Hey, dear followers! SO much has happened since we last blogged. As a VERY quick re-cap, we will let you know what has been going on with us. To see more details about those things, see the videos below, or go to our VIDEO page on our website. Enjoy and God bless each and every one of you!
-We completely finished our barndominium house and we LOVE it!!
-Phillip graduates on June 5, 2022 from Rodrigues Homeschool and he is enrolling in the Missions’ Program at Massillon Baptist College. He will commute from here to there each day. He is saving his money and shopping for a car. He is such a blessing to us!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGsCVfAbgiw&t=808s
Please pray against the spiritual attack our family consistently bears. Sometimes the burden feels so heavy to carry, but we know we must count it all joy and give our burdens to the Lord and leave them there.
1 Peter 5:7 “Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you.”
Surprisingly, to be on social media is NOT our comfort zone. We prefer quiet and private. But, we push ourselves to share our lives with you to be a light for Jesus. To hopefully lead more to the cross of Calvary. To encourage the saints. Matthew 5:16 “Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.”
Our Family has been offered several times to be filmed to have our own TV show and we have always turned it down. Fame and control from a TV show as to what we can or cannot say, has never been our goal. ONLY to lift up the Name Jesus and proclaim truths from His Word the Bible – for HE ALONE is worthy of praise and adoration.
Sometimes misjudgement or envy coming from enemies, can cause the tears to freely fall from our eyes, but we are then reminded of these verses….II Corinthians 4:8-10 “We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed; Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body.
Some have asked why Nathan & Nurie do not have their own social media accounts. Because that is what THEY have chosen to do at this point in their lives and we highly respect that. They enjoy allowing you all a glimpse into their lives through our social media platforms and again- we highly respect and support that decision and we would ask each of you to do the same.
In this world we have too much time on our hands. Time to hate or read hate, instead of truth. Time to back-bite. Time to criticize. Time to dishonor. Time to rebel against God and His ways. Time to be selfish. Time to forget to pray, to read our Bibles, go to church, and much more.
Today, may we encourage you to seek God FIRST – NOT the acceptance of this world. This world is hateful and you will NEVER receive acceptance from them. But, you can with God. Matthew 6:33 “But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.”To you each of you, we love you!
All Because of Jesus, The Rodrigues Family
Did you all hear the WONDERFUL News that Nathan and Nurie had their precious baby boy – Nehemiah David Keller – on October 11, 2021! It was a JOYOUS occasion and we are SO in love!! Watch this video to learn ALL about the birth story!! To God be the glory, GREAT things HE hath done!! **Video Link Below….
We were SUPER thrilled to finally get our HOME ADDITION done being built – just in time for a busy and full house for Thanksgiving! God is good to fulfill the desires of our hearts and we truly do love this “barndominium” house of ours!! **See video below of the process of it being built. The Amish built the shell, and David and our boys built the inside.
Update On Kaylee and Jonathan!! We are THRILLED to share with you the video of Jonathan and Kaylee’s Courtship. What a blessing! **Link Below….
Hello, readers! It has been awhile since our last update. We have been blessed this year and have already had the honor of printing, in All Things Truth Print Shop, over 400,000 pieces of Gospel literature this year. We have also been involved in a “mailer” outreach with our church and have reached over 30,000 homes with the Gospel and an invite to our church – Joy Baptist Church in Orrville, Ohio. We have also been involved in outreach programs with our church and our local fair through the Amazing Grace Missions ministry, etc. God is Good and we pray that many souls will be saved through these outreaches. We have always traveled to many churches this year to sing and present our ministry. It is always a JOY to serve Jesus! We thank you for your continued love and support.
On a personal level, we have stayed very busy doing the normal things of life – homeschooling, keeping our home running in tip-top shape, music practice, etc. This Fall we are happy to be recording our first music CD at a professional studio!! Please be in prayer that God would provide for that in a mighty way. We are also excited to be halfway done having our new addition built on our house. Our living room is currently set up in the print shop. David needs the space for more printing equipment and to be honest, it is not conducive to the needs of our large family. So, this new addition will serve as a living room, and MUCH needed attic / storage space. God is Good!
