So, after a long hiatus, here’s a new entry . . .
Where are Eric and Janet Thimell now and what are they
doing? Obviously too busy to be running
a blog. But seriously, to make a long
story short, we completed seven years of co-laboring with the Buris at the En
Gedi Hospitality House and ministering at Mountain Home Air Force Base in
August 2019. Our vice president for
field ministries at Cadence International asked us to consider limited term
ministry at Victory Ranch Retreat Center in South Carolina. That limited term became 3-1/2 years
directing a very fruitful military ministry in the South Carolina
Midlands.
We began by running retreats for the AIT students from Ft
Jackson and the Navy’s trainees with Task Force Marshall at Camp McCrady. Then
COVID came and the military retreats dried up.
But we continued to tap into one day events for individual chapel groups
and various church groups in the area.
Soon we were also leading men’s and women’s ministries at Shaw Air Force
Base. In April 2023, in anticipation of new directors coming, we moved off the
Victory Ranch campus to a new home in Eastover just 5-1/2 miles away.
In 2024 Trevor and Jen Claypool, newly retired from the
Marine Corps, came and took the helm freeing us to dig in more deeply at
Shaw. Eric began doing pulpit fill at
Shaw Palmetto Chapel as well as filling in at a weekly on base Bible
Study. And Eric and Janet continued to
work on projects at Victory Ranch—Janet helping Jen and Eric helping Trevor.
In 2025, Eric and Janet had
accumulated 42 years of service with Cadence International and were formally
appointed as Cadence Ambassadors. This
role allows them greater independence in their ministry as they get older.
Their ministry at Shaw preaching and teaching continues strongly.
