A Letter of Introduction

Hello, My name is Nathan Windle, and I’m sure that if you are one of the many people who have committed to support Emily Tiel (now Emily Windle) through prayer or finance you have heard of me once or twice. I was just wanting to take a short amount of time to introduce myself. For those of you who are hearing from us for the first time, thank you for taking the time and Welcome! For those of you who have supported Emily faithfully with your prayers and finances...

Thank you for continuing to take the time to listen to and pray for us! We covet your partnership in our ministry.

Where I’m from: I was born in the far eastern part of Montana in a small town called Baker. At the time my family was serving as pastor to a church in an even smaller town north of Baker called Wibaux. (it’s French) If you know of where I’m taking I am impressed by your knowledge of Montana’s small towns! I was born to Larry and Ruth Windle and my three older siblings. At the age of four my family felt God’s call on our lives to enter a different field of ministry. We raised our support, joined a mission and moved, for a short time, to a language school in south Texas called Rio Grande Bible Institute, to learn Spanish. Once language school was complete we moved to Bolivia, South America. It was during this period that a major event occurred in my personal life. I was join by a Person who has been a lifelong friend and companion: the Holy Spirit! Through the urging of my siblings and the​ guidance of my folks I accepted Jesus Christ as my personal Lord and Savior. Through His power and blood I was washed clean and now have an inheritance in heaven. As a family we served in church planning in Bolivia our first term of four years and then served another two years with my father as the field director. We loved Bolivia and thought that we would be there for many more years. We were excited for what God was doing. In the years that we were there we saw God multiply the churches tenfold, but after having served six years in Bolivia, God chose to move us on to the next stage in our family’s service. We left Bolivia not knowing where God would move us. We moved on faith only knowing that He wanted us to leave. On the day that my dad told our support team that we were leaving Bolivia, three people individually contacted him asking if he would be willing to be the president of a small Bible College and Language School in the south of Texas: Rio Grande Bible Institute (RGBI).

When I graduated from high school I ​was not sure what God wanted me to do. I went through the Language School program at RGBI and entered the Bible College. I also started working in the campus bookstore. God didn’t give me peace in the Bible College and soon I dropped out to work in the bookstore fulltime. By that time I was an assistant manager and was in charge of a proposal for a student community center and coffee shop. In the spring of 2014 I met a lovely girl named Emily Tiel, I was managing the now started coffee shop and studying fulltime in a Biology major at the local branch of the University of Texas. I was struck by her beauty and desire to serve the Lord. Before the semester was up she and I had agreed to pray for each other in

​our ministries.

I thought that was the end of it and continued my work and studies placing Emily in the group of missionaries that I prayed for regularly. It was a great surprise to me when a little over a year later I was contacted by Emily asking how she could be praying for me. We began praying with each other over Facebook, one of the requests was what Emily should do in the future. God answered this request in a rather unexpected way. Emily received an invitation to join the staff at RGBM as an assistant to the vice president of ministerial advancement.

Upon Emily’s return to Canada from Mexico we started dating. Emily was accepted onto the staff of RGBM and with her so near our relationship flourished. On the 11th of October 2015, I proposed. We were married in May the next year. That is my testimony in brief; I hope that you enjoyed and were blessed by it and that you are now familiar with who I am a bit more.