As you know, Nathan and Nurie are due for their first baby on October 12, 2021. Some of us plan to go down there, Lord willing, to be with her for the birth. We can hardly wait to hold him!! Watch the fun baby gender reveal ***video below***!!
The most recent and exciting news is that our twenty year old daughter, Kaylee Arlissa, is in a courtship with a wonderful young man!! Please read our Facebook post below to learn more about this exciting news!!
Jonathan Daniel Hill (21 years old), is courting our daughter – Kaylee Arlissa Rodrigues (20 years old).
We could NOT be more thrilled! Jonathan (just like Nathan) is like minded with our family’s Biblical values and loves God deeply. His goals are the same as Kaylee’s and…YES, Jonathan’s parents have a farm down South!
Those of you that follow us know that Kaylee has a “farm” desire. So yes, Jonathan has that farm “experience” and they look forward to building their own lives together in the future.
A little about Jonathan……He is one of 13 children, just like Kaylee.
The Hill Family has 9 boys and 4 girls. We have 9 girls and 4 boys. The exact opposite.
Their entire family is a blessing to us and we met the Hill Family through friends in our travels.
Thank you, Coverett Family, for being awesome “matchmakers” of our daughter and your nephew. God works so miraculously through His people.
Mr. & Mrs. Hill have done an amazing job raising a God-fearing, hard-working, kind, gentle, and loving son – among MANY other character traits!
Kaylee along with us all, are rejoicing at God’s goodness and faithfulness.
We look forward to what the future holds and thank you for following our family’s journey.
In a world of great uncertainty and turmoil, we are encouraged to see the blessings of God midst it all. It causes us to smile and look upward in Thanksgiving to a God we KNOW is…..STILL ON THE THRONE! Hallelujah!
We apologize how LONG it has been since we have reached out to you with an update on how our family and ministry is doing. We are doing great and it seems the older we (and our children) get, the busier we become. We took a HUGE sigh of relief once we had the main part of our house built (on the inside) and Nathan & Nurie’s wedding done and paid for. It was indeed a glorious wedding day (on July 25, 2020) and our home is a blessing.
However, as soon as we finished all of that, we became swamped in the Print Shop with a ton more work and some more traveling to sing and present our ministry. God has been SO good to us in allowing us to serve Him full time. We are just now finishing up 110,000 Yellow Smiley Gospel booklets – 10,000 of them being Spanish. It has been a family effort to get that job complete while working on other orders and preparing for a singing / presenting our ministry tour down South….midst keeping the children on track with their home school work, etc. It is a VERY busy, yet FULL life. We wouldn’t trade it for anything! Jill is working on the annual Ladies’ Retreat presently. It has been a challenge to plan with all the new Covid restrictions, but God is working out all of the details.
Our biggest need right now is to pray for the funding to complete work on the house and print shop. The space in the print shop is infringed upon due to us using a lot of it for living space. We plan to build an addition off of the back of the house to put our living room space (for the family) there. Then, we can fully use the shop space for what it was intended for – printing and all the work space that is involved in making that happen. Please pray for us regarding this.
We love you all and although we have been disheartened at the direction our good, ole United States of America is headed, we know our hope is not in our government, but in the LORD (as we are seen singing about in the video below). We pray it encourages you.
Stand STRONG, Christian. In a world where Christians are caving to the pressures of this old, sinful world and its demands, now – MORE THAN EVER- we need to learn to endure HARDNESS as soldiers of the cross! To NOT compromise on values we once held dear, yet, to love others big. It is a fine line to walk, but God will always give us the wisdom to walk it!!
Please check out our YouTube Channel under the name – Jill Rodrigues – for fun family videos PLUS a new series Jill has started named – “Make Your Life Count Minute with Jill”. Hope you enjoy. **Check out some of those videos below.**
Nathan and Nurie were GLORIOUSLY wed on July 25, 2020! It was Nathan’s parents (Mike & Suzette Keller’s) 40th wedding anniversary. Nathan really wanted their wedding also on that Saturday – in honor of his dear parents’ anniversary. It was a wonderful day, filled with love, family and friends. Yes, it was a “quarantine” wedding…meaning a LOT of people cancelled and could not come due to restrictions and caution. However, we were thankful for who did come and it was indeed a special day that (we pray) did NOTHING but glorify the King of Kings and Lord of Lords – Jesus Christ!
