Jason and Nadia met at college in Springfield, MO and were                                                 married on June 5, 1999.  Nadia was saved at the age of 11,                                                 and while on a missions trip to Brazil at the age of 17, she                                                  felt the Lord's call and surrendered to full-time missions.                                                  Jason grew up a preacher's kid and was saved at the age                                                  of 14.  He surrendered to full-time missions when he felt                                                  the Lord's call during his first year of college.  Jason and                                                 Nadia both felt a sincere burden for the Latin American people.  Through a variety of circumstances God placed Nicaragua on their hearts and the Nicaraguan people have been their passion ever since.  Upon graduation from Baptist Bible College in May of 1999, they went on to serve a 2 year internship at the Edgewood Baptist Church in Rock Island, IL under the mentorship of Pastor Mel Brown.  They were approved as full-time Baptist Bible Fellowship missionaries in May of 2002.  In March of 2004 they departed for San Jose, Costa Rica where they studied the Spanish language for 1 year and then made the final move to Managua, Nicaragua in April of 2005.  Since then, the Iglesia Bautista Esperanza (Hope Baptist Church) was started in January of 2006.  This has been and will be Jason and Nadia's focus as the Lord uses them to reach Nicaragua 4 Christ.  

Katie Ann was born on January 2, 2001 in Rock Island, IL.  She is growing into a fine young lady.  When she is not is school, Katie loves music, art and crafts, communicating with all her email pals and playing with her horses and webkinz online.  Katie is "mother hen" to her brothers, especially the younger Hunter and Harrison.  Katie accepted Christ as her Savior on March 24, 2006.

Hudson James was born on December 19, 2002 in Jacksonville, FL.  Hudson loves life!  He loves music, taking things apart, playing baseball, sword fighting with his brother and doing just about anything that will not keep him in one spot more than 5 minutes.  Hudson has such a tender heart.  He just naturally thinks of others before himself.

Hunter Lee was born on September 27, 2005 in Bristol, PA.  Hunter is a lot of fun!  He also loves sword fighting with his brother, playing with anything that has to do with balls or cars, watching Curious George and trying to keep up and do everything that his older brother and sister may do.  He loves his baby brother, Harrison.  He never calls him by name.  He simply says, my baby. 

Harrison Andrew was born on September 23, 2007 in Managua, Nicaragua.  The best way to describe Harrison is with two words, happy and content.  He has been a lot of fun as he has started to develop his own unique personality.  The Nicaraguans say he is not an American, just a white Nicaraguan!