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Today, we're going to have a.

Well, we're going to have a guest on someone that I got to meet in person.

He is a missionary on his way to Uruguay.

And I'm hoping that several things that you're going to gain out of this episode.

One, I hope that you're going to gain a greater appreciation for those who serve Christ around the world.

Maybe, just maybe, God is calling you to do that.

And maybe this episode will be signed.

God uses to put that on you, your heart to pick up and go somewhere that you want to go.

Now, it doesn't mean that's the only place we could serve.

You can serve in your own local community, but there are some who God calls to pick up and go around the world and serve elsewhere.

And then the other thing I'm hoping that God might put on your heart is to say, hey, I really have a heart for what Timo is doing and I want to help support him.

And so with that, let me welcome in Timothy Hawk.

And folks might just heard that I called you a name they haven't heard in America.

So first off, introduce yourself and explain to people why I called you Timo.

Hey, it's great to be here.

Thank you for having me.

Yeah.

My name is Timothy Hawk.

The reason why I go by Timo is because I grew up as a missionary kid in New York way South America.

And my name is Spanish is Timoteo.

And to shorten that, in Spanish, they don't say Tim, they say Timo.

And so for basically my whole life, I've just gone by Timo.

And you and I got to meet because you are a missionary candidate at my home church, Oxford Valley Chapel.

And our church is looking to raise the support to help you raise your full support to be able to get to Uruguay.

So that's how you and I got to meet.

And after we're talking, I was like, I need to have you on and let's talk more.

So for folks to to first know, talk about your, your background a bit.

You, you, you grew up in Uruguay as a missionary child, as you mentioned.

What is it, what's it like in Uruguay?

First explain the, the country.

Yeah, yeah.

So just a little bit of my background.

I was, I was born in Uruguay.

My parents have been there for about 35 years, church planting in this, in the capital city of Montevideo there.

And that's where I grew up.

I spent all my whole life there until I was about 18.

And that's when I came to the States to study a little bit more and a little bit about my, a little bit on my testimony is when I was about 8 or 9 years old, I, I remember hearing about what God had done for me during one of our family devotions.

And my whole life, ever since I was born, my parents had always taught me about God and told me about what Jesus had done for me.

And they did such a good job that I really don't remember a point in my life where I don't remember understanding what the gospel was.

It was always very clear to me.

And so when I was about seven or eight, that's when I realized, well, it doesn't matter how much I know about the gospel, that's not what saves me.

And I realized that I was separated from God because of my sin and that the only way to restore that relationship with God is what Jesus had done for me on the cross.

And so that night I told my dad that I wanted to place my faith and trust in Jesus Christ.

And that's really been the best decision I've ever made in my entire life, was putting my faith and trust in Jesus and becoming God's child.

And ever since I was small, ever since I was that young, God really gave me a burden to go back to Uruguay, to serve him there.

And I remember I'm a pretty logical thinker.

And so I remember thinking about everything that God had done for me and about, you know, how he had sent Jesus to die on the cross and how Jesus gave his life for me.

And my only logical conclusion to that was, well, if Jesus who's willing to give his life for me, then the very least I can do is to give my life back to Christ for him to use however he wants.

This is not my life anymore.

This is God's.

And ever since I was that young, God gave me a burden to go back to Yerdway.

And I see him, he has given me this privilege of being able to grow up there, to be able to see the needs firsthand and he has, you know, I've been able to grow up with the knowledge of the culture, of the language, and it's been something that he's never really let up on.

And he keeps on opening up the doors on the way.

And I want to use this, this knowledge that I have for his honor and glory to be able to spread the gospel in Uruguay.

So the next thing that you addressed was what is Uruguay like?

So Uruguay, if you don't know where Uruguay is, I always tell people, if you can find the country of Brazil, which is the largest country in South America, Uruguay is located right below that.

It's right on the coast.

It is only bordered by Brazil and Argentina on the other side.

It's about the size of Ohio, has a population of 3 million people, and the capital city is Montevideo, which is located on the very most southern tip of the country.

And the capital city has about half of the population.

So about a million and a half people live in the capital city.

And that's where me and my wife will be returning to there.

And Uruguay is just a lot of rolling grasslands.

It's one of its things that is most well known for is its beef.

