To start with, I want to acknowledge that this is where God has led us, and that it is by His grace that we are here. As I shared leading up to the move, we are here for family. That might sound like a cheesy line out of a Fast And Furious movie, but it’s what led us to making the move, and to pursue what God has for us here. It’s the next step in our family’s journey, and we are excited, and grateful to be here.

The experience has been challenging for us thus far. It’s definitely been one of those three steps forward, and two steps back sort of times. We have been challenged in many ways, with the house, relationally, and with my YWAM Missions Work.

Moving to this specific house was a huge step of faith. It was one that we had walked through a few times, and had reservations about when we did. In the end, with not much time until we had to be out of our old house, we felt God tell us in prayer that “we can make this work.”

And as we have found since we moved in, to make it work, we will REALLY need to work.

The thing with older homes is that there are often “hidden” issues that you don’t see when you do an initial walk through. I’ll chuck the list at the bottom of this letter if you want to check it out, but it is substantial, and always growing. It’s been great for my tool collection … I’ve always wanted to own a chain saw and ride on mower!

Our work with the Youth With A Mission Global Communications Team has continued. The YWAM News Show has continued to grow with our multiple live streams, social media channels, and email. We are able to share what God is doing in the nations, and also present opportunities for people to join in the work.

Thousands of people from around the world also join us for monthly prayer with “The Invitation”. We have been able to focus prayer on issues like Bible Translation, Global Revival, Iran, Muslim converts to Christianity, and more. It’s a joy to be able to connect with so many people for those prayer events.

We have also been connecting more with the local YWAM Centre at Norton Summit here in South Australia. Most of the work with them has been on their IT infrastructure and updating their existing web-site.

One thing that the move has highlighted is the need to grow our financial support. We have been amazingly blessed by the support of friends and family over the years, but since we moved back to Australia 14-years ago, our support has dropped significantly, while our expenses have only increased.

No one in Youth With A Mission receives an income. We are all full time volunteers, responsible for raising the finances needed to meet our own monthly financial needs. We do this through partnering with people, organisations, and churches who have a passion and desire to see the world change, and see God glorified throughout our work.

If you, or someone you know of, would be interested in finding out how to financially partner with us, you can find out on our web-site, billhutchison.org/partner.

House “Issue” list:

• A shed that was meant to be my office sitting at a 4 degree angled slope, with a creek running under and through it whenever it rains
• Asbestos in the electrical
• Hot water system that is as old as one of our children
• Floors and walls that transmit sound like they’re not even there
• Odd sized openings and gaps in the walls
• Trees that are leaning, rotting, and randomly losing large branches when the wind blows
• Mould covered walls and ceilings in the garage
• Garage roller doors that randomly decide not to open or close
• Brick walls with 4 different linings on top of it
• Water pipes and downpipes that I can’t seem to figure out where the come from, or go to
• Leaking water tanks
• An electric fence that is broken in multiple places, and that I still haven’t figure out how to turn on and off
• Mysterious fruit trees that according to Google could be apple, pear, peach, nectarine, or mulberry
• The house being in a mobile / cellular “dark patch”, with regular dropped calls, delayed messages, and no wired or cellular Internet access
• Rabbits and kangaroos regularly digging up the garden beds
• Semi-regular electrical blackouts
• No waterproofing in one of the bathroom floors

April 10 … That’s the day that sits forefront in my mind every day.

Late last year we met with a friend who is a real-estate agent to talk about options, as we were looking at possibly selling our house, and finding a new home that better met our families changing needs. After chatting with that friend a couple of times, he came to us with someone who wanted to purchase our house! So after praying it though, Tamara and I signed a contract on our house, and we need to be moved out on April 10.

Now we are waiting for God to show us what’s next!

Tamara recently said, “usually when you’re excitedly waiting for something, time drags. For us, even though we’re eager to find our next home, the weeks are flying by, and we still haven’t found one that meets our needs.”.

Around the same time that Tamara said that, I wrote, “When you are walking in obedience to God, that time between when you are stepping out in faith and obedience, and when God steps in with the next step, can be a nerve wracking and stressful time.”.

I can’t actually remember a time when I have felt this under pressure to see God move on our behalf.

Tamara was encouraged by something that singer Toby Mac said, “Don’t underestimate what God is doing in your season of waiting”.

At the same time, I have been reminded of how God has moved on our behalf in the past, and how He has always proved faithful.

So, would you pray with us? Would you ask God to reveal to us what’s next, and pave the way for His will to be done?

Thank you …

God’s led us on an interesting journey during the last 18-months, and that culminated in us signing a contract to sell our house with a settlement date of April 10.

We are remaining in South Australia and prayerfully trusting God to reveal where our next home will be as we step out in faith and begin the journey of house-hunting.

We appreciate your prayers and support during this time, and if you are nearby, maybe some muscles on moving day …

Luke 2:10-11 (NIV)
“But the angel said to them, ‘Do not be afraid. I bring you good news that will cause great joy for all the people. Today in the town of David, a Savior has been born to you; he is the Messiah, the Lord.'”

We hope that you had a lovely Christmas and have a Happy New Year.

The Sunday between Christmas and New Years this year our Senior Pastor shared a good message about “Growth” with us that I wanted to pass on. He had three key questions that he encouraged us to ponder as we leave one year and enter the next …

1. Am I Growing?
2. Am I Producing Fruit?
3. Am I Available for God to Use?

He finished with two other questions to challenge us going into the new year:

1. Where do we need to grow?
2. What is stopping us?

It’s given me something to think about as I start 2026, and maybe it will for you as well.