Nathan and Nurie shared their very first kiss on their wedding day!
Our Family finished the renovations on our house (that we are doing this year) TWO days before the wedding. It was a CRAZY few months for sure! Building, painting, plumbing, electrical, and decorating to make our new home….well, a home. It was good that quite a few of our meetings got cancelled this year (due to Covid-19), because it allowed us more time at home to get stuff done and keep up with orders in the Print Shop. God is always faithful! Our travels are starting to pick back up now and we enjoy ministering to others “on the road”. Although the time at home was critical for us, we missed the “preaching & praising” aspect of our ministry.
Thank you for your loving support as we strive to continue to faithfully serve Jesus full time!
After Nurie got married, we all seemed to go through a “grieving” process. I know, it sounds weird, but with her 16 hours away, we literally had to get over intensely missing her sweet spirit in our home. Even Nathan’s siblings comforted us that when their 1st and oldest sibling (Esther) left their home after marriage, they cried for 3 weeks. LOL. It comforted us that eventually the “sting” of losing Nurie would fade. We began to watch with JOY as God started using Nathan & Nurie (as a couple) to win many souls for the Lord, and we greatly rejoiced, for we have NO GREATER JOY THAN TO HEAR THAT OUR CHILDREN WALK IN TRUTH.
They are enjoying married life in Florida – near Nathan’s parents. Recently, they flew here to visit us for a week and it was SO much fun spending quality time with them both!
We pray you are blessed by this wedding video! Enjoy!!
It was a VERY special day on Saturday, June 6, 2020- Nurie’s bridal shower! I cannot believe we are already at this point in life! It is surely rewarding. Raising your children for the Lord and then watching them thrive in their adult lives is such a blessing. I have cried & cried at how special and perfectly Nathan fits Nurie and our family. God is faithful. Compromise is not necessary when you trust the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords to bring like- minded individuals into your children’s lives. 😊❤ Nurie & Nathan, we LOVE you and look forward to how God will use you together for His glory! 😊😁❤
Nathan also preached at our church while he was visiting. He did an INCREDIBLE job! Words cannot express how FULL my heart is right now. Nathan is a gem and his parents (Mike & Suzette Keller) did a FABULOUS job raising a godly son. We are blessed! 😊❤
**To watch both, please click on the link below.**
I cannot believe we have our 4th precious child (Renee) to have officially graduated from – Rodrigues Homeschool. 😯🤗 Time flies. Renee was SO diligent in her studies and ran the race of her schooling years well! 😍 She is praying about continuing her education in Bible Institute. She is a glorious JOY in our home and we love her MORE than words can describe!
Unfortunately, due to Covid-19, the grand graduation in Richmond, Virginia (that our first 3 have graduated from), could not happen for Renee. 😭 So, we tried to make it extra special and she graduated with a local, home schooled young man (Kyle) from our church. Extended family was there also…making it extra special! 😊💖 Renee LOVED it! We also plan to take her out to a LIVE, play theater and dinner to make her feel extra special…because she is VERY special indeed!
Also, on June 18, 2020, Renee turned 18 years old!! 🤗 Happy birthday to a sweet, godly, kind, merciful, servant, compassionate person! She is a JOY in our home! We love you MORE than words can say, honey! Love, Dad & Mom xoxoxox 😍😘❤😁
Congratulations, Renee! We love you! 😊💖 ** See VIDEO below….
