Hello friends and family,
We are back home from our trip to the Amazon, praise God. It was a time of busyness and fruitfulness we are thankful for that but it was also filled with sickness. Every week someone was sick with something different.
God answered our prayer requests in different ways. We had no idea where we were going to stay in Leticia and a few days before we got there a friend replied with a contact. We got to make a beautiful friendship with a pastor and his family who have lived in the Amazon for years but we had never known them.
As for Natasha and a birth experience, she was not able to physically help someone because we were constantly moving around, every week we were somewhere different. But she met numerous pregnant ladies and got to ask lots of questions and make some good contacts.
God answered a big request we had, we made it to 50% of our budget! It came in the weekend before the deadline. So, we are planning to leave next week for our class we need to take with ABWE and will be gone again for some time visiting churches and friends along the way. God has been so good.
We are going to leave you with the past two posts we made on Facebook. Some of you all may not have facebook so we wanted to share with you as well.
http://amazonlifeproject.blogspot.com/2018/05/arrival-in-colombia.html
Thursday, July 19, 2018
Saturday, May 19, 2018
Arrival in Colombia
Family and friends,
It is hard to think that we arrived to Colombia just two weeks ago! We have already been in numerous houses sharing and spending time with long time friends and family. We had the blessing of meeting other ABWE colleagues here in Colombia and it was a beautiful time sharing with them.
This weekend we are going to take some family time and go to a local area, we are excited for much needed family time.
Many people wonder why are want to be missionaries, the life in the United States is so comfortable and we can find a job easily. Many people ask why we just don’t get a job instead of asking for ministry partners... God has tested us and with thinking about it we get deeper roots in our faith knowing we are doing what God has called us to do. Being a missionary is not easy, but so fulfilling! Trusting in God’s will for your life is always the best!
It is not easy traveling with two girls, an infant and toddler, from car to car numerous times a day, sleeping in different beds every other night, eating whatever people offer or put in front of you... but we know God is taking care of us.
We covet you’re prayers, especially for healthy bodies. Isabella got sick with an extremely high fever, Natasha has been sick. But God is good, the day after they got sick we were arrived to a cousin’s house who is a doctor, she sent in the medicine and they brought it to our house, it was a huge blessing!
We shared in a Colombian church this past weekend. The pastor put us on the spot to share a special song... before we started Isabella wanted to come to the front and it was such a sweet experience, her helping us sing. Natasha also got to have her first experience sharing in Spanish with the congregation some of her calling, it was a wonderful time.
Natasha hasn’t had a birth experience but has talked with two pregnant ladies, each having their own questions. It is definitely a need for women to have a place to come for counseling with maternity questions. Natasha has a deeper passion for studying midwifery.
We love you all and are thankful for you reading and caring of what I see happening I need our life.
-The Nieto’s
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Prayer requests:
*We still don’t know where we will stay while we are in Leticia. Please pray God shows us where.
*For health and safety.
*Natasha to have a birth experience in the Amazon.
*For us to get to 50% funding by the end of June. We are at 43%.
You may think that giving a small amount wouldn’t make a difference, it will! We have some ministry partners that give $15, $25, $30 a month, your committed monthly partnership means so much to our family and especially to the people we are ministering to. Please ask God how he wants you to partner with us.
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It is hard to think that we arrived to Colombia just two weeks ago! We have already been in numerous houses sharing and spending time with long time friends and family. We had the blessing of meeting other ABWE colleagues here in Colombia and it was a beautiful time sharing with them.
This weekend we are going to take some family time and go to a local area, we are excited for much needed family time.
Many people wonder why are want to be missionaries, the life in the United States is so comfortable and we can find a job easily. Many people ask why we just don’t get a job instead of asking for ministry partners... God has tested us and with thinking about it we get deeper roots in our faith knowing we are doing what God has called us to do. Being a missionary is not easy, but so fulfilling! Trusting in God’s will for your life is always the best!
