Tyler Romania Ministry

2011-07-05T05:56:00.002+03:00

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2010 Tyler Christmas Praises

2010-12-18T11:31:00.001+02:00

Dear Prayer Partners,

First of all, we want to wish you a very MERRY CHRISTMAS and a BLESSED NEW YEAR!

Speaking of the new year, it gives us occasion to recall some of the many blessings of the present one…
January 2010 – Our church in Timisoara hosted our 5th annual Church Planters Conference with Bro. Rick Houk and 77 in attendance (about half of them national pastors and missionaries in Romania)
February 2010 – The teens of our church put on a Sweetheart Banquet for the adults in our church with the theme, “An evening in Venice”.
March 2010 – Bro. Gabriel Rivera preached a family conference for us. Zoli, the husband of one of our faithful ladies, was also saved during this month.
April 2010 – Rebekah got engaged to Travis Garza with our blessing. Zoli was baptized (he also brought 10 visitors to see it) and began discipleship lessons.
May 2010 – Reprinted 10,000 copies of the “Done” book in Romanian. Rebekah arrived to help us for the summer.
June 2010 – Pastor Troy Dorrell and 28 adults and teens from Eastland Baptist Church in Tulsa, OK, came for an unforgetable 10 days in which thousands of tracts and Done books were distributed, special services were held in Romanian and Gypsy churches and whirlwind siteseeing tours were conducted of Roman ruins, medieval castles and Budapest landmarks. (GREAT FUN! But I think we slept a week afterwards.)
July 2010 – VBS was held earlier than usual, but had great results and the help of 2 girls from West Coast Baptist College – Sarah Cook and Rebecca Furlong. John came home for 2 weeks at the end of the month and we made a wonderful family trip to Rome.
August 2010 – Our church sent 25 children to Camp of Joy (divided into 3 age-appropriate weeks). During this time Debra was Stateside for the birth of our first grandchild on August 12, 2010: Titus Evan Williams. She and Rebekah were present for the event, and I was on the phone with them to hear the cries of a newborn miracle. AWESOME!
September 2010 – Debra returned with Sarah Helwig, a 2010 Masters graduate of WCBC, who came to work with us for a year-and-a-half or more. Praise the Lord for her musical talents and servant spirit.
October 2010 – John asked Pearl Choi to marry him. Dr. W.A. Smith from Oklahoma City, OK, was our guest speaker for the 5th anniversary of the Timisoara Independent Baptist Church.
November 2010 – I preached at 2 mission conferences in Hungary, and our church held our “By Grace” Mission Conference.
December 2010 – Here we are, ready for special Christmas concerts and making plans for 2011!

All of these things were possible “Because You Gave” (see below)

Your servants in Christ,
Tim & Debra Tyler and family

Because You Gave

by Tim Stephens

We worked today.

Ordinary jobs were accomplished because of you.

We composed lessons and letters on a computer you bought for us.

Necessary errands were run in a dependable vehicle you purchased.

Our children were schooled from books you paid for.

We have lights, water and a home

Because you gave.

We relaxed today.

An outing you provided refreshed our family.

We turned aside from the routine and enjoyed a meal out.

Thank you.

We laughed and played together and had a restful time

Because you gave.

We worshipped today.

Your sacrifice paid for believers to travel to church.

They gathered in a building that you rented and remodeled.

They read from the Bibles you bought

And sat in chairs you donated so they might hear God's Word.

They praised their Savior from songbooks in their native tongue

Because you gave.

Someone was saved today.

You stood with us as we proclaimed to him the everlasting gospel.

A disciple whom you helped us train led him to Jesus.

He will follow his Lord in a baptismal that you helped purchase.

He will grow in grace and in the knowledge of Christ

And his life will be forever changed

Because you gave.

Thanks be unto God for his unspeakable gift.

2 Corinthians 9:15

Monday Memo - September 27, 2010

2010-09-27T22:31:00.001+03:00

MONDAY MEMO - September 27, 2010

Dear Prayer Partners,
Yesterday was Bible Day at the Timisoara Independent Baptist Church and everyone received a quality Bible for their personal use. The new translation in Romanian is the culmination of over 8 years of work, which began with the Gospel Light Independent Baptist Church in Cluj and has involved many other individuals and churches. Our people have participated in the proofreading process for over 2 years; so they are glad to have the final product in hand. They were amazed at the quality, too.

It was a special blessing to see the children of our church clutching their new Bibles in their arms like a treasure (which it is). We plan to give every visitor who comes a Bible and the Done book, along with our church brochure. Next Sunday is Student Day and we will go out in the University complex to invite students to come visit our church. Please pray that they will be receptive and come to hear the Gospel.

