{"id":1921,"date":"2011-09-23T17:27:03","date_gmt":"2011-09-23T17:27:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aimint.org\/au\/2011\/09\/23\/timo-a-great-way-to-start-ministry-in-africa-and-plant-churches\/"},"modified":"2011-09-23T17:27:03","modified_gmt":"2011-09-23T17:27:03","slug":"timo-a-great-way-to-start-ministry-in-africa-and-plant-churches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/aimint.org\/ap\/2011\/09\/23\/timo-a-great-way-to-start-ministry-in-africa-and-plant-churches\/","title":{"rendered":"TIMO: a great way to start ministry in Africa \u2026. and plant churches!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: medium; line-height: 1.3em;\">AIM\u2019s Training in Ministry Outreach, or TIMO, program is a great way to get to the heart of AIM\u2019s ministry \u2014 Christ-centered churches among all African peoples. This is the view of TIMO\u2019s International Director, David H, who shared in meetings in Australia, Korea and Brazil in August and September. David has challenged the Asia Pacific mobilising region to provide 20 TIMO members in 2012. TIMO is AIM\u2019s two-year, on-the-job training program for small teams of people who are placed among communities of unreached peoples. This is an effective introduction into cross-cultural mission.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Teams generally comprise up to 10 people from around the world, including Africa and have an experienced missionary or couple as their leaders. \u201cHistory shows TIMO teams are effective in taking the gospel to unreached peoples.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic; line-height: 1.3em;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">David said TIMO has the capacity to take people who generally don\u2019t qualify for such a strategic ministry as church planting among the unreached.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">\u201cWe can take the least equipped or inexperienced people into a strategic work and they can do it! \u2014 and do it well!\u201d \u00a0TIMO is centred around partnership with African missions and churches. All teams normally have at least one African member. Recently All-African TIMO teams have commenced. David said TIMO also partners with other expatriate mission organisations. \u201cIt\u2019s all about (God\u2019s) Kingdom. We are serious about partnering with other groups.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">\u201cTIMO is partnering with African missions like CAPRO from Nigeria and others like the Evangelical Free Church of America, TEAM Mission, Diguna from Germany. We are training a person from SIM to run what will probably be a combined AIM\/SIM team.\u201d TIMO is doing a third team with the Bible Fellowship of America. Members are still screened and processed through AIM but BFA recruit and pray for the team members.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">The Africa Inland Church is aiming for their own, complete TIMO teams. In the past the AIC Missionary Board has put member couples or individuals on teams. These are well-trained Africans who have graduated from theological college.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.3em;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Benefits Of Team<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">The TIMO team idea enables people to get into a context where they are not \u201clone rangers\u201d and not doing it all. They\u00a0maximise team and members thrive. <em>\u201cThe team leader\u2019s primary role description is to ensure the welfare and success of the team members.\u201d<\/em> Team leaders spend four hours a week, one-on-one with team members as well as time with the team. TIMO focuses on learning language and culture and studies a curriculum including discipleship, spiritual warfare, evangelism and cross-cultural communication. In all, team members will read about 40 books and prepare assignments and partake in team discussions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">An advantage of TIMO is that once a concept is learnt from reading, it can be practiced in the field. David said AIM has entered a new era with regionalisation of the African field. There are regional leadership teams for East, Southern, Central and North Africa. \u201cThere is an exciting new wind, with each region wanting to see all their unreached people groups reached. TIMO can do it. It is a tool. Regions own it and use it to reach their unreached groups.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">David said TIMO has found it may take several teams over about 8 years to effectively plant a church among a people group. \u201cWe are now into our 42nd team since TIMO began in 1985. The Vanilla Island TIMO team commencing in November will be our 44th team. This team will include two young Australian ladies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">September 2011<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AIM\u2019s Training in Ministry Outreach, or TIMO, program is a great way to get to the heart of AIM\u2019s ministry \u2014 Christ-centered churches among all African peoples. This is the view of TIMO\u2019s International Director, David H, who shared in meetings in Australia, Korea and Brazil in August and September. 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