We are SO pleased with Nurie & Kaylee’s accomplishment in completing the “Ripley School of the Bible” through Crown College in Tennessee. 😊😁 Due to not being able to attend because of Covid19, we watched the online / virtual service. We tried to make it really special for Nurie & Kaylee. You can watch our special night by clicking on the YouTube link below. **If the link is not active below, you can also watch it under our VIDEO tab on our website. Enjoy and God bless you all! The celebration was SO special! Nurie and Kaylee, we love you! Congratulations! Here is to NEW beginnings. 😊❤ Love, Your Family xoxo
Life is full of “hellos” & “goodbyes”. Timothy has been gone
from our home for nearly 2 years. He put in a year in Washington State
and then a year in Wisconsin- to study Missionary Aviation. We are so
proud of him! He got a ton of schooling done and also worked VERY hard
to save up enough money to have a personal pilot teach him how to be a
pilot. 😁 He obtained his private pilot’s license last summer.
When he left our home, we lived in West Virginia. There were not aviation schools in that state that Timothy was interested in. He also was not interested in staying in that area.
However, he has ALWAYS loved this area that we now live in. 😊❤
With plenty of FLAT land, there are aviation schools GALORE here! He
visited us for his birthday week and fell in love (even more) with this
location, our church, etc. 😉😉 Plus, he missed us and we missed him!
So, with much prayer and transferring things, he has now moved back
near us! He does not live with us, but next to us! He stops in and
eats dinner with us nearly every night. My Mama’s heart is SO FULL!
With Nurie getting married and moving to Florida this summer, I am
working on “borrowed” time by having ALL of my 13 children around me
again! I am SO blessed!
Timothy, your godly choices in life
have ABUNDANTLY blessed us! We continue to look forward to what God
will do with your future. Happy Flying! 😊❤ Love, Mama (& Dad too)
Psalms 128:3 | Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house: thy children like olive plants round about thy table.
**Check out Timothy’s YouTube channel and this (link below) NEW, song video he made!!
Hello to our family and friends! We apologize for our long time of absence with our e-mails that we send out to update our followers. Our audience grew so large… to the point that we had to start paying for our e-mail plan. We have been so busy, but we finally got that in place and are now able to get into the swing of things….sending you all updates. Thank you for your patience with us!
Quick Update…
1) Our printing ministry has been growing in leaps and bounds. We are over a million Gospel tracts printed now and still going strong!! SO strong in fact, that we had to sell our last house and upgrade to a property with a larger space for the print shop. Hallelujah! The house portion of the new property needed renovations and an addition in order to be “workable” for our family, but we are excited to see God provide for each new phase of this house project. It is slowly coming together, but we still have LOTS of building to do. If you are interested in donating to this cause, please message us and we will give you the Clearing House Ministry address (all our support goes through them) to send a donation to. If you have already given to this cause, we THANK YOU from the DEPTHS of our hearts!! Also, our family continues to try to have a loud voice for truth and the Gospel sake via social media, radio, website, etc. We have had the honor to win more souls to Christ lately. We are blessed and honored to serve Jesus full time!! We also continue to use our music ministry to glorify the Lord and to encourage families and churches to stand strong – serving our worthy Saviour!!
2) Nathan Keller officially asked Nurie Rodrigues (our oldest child) to marry him on November 9, 2019 at the beautiful Stonewall Jackson Resort in West Virginia. What a blessing! We are now in busy planning mode for this exciting wedding. We are THRILLED that they are doing things in a God honoring way and they are looking VERY forward to their first kiss on their wedding day!! (link below for a video of their engagement).
3) Timothy continues to do well in Wisconsin, continuing his pursuit to become a missionary pilot. He goes to Wyldewood Baptist Church in Oshkosh, Wisconsin and they are SUCH blessing and a GREAT home church for Timothy!
4) We cherish each moment we have together as a family, serving Jesus! Kaylee is enjoying being graduated from high school / home school and she and Nurie graduate from Bible Institute in May and Renee graduates from Rodrigues Home school this June!! They are all growing up so fast and as HARD as it is to say goodbye to each one of them as they slowly leave our nest, we are THRILLED to see God do a work in each of their lives! We raised them to shoot them forth to hit their mark…..as arrows in the hand of a mighty man. We are HONORED by their godly choices! Most importantly, we are glad that GOD is being honored by their lives. We are constantly reminded that to raise children GOD’S way is rewarding and He ALWAYS keeps His promises! Thank you, Jesus!!
Please see video links below!! God bless you all and thank you for loving and caring for our family and ministry.