It is not easy traveling with two girls, an infant and toddler, from car to car numerous times a day, sleeping in different beds every other night, eating whatever people offer or put in front of you... but we know God is taking care of us.
We covet you’re prayers, especially for healthy bodies. Isabella got sick with an extremely high fever, Natasha has been sick. But God is good, the day after they got sick we were arrived to a cousin’s house who is a doctor, she sent in the medicine and they brought it to our house, it was a huge blessing!
We shared in a Colombian church this past weekend. The pastor put us on the spot to share a special song... before we started Isabella wanted to come to the front and it was such a sweet experience, her helping us sing. Natasha also got to have her first experience sharing in Spanish with the congregation some of her calling, it was a wonderful time.
Natasha hasn’t had a birth experience but has talked with two pregnant ladies, each having their own questions. It is definitely a need for women to have a place to come for counseling with maternity questions. Natasha has a deeper passion for studying midwifery.
We love you all and are thankful for you reading and caring of what I see happening I need our life.
-The Nieto’s
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Prayer requests:
*We still don’t know where we will stay while we are in Leticia. Please pray God shows us where.
*For health and safety.
*Natasha to have a birth experience in the Amazon.
*For us to get to 50% funding by the end of June. We are at 43%.
You may think that giving a small amount wouldn’t make a difference, it will! We have some ministry partners that give $15, $25, $30 a month, your committed monthly partnership means so much to our family and especially to the people we are ministering to. Please ask God how he wants you to partner with us.
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Monday, May 7, 2018
Video Series-Doula/Birth Work
Hello Family and Friends,
This is the last video in our series of videos. Natasha is excited to shart her heart about what God is calling her to do. We are excited about how God is leading her and what is to come.
Please pray for Natasha that God would make a way for her to study and get more experience. She would love to have a birth experience while we are in Colombia this summer, Amazon-style! Pray that she can find some pregnant mamas.
We have reached 42%. We are thankful for everyone who God called to become part of our support team. We have to get to 50% before the end of June to be able to go to the class that we take at 50% with ABWE, continue sharing with us in prayer that God would touch hearts. If you have any interest in sharing in the ministry with us, please let us know. We would love to tell you more.
We leave tomorrow, May 8, to fly out to Colombia for 2 months. We are going to be visiting family and friends and then continue to the Amazon to minister there. There are two teams coming that we are going to be working with and a pastoral training for indigenous leaders. We want to be a light and inspiration to the people by sharing God's love and His hope.
Please pray for us as we continue sharing the vision and raising support. We are planning our summer deputation schedule. We want to find more churches to visit and if you are willing to help us connect to some we would greatly appreciate it.
We love each and every one of you. Let's stay in touch!
This is the last video in our series of videos. Natasha is excited to shart her heart about what God is calling her to do. We are excited about how God is leading her and what is to come.
Please pray for Natasha that God would make a way for her to study and get more experience. She would love to have a birth experience while we are in Colombia this summer, Amazon-style! Pray that she can find some pregnant mamas.
We have reached 42%. We are thankful for everyone who God called to become part of our support team. We have to get to 50% before the end of June to be able to go to the class that we take at 50% with ABWE, continue sharing with us in prayer that God would touch hearts. If you have any interest in sharing in the ministry with us, please let us know. We would love to tell you more.
We leave tomorrow, May 8, to fly out to Colombia for 2 months. We are going to be visiting family and friends and then continue to the Amazon to minister there. There are two teams coming that we are going to be working with and a pastoral training for indigenous leaders. We want to be a light and inspiration to the people by sharing God's love and His hope.
Please pray for us as we continue sharing the vision and raising support. We are planning our summer deputation schedule. We want to find more churches to visit and if you are willing to help us connect to some we would greatly appreciate it.
We love each and every one of you. Let's stay in touch!
Friday, April 6, 2018
April, Video series: ITEC
Exactly three years ago we arrived at ITEC to be part of their team as volunteers, serving and receiving training in aviation to move to the Amazon jungle.
We feel extremely blessed and happy to be here, it has been a great experience and we see a better and more clear vision for the ministry in the Amazon.
