Tim Ramos Ministries - Preacher, Speaker, Communicator

This weekend has been a great one.  Saturday was a day of just hanging out and making new friends.  One thing people do over in here in Guatemala is that they love to fellowship with one another.  Just sitting down drinking coffee and eating pan dulce.  Peoples houses are open to everyone from the church.  I really love that.

Today, Sunday was a great day of worshipping and praising my God.  It is neat to get together with my brothers and sisters and worship the Lord.  God is doing a great work over here and the people are seeking after him.  This week has been just awesome and I cannot wait for this week.  God is teaching me alot of things and I am seeking Him for some details for my future.  Their are many opportunites for me, and all are great, but want to be in HIS will.

I hope you all have a great week.

Tim

Today has been pretty good so far.  I started off the day at 7am running and playing basketball.  I must exercise because the way they are feeding me here I am gonna get even bigger.  Most of the day I have just been sitting here in the office with some of the pastors who are in training, Just talking about God and learning from the Word.  At the church, they have a cooking class so I was able to go and test their food for them.  Lots of Guatemala food and desserts.  Tonight I am gonna hang out with the Pastor and His family.  This week I have been staying with one of the Pastors in Training with his family.  They have been super awesome to me.

God is really using this church..Iglesia Biblical de Lamas Norte.  They are really having an impact on their community.  Sad to say, but they are doing alot more than many of the churches in US.  One thing the Lord has been teaching me the last couple of months and through this church, is it is not how much you have or give, God just wants your OBEDIENCE and Faithfulness.  God is using this church because they are willing to trust him with the things they have, and God is rewarding them.   They do not have the top notch programs, events, or facilities, they have the Holy Spirit and that is enough for them.  People over here do not have much, but they a content with the Lord.

Are you giving your leftovers to God or are you giving Him everything.

Blessings,

Tim

Well, yesterday I the opportunity to go take some food to some families who are in some harsh living conditions.  I am blessed for what God has given me, but what brings me to tears is that these families consider them selves to blessed too, even though they do not have much.  One of the assistant pastors, Teddy and Ramiro who is in training to be a pastor and I went out to this part of town to deliver these boxes of food.  We had the opportunity to share the Gospel and tell that Jesus does love them and cares for them deeply.  Pray for these families that God would reach out to them.  Pray that God might even use you to do that.  Opportunities are endless here.

Today I went to a school and played with the kids during recreation time.  These schools might have 10% of the things that we have inour school in the US.  Daniel Zellner and his family move to Guatemala about 6 years ago from the US to work in these schools.  It is awesome to see the passion they have for serving the Lord.  They are helping with English and lots of the other basics such as reading, writing, and math.  My prayer for these kids at the schools is that God would allow them to get an education that can lead them to a better life.  All of these kids did not choose to be in this situation.  sometime we take it for granted living in the US.  I had nothing to do with being born in the US, it was just by God’s grace.  The purpose that he put me in the US was so I can give up of myself and reach out to people all over the world, becasue they are worhty of God’s glory.

Thank you for your prayers, God is doing great things.

Tim

Hope everyone is doing well.  Today is day three for me in Guatemala.  I arrived on Saturday after a long day of travel.  I arrive to the airport at 9 in the morning for a 11:30 flight.  Got on the plane and waited an hour on the plane before we had to get off due to mechanical problems.  Glad they spotted it before we took off.  Waited another hour before loading on to another plane and flying taking off.  Two and a half hours later I was in Gautemala City.  I will be here for about 6 weeks.  My purpose it to help a friend of mine who is a pastor to train other pastors and leaders for him.  I will be spending time with a group of teenagers who are already expressing a desire to serve God.  I will disciple them to continue in their calling.  I am also working with a few men who are in the process of being Pastors and getting ready to take action by starting a church.  I am staying right now with one of the Young Pastors at his home.  His family has been so great to me.  It is amazing to hear how they have left their good jobs here in Guatemal to follow the calling of the gospel.  These people do not have muchin the first place, but they are willing to give it up any ways to follow HIM.

i went to church yesturday and enjoyed my time there.  It was awesome to worship with them and see how they don’t need A/C, soft pews, an awesome band, lights and sound to worhsip.  They come hungry to worship together as a family in Christ.  Lots of Fellowship is the main priority here, again they don’t have much, but what matters is that they have each other.  I wish we in our churches in America would focus more on fellowship and walking this jouney with Christ together, than about how the church looks physicly, such as the building.  It’s about growing closer together so we can be stronger for Christ together.

I just finished reading “Radical” by David Platt and recommend that everyone read.  It should change your heart and the way you live if you claim to be a Christian.  I am also reading “Crazy Love” again by Francis Chan, another great book to read.

Pray for God to do a work amongs my brothers and sisters here in Guatemala.

Blessings,

Tim

I just finished my copy of “Radical” from David Platt.  WOW..is all I can say.  Jesus has called us to live a Radical life for Him and the problems that is the only way he meant it to be.  Our churches here in America have bought into the America Dream and we as believers are chasing after that dream, when the reality is Jesus calls us to a different life style.  I challenge you to pick up a copy of this book and allow the Holy Spirit to open your heart and mind to what Jesus commands from us.  We are called, that is everyone who calls Jesus, Lord and Savior to go into ALL THE WORLD AND MAKE DISCIPLES.  It is our duty to go over seas and feed the children in poverty, help the poor and give our lives so other may hear the name of Jesus and given a chance to call on HIM for salvation.  God is doing great things all around the world, join in and do what He has commanded us to do.  Get your hands on a copy of this book and get one for a friend or two.

