While on furlough in 2015, a Woodland Cree Elder/evangelist pursued Dave, eager to learn how to effectively build a church that would continue to mature. He asked if what had been developed by Ethnos overseas could be shared with his people here. This was the beginning of ‘Establish – A foundational disciple-making series.’ Now, through Establish, God is beginning to bless both aboriginal and non-aboriginal churches right here in Canada.
Jacob and Beth live in the Highlands region of Papua New Guinea where they are guest house managers.
After our training at Emanate in Durham, Ontario we moved to the Asia-Pacific region with the goal of being tribal church planters. Instead we filled in with supply buying, guest house keeping and other support roles. Now we are back in Canada and have transitioned back to the home office in Durham where Nathan helps in the PR department as a web developer, and Natasha helps in various administrative roles in addition to homeschooling and homemaking.
We worked in Canada for several years and then moved our family to Colombia to study language and culture with the end goal of seeing the Church expand to places it currently doesn't exist. In 2020 we had to move back to Canada for reasons out of our control and we continue to serve based from here.
After I completed high school in Papua New Guinea, I did not think I would return to PNG but was open to go wherever the Lord saw fit to send me.