My Bio

Hello!:-)

First of all I would like to thank you-whoever you are:-) for taking the time to check this whole page out, for taking the time to read this right now. I appreciate it a lot! And I really hope and pray that my story will be a blessing for you!

So here we go: Hope you have some tissue paper near , cause you will be amazed  how the Lord has shown me His faithfulness and compassion in my life.

My name is Timi Szakacs, I am from Romania, Transylvania.
I was not born in a Christian family, for which looking back I am so so so thankful now to the Lord. God’s name though I heard when ever my parents were fighting and arguing, of course coursing God. Never felt love at home, understanding or just my parents being there for me and for my younger brother. I can say that actually I’ve never had a relationship with my folks, I could never tell them anything. My mom, she always poured out her anger on me, abusing me physically very often. I always wanted to have different parents , hated them.
But I thought, well, this is it , this is life, you just have to get along with it. I was always wondering if there is actually love here on this earth….Now I know there is!!!!!:-)

In the summer of 2000 I went to an American Christian camp in the Charpathyan Mountains in Romania. Being there for the third time by that time in this camp, I found it so awesome that people who do not even know me, the love me. With their actions, words, the way they treat me, I could just sense this new thing : LOVE. I was so interested to find out why they are different then the people , my friends and my family I knew before.
I am so so so thankful for Wesley Givens, the leader of the American group that year, who was so patient with me, took the time to explain me what God’s plan was for humanity through sending Jesus here on earth. That’s when I understood by God’s grace only, that God is a holy and unconditionally loving God and I am a sinner, just as everybody here on earth,and because of that we all  deserve eternal punishment. But that God  So loved this world that he send His only Son , Jesus, who died  for my sins, paying the penalty in this way, for what i would have had to die. But He raised up from the death, and if I just put my trust in him, if I believe all these and accept Jesus as my personal Saviour, repenting from my sins  and giving my whole life into the Lord’s hands, then I will have eternal life.

And yes, this decision took place in my life, but then for 3 days I was not living for the Lord at all.
In 2001, after High School I went to Medical University there in my home town wanted to become  a pediatrician. Not what the Lord’s plan was for my life though:-). he allowed me be sexually abused by one of my teachers. This happened exactly at the time of my life, when I realized I was not living for the Lord, and I should start really live my life for Him, to get to know Him better.
And how cool the Lord’s timing is, 🙂 He just sent one of my friends from Hungary  back home to Romania to visit her grandparents, who was going to start Word Of Life  Bible School in Tóalmás, Hungary in the fall.
So, I decided I will go to Bible School, which seemed so impossible for me humanly speaking. First of all,because my parents told me that if I dare doing this, they will literally kick me out of home and they will consider me like a dead daughter, they don’t want to know anything about me any more.  Than secondly, I had no idea where the money will come from  for me to pay the tuition.
This is where God’s faithfulness to His promises comes in the picture:-) Just as He promised that He takes care of all of our needs, and where He guides He provides, He provided somebody through whom he took care of all of my needs, who payed my tuition, and ever since 2003 when I came to the Bible School here at Word Of Life Hungary God has been taking care of me financially. Even blessed me with so much more…friends who were willing to give and share their blessings with me.
Two really really blessed years of my life when I got to know God more intimately and this totally changed the purpose of my life.

And yes, my parents they took their decision seriously with not wanting to know anything else about me…for one year. I do believe God made a miracle using so many faithful friend’s  prayers along with mines to change my family’s heart.
They are okey now with me putting God first , choosing to be on he missions field, even though they still think I am wasting my life. And listen to this: now my Mom cries whenever I go home, or come back here to Hungary and she can’t wait for me to go home next time. isn’t this something amazing that just God can do?

So, right now I am finishing my second year as an intern here at the Word Of Life, as the assistant dean of women. It is so much fun,  joy, blessing and in the same time challenge to serve the Lord, but every single day is worth of it!!!!

From September I have the opportunity to serve with AIM in Mexico! I am so excited!!! How the lord worked this out in my heart, that is another story:-)
But hey, I would like to share this story too with you, because again proves how faithful the Lord is!

Thank you again for taking the time to read this. Looking forward to hear from you too, your stories also!
 But till then, may you experience God’s love and faithfulness every single day of your lives.

In Him,
Timi