And that's on the early days when Uruguay was, was fighting for an independence, it was being fought over because it was very pristine grasslands, great for raising cattle.

And that's what one of the largest exports still today is, its export of beef, raising cattle and sheep on there.

It also exports rice and timber.

And in the capital city, one of the biggest revenues would also be tourism because Uruguay also has the largest natural port in all of South America.

And so that attracts a lot of cruise ships that come in there.

And Uruguay unfortunately also has the highest rate of atheists and agnostics in all South America.

It is a very meaty country, a country that really needs the gospel.

It has the highest rates of atheists and agnostics.

About between like 30, 40% of the population would claim to be atheists, are agnostic.

Around 40 to 50% would claim to be Roman Catholic.

Is also the mostly the most secularized society in all South America.

It also has the highest suicides rates in all of South America.

It is a country that really needs the gospel.

And you know, those are some of the reasons why God is really calling us to go back, is because we see the great need that is there and also because he just keeps on leading us.

He hasn't given us peace about anything else.

And so we're excited and we're looking forward to getting back and working for the Lord, there.

I find it so interesting that the countries that have a higher amount of secularism, they professed atheism, are the same ones that, you know, you end up realizing, oh, they, they also have the highest number, the highest amount of, you know, suicide.

Now they would, they would have gone, oh no, we're, we're more enlightened, we're more, you say that and yet it's like, that's not quite fitting with what we see.

Right?

Yeah, it's just a very interesting thing.

So now, obviously, as a meat eater, I think I would love to go there.

It sounds like lots of beef.

Hopefully really inexpensive too.

But yeah, it, so what, when you get there, what do you plan on doing?

Your, your parents live there, so you've grown up there.

You were somewhat familiar and some might say you're more familiar with that culture than this culture.

But you know, it's, it is, it was a culture shift to get here to America and now you're gonna have to go to another one.

Getting back.

What are you looking to do when you get there?

And then a follow on question I'm curious of is what kind of training are you doing while you're here?

In preparation?

Yeah.

So when we get there, we're going to be involved in quite a few different ministries.

One of the first ones is we're going to be involved in church planting in the capital city of Montevideo.

It's going to be near my parents.

We're not going to be working directly with my parents, but we'll be nearby in the capital city of Montevideo.

We're going to be involved in a church plant in an area of Montevideo that's, that's new, it's growing and there really isn't a, a large Christian church in that area at all.

And so we're going to be working in starting a new church there.

We're also going to be working with a Bible college that recently started back in 2014, which is also in the capital city there.

And this Bible college has a goal of being able to train and equip national believers with biblical training, which is something that is highly lacking in South America.

You know, here in the US you have, there's multiple Bible colleges that you can attend, get classes online.

And it's something that is very lacking in South America, not as available.

And so this was a combination of multiple mission boards, multiple national pastors and churches coming together, seeing this need of this biblical training and starting this Bible college to be able to equip these national peoples to take over These ministries that have been started, and that's really been one of our burdens as well, because we really believe that the nationals, in your way, are able to spread the gospel much better than any one of us could.

And we really want to be able to invest in them and train them to be able to do that.

And so we're going to be involved in them in many different ways.

We're going to be teaching, we're going to be in different, you know, administration, technical roles, student care, they've asked us to be in charge of that and fundraising as well, recruitment, many different areas.

And one of the other ministries that we really want to be involved in, both in the church planting in the Bible College, is biblical counseling.

Biblical counseling is something that God has also given us a really strong desire for.

My wife has a master's degree in biblical counseling.

I'm working on getting my master's degree as well in biblical counseling.

And we want to incorporate that in all these different aspects of ministries we're going to be involved in, because this biblical counseling is also something that is highly lacking in South America as well.

And, you know, we're praying that God will open doors, whether it'll be in the church, in the community, or in this college to use this aspect of biblical counseling.

Let's see, what was that?

What was the second question?

And so follow up would be the training, which obviously some of it, you're.

You got a background in counseling, which is part of the training, but there's some other training you've also had just to prepare for this.

Yeah.

So you have to learn the language, right?

Wait, yes.

Yeah, yeah.

So August of last year, me and my wife went down to Southern Texas to a language school called Rio Grande Bible Institute in Edinburgh, Texas.