Also, this Saturday, we will be hosting all the Children's Ministry workers at our home for some fellowship and training. We have some wonderful people who really love children and are dedicated to bringing them to a personal relationship with Jesus.

Please remember to pray for us during this busy time of year. Starting tomorrow night and for the next month, I’ll be covering the mid-week services at the Gypsy church in Timisoara while the Heisey family is on a brief furlough. The devil tries to attack people during these times, but "greater is He that is in you (us), than he that is in the world"!

Your servant in Christ,
Tim J. Tyler

God Will Make a Way

2010-09-06T12:52:00.000+03:00

John Tyler, Sarah Michael and Jon Guy

Heaven Medley

2010-08-30T12:58:00.000+03:00

Titus Evan Williams = our first grandchild!

2010-08-13T08:47:00.000+03:00

Titus Evan Williams - born Aug. 12, 2010 at 12:52 pm - 7 lbs. 8 oz., 20.5 inches

Monday Memo - 2010.06.01

2010-06-01T10:49:00.000+03:00

This Monday Memo is late not only by a day, but also by several weeks. Our ministries have been filled with activity and we are planning for a very busy summer!

May was busy with several special events at our church in Timisoara. We had our monthly Christian Children’s Club (an evangelistic outreach) and again had over 40 in attendance. As a result, we have had an average of 23 children in our Sunday School and Junior Church each week. There have also been visitors from among their parents. On the 15th, a group of 15 teens convoyed through Timisoara on bicycles, arriving at a lakeside park for a picnic and praise time. Our youth director, Cosmin, and his family have been doing a great job teaching and leading the youth ministries of our church. He is a postal worker and Ioana is a pre-school teacher, and they have 2 boys, David (5) and Tomas (3).

Last Saturday, we had a church picnic at our house and there were about 40 people, most of whom we transported from the city to our home in Buzias. We ate and played together, as they also welcomed Rebekah back for the summer. She had arrived the day before and was a bit "out of it", but everyone was so happy to see her again. There was a real sense of fellowship in the Lord and everyone said, "Let's do that more often!"

Our full concentration and energy is currently directed toward the coming of a large group from Eastland Baptist Church in Tulsa. We are looking forward to "striving together for the faith of the Gospel" (Phil. 1:27) and have planned special outreach events during their time with us. Please pray for traveling mercies and for wisdom in all ministry efforts. We want to allow the Lord to work and to be His servants to accomplish His will.

By faith, we are printing 10,000 copies of the DONE book in Romanian, at a price of about 50 cents a copy. We gave the printer an advance of $2500 and will need to pay the rest over the next 2 months. Please pray for this need.

I'd like to share with you a personal request. We would like to have John home for a couple of weeks this summer. It has been a year and a half since he was here, but the cost of travel has increased so much that it may not be possible for him to come. He just finished his 3rd year at West Coast Baptist College and has been paying his own way through school and serving on the music staff of Lancaster Baptist Church. We only ask you to pray that the Lord will provide a way if it is His will.

Darci and Derrick are doing well in Macon, GA, and we are waiting rather impatiently for the arrival of our first grandson in August. Debra plans to be there to help in any way she can.

Your prayers and financial gifts greatly appreciated and are having an impact in Romania! Thank you for your faithfulness.

2010 - first Monday Memo

2010-02-11T06:08:00.000+02:00

Dear Prayer Partners,

This is my first Monday Memo of 2010 because we have been very busy through the holidays and first few weeks of the new year. God blessed during the Christmas season. We had several parents come for the children's Christmas program which had the theme: Christmas around the world. Each child was dressed in the attire of different countries and shared a bit about how Christmas is celebrated there, but always coming back to the truth that Jesus is the reason for the season. We also held our choir concert on 2 consecutive nights, which allowed room for more visitors to come.

On New Year's Eve, we had the teens from our church come to our home for a 2-day retreat. We played games, ate lots of good food (and junk food, too), and had 4 teaching sessions. There were 18 in our home. It was a blast and the teens have shown a greater dedication to the Lord and the church so far this year.

This past week we were blessed to have Rick and Kathy Houk with us from Lancaster Baptist Church in California. Brother Houk preached to our church on the End Times on Sunday, Jan. 10th; then on Monday and Tuesday, he preached a series of challenging and helpful messages on servant-leadership at our 5th annual Church Planters Conference. There were over 70 in attendance on Monday night and we used every chair we own! I have received messages from several of the 57 pastors, missionaries and workers who came from other areas of Romania and there was a common expression that God used the messages in a powerful way to challenge them in their labors for the Lord.

