Florida/ITEC Beginnings

We are now starting to settle in Florida with the missions organization, ITEC.
We would like for you to watch this short video of what are the latest things going on in our lives.

Please keep this prayer requests in mind:

Our time at ITEC to be a growth in knowledge and closeness to God
Isabella's arrival, the location and health
Natasha's health during the rest of the pregnancy.
Raising funds for our monthly expenses.

We love you all and will be in touch.

Natasha's First Mothers Day

Exciting news - Baby and ITEC

Hello to all our friends and family,

We have so many changes going on in our lives and we are so excited to tell you what God is doing! 

 

In February we went to Florida to visit a missions organization called ITEC (www.itecusa.org). We had an interest to work with them in the future but they encouraged us to come sooner. So, we prayed and felt peace that it was our time to move! In the middle of April we are moving to Florida to start our work with this organization and could not be more excited. Jonatan will be working with the IFLY program gaining more experience in aviation maintenance and flying time. We also want to learn more of how they are doing missions so we can help implement that in the area we are working in the Amazon of Colombia, Peru and Brazil.

The other BIG news is that the baby is growing strong and healthy! Thank the Lord :) We had our latest ultrasound and we are happy to announce if it is a girl/boy on April 12 at the gender reveal party! STAY TUNED!

We also ask to please pray for us as we raise funds for our monthly expenses as we volunteer with ITEC. We trust God will provide all we need to continue HIS work for the future.

Year End Review

Hello to all!

We are so thankful for all the people who have been encouraging us, helping us in the ministry and getting close to our goals. 

God has been blessing us to much this year and in our first year of marriage we have to admit it has been a good year! We heard from many people your first year is the hardest so I guess the next years to come will be even better!

We want to just share some things that we have accomplished this year and how God is working in our lives through MiSion (Agua & Vida) 

~One this we are really happy about is that Jonatan is going back to school to finish his schooling with Liberty University for his Aviation Maintenance Certification.

~We want to praise God, we have had a number of people/organizations interested about hearing of Colombia and the ministry. In one month Jonatan spoke 3 times! with different groups We are so thankful because the more people hear the more people will become involved in the ministry!

~We are so excited that we have reduced our total debt in half! We can not say this year has been easy but we are so thankful for God's provision. As a missionary it is best to not have any debt and we are slowly but surely reducing! it. 50% of our total debt has been reduced in about 10 months. This was one of the goals we set when we got married and we believe that this is so important not just as a couple going to spend our lives in the mission field but this should be important to any person. We want to encourage you to keep trusting God, He is our main provider and he can do it with you too. Praise GOD!

~The organization is slowly forming on the legal side here in the states. We are amazed all the paperwork and the money involved in establishing an organization but God is helping every step of the way and that helps us to keep moving forward!

Thanks again for your prayers, interest in the ministry, for your encouragement and your financial support. We hope you have a very good end of the year, remembering that the main importance of this season and any other season is to keep our faith with the most important person in the whole universe. Our creator. 

What is "quiet"?

I was listening to Dr. David Jeremiah today and something touched me which is what I want to share with you today. Have you ever thought of this question?

What is quiet? 
Have you ever thought about that?... Do you like silence?
Silence is loud. Imagine when you are angry at your wife/husband. You come home and the house is "quiet" because you do not say a word to each other, you are mad. (I don't know anything about that :). Or you get into your car and you have quiet. So, what do you do? You turn on your radio to break the silence!
Everywhere we go there is music. Silence truly is a gift!

We NEED quiet time with Christ, that is when God talks to us. That is when God works in our life, he gives us guidance, he tells us well done, he tells us what to do next.

In Joshua chapter 6 is the account of the army against Jericho.
Everyday for six days the army had to be silent. Silence IS loud. and longer it goes the louder it is. Imagine an ARMY being silent marching around the city. God wanted people to understand and trust Him even when it did not make sense. Imagine being a soldier. You would think it was so strange, and even if you wanted to say something you could not because you HAD to be silent.

The Bible reminds us to "Be still and Know that I am God".
Being silent is one of the most hardest things to do.. Right?
We need to have silence for God to talk, to speak to us. We have to be silent to think and make rational decisions.

I challenge you today. Go to your room, your bathroom, your closet. Somewhere that no one will bother you and have silence before the Lord. Sometimes you do not even need to say anything. You just need to come to that place, God knows what you are doing. Just sit there and wait for God to speak to you. He knows your heart and he has amazing things to tell YOU!
God loves us and wants the best for us, we just need to show Him that we trust him and desire to spend time with Him.

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Jonatan and I, Natasha, want to thank you for taking the time to read our blog. We also wanted to share a photo collage with you; we had a great time this summer at the place we love. Our hearts are with the people in the Amazon and we were so thankful that we were able to go.

Amazon June 2014

Hi everyone, here is a small video of the latest events in our lives.

We have been enjoying so much the time in Colombia for a few weeks working in the ministry.
Here is a small video, thanks for your prayers. We still have a few more things to accomplish here in the Amazon before we return to the USA.
More pictures will be coming soon.

 

Setting Goals

Hi everyone, here we are again sharing what is going on in our lives.
From now on we will try to make videos instead of writing a long letter, I know this in more convenient for many of you and we also enjoy doing this.

We always appreciate your time to read and to watch our videos, we feel your prayers and your comments are a great encouragement to keep moving forward, may God bless you in everything. 

We are also very excited to be able to help and send our friend, Sandra Santiago, to help us in the work in the Amazon for a few weeks supporting the teams in different tasks.  Please pray for her as she shares the gospel in different villages and also for protection.

God calls us!

I was reading my devotions this morning from a book I received while I was volunteering with Samaritans Purse/Operation Christmas Child. I will be using many of my ideas from a chapter of this book- "All For Jesus," by Franklin Graham

God calls us! He wants us to have a life worthy to his call and we need to want to have a desire to serve him. Once we do His will is when we are truly happy. One thing I have been struggling personally with is that when God calls you he doesn't forget about you. He loves you and has a perfect plan for your life. As I was reading this chapter it was saying how when God calls us we have times of waiting. 

How many of you have a hard time waiting? Especially when you have to do things you really are not wanting to do in the meantime. 

Well, I feel this is what is happening in my life. I know God called me to missions work and it is hard to sit back and wait for the time to come when Jonatan and I can be full-time missionaries. So I was thinking God, why do we have to wait? In this time of confusion and complaining with God I was touched with something is book said.

In this time of waiting in our life we have to DELIGHT God. He wants us to know that we trust Him. It is so easy to complain and worry but God knows what he is doing.  

We always have to remember that God is teaching us. He wants to mold us into His image and he is putting us through trails to see how we react. Remember God is on our side and will help us go through all we have to go through in our life. JUST TRUST HIM.
And that is what we are doing in our lives. 

Many people may have questions about why we are not leaving now to go to the Amazon. God is molding us and using us now to accomplish things here in the US before we make our move. We hope it will not be much longer.

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We are happy to have had Gonzalo visit us this past week. During this time Jonatan and Gonzalo came together (with others) to form many documents for MiSion/Agua y Vida. We also sent in our application for the non-profit status. We are excited to start getting all organized and in place!