Tim

Last week I had the honor to be at Youth Week @ Alto Frio in Leakey, TX.  This is a camp that I help with through the SBTC.  Can I just say that it was a powerful week.  Students heard the Gospel and many surrendered to follow Christ.  It is sad to see where many our youth come from, broken homes, drugs, alcohol, abuse and the list goes on.  Mike Keahbone from Oklahoma was a speaker for the week and the Lord used him to communicate the Gospel to use and many curses and chaines were broken.  Circlslide, a band from Nashville, led us in worship for the week, and what an awesome job they did.  God moved in a powerful way at camp.  I pray for each student as they continue this journy of following and being like Christ.  Never give up on a youth, Jesus is able to save all.

I also had the honor of hanging out at the In Triumph house.  The In Triumph house is a home where my friend Pete Orta and his family allow homeless/trouble teenagers or single adults to come live in their home as they share the love of Christ to them.  It is awesome to see God at work in that place.  Jesus demands a radical life to follow HIM.

God is awesome and serving HIM is an honor to do so.

Serve Him faithfully…

tim

Well, I arrived home a few hours ago after being on the road for about 17 days.  First assisgnment was attending a camp with Hillcrest.  I was able to spend a few days with the youth in Arkansas at a camp we call “Pig Camp”.  It is not your normal youth camp, we go to work and serve the Lord.  We also get to sleep with out AC and take showers in the creek.  It was a blessing to be out there.  We were able to minister to several kids/teenagers during the camp.  These kids come from a rough background, the have seen and been through alot, and God allowed us to reach out to them.

I also was able to just spend some time with friends, play golf, basketball and volleyball.  I had to spend some days in between as the day came for my friends Robert and Monica’s wedding.  Saturday I had the honor to stand in Roberts wedding.  I am bless to have a friend like him who is passionate about the Bible and serving the Lord.  It was a fantastic wedding and really just had a great time with friends.

I am home for a couple of days and then off to Youth Week @ Alto Frio in Leakey, TX.  It’s gonna be an awesome week.  Excited to see what God is gonna do.

Blessing,

tim

Dear Friends,

I am happy to announce that in July, I will be going to Guatemala for 6 weeks to serve at Fellowship Guatemala.   Projected dates are July 12th to the end of August.  I will be devoted in discipleship training, leading young Pastors in the work of the ministry.  One of my passions is to go on mission and so I am excited to be apart of this work that God has in stored for me.  I want to ask you to commit praying for me, that God would allow me to use the gifts that HE has given me to serve this Church.  Pray that my time there would be beneficial to people there and that God would speak to me.  Pray that God would provide financially to make this trip possible.

If you would like to help make this trip possible by giving a financial love offering gift, your gift will help impact the Kingdom.  Please pray what God would have you give to this ministry.  Tim Ramos Ministries can not function with out the help of people like you.  Please go to the “DONATE” page to see how you can send your love offering gift to the Ministry.  I thank you in advance for your giving.

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For His Kingdom,

Tim Ramos

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Sorry that it has been a while since I have last written.  I hope this finds you doing well.  God is truly worthy to be praised and worthy to give up everything to serve and follow HIM.  God is doing a new work in my life and I’m excited to be apart of His will.

This past Sunday I had the opportunity to visit Grace Family Baptist Church where Dr. Voddie Baucham is the teaching pastor.  I was blessed to be apart of their service and enjoyed how they conducted there service.  The church is all about community, walking in this journey together, the way church was designed to be.  If you ever have a chance to hear one of his sermons (you can google him or youtube him), you will be blessed.

A big reason why I give praise to God, is that for years I have been praying for a dear friend of mine to return to feet of Christ.  We grew up together in the same church and as we got older, he went away from the church.  About 3 months ago, I was able to sit down with him and just talk about life, and of course share about how Christ is worthy to be served.  Through prayer and more prayer, he has opened up and started going back to church and tonight he committed to come back to the feet of Jesus.  Only God can do this, draw someone near to Him, and I praise Him for doing so.  I am excited to see what God is going to do through my friend. Never give up on anyone, and always pray, never give up.

Who are you investing in?  What are you doing to reach others for Christ?  It is our duty.

Blessings,

Tim

I love my job.  These last 6 days I have been on the road with Shane and Shane running Front of House (sound).  Also on the tour is Carlos Whittaker and John Mark McMillan (How He loves Us).  It has been a blast being on the bus with all of these guys.  They are awesome people to be around.  The Tour started out at Oklahoma State University on Wednesday, then Missouri, Ohio, Indiana and then North Carolina.  Today we had a day off in Savannah, Georgia, awesome place, then head out tomorrow to do 7 more shows in a row.  Check out www.shaneandshane.com to see if we will be close by.  Every place we have been to have been awesome to us.  All the food we have eaten has been amazing and each show has been pretty much a night of worship.  I am honored to be on the bus with these people.  Also with us is Shane Barnards wife, Bethany Dillon who is 6 months pregnant, I don’t know how she does it on the road.  Pray for safe travel for us and that each show would bring honor to the Lord.  Thanks

tim