And we spent about nine to 10 months there so that my wife could learn the language.

And it was a very intensive Spanish language program.

They put about seven years of Spanish training into two semesters.

And we averaged about where we calculated that we were doing about 30 hours of Spanish every week.

Classes were in Spanish, one on one, tutoring, Spanish, church.

It was in a Spanish Bible college.

This, this language school is in a Spanish Bible college.

So you're surrounded by friends, activities, events, all in Spanish.

And it was a great, great Spanish program.

My wife was able to pick it up very quickly, and so we've been preparing them that way.

I've, you know, I've also been starting my, my master's degree in biblical counseling.

That's, you know, part of the training that we're preparing for when we get back.

And then the past two weeks, me and my wife were down in, in Georgia with our mission board and we were receiving training on church planting and it was, you know, excellent, excellent training.

Training that you wouldn't get anywhere else and just on how to plant churches, cross culturally with teammates and how to, you know, plan your church plan so that, you know, national takes it over when you're done.

Great, great stuff.

So yeah, there's been a lot of training, a lot of preparation for, for when we get back down there.

Yeah.

Now a funny story for folks to think, to know maybe you're, you're from Uruguay, you're used to the culture.

Your wife, as you said, is, is new.

She had to learn Spanish and so just to see the culture shock for her.

Right.

You, she grew up with her family all spread out all over the world.

Right.

So she's not close to anyone, is that, that right?

My wife, my wife, my wife's family is all in the hall in the same area.

So it's definitely, definitely to this at all.

It's been very different for them to, yeah.

To get accustomed to it and, but they have only been loving and supporting through this whole time with, with them grasping, you know, this of us moving away overseas.

It will be difficult, but they have been very encouraging living through it all.

Yeah.

This is where you pray as a parent, you pray.

I just want my children to serve the Lord, you know, Lord, wherever you want to take them and then she brings you home and it's.

Well, I didn't quite mean there, Lord.

I mean, it's a big adjustment.

You know, she's someone who's close with her family.

They're all right there to pick up and do a move like this to learn a new language, to learn a new culture.

The culture is somewhat familiar to you, but for her, this is, this is going to be a big change.

You know, you, you also happen to have a new baby on the way, so that's going to be another change for her.

How is, how's this impacting her?

Honestly, I have been just so incredibly thankful and blessed.

She, you know, sometimes this, this is all normal for me.

I've been, you know, traveling my new life, you know, adjusting to cultures and even coming back to the United States and going back to your way, you know, readjusting and this is all normal for me, but sometimes I don't realize and I have to be really conscientious of.

This is all new for her and she has just been such.

She is so sweet.

And she has, she doesn't complain at all.

And she has been just so encouraging and wanting to be a part of this ministry, you know, making it her own too.

Not just going because of me, but making it her own and doing this as a team.

And it has just amazed me every, every step that we have taken because I. I know it's not easy.

I know it's incredibly difficult.

It's a lot of work.

Even during this deputation process, we're raising support.

You know, we don't have.

We don't have a home to settle down.

And then, you know, with a baby coming, it's hard.

There's a lot of sacrifices that she has to make.

You know, she.

She can.

She doesn't have a nursery to prepare.

We're going to be temporarily living somewhere before move to Uruguayan.

And you know, there, there is a lot of sacrifices she makes, but she has just made them.

So.

She has been just so Christ like through this whole process and it never, she never ceases to amaze me.

And she.

I couldn't be doing this without her, honestly.

Yeah, she seems like a very sweet woman.

So as you go there, you're planning to go, you're going to do some counseling.

I think that for a lot of folks when they think of missions, I want to highlight something you brought up because it's something that when you mentioned, instantly resonated with me and that was that a lot of people think of missions as someone who's going to pick up, go somewhere around the world and basically be like a church planter.

They're just going to be a pastor, but not here in America.

They're going to get paid by Americans to pastor a church in some other country.

And there are some that do that.

There's some that are church planters where they move around and plant churches.

But you're trying to go there to train up locals.

That is something that resonates with me because I think that I've always felt, and you had mentioned this is pouring into the locals.

They are going to have the better impact or the greater impact on their culture that they know now.

It's a culture, you know, because you grew up in it.

