“I am as excited about Timothy Network as I have been at any time in the ministry’s existence!” These were the words Mike Stroud, Executive Director, spoke at the Board of Directors meeting last Sunday, May 5.

Around 300 people have been equipped and discipled over the past seven years. The work is expanding into new areas – most recently at the Rutherford County Correctional Work Center (RCCWC). Mike and co-worker, Bruce Hunzicker, kicked-off “Project Braveheart” there on April 20. Eleven men are being discipled through a character development program while incarcerated. They are paired with outside individual mentors (trained and equipped through Timothy Network’s discipling ministry) who will encourage them in order to build a trust relationship that they can continue once each offender is released.

As the work grows we are experiencing typical growing pains in the area of financial resources. This e-letter is to apprise you of the exciting things that are happening and also to ask for your help. We are very much in need of your financial partnership at this particular time.

We are seeking financial partners to bolster and further the work we started in August 2005. $15,000.00 raised during the next month will help us catch up on various expenses and propel us into the summer months. As Mike’s workload increases, he needs relief from fund raising responsibilities. The Board of Directors is committed to provide more help in this area, thus this special letter.

Good things are happening. Please help us sustain the momentum. Three hundred people who will give $50.00 will meet this challenge. Maybe you can give more. Maybe less. Whatever God puts on your heart, please do help in one of these three ways.

1) Write a check to The Timothy Network and mail it today to: P.O. Box 332555 Murfreesboro, TN 37133

2) Visit our website at www.timothynetwork.org and click on the Paypal link. Credit card donations are readily and quickly accepted using this tool.

3) We need monthly contributors. Write or e-mail us, and we’ll provide the necessary automatic bank draft forms for your contributions.

In closing, please read the following perspective penned by Board member, Dr. Robert Blaylock.

Thank you, John King