Author: David and Joyce Hilt

Have you ever been bombarded with questions… I mean hours & hours of questions?   We took several Q&A sessions following some recent meetings which had us answering queries for more than eight combined hours.  When given the opportunity to present a focus on church planting among indigenous peoples, we typically create presentations which provide loads […]

Random thoughts raced through my mind as I stood on the curbside adjacent to the residence at 19 North Square in Boston Massachusetts.  I retraced what I learned as a schoolboy about the events of a cold April night in 1775.  You may know the event as the Midnight Ride of Paul Revere.  I thought […]

We  don’t sugarcoat or glamorize the hard work associated with establishing a thriving church when we speak to churches or young people about the need for laborers.  You might think that would hurt our efforts in seeking to find those who would serve with us but we want to be clear and up front about […]

I got me a gimpy leg… doc says it came from hard work early in life.  It got me to thinking about an old man in the Bible named Abraham.  Imagine becoming a father for the first time at 86 years of age (son Ishmael), then again at 100 (son Isaac); I mean ‘dude!’  …But […]

When Joyce and I stepped away from our local church ministry of evangelism & discipleship to pursue training & equipping to serve in missions, we hoped to eventually minister among indigenous tribes in Bolivia, South America.  That door closed and another opened… in Papua New Guinea.  We had no intentions of ever going to Papua […]

Long before the internet existed I had twenty-six different translations of the English Bible in my office.  Today, websites like Bible Gateway, Bible Hub and others offer an array of over sixty Bible translations in English.  While some individuals will make arguments over specific translations, most people fail to investigate the purpose behind each translation […]

We love meeting people but we’re not so good at remembering names… especially when Joyce and I awaken in the morning and ask one another, “Who are you?”  Well, ok… it’s not gotten to that point (yet), but with the thousands of people we meet in our ministry travels it’s just difficult recalling names.   There […]

Thirty seven years ago we were packing and preparing for our soon departure to serve in Papua New Guinea.  Although we were adequately trained and equipped for this new venture in life –an investment of nearly four years, we felt some apprehensions amid the excitement of taking the gospel to an unreached people group.  Who […]

Everyone talks about numbers.  Whether it’s the number of millionaires in the world; how many fans the largest sports stadium can accommodate;  the growth numbers in our communities, how many birthdays or anniversaries we’ve celebrated; the cases numbers of specific illnesses; or the number of members & attendees of our churches… numbers are a huge […]

A church is birthed…  That team of missionaries we’ve been telling you about all summer long have witnessed the birth of the church among the Wantakia people of Papua New Guinea.  The teaching finally reached the story of Jesus’ death, burial and resurrection.  Many people embraced the gospel on that day but the story doesn’t […]