For those of you who were just here and others, my snail mail address is:
SGO 13012, 7990 15th Street East, Sarasota, FL 34243. Mail generally takes about a week to get to me.
My email address is: davidson@drmission.com or macedoniaproject@hotmail.com. And of couse you can always leave a comment on the web site!
Overview of The Timothy Project
The Timothy Project is a multi-faceted plan to develop new leaders for the purpose of planting new churches. One aspect of the project is a training program; another is researching new mission fields for the purpose of preparing to initiate new works. Yet another aspect of the ministry of the Timothy Project is facilitating special projects which help to prepare a community for the gospel and strengthen the efforts of Dominican church planting teams.
The use of volunteers from other countries is very valuable to what is happening in the Timothy Project. There are a number of church planting teams that welcome the use of volunteers because it encourages them in their ministry and provides valuable people resources in areas where they are working. The advantage of linking volunteers with a Dominican team already in place before the volunteers arrive is of great value to the volunteers as well. It help ensures that the investment and work of the short term project can bear long term fruit in the
Kingdom of God.
Some ways volunteers have been utilized in the past: Prayer walking, personal evangelism, sports outreach ministry, children’s ministries, specific leadership training, conferences on parenting, community need projects.
Some issues to keep in mind:
We are working to develop an indigenous church planting movement, whereby Dominicans are reaching Dominicans and establishing churches that are able to be reproduced with or without the help of outside resources. Our prayer is that one day soon, every community in the DR will have access to a vibrant church that bears faithful testimony to Jesus Christ.
In keeping with this vision, our volunteer projects seek to facilitate the ministry of the Dominican church planting teams. We strive to use methods and projects which are reproducible by the Dominicans themselves. We also try to maximize the Dominican involvement in whatever project is done. For instance, in recent community needs projects, almost all of the labor was provided by the residents of the community. In our VBS projects, we have Dominican workers that will equal or exceed the number of volunteer workers. Our goal is that they learn from our volunteer teams and can reproduce whatever method we use.
My work involves the Cibao region. I am personally working most closely among the urban poor in Santiago. I have some contact with works in La Vega, San Francisco de Macoris, Puerta Plata and Bonao. We have other IMB mission teams that are focusing on other population segments throughout the country.
Our vision is to see the power and presence of Jesus Christ transform the people of the Cibao barrios as the people learn to build their lives on Him through the minsitries of churches planted in every community, proclaiming Christ in their own Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria and the utter ends of the earth.
Core Values
The Timothy Project values
· the local church as God’s primary agent for evangelization. Ephesians 3:8-11(NIV)
· the family as the basic unit through which the Gospel will spread and transform the barrios, both biblically and culturally. Acts 11:13-15
· the transforming power of God’s Word which leads us to proactively share the message of the Bible, the story of God’s salvation. This is essential to a church planting movement among the Cibao barrios. Isaiah 55:10-11
· the power of prayer and Christian fellowship (love one for another) as the primary means of calling upon the power of God to open the hearts and minds of people, making them receptive to hear and receive the gift of salvation through Jesus Christ. Acts 2:42-47 and John 13:34-35
· the resources God has provided and believe them to be sufficient for “getting the job done.” We must hold ourselves accountable to being faithful stewards of all that God has entrusted to us, allowing God’s spirit in us to bear much fruit. 2 Peter 1:3-8
· the passionate desire of God for all peoples to come to repentance and thus we commit ourselves to patiently working to tell the story of God’s salvation in the language and preferred learning styles of the people. 2 Peter 3:8-9 and Acts 2:1-8
