Vision 100

It all began with the vision to purchase a vehicle for some Missionaries to reach the most unreached people group in the world.

In 2009 Dana and I (Pastor Thad) were youth pastors in a church in Auburn. We sensed the calling of God to raise 100% of the funds for a missionary and his wife who were missionaries in Surabaya Indonesia named John & Korie Taylor. They were targeting the purchase of a Speed The Light vehicle, which is just a fancy name for a vehicle paid for by youth ministries in America, that will be used on the mission field to reach people for Jesus.

The youth ministry set out to raise $27,000 over the course of the next year, but little did we know that God was about to call us to start a new church in Bonney Lake that would require us to raise funding to the target of 200,000.

Here we had a goal we had committed to, and now a huge personal need in addition. So, we committed to raising both our funding and the funding for these missionaries headed to Indonesia. I will never forget the astonishment from John as he found out what we were doing and that we were continuing to raise the funding for his vehicle in Indonesia with such a task ahead of us here in Bonney Lake.

As it were, we raised the funding and in 2010 John was able to purchase a Ford Everest which he named Thad (pictured below in 2013...two Thads in one photo), which remains their families main form of transportation to this day. 

It was a no brainer to support John & Korie and their two girls when Open Life began in 2010 and they invited the Huffs out in 2013 to serve their church for a month with our entire family. 

Not only were we able to serve their church, ICA Surabaya, and pray over the property they wanted to launch a second campus at in East Surabaya, but Thad was able to go and build one of their Vision 100 churches outside of Kalimantan on the island of Borneo (church #29). 

The Huffs and Millers went back to serve the churches in Surabaya in 2019, laying the groundwork for a number of additional churches to be built in Bacan, Indonesia. Which are all thriving today. And we were able to minister in two services in the new East Campus they had constructed between 2013 and 2019, which we had prayed over on our previous visit. 

All that to say, I wanted to share with you the impact we have been able to make in Indonesia by sharing their Vision 100 video and the transformation that has been made within Indonesia which you have sown into since Open Life began, and really before it ever began. Your generosity makes an impact beyond what you will ever witness with your own eyes. We now support John Vincen in Indonesia as well who shares in this video.

These are two of our missionary couples and the amazing work they are doing on the other side of the world with a people who do not know Jesus. As we look to the future, we will return to Indonesia. Be praying and see if you want to be a part of the ministry they are doing as highlighted in this video.

Thank you Open Life, you make a difference in the world!!

- Thad