Dear Family, Church family, and friends,
God has done a lot in our lives since we sent the last email and we are thrilled to be able to announce that we are now Wycliffe members! (We even get our own “@wycliffe.org email addresses! haha) Although our official employment date is not until September 1, our employment paperwork has all been submitted and we have received our job offer from Wycliffe to serve in Papua New Guinea (PNG). Thank you all for your prayers and support—God answered your prayers in ways we could have never dreamed! In the name of brevity, I won’t list all of the ways God provided for us in this email, but if you want a glimpse of his provision, check out our previous blog post here.
While we will miss our family and friends greatly, we know beyond a shadow of doubt that this ministry is where God is leading our family. There are currently over 1,900 languages in the world without a shred of scripture. Imagine having no access to scripture in English! Think of the last time God revealed something profound to you that changed your spiritual walk. Was it while you were reading scripture? While you were listening to a sermon on a passage of scripture? In your small group at church, talking over a passage of scripture? What would your spiritual walk look like if you never heard God’s word in your language? Carl F.H. Henry once said, “The gospel is only good news if it gets there in time.” Similarly, it’s only good news if they can understand it! We will have the incredible privilege of being a part of bringing God’s Word into one of those 1,900 languages—specifically, one of the 300+ languages without scripture in Papua New Guinea. (For more information about Wycliffe and Bible translation, click here).
But, before we can jump in and start translating, there is a good bit of training we must undergo, and we need your help! Our first part of training for Wycliffe will be a two-week training session and orientation in Orlando from October 18-31. Our cost of attendance, which covers room and board, airfare, and cost of training, is about $3,500 for our family. We’ve sold just about everything we can sell to meet our financial requirements for application, so we need ministry partners who are willing to pray for us and partner with us financially to bring God’s Word to the Bible-less. Would you prayerfully consider advancing the Kingdom by partnering with us in our ministry? If God is leading you to partner with us financially, please look below for information about making a tax-deductible donation.
We also desperately need prayer partners. The task of translating the Bible into a foreign language is a God-sized ambition, and is something that will only come to pass with God’s miraculous provision. Please pray 1) for our training, 2) for God to raise up other prayer and financial partners, and 3) for God to begin preparing the people to whom we will minister to receive the Gospel.
We hope to begin sharing our vision for ministry soon with local churches, so if your church would be interested in having us speak, please contact me and we can make arrangements. Again, thanks for your prayers and support! Please continue to pray for us as we take these next steps in our ministry.
Donations can be sent to:
Wycliffe Bible Translators
P.O. Box 628200
Orlando, FL 32862-8200
Or, you can make your donation securely online.
Please include a separate note with your donation stating: “Preference for the Wycliffe ministry of Jason and Jennifer Hill, #239685.”
For His Kingdom,
Jason, Jennifer, and Josiah Hill
Wycliffe Bible Translators
Skype: jasonjennifer.hill
Cell: (501) 941-8072