They spent 8 1/2 years serving the Lord in Santarem and also planting and overseeing churches in the Amazon River Basin. They adopted their daughter, Sofia, at just 2 days old in March of 2013. Later that year, the Lord called their family to join a team of missionaries sent by Paz Church to Japan to work with an international church, part of the church plant Josiah’s uncle Tim Huber began years ago.