
since 1985
Sharing the Gospel and Love of Christ with People of Diverse Cultures
"But you, God, see the trouble of the afflicted; you consider their grief and take it in hand. The victims commit themselves to you; you are the helper of the fatherless." (Ps 10:14)
from Pastor Temesghen
from Sister Saba
from Tesfai
Sept 23, 2023
Today the Mayor of Nebelet spoke about Timothy Project's donation on TV. He appreciates our donation and that has give the students big hope and courage. There is excitement to start school. They never expected Timothy Project. He told them that God has spoken to us. There is a need in Nebelet. And we came to them with a big surprise And that surprise was sent by God
Sept 8, 2023
In Shire and Mekele we have Women Empowering programme and in Shire we have 125 prostitute women and 30 of them now know Jesus and I continue the programme in Mekele and we have gathered more than 60. Pray for us. I am mobilizing all evangelical churches in Tigray to make desciples and reach the women.
Sept 23, 2023
Ayder Hospital of Mekelle women and men trauma training study today. It was so powerful. But hearing or listening to everyone’s painful story, it was a heartbreaking, but at least we are doing our best with our mighty God‘s help to help them. Thank you everyone for praying supporting to those who are being hurt. Keep praying, tomorrow will be our last long day. Many amazing doctors, psychiatrist, psychologist nurses came to help, and I had to share my past painful story, everyone were moved. Yesterday's life stories do not have to be today or tomorrow’s history. Our mighty God can heal and redeem our hope comes from our God on Psalm 121
Mayor of Nebelet gives God credit for the school supplies delivered by Timothy Project.
Pastor Temesgen's team in Shire helped us deliver 45 large and 60 small blackboards to 4 school districts.
Saba brings a message of hope in God to traumatized women.
Meet the Timothy Project GiG Team
Tesfai Abay
Board Member
President. Abay Cleaning Services and leader of the Tigray community in Chicago, IL.
Tesfu Beraki
Advisory Council
Vice President of
Maezer Semay, a 24/7 gospel satellite TV ministry in Dallas, TX.
Temesghen G'hiwot
Advisory Council
Pastor and leader of the
Kale Hiwot Church in Tigray, Ethiopia.
Teame Haddis
Advisory Council
Retired engineer and missionary leader with the Global Allance of Tegaru Evangelical Christians in the California Bay Area.
Paul Isihara
Board Member
Professor of mathematics at Wheaton College (IL) serving as Timothy Project Board Chair since 2007.
Yohannes Loulsegued
Advisory Council
International Trade specialist, youth and young adult ministry leader in Los Angeles, CA
Paul Newman
Board Member
CNC Professional,
singles pastor, and business chaplain, Chicago IL
B. Elliott Renfroe
Board Member
Chaplain Westminster Village in Bloomington IL and Board member of Greenville College.
Alice Ruhiu
Advisory Council
Production Consultant
United Bible Societies Africa Publishing Unit, Nairobi Kenya
Emmanuel Tahear
Board Member
SIM Cross-Cultural Missionary and pastoral staff of College Church, Wheaton, IL
Saba Tewolde
Advisory Council
Ethiopian chef, elderly caregiver, and Tigray ministry leader, Santa Barbara CA
'God is Good' was a favorite greeting of Timothy Project's founder Don Church
as you can read below (based on "Tracking Those Little Seeds Sown Forty Years Ago" by Scott Armstrong, Ph.D. )
A single shot of the gun sent a dozen men running that hot June day in Bouake, Ivory Coast, in 1972.
A large group of onlookers, sensing the urgency, yelled, pointing, as if the men needed coaxing to keep moving.
The military? Police? Would-be robbers? No, it was the shot signaling the start of the 10,000 meter race in
Bouake's Municipal Stadium.
The event was a track meet featuring Ivorian Olympic hopefuls and equally talented U.S. collegians. But this collegiate team was different. Organized by Wheaton College Coach, Don (Bubba) Church, the primary objective of the trip was to share the love of Jesus Christ with athletes and coaches in the countries we visited. Coach Church recruited athletes from all across the country...Wheaton College, Taylor University, Biola University, Westmont College... but there were also athletes from Stanford University, UCLA, and the University of Maryland.
Coach Church led these trips with the understanding that we "plant the seed," and the "reaping of souls" comes in God's time. One of those tiny seeds came during our stay in Kampala, Uganda. Each morning, the same cab driver picked up the coaches and transported them to the stadium. And each day, as "Bubba" Church entered the cab, he said to the driver, "God is good!" The driver was seemingly unimpressed.
Fast forward to the late 1980s, to Huntington, Indiana. Joe Harding, served as the athletic trainer before becoming Huntington College's Men's Soccer Coach. One year, Joe met an incoming international student, who had just arrived on campus for his freshman year. The young man was from Uganda. Conjuring sweet memories of his trip in 1972, Joe eagerly asked the young man how he became a Christian and ended up at Huntington College. The young Ugandan said that he was raised in a Christian home, and his father had introduced him to Jesus. His father had become a Christian in 1972, when his family lived in Kampala. His father drove a cab. His father had transported a track coach from Wheaton College, named Don Church, to the city's stadium. Each day Coach greeted his father with the simple statement, "God is good." That expression of happiness and satisfaction in the Lord led to his father's conversion, and ultimately to that of his entire family.
Missionaries of the Gospel are some of the most patient persons on this earth. How many have toiled years and years with few converts to show for it? So where is that proof--how do we know our efforts will mean anything? That's easy. The answer is in a very simple statement of testimony: "God is good!"
Donald A. Church
1934-2020