Welcome!!!

Welcome Family and Friends!!!

Marco and I are so excited to be able to share our lives with you all through blogging! This is really a new thing for me! lol We wanted an easy and interactive way to stay connected with all of you that we love SO much! Life gets so busy, we hope these blogs find you encouraged and connected! So, I promise to try to update this blog as much as I can to stay in touch!!

Well if you are coming to our blog, you probley know who we are and what we do..... but if you don't here is your opportunity to find out! First of all, we are crazy, Jesus-loving freaks! Second of all, we are a head-over-heels in love married couple. We have been going strong now for over four years! Our anniversary is September 10 :-) Third, we live in the hood of Nashville, TN as musicionaries! Yep! You heard me right, the hood! We are surrounded by project apartments and we are Community Pastors at Provision International. We help direct Thunder School, the Thunder Internship, the media, creative arts and worship departments. It's like this: more than a musician + also a missionary = musicionary.

So, with all that outta the way some of you might be wondering what in the world we have been doing.... Well to start with, I cannot believe it is 2010! We are going on our third year here as musicionaries at Provision International. God has been so faithful! He is doing wonderful things and I know that He is going to continue to do so this year! 2009 was awesome! Some highlights for us last year was hosting a teenage Thunder School camp, traveling to the northern states to minister, and just completing our 3 month discipleship school in December, Thunder School. Also in 2009, I was priviledged to sing on a devotional CD released by Harvest Sound titled rightfully so, "Serenity". It is an incredible devotional with all of the 2009 interns. If you need peace in your crazy, chaotic life- pick up this cd! Now we are helping direct an Internship for students that have completed Thunder School. Last year we had 9 interns, this year we have almost doubled and have 17! It is incredible to watch these students be transform by the love and power of God!

It truly has been on honor to serve as missionaries for the last two years. We want to thank you all for your love, prayer and support as we have been on this faith journey. I cannot even begin to tell you all the changes and miracles that we have seen not only in our own lives but the lives of those around us. I'm excited about the opportunity and experiences that are ahead this year. We are getting ready to host a College missions trip in March, host two conferences in April and May, start our second ever Thunder Camp in June, our second ever Rolling Thunder in July, and our fourth Thunder School in September! It is going to be an exciting year! It's amazing the lives that are changed with in just one week- it's so beautiful! As you can imagine, being missionaries like this requires financial and prayer support from a number of people. Marco and I have both been working part time jobs while living on campus at Provision, while directing an internship, and being community pastors. I guess you could say we have our plate a little full! Our jobs have been very shakey over the last month and I am being laid off in March, as where Marco's job is coming to a complete stop. It has brought us to this point of where we are asking for any type of support- financial, love and of course prayer! We are so grateful for anything you sow into us. Thank you for loving, supporting and believing in us!

If you would like to be part of this mission through your financial support, please send a check to: 1419 Clinton Street, Nashville, TN 37203. Please make your check payable to Provision International and write our names, Marco and Natalie Villalobos, in the memo line.

While money is important, it comes in a distant second for our need of prayer support. Please pray for wisdom, guidance, provision, our Pastors Scott and Sarah MacLeod, our team of interns, our families.... it's SO appreciated! Your prayers, love, and support has helped be successful since 2008 and we are so grateful! Thank you for believing in us and what God has called us to do! We also want you hear from you guys!! How can we pray for you? Is there any way we can partner up to see your fullest potential in Christ or get to your dreams? We hope this blog will encourage you to continue to lay down your life as a disciple of Christ, run after your dreams, love everyone that comes into your path, and most importantly, continue to fall in love with Jesus more and more! May the Lord bless you and keep you!

Love with all our hearts!

Marco and Natalie