Encouragements

It's hard this blogging lark - everything blogged is so public. So to blog about work isn't always appropriate. If you receive our quarterly Canterbury Tales you'll have more of an idea (if you don't get this you should! - send me an email to sign up) of the joys and trials of TSCF work. I do wonder if I err towards the pessimistic side because I've been very surprised over the last couple of weeks.


Two things that have been great:

1. My new support leaflet.
My TSCF field colleagues and I are all redoing our support leaflets (with lots of help from wonderful TSCF office colleagues!) Few of us are 100% funded, and now undergrad lectures are coming to an end (next week is the last week unbelievably) it frees time for support raising. We'd love more people to be part of the team financing this work, so again, send me an email if you're interested. Anyway, as part of this new 'introducing Tim Hodge as a TSCF staffworker' leaflet some people have written short references. I wonder if they've got the right person as their reports are so glowing! See if you agree with them:

Tim has a heart for mission, and a real ability to work with tertiary students in that arena. He is a gifted communicator, and is grounded well in the Word. Tim is a strategic thinker, able to plan ahead and also implement in the present. He gathers good people around him in ministry, and is definitively a team player. He has gained the respect and friendship of all who work with him. I believe supporting him in prayer and finance in this most valuable work he spearheads is an investment well worth making.

Mothy is enthusiastic about his job and takes a general interest into how our studies and walk with the Lord is going. He helps us to ask questions to develop our knowledge of the Bible and too bring us closer to Jesus. Every week he helps us to broaden our sights on ways to make Jesus known on our Lincoln campus. He keeps us on track when we go on a tangent, and makes sure we ensure all we do as a wider LUCF relates back to fulfilling the LUCF goals.

God has a way of bringing the right people into the right job and nowhere is this more true than with Tim and Lizzy at Lincoln. Tim has an obvious and infectious love of the Word of God and is really gifted at helping students relate the Bible to life. Tim and Lizzy are committed to the Lincoln community but also have a commitment to help students in the wider Canterbury region to reach other students for Christ, whatever university they attend. Tim and Lizzy clearly love God and love students and I invite you to support them as they help more students grow in their love of God and his word.

I'm waiting on a couple more, but these three have encouraged me no end!

2. Second thing happened 10 mins ago - a graduating student from mid year has just swung by on his way north from a farm down south and brought Lizzy and I two carrier bags full of sausages and chops. 'Just 'cos you're you Mothy'. Really nice of him. Means more to me than he probably realises. A great way to start the weekend! Here it is all wrapped up into TimnLizzy size portions. Yum.

Huge thanks for the encouragements of so many that contribute, from all over the world, to TSCF in NZ!