My name is Tim Drinkard, and I’m originally from Oskaloosa, Kansas. I was ordained in the Baptist faith in 2014 and began serving as a missionary in the country of Panama in 2017. During my five and a half years there, I worked across the country in seven of its ten provinces. In 2019, I began focusing on the Emberá people near the Darién Jungle. I had the honor of trainng and installing a native indigenous Pastor and the work became fully independent, self-sustaining and autonomous. In February of this year, they will celebrate four years of God's amazing grace. 
 

While simultaneously planting the church, I also led two large-scale refugee camp ministries—sharing the gospel consistantly in fifteen languages through out the camps.  

In 2022 the Lord called me to move back to the states and start a church in Portland, Oregon. As of right now I have a street ministry to the homeless in Northeast/Southeast Portland. I am preparing to launch the church in May of this year out of the East Portland Community Center with details to soon follow.

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