I’m Nate. I’m just a guy who lives in a small town in western New York. Currently, I’m sitting at the Lord’s feet, working for a landscape company in Rochester and leading musical expressions of worship at a small congregation in Bloomfield, NY. The story of my life thus far could in one way be described in Jeremiah 24:3-7. “Then the Lord said to me, ‘What do you see Jeremiah?’ And I said, ‘Figs, the good figs, very good; and the bad figs, very bad, which cannot be eaten due to rottenness.’ Then the word of the Lord came to me, saying, ‘Thus says the Lord God of Israel, like these good figs, so I I will regard as good the captives of Judah, whom I have sent out of this place into the land of the Chaldeans. For I will set my eyes on them for good and I will bring them again to this land; and I will build them up and not overthrow them, and I will plant them and not pluck them up. I will give them a heart to know Me, for I am the Lord; and they will be My people and I will be their God, for they will return to Me with their whole heart. When I was 22 years old, at a point of utter frustration and weariness concerning my spiritual life, God sovereignly broke through and had mercy on me. He’s beginning to show me that I had been trying to live the christian life according to the way of the world. So as time went on, instead of seeing transformation, the only return I was getting was the fruit of the world evidenced through my desires and actions no matter how much I tried to deny it. (Gal 6:7-8). So now I’m in this place where I’m convinced that I will never be able to move from the point of having been foreknown by God to being glorified unless My Shepherd has mercy on me. (Rom 8:29-30) I am so thankful that I have been crucified with Christ and it no longer depends on the man who wills or the man who runs but on God who has mercy (Rom 9:16) Now I’m fascinated with this God who is drawing me away from my anti-relational ways. Now that I don’t know where I’m going, I’m going right into His eyes and all I want to do is seek His face! (2 Chron 20:12) He’s been building a message in me that at times wells up like a fire in my bones and I am weary of holding it in. Yet I know that He will fulfill my desire to share what He has given me in His way and in His time! It’s so amazing how easily and smoothly I’ve come to be involved in what God has been and is calling me too. In 1999, after high school, God put it on my plate to join Isaiah Six Ministries as an intern. I was finishing 12th grade with plans to go to Bible School when the Lord took me down this unexpected path through a youth leader at my home church! I traveled with Isaiah 6 for several years and in recent months God has been creating this support community called Amani Records that I just happened to be in the middle of without having to promote myself or push my way in to get some record deal. This “receiving” has caused me to rejoice with thanksgiving over what the Lord is doing!! (Ps 50:23) My heart for ministry is that I long to be a part of what God is doing and I don’t ever want to become distant or comfortable or formulated in my approach to specific ministry. I don’t want to try to “be” something or someone impressive or spectacular or, you fill in the blank; when I’m asked to come anywhere. I just want to be who God’s made me to be and pour out what He gives believing that this is good enough for whatever He calls me to, using the various tools He’s given me, one of which is music.