Greetings,

It is hard getting back to the ‘normal’ routine of life after we lose a loved one.  That is probably an understatement of reality for the Hill family after the passing on of my mother Carol, because like most people, life itself continues on without us and we have to play catchup.  First off, I want to say a huge THANK YOU to all of you for your love and support during this time of grieving.  THANK YOU also for the flowers, condolences, and cards that shared memories of my Mom, some memories I knew about and some that were a revelation to me of her.  THANK YOU most of all for your prayers to our Heavenly Father on my family’s behalf, I believe that the process was very God honoring and pleasing to Him who is more than ABLE!  Praise the Lord!

Praise the Lord, He has given us good news to give to you in this email update!  We are up to 71% of our needed financial support this week – God was always at work while we took time off!  Our planning was interrupted, so we are ramping back up yet again and planning our visitation travels.  We will send out an update when we have solidified our schedule.

Meanwhile, we want to remind everyone that has already pledged to support us financially to get a pledge card into Joy Media for their records.  One of the reasons we did not leave with our stuff at the end of April to Alaska was because Joy Media did not have the same records as we did nor had they seen any donations come in from a few people that we told them had pledged.  If you need the documents, you can find and download them on our website under our support page (http://www.scottandsarabeth.com/?page_id=30 ).

Obviously, our lives are in God’s hands.  He is comforting us and guiding our paths back to the Alaska Field and we look forward to continuing our service there as soon as He allows, but for now we have His work here to continue.

Thank You for sharing in our journey!

In His service,

The Hill Family

Today, 4-19-18, our Suburban and 14 foot trailer full of most of our worldly belongings left for Alaska without us!?!!

The last 2 weeks have been a flurry of busyness, emotional highs and lows, spiritual encouragement, and a whole lot of learning to Trust and Wait on our God in whose hands we are in.  His loving arms embracing everyone we encounter, using us as vessels of His testimonies of what He IS doing in the lives of those who love Him.  We are both recipients of His love and witnesses of His work in others.

Two weekends ago it was our hope that it would be time to take our final trip and head up north to Alaska.  We thought that we were ready to be sent, but God instead has sent our stuff ahead of us and made us more mobile, clearing out some extra weight (15,000 lbs. of it!).  Whatever the reason He has… I, Scott, feel more like a gypsy than ever before.  He has allowed our stuff to go, but not us, yet.  On the other hand, we can be even more certain now that He is calling us to Alaska!

Two weekends ago (April 6-8) was the first Missions Conference we have attended in many years and it was an awesome demonstration of how God is working all around the world.  We were reminded once again how The Church (all of Christ’s followers) is supposed to be proclaiming the Good News of Jesus Christ to everyone we meet.  Proclaim it to kids in our back yard (Jerusalem), to our communities where we live (Judea and Samaria), and to those that are traveling around the world (the remotest parts).  It was a very encouraging time and we enjoyed meeting and fellowshipping with new missionaries.

Last week was filled then with Sarabeth’s Brother James arriving and working on our Suburban’s front suspension and prepping it for him to take to Alaska.  What a blessing to have a brother that is a very skilled mechanic.  We ended the week on Friday with an enjoyable presentation with a small group at the pastor’s house.

Please pray for more opportunities to share what God is doing in our lives and what He has called us to.  Pray also for Him to raise up prayer and financial partners so that we can meet the financial need of $6500/month.  The Joy Media board and KCAM Radio desperately would like to have us there, but also want us to be able to concentrate on meeting the need that we have been called to fulfill.  Discovering Partners in ministry needs to be fully complete before we get busy with our field ministry.

In His service,

The Hill Family

Brother James Eaton with our Rig!