So in that sense, it's not new to you or different for you, but for others, you know, why is that so important?

Why is it important to train up nationals rather than you just going out and doing the evangelism and the church planting and the pastoring?

Yeah, and I mean, this is something that I've seen personally Growing up is so many times a missionary will come into a country and they will, they'll start a church and they'll really focus on evangelism and they'll be able to start a church.

And then like you said, they're, they're just there to pastor.

And it's not really church plan, but they're just there to pastor.

And then once they, they retire and leave that church ends up falling apart, closing down, because there was no investment into the nationals to take over those ministries.

And, and yeah, again, like you said, the nationals are the ones that are going to be able to, to know the culture even better to be.

They're gonna have so many more connections in the country.

They're going to be able to relate so much better.

They're gonna be able to understand the people, understand the language so much better than anyone, any missionary going into the country.

And it's also so important part of church planting is that it needs to be seen as temporary.

You're not there to pastor, but you are there to start an outreach like a church, a spiritual group of believers, and establishing someone there, a national, really investing into leadership training, teaching them how to evangelize and then moving on.

And so that's why it's so important, the leadership training aspect of ministries to.

Is to not be so focused on the church plants on those ministries that you forget to really invest in the leaders and the national people because they are ultimately the ones that are going to carry these ministries on.

They're going to be able to make these ministries even more fruitful.

They are going to be able to reach out to so many more people.

They are going to be able to be the ones that understand, communicate so much better.

And so that's why it is so important to be just really, really focused on leadership training, pouring into national believers.

Not just trying to, you know, start a church, get a couple believers, but really focus on that leadership training on the nationals as well.

You know, and one thing folks that you listen to, Timo, we talk about the training, things like this, we talk about the fact that yes, some are called to go around the world, but you may be called to go in your local area, maybe you're called to serve in your church, in your neighborhood.

And one thing that would help you to do that, well, that would be Lagos Bible software.

If you were to get yourself some good software that can help you in the study of God's word, you would be better equipped to be able to reach whoever God is leading you to speak to.

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The neat thing about this is when you use Logos, you're one click away from learning so much about different words that if you have the, the packages that have some of the languages, you're one click away from getting into the Greek or the Hebrew.

There's all this scholarship that is put into that where you can quickly be able to search something in the Bible.

I know that Jesus said something about fish somewhere.

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So, Timo, as we're talking about Uruguay, this is something where folks can, even the folks who are listening here could partner with you.

This is something where it's not just, oh, you're going, they're listening.

They're going, hey, that's really neat.

What he's doing that he's able to help locals in the area.

He's going to help them, to counsel them, to train others, to do counseling, to train up new and future leaders for this country.

Where as you said, it's needed with so many people being, you know, trying to go secular.

But this is something where we can come alongside you.

I've already mentioned our church is considering you as a candidate for our missions.

But you, if I'm not mistaken, you don't only rely on churches, do you?

No, we take, we take small groups, we take individuals, we take churches.

Basically anybody that wants to continue, come alongside of us and partner us financially.

Yeah, anybody.

So how might, if people want to, to help you, partner with you?

What would the partnership look like and how could they do that?

Yeah, so the easiest way that you could partner with us would be code to our, our mission agencies website.

Our mission agency is Biblical Ministries Worldwide.

Their website is biblicalministries.org that's biblicalministries.org and you can look us up by our name in the search.

My name is Timothy Hawk.

My last name is Hoc.

A lot of times it's confused.

A lot of people want to spell H A W K, but it is actually H O C K. So if you want to look us up there, you can look up Timothy Hawk, H O C K. Now there's different options that you can give to support us, to come alongside of us, partner with us in what we're doing.

If you want to be in communication with us, we would.

We also send out monthly newsletters.

You can reach out to me to my email.

It's going to be timothy.hawkiblicalministries.org Simple.

Again, Timothy Hawk, H O C K@biblicalministries.org if you have any other questions, if you want to reach out, get me communication, you can ask.

We put on our, on our monthly email list.

We love staying in contact with all of our supporters and we also have a Facebook group.

It's called Timo and Alexa's Prayer Group.

If you're on Facebook and you'd love to keep up with us there.

We also, we post some different prayer requests and sometimes a little bit more often than they're on our prayer updates.

