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01Our Story

We crossed an ocean because we believe every person deserves the opportunity to truly know Jesus.

Mission for us is not a project. It is becoming a family to others, staying through the slow seasons, and walking beside people as relationship with Jesus becomes real and transformation is realized.

Jacob, Amber, Hezekiah, and Malachi with a fellow member of their YWAM Taiwan mission team

Jacob · Amber · Hezekiah · Malachi

A family learning to practice simple obedience each and every day together.

Our calling is lived in the middle of ordinary life: boys growing up, church filling the living room, friends lingering around the table, and the name of Jesus woven through it all.

The road to Taitung

A calling made clear one simple step of faith at a time.

2015

Jacob and Amber at the School of Biblical Studies in 2015

We moved from Canada / the US to Taiwan

We arrived with more questions than answers, trusting that if we stayed close to Jesus, He would teach us how to love the people in front of us.

2021

The Taitung sign framed by palm trees and blue sky

God led us south to Taitung

We followed God’s quiet invitation, discovering that the most meaningful ministry often begins with a meal and a commitment to stay.

2025

Jacob teaching Scripture as The Living Room church gathers beneath the words A Place to Know Jesus

The Living Room began

Years of meals, questions, prayer, and opening Scripture together became a bilingual church gathering in our family home.

Now

Amber leading Sunday school around the family table

We are building toward multiplication

We are walking with people as they know Jesus more deeply, become like Him, and carry His presence into homes and communities of their own.

We long for people to truly know Jesus, not only know about Him.

The kind of relationship that takes root and transforms a person from the inside out then becomes an invitation to others.

01Know

Know Him personally

Not simply learning facts about Jesus, but meeting Him in Scripture, prayer, worship, and the honest questions of everyday life.

02Become

Be transformed by Him

Loving others with patience and humility, letting our relationship with Jesus bring transformation to our lives and choices, heal what is broken, and teach us to be like Him.

03Multiply

Invite others close

Helping disciples open their own tables, share what Jesus has done, and walk with others toward a deeper life with Jesus.

Continue to chapter 02The Living Room Church