Itec is an amazing organization with very creative and beautiful people. We are all a big family and we would have never changed that decision to come here. Enjoy the video.
Thanks again for watching, praying and supporting us.
We thank all those who are responding and becoming part of our support team. We jumped from 34% last month to 38% this month! You all are such a blessing and we cannot express our gratitude enough, thanks again.
Prayer Request:
Our usual summer trip to the Amazon: Specifically for health, finding a place to stay in the city and villages, opportunities for Natasha to find pregnant ladies to share and learn from- get some births, language learning
**If you are interested in supporting us specifically for our trip this summer, please let us know.**
For God to open up doors for us to speak in more churches- Colombia and the United States
Jonatan to finish his Instrument Rating Pilots license
We feel extremely blessed and happy to be here, it has been a great experience and we see a better and more clear vision for the ministry in the Amazon.
Itec is an amazing organization with very creative and beautiful people. We are all a big family and we would have never changed that decision to come here. Enjoy the video.
Thanks again for watching, praying and supporting us.
We thank all those who are responding and becoming part of our support team. We jumped from 34% last month to 38% this month! You all are such a blessing and we cannot express our gratitude enough, thanks again.
Prayer Request:
Our usual summer trip to the Amazon: Specifically for health, finding a place to stay in the city and villages, opportunities for Natasha to find pregnant ladies to share and learn from- get some births, language learning
**If you are interested in supporting us specifically for our trip this summer, please let us know.**
For God to open up doors for us to speak in more churches- Colombia and the United States
Jonatan to finish his Instrument Rating Pilots license
Saturday, March 17, 2018
March Update, Fundraising - Levantamiento de fondos, Marzo
Hello family and friends, We cannot wait until the first day of spring next week! We had a little of a cold snap here in Florida and want more warm weather!
This month we wanted to focus on sharing something we want to be very transparent about, the finances.
We are currently at 34% of the total we need to raise. Our biggest desire is to be at 50% by June so we can take a seminar which is one of the requirements to move full time to the field.
We are also trying to work on our assignments that ABWE has for us to complete before we can attend that seminar in July. We ask you all to pray for us as we continue to raise support, for God to open doors of churches, for people's hearts and minds as we share so they understand the ministry, and for us to communicate properly.
We want to thank every one of our supporters who has given so far, you all are our backbone and we cannot express how grateful we are to you, we love you so much. We have contacted some churches and people and hope to find more open doors, we also have a schedule in the making for this summer to visit some states again. If you know of someone wanting a one-on-one meeting, or you would be interested in inviting us to your church or talk to your pastor, please contact us.
God has been speaking so much on life and how to not do anything on our own strength. We don’t want to push things and only get our desires for our lives. We know God is paving a way for us to get to Colombia, in the meantime we want to be intentional about doing our part.
This month we wanted to focus on sharing something we want to be very transparent about, the finances.
We are currently at 34% of the total we need to raise. Our biggest desire is to be at 50% by June so we can take a seminar which is one of the requirements to move full time to the field.
We are also trying to work on our assignments that ABWE has for us to complete before we can attend that seminar in July. We ask you all to pray for us as we continue to raise support, for God to open doors of churches, for people's hearts and minds as we share so they understand the ministry, and for us to communicate properly.
We want to thank every one of our supporters who has given so far, you all are our backbone and we cannot express how grateful we are to you, we love you so much. We have contacted some churches and people and hope to find more open doors, we also have a schedule in the making for this summer to visit some states again. If you know of someone wanting a one-on-one meeting, or you would be interested in inviting us to your church or talk to your pastor, please contact us.
God has been speaking so much on life and how to not do anything on our own strength. We don’t want to push things and only get our desires for our lives. We know God is paving a way for us to get to Colombia, in the meantime we want to be intentional about doing our part.
HOW TO SUPPORT US
Friday, March 2, 2018
February 2018. Video Series ABWE
Hello friends and family, The weather is nice and cool here in Florida and we are loving it!