Again, hope you had a good Christmas, and have a good New Years.

We continue with our reading with Chapter 13, called Black and White Do Mix.

Breakthrough – Taking the Gospel Across Forbidden Borders – Rudi Lack

Rudi Lack’s book “Breakthrough: Taking the Gospel Across Forbidden Borders” is a true-life, fast-moving missionary adventure story that details his daring journeys into tightly controlled borders of communist Europe and various parts of Africa. The book highlights how Rudi Lack trusted in divine provision, direction, and preservation by the Lord, showcasing his reckless faith and the harvest of a seed planted

This show uses the value for value model (pioneered by Adam Curry and John C Dvorak from the No Agenda Show) which means if you found value in this show we’d appreciate if you gave some of that back as a way of saying thank you. You can give back with time, talent, or treasure by sending me your comments or questions, sharing your favourite missionary stories, or donating to my full time volunteer missionary work.

We continue with our reading with Chapter 12, called Multiplication.

Breakthrough – Taking the Gospel Across Forbidden Borders – Rudi Lack

Rudi Lack’s book “Breakthrough: Taking the Gospel Across Forbidden Borders” is a true-life, fast-moving missionary adventure story that details his daring journeys into tightly controlled borders of communist Europe and various parts of Africa. The book highlights how Rudi Lack trusted in divine provision, direction, and preservation by the Lord, showcasing his reckless faith and the harvest of a seed planted

This show uses the value for value model (pioneered by Adam Curry and John C Dvorak from the No Agenda Show) which means if you found value in this show we’d appreciate if you gave some of that back as a way of saying thank you. You can give back with time, talent, or treasure by sending me your comments or questions, sharing your favourite missionary stories, or donating to my full time volunteer missionary work.

I have been producing the YWAM News Show since 2010. It has grown from a fortnightly audio podcast of about 15 minutes long, to an audio and video news show that is streamed live on the last Thursday of every month on many video and podcast platforms. Every episode can be found at ywampodcast.com, with the video shows starting in March of 2021.

The preparation and production for each episode takes about 2 weeks of news gathering, video and audio editing, recording and streaming, and post production work. This usually involves sorting through over 400 articles, hundreds of videos, and many social media posts to try to figure out what is happening in Youth With A Mission at our over 1200 different operating locations.

Next month we will be expanding further and bringing in a co host and other contributors to the show. This will be exciting, as it will introduce new perspectives to the show, and hopefully we will find stories that I have been unaware of, or haven’t come across yet.

Moving into this new phase involves a lot of changes and challenges. I would appreciate your prayers and support moving into this, as my workflow is dramatically changing, there are many technical issues to overcome, and I will likely have additional expenses to help with the extra workload.

You can head over to ywampodcast.com to check out the latest shows, and billhutchison.org to find out how you can support and partner with me as move into this new phase of ministry.

We continue with our reading with Chapter 11, called Contacting the Chinese.

Breakthrough – Taking the Gospel Across Forbidden Borders – Rudi Lack

Rudi Lack’s book “Breakthrough: Taking the Gospel Across Forbidden Borders” is a true-life, fast-moving missionary adventure story that details his daring journeys into tightly controlled borders of communist Europe and various parts of Africa. The book highlights how Rudi Lack trusted in divine provision, direction, and preservation by the Lord, showcasing his reckless faith and the harvest of a seed planted

This show uses the value for value model (pioneered by Adam Curry and John C Dvorak from the No Agenda Show) which means if you found value in this show we’d appreciate if you gave some of that back as a way of saying thank you. You can give back with time, talent, or treasure by sending me your comments or questions, sharing your favourite missionary stories, or donating to my full time volunteer missionary work.

We continue with our reading with Chapter 10, called Faith Rewarded.

Breakthrough – Taking the Gospel Across Forbidden Borders – Rudi Lack

Rudi Lack’s book “Breakthrough: Taking the Gospel Across Forbidden Borders” is a true-life, fast-moving missionary adventure story that details his daring journeys into tightly controlled borders of communist Europe and various parts of Africa. The book highlights how Rudi Lack trusted in divine provision, direction, and preservation by the Lord, showcasing his reckless faith and the harvest of a seed planted

This show uses the value for value model (pioneered by Adam Curry and John C Dvorak from the No Agenda Show) which means if you found value in this show we’d appreciate if you gave some of that back as a way of saying thank you. You can give back with time, talent, or treasure by sending me your comments or questions, sharing your favourite missionary stories, or donating to my full time volunteer missionary work.

We continue with our reading with Chapter 9, called Call to the Chinese.

Breakthrough – Taking the Gospel Across Forbidden Borders – Rudi Lack

Rudi Lack’s book “Breakthrough: Taking the Gospel Across Forbidden Borders” is a true-life, fast-moving missionary adventure story that details his daring journeys into tightly controlled borders of communist Europe and various parts of Africa. The book highlights how Rudi Lack trusted in divine provision, direction, and preservation by the Lord, showcasing his reckless faith and the harvest of a seed planted

This show uses the value for value model (pioneered by Adam Curry and John C Dvorak from the No Agenda Show) which means if you found value in this show we’d appreciate if you gave some of that back as a way of saying thank you. You can give back with time, talent, or treasure by sending me your comments or questions, sharing your favourite missionary stories, or donating to my full time volunteer missionary work.