But yeah, we would love to partner with you and you can reach out at any time.

We'd love to hear from you.

Now with this.

You mentioned that you're part of a missions board, which leads into.

My next question is for folks who want to donate, one thing that often comes up if they, if they want to help out is, well, what kind of accountability does this person have?

Is he just going on his own and I'm going to have no idea how the money's being spent.

Or, or you know, what he's doing.

Is there accountability?

You have.

You have both a sending board and a sending church.

So how is, what's the relationship you have with biblical missions, with the mission board, and then what is the relationship you have with your sending church?

And how do you know that?

Sending church.

Yeah, so we've partnered with this, with this mission board, Biblical ministries worldwide, and this mission board, one of its jobs is to keep us accountable, because that is very important with what we're doing, and that is something that we consider to be a high priority.

We want people to be able to trust us, to be able to know what we're doing, to be able to reach out at any time.

And our mission agency really helps us to keep accountable financially.

That's, that's one of their jobs.

And, and so that's why all the finances go through them.

It doesn't come to us personally, it goes through them.

They hold us responsible.

And, and then with our sending church, our sending church is Fellowship Bible Church in Shenandoah Junction, West Virginia.

This is a church that I did an internship right out of Bible College, and my wife grew up there.

Our ascending church also holds us highly accountable.

People that are constantly communicating with us.

We have different meetings.

We actually have one coming up this month where we're going to be again meeting with the missions committee, giving them an update on what we're doing so that they can hold us accountable.

And even with all of the churches and individuals that come along and support us, I believe that.

That there is a biblical aspect to that accountability that they have to us, that those churches are responsible for holding us accountable for what we're doing, how we're using these finances and how we are staying faithful while in Uruguay.

And we're also, while we're in Uruguay with this Bible College, we're also going to be surrounded by multiple local churches, pastors, different other missionaries as well, that are going to be holding us accountable as well, keeping us faithful.

And so this is something, you know, we're not just going down there alone, but this is something that is going to be.

It's a team effort from all of our churches, all the people supporting us, as well as the team that we're going to be working with in Uruguay.

And when you get to Uruguay, you're not just going to be on your own right away.

Right.

You're going to be partnered up with a more seasoned group of missionaries to be working with them at first, correct?

Yeah.

Yeah.

Our mission board wants us to, during that transition period, which sometimes can be pretty difficult, you know, getting readjusted to the culture, language, things like that.

Our mission board wants us to be working with a more seasoned missionary for the first one to two years.

And we're going to be working with them.

They're going to be helping us again during the transition time.

A lot of the changes that are going to be happening and through all of the process, even like the paperwork process and just getting settled into life there, we're going to be working alongside someone that can help us and that can encourage us and, you know, hold us accountable during that time.

So when you get there, you're gonna.

And I'm not even going to attempt to pronounce the university.

This is the school.

So f. Febu.

I'm gonna let you properly pronounce it because.

Well, I don't.

I don't even pretend to speak Spanish.

But the.

The college you're going to be going to.

To train people for folks who realize, tell a little bit about what that school's purpose and goals are and how it achieves them.

Yeah.

So the Bible college is called FEBU F E B U.

And it stands for Faculta de Uruguay, which would roughly translate, would be the Uruguayan Bible College.

And its purpose and goals is really to equip and train the nationals with.

With solid biblical training.

And they started back in 2014, so it's a relatively new Bible college.

And they not only are trying to reach the Christians in Uruguay, but they're also trying to reach all the countries in South America with this biblical training with online classes.

And so they have students from Chile, from Argentina, from Paraguay, I think.

And so they.

They offer these classes online as well.

It's still pretty small, so they have about probably 20 to 30 students right now online and in person.

And, you know, when we go back, we really want to try to travel around, be able to visit churches, be able to recruit more students, because we just think it's.

It's a wonderful opportunity that is available there for the people to learn about the Bible.

So, folks, if you are.

Are hearing Timo, my encouragement to you is, well, obviously first pray for them.

Just picture yourself.

I especially am going to say pray for his wife.

Picture you.

He.

Timo is a little bit more familiar with the environment he going into.

But picture having your family always around.

You've always been around your family, and now you're going to pick up and not just move out of the town or out of the county or out of the state, but out of the country.

