Tebow Family

The Tebow Family - Bob, Pam, Joey, Christy, Gannon, Katie, Robby, Peter, Timmy, Claire, and Abby
Bob, Pam, Joey, Christy, Gannon, Katie, Robby, Peter, Timmy, Claire, and Abby

Bob TebowRobert R. Tebow II (Bob)

Age 59; Married to Pam for 36 years; 5 children: Christy (31) married to Joey Allen with one daughter Claire (16 months), Katie (29) married to Gannon Shepherd with one daughter Abigail (8 months), Robby (26), Peter (23), and Timmy (20); resides in Jacksonville, Florida.

B.S. Degree in Health and Human Performance from the University of Florida, 1971

M.Div. and Th.M. Degrees from Western Seminary, Portland, Oregon, 1974 and 1976


Ministry:

Ministry Priorities:

  1. Evangelism (45 national Filipino evangelists full time on BTEA staff) • BTEA preached to over 12.5 million people in the last eight years and saw over 8.5 million people trust Christ as their Lord and Savior!
  2. Church Planting (last five years BTEA has worked with over 8,000 local churches in the Philippines to plant churches)
  3. Pastor Training – Periodic conferences to train national pastors.
  4. Training the next generation of Evangelists by exposing young people to the mission field via yearly trips. Over the past 13 years, Bob has taken hundreds of people overseas on mission trips.
  5. Orphanage, Uncle Dick’s Home (located in the Philippines), has 50 orphans.

Pam TebowPam Tebow

The daughter of an army colonel, Pam Tebow lived all over the world until she was seventeen, when she entered the University of Florida, where she graduated cum laude with a degree in Journalism and Communications. While in college, Pam met her husband Bob, and they have been married 36 years and have five children, ranging in age from 20 to 31. They also have two sons-in-law and two granddaughters.

Pam and Bob have been called "homeschool pioneers," because they began homeschooling in 1982, when "homeschool" was not yet a word. Pam recently retired after 24 years of homeschooling, when her youngest son went to college. All five of the Tebow children were homeschooled, and they all received college scholarships. Three have graduated from college, and the two youngest attend the University of Florida. All five children and their spouses are active in various ministries!

The Tebows lived for a number of years as missionaries in the Philippines, where Bob continues to have an ongoing ministry which employees over 40 national staff and runs an orphanage for 50 orphans. Pam is very involved in her husband’s ministry, coordinating numerous projects and personnel. Last spring, she visited their wonderful orphanage, Uncle Dick’s Home, and spent a week encouraging the wives of the Philippines national staff.

Pam also enjoys numerous writing and speaking opportunities and is passionate about encouraging women to trust the Lord with all their hearts for all their lives. The notoriety of the Tebow family has increased recently since their youngest son, Tim, sophomore quarterback for the Gators, won the Heisman trophy. Because ESPN aired the portion of the interview with Pam that focused on her refusal to abort "Timmy" when she was advised to do so, she now has a national platform to encourage the pro-life message.

Click here to read an Article in the "Florida Baptist Witness" About Pam Tebow

Joey and Christy Allen

Joey, Christy and Claire AllenChristy, the Tebow’s oldest daughter, was home schooled all the way through high school. She graduated from Jacksonville University in 1998 with a Bachelor of Music Education degree, and she earned a Masters degree from Jacksonville Baptist Seminary in 1999. She graduated from Dallas Theological Seminary in 2004 with a Master of Theology degree. She and Joey were married June 21, 2003. They are the proud parents of one daughter, Claire, who was born June 19, 2006. They wrote and illustrated a series of children’s books called Big Thoughts for Little Thinkers, which was published by New Leaf Press in 2005. Today, they live in South Asia, laboring to improve the physical and spiritual lives of the world’s outcast and forgotten.

Robby Tebow

Robby TebowFamily

High School

College

Current Job

Timmy Tebow

Timmy TebowTim Tebow was born on August 14, 1987 in Manila, Philippines to missionary parents Bob and Pam Tebow. He has two older brothers, two older sisters, and two brothers-in-law. When Tim was three, his family moved back to Florida, where his father continues his twenty-four year ministry in the Philippines. All the Tebow children have been involved in the summer mission trip to the Philippines. The highlight of Tim’s mission trips was preaching in a school of 10,000 high school students in Digos, Mindanao.

Athletics are also a big part of Tim’s life. At five years old, he begged to play organized sports like his two brothers, and he has been enthusiastic about athletic competition ever since. In high school, he played football, basketball, and baseball and received numerous county and state awards for each sport.

Although Tim played athletics at Nease High School, he did not actually attend classes there. Like his other siblings, he was home schooled until college. The Tebows planned each child’s schooling around their family values, character training, and the individual’s learning style, interests, and goals. Each of the Tebow children has attended college on a scholarship, and Tim is excited to follow in their footsteps.

Tim leads fellow college students in Bible studies each week and has a desire to remain involved in ministry in the future. Tim’s faith is the driving force in his life, and he is acutely aware that "To whom much is given, much is required." He keeps a poem on his bulletin board that reminds him of an athlete’s accountability to be a role model for the little boys who want to be just like him.

Two adjectives often used to describe Tim, are "competitive" and "kind." Tim has grown up in a close but highly competitive family and is known for his competitiveness on the athletic field. He is also unusually tenderhearted and kind, as evidenced by the fact that he chooses to speak at local elementary schools, spend time with the orphans at his dad’s orphanage, greet every young fan at his games, and visit sick teens in the hospital.

Tim began receiving national attention through write-ups in Sports Illustrated where he was featured as the All-American high school quarterback, through the ESPN broadcast of his August 27th game against Hoover High School, and through his selection as an Elite 11 quarterback. He was also featured in multiple publications and on television, and through the highly visible world of college recruiting. A documentary about Tim was also played on ESPN. As a high schooler, Tim set state records for total yards in a season and the most passing yards in a single season, and he scored 71 touchdowns. If you ask him, Tim will credit the Lord, his family, his coaches, and his teammates for his success.

Currently, Tim is a student at the University of Florida, where he is the starting quarterback for the Gators. His sophomore season was filled with many accomplishments and awards and provided countless opportunities for him to give glory to God. Some of his accomplishments from the 2007 season are as follows:

Tim is also an active member of Goodwill Gators at the University of Florida. Through this organization, he has volunteered his time with the Children’s Miracle Network at Shands.

Tim has been on three summer mission trips to the Philippines with his dad and recently went back during his spring break. He and his team stayed at the orphanage and spoke in surrounding schools and markets and conducted medical clinics with local doctors. In all, they preached to 6,915 people, and saw 5,388 indicate that they received Jesus Christ as their Savior.

Although football is important to Tim, his priorities that precede football are faith, family, and academics. A verse from the Bible that he often quotes is Philippians 4:13, which credits the true source of his strength, "I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me." Tim loves football but knows that his career will end someday. His relationship with Jesus Christ, however, will never end. Tim’s brother-in-law wrote and illustrated a children’s tract that is applicable for anyone of any age, and it explains how you can have a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. You can find this tract by clicking on the "Good News for You!" link, listed in the left hand column on this website. It is our hope that you take the time to read it and consider the significance of a personal relationship with Christ. God bless and Go Gators!!!