On a personal note, we have had several special blessings. Rebekah came home for Christmas with her boyfriend, Travis, and they were a great help and blessing. We also learned that Derrick and Darci (our oldest daughter) are expecting our first grandchild this August! John got to spend Christmas with Grandma and Grandpa Tyler in Missouri. God also provided financially in a wonderful way over the holidays. We were able to pay off some debt which we have incurred over the past few years due to college costs, home improvements and airfair expenses. We have been also able to purchase a few special items for the ministry, such as a guitar and tracts. This was truly a timely provision from the Lord through his people.

Thank-you so much for your faithful prayers and support, and especially for the special Christmas gifts!

Your servant in Christ,
Tim J. Tyler
Missionary to Romania

VBS Memo from Romania-8/31/09

2009-08-31T11:27:00.004+03:00

Dear Prayer Partners,

WHAT A WEEK! Our 4th annual Vacation Bible School was an awesome experience, both in activity and in challenge. Our high day was 90 on Wednesday (with a close second of 88 on Friday). Over 125 children came, and 4 of the older kids trusted the Lord as their personal Saviour! Our workers were exhausted, but we are all praising the Lord for what He did this week.

Sunday was a good day. We had several new children come for Sunday School and a few more showed up for Junior Church. This Wednesday afternoon we will hold our first monthly Christian Children's Club with the hope of continuing our relationship with the children who came to VBS. Please pray that this will provide opportunities to meet and minister to their parents as well.

In the month of September, we have scheduled Back to School activities, Ladies Bible study, a Teens In Action activity and our first Involvement Night where we will be challenging people in our church family to get personally involved (with training) in some aspect of the ministry of the Timisoara Independent Baptist Church.

We are once again without a church pianist, so I will be trying to play for services while teaching Bethany and a couple of others how to play congregational songs. I knew I should have practiced more over the years! Please pray for a skilled pianist for our church because we want to be able to always have Christ-honoring special music as well. I am praying that someone would be called of God to come and minister with us in the development of our music ministry. Will you also pray for this, please?

Next week, I will be taking my wife away for a 3-day trip to Venice in celebration of our 25th anniversary; so I may not get the Monday Memo out. Don't think we're going deluxe...we got both plane tickets for 100 euros, and the hotel was a special deal I found online! We are thankful for the goodness of the Lord that we can celebrate in a special way.

Thank-you so much for your faithful prayers and support!

VBS UPDATE - part I

2009-08-27T09:32:00.008+03:00

SUNDAY-WEDNESDAY VBS MEMO

We are past the mid-point of our VBS, and WOW! is it exciting. Our attendance has grown from 65 to 90, and we have 2 more days to see the Lord answer our prayers for 101 (a request initiated by the prayers of Rachel Sewell, a WCBC student who spent a few weeks with us and helped with VBS preparations).

We are also very aware of the spiritual warfare that is manifesting itself in very personal ways. Our youth director's wife was traumatized today when their 2-year-old boy was choking on sunflower seeds he had swallowed and stuck up his nose. Her husband was working at the time, so she had to run down the street in her house shoes trying to find a clinic in the area. They are new to the area, and it took nearly an hour for her to find someone to help her. It sounds absurd, but she literally asked dozens of people to help her, and they only pointed down the street and let her go on by herself. She also went to several clinics which were closed or "too busy" to help. She felt like her son would die in her arms before she could find help in a strange city. But he is ok, and they were faithfully in their places serving the Lord tonight! Yet when the night was over, she broke down in tears as she shared the details of the day.

I also asked the other workers how they felt today, and all of them admitted that there was a great trial just to get to VBS tonight. Our mini-van also died after dropping off the last child last night, and so we are trying to pick up about 30 kids with our church van and 2 borrowed vehicles.

Pray for us and for these dear children to understand the Gospel and to be saved. Several parents are also staying each night; so pray that we can reach them as well.

I will be posting updates and pictures on this blog site and on Twitter - http://twitter.com/tim2ro . Please feel free to follow us (our posts) as we follow Christ!

More to follow soon...

Thanks, Rachel!

2009-08-26T10:47:00.005+03:00

Rachel Sewell was such a blessing to us! She recorded several accompaniments for our choir.

She also helped with the VBS decorations.
She modeled "service with a smile". We tried to convince her to stay with us, but she had to return home; but not before she got to see 68 children come for our first night of VBS! She is praying for 101, so we are gearing up for more to come!!!

