William(Bill) C. Hicks – Born in Bristol, Tennessee in 1956 with a few years of his youth spent living in San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, Mexico. Bill speaks a little Spanish and English with country accents from both his "country” roots. Bill is married to his wife of 32 years, Deborah. They have two children. Elaine, their eldest daughter, is currently completing her graduate CRNA  at Duke University with honors and is married to Nick Changas, who works as a cabinet contractor. They currently reside with their sons, Alex and Will, in Durham, NC. They plan on moving to knoxville in June where Elaine will be working as an Anesthesist. Their son Joshua and his wife, Jessica, live in Winton-Salem, NC where Jessica works in nursing management and Joshua is earning his MD with honors in the spring of 2008 at Wake Forest Medical School. Joshua was named to the Alpha Omega Alpha honor society for medicine, the only honor society for the field of medicine in the United States in his junior year. He has matched his  residency in Opthalmology at the University of Alabama School of Medicine and will be working his interim year at Caroway Hospital  in Birmingham beginning in June. Someday he hopes to work in some short term medical missions.

Bill’s career has been spent in business management in various departments of a private corporation[Don Hill Enterprises] specializing in automotive dealership management and mineral property development. There he has served in various capacities from a department manager, board consultant, and assistant to the President handling Risk Management for the corporation. His formal education consists of a couple of degrees. One from Graham Bible College (in Biblical Studies) and another in general studies from Liberty University (where he continues his studies). Their family enjoys boating and enjoying the beautiful scenery of eastern Tennessee, southwest Virginia and western North Carolina.

Bill’s passion is ministry even though he has been and now is bi-vocational, continuing to work both secularly and in ministry. He has served as a Lay Pastor, Licensed and Credentialed Minister of the North American Ministerial Council of the Church of God (Seventh Day), District Overseer, and now serves as the Director of the CoG7 General Conference's Missions Ministries; Church Planting, Home Missions and Missions Abroad. He works closely with the President and Executive Committee of the International Ministerial Congress of the Church of God(Seventh Day) in the development of the denomination globally. In 2007 Bill was named as Executive Director of the International Ministerial Congress ("IMC") of the denomination's global organizational administriation. He travels extensively in missions and preaches Christ wherever he goes. He currently serves two small mission/church groups; one in Kingsport, Tennessee and one in Dryden, Va, when he is home as well.

“I believe that it is better to be blessed than smart. My calling is to share the saving faith in Jesus Christ wherever I go with those that God is calling to come to Himself. I particularly appreciate the fact that the people of God, from the very beginning(Rev. 12:17) to the end(Rev. 14:12), are those that respect God’s written Word, his commandments, and God’s living Word, Jesus Christ. They seek His blessing in their lives. I just try to share what I can to help everyone that I can to have a deeper understanding of their relationship with our living Lord Jesus Christ and to rest in him! Our salvation is NOT based upon a RELIGION... it is about being REBORN and living as God's children by RESTING in HIM forever.”