Brandon and Natasha Butler and daughter India
We have been passionate about missions both individually and as a couple for as long as we can remember. We have both worked in Africa and Europe with orphans and street children, gaining experience as God fanned the flame of desire for full time missions.
We actually met while working for an evangelistic theater company ‘Activate’ with Youth for Christ, in England in 1998. We finally began dating in 2005 while working with street boys in Kenya Africa.
We married a year later in England, where Natasha had spent 6 years working as a Youth Pastor and Community worker as well as attending theological college, studying Youth Ministry. Brandon, who is a Teacher with a degree in Kinesiology, was until recently, a middle school teacher in downtown Orlando’s The Christ School. Our daughter India was born in 2009.
For us the call to foreign soil has been a long one, we chased down the odd opportunity and often found dead ends. We have always wanted to be missionaries, but didn’t know where to begin. To cut a long story short we met Renaut! It is said of Renaut, that he could sell ice to Eskimos or in our case, mission to missionaries.
Joking a side, the lord placed such a peace and joy in us for the project in Ethiopia,and honestly it just felt like this is what we have been waiting and praying for, for a long time. It was a decision made in our little cabin in the woods over a cup of coffee, whilst changing a diaper.. Sometimes you just know and drama isn’t necessary, although we did dance a bit after! God has continued to confirm this decision in us since we made it, and we are becoming more and more excited about bringing the tangible gospel of Jesus to Axum, Ethiopia.
