My Vision Tour

My father passed away in April of 2021. I had been working with him since 2011. His ministry had been the focus of my ministry. After his promotion, I was left to pursue the Lord for my next assignment. I thought I had found it in developing sustainable mission strategies, I called Missioneering. In January of 2024, the key project in West Africa came to a crashing halt. (Read more about it by clicking on the Missioneering menu.)  I was devastated! But God used it to refine me and redirect my focus.

Toward the end of 2024, I spent two glorious days in South Florida with Charles Carrin, one of the five most significant spiritual fathers in my life. I approached him to ask for prayer and blessings for my next assignment. I expected to receive an impartation and blessings for my life. His kind words and encouragement called me to chase after the Lord. I told him that is what I am doing. I departed that wonderful time with him, buoyed by the grace of his love and affection for me, but with no specific direction.

My next stop on this Vision Tour was Costa Rica. I spent a short week with four of the most special people in the world. Sergio & Nixie Mora are Costa Ricans (Ticos) with whom I have worked since the early 2000s. We have spent countless days and nights preaching and sharing the Gospel of the Kingdom in Guatemala and Mexico. They are some of my dearest friends, and they blessed me as well.

The other couple I went to see is Susan and Larry Wilkins. Larry invented the chlorine-generator we used for over a decade in Guatemala to preach the Living Water for salvation. When the Lord called me away from that work, we had preached the Gospel and provided safe water to over 300,000 people across over 76 communities. Larry and Susan had just sold their business in Indiana and moved to Costa Rica to be near their son. I had the most wonderful time with them, and Sergio & Nixie, catching up, finding closure in areas I did not know I needed it, and enjoying one another in the Lord. It was glorious, but I did not find my next assignment with these precious people from my past. God was so kind to allow me this precious time with such dear friends and family in the Lord. Although no plans to work together were initiated, the foundation was laid for laboring together in the future.

My final stop on my vision tour was Minatitlan, Mexico. I reconnected with my spiritual son and invited myself to come see him. His name is Cesar, and he is the key Son of Peace (Luke 10:6) for the isthmus of Mexico. I learned later that he was excited to have me come, but he thought, "No one comes to Mexico for ministry in early January!" God was already speaking to us separately, and we completed one another's thoughts when we got together. The Lord used him to organize eight gatherings of pastors and leaders in eight key cities in the isthmus of Mexico.

The isthmus is the narrowest part of the land in Mexico. The states of Oaxaca in the South, on the Pacific Ocean, and Veracruz in the North, on the Gulf of Mexico, comprise the 200+ kilometers of land that form the Isthmus of Tehuantepec. It is the cradle of five distinct civilizations that have inhabited the area over the past 2000 years.

Cesar had me preach 10 times in 10 days to these eight pastor groups and his local church. I enjoyed every minute as the Lord used me to inspire the people and the leaders. This stop on the tour culminated in my sharing with the pastors and leaders of Ixtepec, during which I challenged them to follow the Lord and ask Him to transform their region and nation. I was not aware until after that meeting that they received me so well that I was voted in as a member of their pastoral alliance.

By the end of January, a new movement of God had been launched. No one is more surprised or excited than I that God is moving in the isthmus of Mexico.

Read more about this advancing move of God among the precious people of Veracruz and Oaxaca, Mexico, by clicking on the menu for The Interoceanic Church of the Isthmus.

God is moving in the isthmus of Mexico! Pray with me that it would continue until the entire region has been transformed for Christ and the world is impacted by the Kingdom!

I had found my next assignment. The Interoceanic Church of the Isthmus has been born. Pastors and leaders from throughout the region have committed their lives and churches to being the Body of Christ in the Isthmus of Mexico, praying and working for personal transformation for their churches, their cities, communities, states, and nation. And I get to be a part of it!

Tim Taylor