Author: David and Joyce Hilt

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 […]

On any given Sunday you have a broad range of people coming for services.  You have saved and unsaved individuals.  Among the saved there are new believers, untaught believers, mediocre believers, and maturing believers.  In most churches there is no means to distinguish between these levels of spiritual growth.  Therefore, we believe pastors and elders […]

I’ve always realized that the results and successes of mobilizing harvest laborers –church planters, as we call them, aren’t dependent upon me as a mobilizer.  It must be a work of the Spirit drawing God’s workmen into harmony with His purpose to declare Christ to the nations.  ‘Nations’ meaning ethnicities or those we identify as […]

Questions we are often asked: How can I know God’s will for my life? We’re often asked during our ministry engagements –by young and old alike, how can I know God’s will for my life?  It seems to be an age-old question most believers seek to understand.  But I believe we’ve been asking the wrong […]

A New Year and new opportunities… While travel has been halted to many international destinations, we are thrilled that travel is opening up, though with restrictions and hurdles.  A large number of our co-laborers, numbering around seventy families, were able to return to their work in Papua New Guinea recently.  Other workers are preparing to […]

People, people, people… I’m beginning to think the Metro Phoenix area has about as many people as the state has cactus!  As of 2019, Statisa, a demographics research company, shows the area to have a population of 4.95 million people.  I bet it took a lot of bean counters to come up with that number!  […]

Endurance…  I’m guessing everyone has a heightened threshold of endurance these days, what with the ongoing challenges of the pandemic.  Endurance and hardship seem synonymous in missions although a lot of people think missionaries are ‘special people’ and handle difficulties in a saintly way.  While we do our utmost to keep our eyes on Jesus, […]

Anem!  You’re probably thinking I failed to spell check this letter in that I wrote Anem and not Amen.  Well, I intentionally wrote Anem because it is the given name of a remote people group living far from civilization as we know it. The people who go by Anem, pronounced ‘ah-name,’ just heard the complete […]

There’s a story in the bible, a parable called the laborers in the vineyard.  Jesus taught a lot of good stuff in the stories he told.  The story is set in God’s economy –the kingdom of heaven, and not in terms related to work as we see it.  The story is found in Matthew 20. […]