Tim's story

Because we are endeavoring in a new aspect of ministry (i.e. traveling as His Song Ministry), we thought that our readers deserved an introduction to all of our members. For the next several weeks, we would like the chance for you to meet the other four members of our traveling team.

Today is Tim Hicks' story.

"To say that I hate change would be an understatement.

"I have lived a pretty normal, uneventful life, just putting one foot in front of the other and trying to take advantage of whatever the Lord put in my path. I was privileged to grow up in a Christian home and saved at the age of fifteen. After attending college, I felt God was leading me back to the ministry that had poured so much into me. For the last forty years, I had served in a variety of ways, such as: choir leader, youth pastor, camp director, teacher, coach, and athletic director. But God. You know, those two little words pack a big punch, don't they? But God has brought change into my (our) lives in recent months. 

"Although my passion for all of these areas has not subsided, there is an excitement as God changes my focus. A dream of mine had been to be able to travel with my family (my wife, two daughters, their husbands, and grandchildren) to sing together, preach, and be a help to other churches. I honestly thought that would be only a dream. 

"Yet the time has finally come that God is letting me see the fulfillment of that dream in allowing us to organize His Song Ministry. Along with my other daughter Kathryn and son-in-law Tyler Robertson, we are able to preach, teach, sing, and minister in any way that God allows. I get to do everything that I had dreamed of doing. I often quote the Apostle John from his third epistle, 'I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth.' And I often add that God is gracious to allow my wife and I to serve right along with our adult children and their families. It is one of my greatest blessings.

"In this 'changing' of ministry, our passion is to try to be a blessing to churches and to share the gospel in music and word. Doors are beginning to open up, and we covet your prayers."

May we let you in on a little truth, we know Pops (Tim), as we affectionately call him, better than most, and what you see is what you get. He is a faithful man of integrity, and we are privileged to serve along with him.

In His Song,

David & Alyece

***Next week-Jamie Hicks' story***