This year Jonatan and I spent Valentine’s Day apart but we are going to spend some days as a family this next week sharing our love.
We thank God for the love we share with our family and also His unwavering love towards us. This past month Jonatan was able to focus on studying for his pilot instrument rating. A big prayer request answered, he found an instructor that is helping him finish up his training to get this rating and we hope he can finish soon. Natasha also had some huge answers to prayer. You may have seen a post on Facebook and we will share it on here as well:
“Today I’m so overwhelmed by how much God loves me. It has been over 2 years since I have had this passion inside of me to do something with birth training and helping pregnant mothers. I had no idea how it was going to happen with a newborn at the time (Isabella) and my husband focusing on his training. So, I just prayed... I want to implement my knowledge in the Amazon with hopes of having a crisis pregnancy center, if it’s Gods will... TODAY I have my first doula clinical and birth assistant training...So many emotions!!!!”
Natasha will have her first birth as a doula at any time and we ask you to help us pray. If you don’t know what a doula is, it is a certified personnel that specifically helps the mother during birth. There are birth doulas and postpartum doulas but Natasha wants to focus right now on being a birth doula. She also had the opportunity to become a birth assistant at the birth center where she gave birth to Gabriella. This is an on-call position and isn’t a full-time job, which is perfect now with having a toddler and newborn. We will see what all God has in store for her future! We leave you with this month's video. We love you all, take care!
This year Jonatan and I spent Valentine’s Day apart but we are going to spend some days as a family this next week sharing our love.
We thank God for the love we share with our family and also His unwavering love towards us. This past month Jonatan was able to focus on studying for his pilot instrument rating. A big prayer request answered, he found an instructor that is helping him finish up his training to get this rating and we hope he can finish soon. Natasha also had some huge answers to prayer. You may have seen a post on Facebook and we will share it on here as well:
“Today I’m so overwhelmed by how much God loves me. It has been over 2 years since I have had this passion inside of me to do something with birth training and helping pregnant mothers. I had no idea how it was going to happen with a newborn at the time (Isabella) and my husband focusing on his training. So, I just prayed... I want to implement my knowledge in the Amazon with hopes of having a crisis pregnancy center, if it’s Gods will... TODAY I have my first doula clinical and birth assistant training...So many emotions!!!!”
Natasha will have her first birth as a doula at any time and we ask you to help us pray. If you don’t know what a doula is, it is a certified personnel that specifically helps the mother during birth. There are birth doulas and postpartum doulas but Natasha wants to focus right now on being a birth doula. She also had the opportunity to become a birth assistant at the birth center where she gave birth to Gabriella. This is an on-call position and isn’t a full-time job, which is perfect now with having a toddler and newborn. We will see what all God has in store for her future! We leave you with this month's video. We love you all, take care!
Saturday, February 3, 2018
January, a good start to the year - Enero, un buen comienzo de año
We hope everyone is having a great start to the new year.
We started it off with a bang! The first weekend of January we attended a missions conference in Port Saint Lucie, Florida. Jonatan had the pleasure of leading a session and sharing about our ministry. We made good contacts and also spoke at the local church.
The second weekend of January we had our annual Proyecto Global meeting for the non-profit we are part of. It was a great time sharing with friends and learning from our mentors. We had an all-day meeting Friday and Saturday we had a dinner fundraiser at our church with a great turnout. We are so thankful for how God is moving and providing for the continuation of the ministry in the Amazon.
We are also thankful for Jonatan’s parents staying with us during the first two months of Gabriella’s birth. They got to enjoy many of Gabriella’s firsts and cherish unforgettable memories as well. They leave this week and our lives will slowly get back to normal.
We are starting to make plans to visit more churches and continue our prefield journey with ABWE. This month we are not going to show a video in our series. Look forward to that next month... please keep us in your prayers as we organize the next couple months, prepare for the trip to the Amazon during May and June, share in churches and with friends and also for God to work in our lives. Being called to be a missionary is not easy and Satan is pulling us in many directions to distract us. We covet your prayers.
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