Monday Memo - Aug. 10, 2009

2009-08-18T09:07:00.003+03:00

Today is a very special day for us because 25-years-ago, I married the girl of my dreams and God has truly given us the desire of our hearts as we have served the Lord together! We now have 3 of our 5 children living half-way around the world, and so our Anniversary seams a bit quiet. But consistent with the pattern which started on our 1st anniversary when we were on a church bus coming back to Wyoming from summer youth camp on the campus of Pacific Coast Baptist Bible College in California, we are busy today with a VBS program at the Gypsy church here in Timisoara. That's ok, we enjoy being busy and sharing our day with people we love (even though we miss our kids, parents and friends from the States). Deb and I will take a special trip next month for a few days, because we found a roundtrip airfare of 50 euros each from Timisoara to Venice, Italy!

Our camp season is over and our young people had a great time. It is apparent that the Lord really spoke to their hearts! In two more weeks we will be conducting the VBS at our church for 6 nights. With a dinosaur theme and an excited team, we are praying for more souls to be saved than in years past and for families to be added to the church.

By faith, we have expanded the area we rent to include 3 more rooms so that we can have room for new classes and a larger Junior Church program. After VBS, we are also planning to start a weekly Christian Children's Club on a weekday to continue to reach children and their families with the Gospel.

Our attendance remains consistently between 45-55 on Sunday mornings, but some of our folks have been gone on vacation. We are looking to a growing time when school starts. We printed 10,000 more tracts and they are being distributed rapidly.

Our personal budget has been devastated by the cost of repairs on our minivan. It has been in the shop 4 weeks out of the past 5, and the costs have grown over $1500. I had hoped to sell it before any such problems developed, but now I'm stuck. The owner of the shop is a Christian and he is allowing me to pay off the repairs in segments of about $500. Please pray that we can get this resolved and try to get into a smaller, more affordable vehicle.

Thank-you so much for your faithful prayers and support!

Friday in Timisoara with Rachel.

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2009-07-22T09:43:00.003+03:00

Rachel Sewell took a brief tour in Budapest before returning with us to Romania.

Monday Memo from Romania-7/13/09

2009-07-14T08:39:00.002+03:00

MONDAY MEMO

Dear Prayer Partners,

Today began our summer camp season at Camp of Joy (Tabara Bucuriei). We have 4 of our teens who are counselors or workers this year, and we have 10 who will be campers. What a blessing it is to see how God has been working in their lives - especially Ioan and Angi, who are brother and sister and were both saved on Feb. 29, 2008 at a youth rally in our church. They have grown so much and have a great burden for their father as well as their older brother and sister to be saved. Please pray for them and for Gabriel and Teodora as they minister to children at the camp.

We are working on the plans for VBS in August and for a weekly childrens program that will follow. We have the opportunity to rent another part of the building where our church meets so that we can have extra rooms for children's classes and for a church office. The owner is giving us a price of 200 euros (about $280), which is about half price compared to other places. We really need this space in order to divide our growing Sunday School classes and to provide a work space for ministry planning and operations on-sight. We are going ahead by faith, though this is above our monthly budget. Please pray that our church will continue to grow and be
able to also give toward this important need.

Pray for Rebekah this week because she is a camper at Silver State Baptist Youth Camp in Colorado. We are asking God to make this an extra special camp experience for her just before she starts colleg in the fall. Also, Bethany is a camper this week here in Romania at Camp of Joy. Please pray for her as well.

About our family car...still waiting to hear the price for repairs (and after 3 weeks of waiting, I am beginning to get a bit nervous). I know it will be substantial; so please pray for God's provision.

Thank-you so much for your faithful prayers!

Your servant in Christ,
Tim J. Tyler
Missionary to Romania

Music Matters

2009-07-09T13:00:00.002+03:00

We all know the importance of godly music in ministry. We are endeavoring to develop a good repretoir of anthems and songs to prepare the hearts of people for the even more important part of any service: the preaching of God's Word. We are constantly looking for appropriate music, and are making requests to translate some into Romanian. Please pray for our team as we labor to accomplish this.

Summer Camp Season

2009-07-08T08:14:00.000+03:00

Our church in Timisoara has 4 teens working in the Camp of Joy (Tabara Bucuriei) in Bihor this summer. They are at a training this week with Dr. Ken Hay and Dan Burk from The Wilds Camps Abroad, and next week will begin the 4 week camping season. We are excited for them to have this privelege to serve the Lord and minister to other kids.