Learn a Whole new language, learn a whole new culture.

That's not an easy thing.

And so be praying because like I said, not only is she doing all that while pregnant, having a newborn, dealing with that, I mean, these are major, major issues.

And Timo and Alex are dealing with it together, like all at the same time.

Let's just throw everything in at once.

So if they, you know, like, you survive this, everything else in life's just going to be easy.

Timo.

Right.

But if, if it's, if you, God would put it on your heart to be praying for them.

And as he mentioned, if you, if you want to, if you're on Facebook and you want to follow along, you know, just on Facebook, look for the group.

It's Timo and Alex's prayer group.

And so there you could find out more details about what they're doing and how you could be praying for them.

I think you just had a post not too long ago about some training.

You were just out doing training and you were talking about that, about going.

And so I, I folks, that's one way that you could be doing is praying in forum.

And if you're on Facebook, you could find out more about how to pray more effectively.

A second thing that I would encourage you, if God puts it on your heart, maybe you can individually donate to get him up to full, the full support he needs so that he will be able to get out there in time and not have delays.

He, he can't.

He.

I don't think he's going to be able to go until he's fully supported, Supported or at least close to it.

So if you guys would, if God puts it on your heart to do that, go to biblicalministries.org and just look up Timothy Hawk, H O C K as he said.

So if you can do that.

Another thing may I ask you to consider is if you want, maybe you could talk to your church and their missions board about having Timo come in and be able to present to your church and maybe your church would consider bringing him on as a missionary.

And then of course, then you would get more reports from him as from the church and they would, they would be blessed.

You'd be blessed.

So may you consider doing that.

So, you know, with that, I just want to encourage you guys to think about that, you know, we can get too focused here in America of what we're doing and just turn a blind eye to what's going on in the rest of the world.

And yet the rest of the world needs the gospel just as Much as your neighbor does.

And so God has called Timo and Alex to go somewhere, well, far south from here and to go and pick up and.

And go to your way.

May you consider supporting them, helping them, and gave you several ways you could do that.

Any.

Any other things, Timo, that you'd want to share with folks or ways that they could partner alongside you.

Yeah, I mean, prayer is one of the biggest things that we always ask for when we're visiting churches, visiting people.

You have no idea how much your.

Your prayers affect the lives of missionaries.

And that is.

That is the most important thing.

Even if you aren't able to, you know, support us financially, prayer is the.

Is the greatest thing that you could do for us, be praying for us.

It's.

It's been this process of getting carried away has been very long.

And, you know, I know it's.

It's not easy for my wife, Alexa, or, you know, her family, this whole process.

And, you know, once we get down, you know, we'll have a newborn, there's going to be a lot of transitions.

Be praying for us, be praying for all of those things.

Be praying for the rest of our support to come in.

We're at about 85% of our support right now, and we are planning on leaving by Christmas of this year.

So I'll be praying for the rest of this year that support can come in.

Praying for the churches we're visiting, pray for all the visits that we have to do for travels, for the moving internationally.

And there's a lot of other things, paperwork that needs to be done beforehand when we get there.

Be praying for all of those things.

We really, really appreciate your prayers.

Prayers above anything.

So, folks, may you do that.

May you be praying, may you consider supporting.

But I hope that maybe some of you have the idea saying, you know what?

I really never thought of missions.

Maybe there's something I could do, because some of us have a fear maybe of going out and going to a new country and having to try to share the gospel and lead people to Christ and then plant a church and things like that.

And here, what you're hearing, Timo being able to do is, yes, he's got to learn the language.

Well, he knew the language, but his wife has to learn the language.

But to learn a new language and be able to help locals so they could go into their areas with the gospel, it's.

It's a different way maybe than you've heard of with missions.

I think it's a better way, but that's just my opinion, and so may you consider it.

Maybe God's putting it on your heart to do that, or maybe God puts it on your heart to support Timo.

We wanted to give you that opportunity to hear about what he's doing and to be able to see how you might be able to come alongside a fellow brother and sister in Christ and be able to serve the kingdom outside of your local community.

And so I hope this has been encouraging to you.

I hope you'll get in touch with him and maybe even some support him.

And with that, folks, that's a wrap.

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