5th and 6th Grade Class at Brookhaven

On Wednesday Night, we were privileged to speak to the 5th and 6th Grade class at Brookhaven Wesleyan Church. Our main focus for the evening was to share the many hats a missionary wears each and every day in the service of God overseas. We talked about such things as being a teacher, a student, an encourager, a Team builder, and especially a practicing Christian. We did this through many examples and games that the kids played.



Most of the pictures that you are seeing show one of the games that we played with the students. The game’s focus is to help the kids understand what it is to be in a different culture where you cannot speak the language and you seem to have people working against you. Imagine drawing a simple house with someone when you cannot speak to them and they are working solely to prevent you from drawing the house. It was a great exercise.


The final part of the night was a highlight for us. After we had finished sharing and the questions had run dry, Wes Munsell one of the leaders of the group, showed us a catalogue of shirts that the class would be selling for us. The proceeds of the sale would go to meet the faith promise goal that the class had pledged. It was great to see these students getting excited about their faith promise and the missionaries that they were supporting. One student continually repeated you are “one of us…one of us….” and that is exactly how we felt. Thank you, 5th and 6th grade, for joining in God’s Great Commission.

God is Good!

If you would like to see pictures from the Family Night of Missions, click the link on the left margin of this page.


I was reminded of a simple fact this weekend. It is a fact that we oftentimes forget, one that gets pushed to the backs of our minds in this world where we are always so busy to get ahead and to do our best. The fact is that “God is Good… All the time!”

I was reminded of this fact at the home of some friends of ours, Marv and Ann Rockhill. The Rockhills held a dinner party where we would be featured as the main speakers, allowing us to build our support team. However that “we” did not turn out as “we” expected because Tiffany was feeling very sick that night. We decided that it would be best for her to stay home, and for me to travel to Fishers by myself and do the presentation.

For any of you who have heard us speak in the past, you will know that public speaking is not one of my gifts. Consequently, while I drove down to Fishers, I was very nervous, praying that God would speak through me to this group of people. He answered that prayer. Was I still nervous? Yes. Did my speaking skills greatly impress the audience? No. Did God move in that room where we were meeting, causing a great stir in their hearts and mine? Yes.

This brings me to the fact that I mentioned earlier. After I was finished sharing, and all of the people were beginning to leave, I was speaking to Ann’s father. He told me about his past year, and the health problems that had troubled him. His main point was not to share his troubles; it was to testify to the fact that “God is Good… All the time!” And He most definitely is. I have witnessed His goodness, that night and all nights past, present and future.

The next day held an even bigger challenge for the Gallant family. The Family Night of Missions had been on our calendar for almost two months, and we had been working on it for about as long. The night included a dinner for the church featuring international cuisine, a time where we would play a game called “A Walk through Cambodia”, and a cultural fair for the kids where they would learn about different countries and the aspects of missionary life. It was a big night in many ways, in scale, in planning, in work, and in potential for Brookhaven’s world view.

With Tiffany being sick, this day was very difficult for both of us. In the morning we had to pack everything for the day before we went to church. After church, with six hours remaining until the night began, we had to cook all of the food, set up the gymnasium, prepare all of the centers, and get ourselves ready to speak. Tiffany did a great job. Even though she was sick, she did not let it take her out of the action. It was a very busy day, from start to finish, but it was when the gymnasium started to fill up that we really started to get nervous.

We had planned for about 150 people to attend this dinner. We set the gym for 190 to have plenty of room, but when people started to arrive, we saw that we would need a few more tables. This presented a problem for the food as well, so we started to pray for a miracle like Jesus performed with the loaves and the fishes. Again, He answered that prayer, and though we did not have 12 baskets of food remaining, we did have enough to serve everyone.

It was a great night. You can see from the pictures that the people, especially the kids, enjoyed themselves. We are extremely thankful to all those who helped make this night possible, from the set up crew to all those who helped at the cultural centers, the night would not have been impossible without your assistance. And as we left that night, tired, sick, and completely worn out, we remembered that “God is Good… All the Time!” He brought us through the night, took care of all of the plans, and provided energy and time for everything. He even provided a doctor for Tiffany to write a prescription for the antibiotics that she needed to get better before we leave for the Dakotas on Thursday. God is Good. He doesn’t change. Let that be our reminder when the future looks difficult, when the waves are crashing down upon our heads. “God is Good… All the Time!” Why, I believe that with this mindset, God will bring us through just about anything this world has to throw at us.

