I’m Nate, the owner of Iron Covenant Collective, and I’m an active duty Army veteran. I’m married to my beautiful wife Jennai and we have 4 kids together with our 5th on the way; God said to be fruitful and multiply so here we are and we definitely will be done once this 5th baby is here (my wife finally agrees).

I met my wife at my first duty station in Georgia. That’s where we got married and had our first daughter. At this time, I was very disconnected from God and I was unknowingly battling a sin that took up residence within me from high school. It came from a life saturated in sin. I was consumed by women, drugs, and partying which led to addiction. Addiction carried with me in the form of video games which turned into disrespecting my wife frequently, laziness, and not being a present father/husband. Our testimony begins almost 7 years later where our marriage almost failed while we were stationed in Korea where we now had our 3 kids. My wife said words that still stick in my mind to this day (Glory be to God that I know I am forgiven) before she flew back to the states with all 3 of our kids while I stayed in Korea. On my way to work, I decided to jam to some Kirk Franklin (I remembered his name from middle school, my aunty and uncle would listen to him all the time in the car) and halfway through the song I started crying uncontrollably. I wasn’t sobbing, I was singing the lyrics to the song, but tears kept flowing from my eyes and I was expressionless. His presence filled my car. God will come to us at our lowest times, and I promise you this is when I felt the most alone and He knew so He filled the space I was in. Something inside, which I now know was Jesus, told me CLEARLY to call my wife and tell her “Let’s start doing devotionals.” From that day forward, our marriage turned around completely. We looked to God and He paved the path of our marriage along with our relationship with Him. We put God first in everything we did and He’s led us ever since.

That’s not the end of our story, because our testimony continues with our 4th boy, Josiah (we have 2 girls and 2 boys currently). Josiah was born with down syndrome (Trisomy 21) and we found out through an NIPT test around 10 weeks of Jennai’s pregnancy. For those who don’t know, 50% of down syndrome babies are miscarried or are still born. Additionally, there’s many health complications that come with the baby when they’re growing in the womb and after they are born: heart, muscular-skeletal, brain, and essentially every functional organ of a developing child is at risk with down syndrome. We considered termination, but who do we think we are not trusting Christ. Who are we to willingly terminate a pregnancy when we’ve miscarried 4 times. The Lord said put our faith in Him, so we did. Josiah is 8 months old by the time I’ve written this, and he has NO complications. He is growing healthily and steadily like any other baby; our boy is healed and whole. I thank the Lord that Josiah is here every time I look at him. Life has never felt more abundant than it has since our walk with Christ began.

This is our testimony as a married couple, one flesh. If you want to know my full story before I met Jennai, feel free to reach out through DM on Instagram! I’d love to share the lore of Nate Bond or hear and learn more about you guys.

Thank you for making it to the end. Jesus loves us and wants to work in our lives. Jennai and I are living proof.