Missionary Tim Parrow Update

April 2010 Report

Dear Pastor and Brethren:
A Profession of Faith
Alberto, before he was deported, assured me that he had repented of his sin and trusted in the Lord for salvation.

Although unknown to us at the time, Alberto had left his wife and two daughters and was living in an apartment with some other Mexican men. Roxanne and I ministered to his wife, Amelia, giving her Christian literature to read and taking clean clothing to Alberto in the jail so he would have something to wear once he was deported. During that period of time we found out that Amelia had talked to an attorney about getting a divorce. Subsequently, we did our best to encourage her not to get a divorce but to give Alberto another opportunity to amend the wrongs he had done and get back with her since his profession of faith. She seemed to be in agreement, and now we are waiting for Alberto to fulfill his promises. Please pray for Alberto Garcia and his family. Amelia may have returned to Mexico with the children to be with Alberto because we have not heard anything from him or them up until this writing.
The God of the Bible
With both Pedro and Alberto deported, I asked Gustavo if he still wanted me to come to teach him the Bible on Sundays. Remember, he had called me a racist because of my witness to him. Surprisingly, he agreed, (thanks for your prayers), and so I have continued working with Gustavo during the entire month of April. He was joined by another Mexican man the last Sunday of April. Hilario, a repeat offender with a Jehovah’s Witnesses background and who gave me a difficult time, is much milder in his manner this time. I have begun a Bible study on the subject of God with hopes of teaching both of them the biblical concept of who God is and what He is like. The majority of people have a faulty concept of God, if they have any concept at all, and the god of false religion is always confused with the God of the Bible. It is one of the deceptions of the Devil to cause people who are believing in a false god to equate their god to the true and living God of the Holy Scriptures. We have already hit a sore spot with the concept of idolatry but Gustavo cannot argue with the Holy Word of God. His Roman Catholic religion is guilty of praying to “saints” and honoring them as if they had divine power to help him win favor with God, somewhat like good luck charmers. Both Hilario and Gustavo are seeing that it is not my words that are quick and powerful, cutting the very fabric of their false doctrine, but the Holy Word of God. Gustavo cannot charge God with racism because it is God who made him, as his Creator, a Mexican. What a joy it is to me, brethren, to teach and preach God’s Divine and Holy Word. It is the only reliable source of truth and truth itself!

By His grace and in gratitude,
Tim & Roxanne Parrow
II Tim. 1:7