Basking in His Goodness,
Tim Gallant

Hillside Wesleyan Church in Cedar Rapids, Iowa

Dear Friends and Supporters,

After an amazing weekend of sharing at Hillside Wesleyan in Cedar Rapids, it feels good to have the opportunity to share it with all of our friends who visit our ministry website. We want to thank all of you who were praying for us this weekend, praying for our travel and our time of sharing with the church. If you read below, you will hear about the trip, and how your prayers were answered.

Our trip started on Saturday morning at 7:00, but the story starts nine hours prior to that when we received a telephone call from Mike and Janet, the people we stay with, inviting us to use their van for our trip to Iowa. Our Escort is starting to become allergic to long drives after traveling over 215,000 miles in its lifetime, so it was a blessing to drive their van as it gave us the peace that our vehicle would not strand us along the highway.


In our travels to Iowa in the Bonner’s van, we encountered some snowfall and fog that caused the traffic to become hazardous, so hazardous in fact that we ran into not one, but two traffic jams that were caused by accidents happening ahead of us. Needless to say, traveling through Illinois and Iowa was slightly frustrating as we spent a great amount of time simply sitting on the road, waiting for the traffic to clear out ahead of us.

When we arrived in Cedar Rapids, we were welcomed by the pastor, Pastor Randy Richter, and his staff for the Saturday Evening Candlelight service. We had a wonderful time of sharing with the people who attended, especially with the people in this picture, Lindy and her daughter Dakota. Tiffany had the opportunity to share with them back at the table after the service. Lindy told us later that when she and Dakota arrived home after the service, Dakota told her that she wanted to make some cookies for the missionaries. So that is what they did, and they brought them to us the next morning. They were great cookies and they gave us something to munch on during our long drive back to Indiana that night. Thanks Dakota and Lindy.

We stayed the night with the Youth Pastor at Hillside, Pastor Mike and his new wife, Ashley. It was good to sit around with them, and share about ministry and about the great works of our God. We ate quesadillas and played games through the night, and we felt very blessed to spend the night with such an awesome couple who are so on fire for serving God.

The Sunday morning services went very well, and we were encouraged by the response that we received from Pastor Richter and his congregation. We first met Pastor Richter back in the month of August, while we were traveling up to the Dakota District. We stopped by churches in his district, sharing with pastors and introducing ourselves. On the second day of our travels, we stopped by his church at the end of the day, and we had the chance to sit down with him and talk about Cambodia. His focus on missions in his church was evident from that first meeting, and we were encouraged and sure the God would provide something from this chance meeting. God did provide for us through Pastor Richter, by allowing him to work out something with his faith promise budget that allowed Hillside Wesleyan to give us a one-time gift for support. It is awesome how God uses these opportunities to show that He truly is a God of love.

As I said before, the Sunday morning services went very well, though it was a bit hectic during the Sunday school hour where we shared with four different ABF classes, for ten minutes at a time. It was a whirlwind tour, but we met a great number of people, and we were able to share God’s great work in Cambodia with our new friends from Cedar Rapids.

It was a great trip to Iowa, one that I will not soon forget. The trip reminds me of a simple principle of serving God. Work as if it depends on you, but be sure to pray and remember that it really depends on God. We were very tired of traveling that day in September, but without the meeting that we had with Pastor Richter on that Tuesday afternoon, we never would have had the opportunity to share with his church this past weekend. But most importantly, without the working of the Holy Spirit in this situation, we never would have had either the opportunity to share or the power and strength to travel and proclaim God’s greatness in front of the church this weekend.



It was a great trip. The journey with God always is, and I hope that your journey with Him is both exciting and daunting; exciting so that you never want to stop the ride and daunting so that you never want to travel it alone.

God’s Blessing to all of you,
Tim and Tiffany Gallant