Timotheus

Timothy was a young disciple from Lystra, son of a Jewish mother and Greek father, whom Paul recruited as a traveling companion and had circumcised first to avoid unnecessary offense to Jewish audiences. He became one of Paul's most trusted coworkers, sent on sensitive missions to churches in crisis and eventually left in charge of the church at Ephesus, and two of Paul's letters in the New Testament are addressed directly to him with pastoral advice for leading a congregation despite his apparent youth and timidity.