15 Days to Go

We are greatly anticipating our move to Japan! We are packing our bags and making final preparations. We are currently in OH for a meeting on Wednesday. Which is really nice for us because we get to spend a few days with Rebel’s parents and say goodbye. Atlas and Journey are having a blast with the grandparents. I’m so thankful they get this opportunity before we head to Japan.

Please continue to pray that the remaining needed support will come in before we leave! We only need about 8 more churches to support us to reach our board’s recommended support level for Japan. God has blessed tremendously these last few months new support. Thank you to all who have given and prayed for us!

Atlas 2nd Birthday!

Family stretching legs before Church Sunday Morning

Atlas helping Grandma Taube with Journey’s birthday cupcakes

Journey getting a preview of her birthday cupcakes!

35 Days

We are so excited as we near our departure for Japan! We’ve been having some great meetings on deputation and God has been blessing. We still lack about 8% of our support, and we ask you to pray the remaining funds would be raised.

We are making the final preparations for our departure, and we are packing up all our belongings. I would especially appreciate your prayers for Rebel as she is organizing what goes where as we pack.

Setup Fund Update 6/30

$2000 were donated in the last two weeks for our Setup Fund!

Here are the remaining items needed for our Setup Fund:

1. Rent for 6 months: $6,300 remaining. $600 donated this week – THANK YOU!!!  Apartments in Japan require 6 months to be paid up front.

2. Used Vehicle: $8,000

3. Furniture: $5,000 – Such as couches, table, chairs, dressers, beds, etc.

4. Hotel Cost: $1400 – This works out to be about $100 a

day for our first two weeks in Japan. – Completed! Donated by an individual – THANK YOU!!!

5. Washer/Dryer: $700 remaining

6. Refrigerator: $1200

7. Stove: $500 remaining

My father was a drug dealer and a drunk, but a man invited him to church one day where he heard the Gospel and accepted Christ! That all took place before I was born, and because of that man’s invitation I got to grow up in a Christian home.

My Dad loves those who give out the Gospel, because he remembers the life he was saved from. Therefore, he’s always loved missionaries. He would often invite them over to the house or take them out for a meal. Many of my Dad’s closest friends were missionaries. He genuinely cared for them, and you could see it just by the way he spoke with them. We would get together at night for family prayers and my father would pray for the missionaries by name.

My father would often ask me, “Will, do we really believe people die and go to hell? What are we doing about it?” He cared about the souls of his neighbors as well as the souls of people he never met in distant lands. The tire company he owns supports missionaries and his business card is a Gospel Tract with “Hill and Son Tire” written on the back. His love for missions greatly impacted me.

All those things were revealing to me, on a daily basis, the importance of missions. Though my Father has never been a missionary on a foreign field, he has instilled in his son a missionary’s heart.

Thank you Dad, for investing your time, talents and treasures in God’s Kingdom. Your life preaches louder to me than any message. I see where your heart is. “For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.” Matthew 6:21.

How about you, Fathers? What are your kids seeing that is important to you?