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'I want you to volunteer for bathroom duty all week.' Tim gasped. No one wanted bathroom duty! It was the grossest thing you could be asked to do. Swallowing his disgust, Tim put a smile on his face and volunteered for bathroom duty. When the week was over, Commander Dana pulled him aside. “We appreciate the way you served,” he said. “We’d like for you to be on the Superkid team next year.” What just happened? Tim wondered. Was there a connection between volunteering for the worst job at the convention and being promoted? The following year, Tim graduated from high school and served at both the Anaheim and Southwest Believers’ Conventions. That year, KCM launched the Great Lakes Believers’ Convention in Green Bay, Wis. He served there too. “I got into pride about that time,” Tim remembers. “Commander Dana asked me to take a year off from serving on the team. The following year he reinstated me. I’d always played drums at my church but still had no interest in full-time ministry. The year I turned 21, I realized that my heart had changed.” A Divine Spark Tim had no way of knowing that the summer of 2007 would change his life. One of the friendships he had developed at Superkid Academy was with Josh Coad. While Tim was in Fort Worth for the convention, Josh invited him to visit Gateway Church, the church he attended in Southlake, Texas. When he did visit, Tim felt at home. What was that about? Tim wondered. Three years later, in the summer of 2010, Tim stayed with friends in Texas for two months following the Southwest Believers’ Convention. During that time, he volunteered at Gateway and signed up for their membership class. After returning home to California, Tim asked the Lord a simple question: “What do You have for me to do?” When he woke the next morning, several things were clear to Tim. California wasn’t his home anymore. His heart was in Texas. He felt impressed that he was to move there in January 2011. Obeying the Lord meant leaving his fiancée. It meant leaving his family while his mother was in a battle for her life due to illness. And he had to leave his church. It hadn’t been easy. Now, here he was—a carhop at Sonic. To make matters worse, his supervisor was a 17-year-old girl who didn’t know what she was doing. An Attitude Adjustment Tim listened as his pastor talked about how Jonathan’s armor bearer gave him his full support, even when he knew the plan to attack the Philistines was a terrible idea. “Then, he asked this question,” Tim explains: “‘Are you submitted to the season you’re in?’ “I had to admit that I hadn’t submitted to the season I was in, and I wasn’t submitted to my leader. That night I made a decision not only to submit to her, but to become the best carhop ever. The first thing I did was stop complaining, even in my heart. “Sonic was the season I was in and I determined to be super diligent in it. The absolute worst job at Sonic was cleaning the stalls. No one wanted to do it—except I knew God wanted me to do it. So I volunteered for the job. It was one of those character-building experiences. When Tim moved to Texas, Dana and Linda Johnson were on staff at Gateway Church. Dana was the children’s worship leader there. “We connected as often as possible, but no ministry opportunity opened up for me,” Tim recalls. In June 2011, Tim and Stephanie married and she moved to Texas. Eventually, Stephanie got a job at Sonic, too. Since the couple only had one car, Tim would leave the car with her and, at 5:30 each morning, make the 5-mile trek to Sonic—usually running most of the distance. Some mornings it seemed as though that 5 miles stretched to 20. Even in the dark, frigid mornings, Tim worked up a sweat on his way in and would take his work clothes in a backpack and wash up and change once he got there. * * * article continues on next page * * * ********** ADVERTISEMENT ********** bvovn Believer's Voice of Victory Network REAL. LIFE. FAITH. HEAR THE UNCOMPROMISED WORD 24/7 FROM MINISTERS YOU CAN TRUST! WATCH ON dish® CHANNEL 265 apple TV® 4th Generation Roku® bvovn .COM YouTube® Amazon fireTV facebook apple iOS android *********************************************** BVOV : 13

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