Nathan & Meagan joined the Shiloh team as Program Director in the Fall of 1999 when they began full time ministry as Area Missionaries with the American Missionary Fellowship (AMF). Nathan was excited to join this camping ministry as he feels that camp is a special calling that God has placed on his life since the age of about 14 years old. Nathan grew up in an AMF camping ministry in Northern Idaho, where his Father, Rich Bath, was the Director of Cocolalla Lake Bible Camp for 15 years. Nathan started spending his summers serving at camp at age 11, and feels that God really used this time to train him up and prepare him for the ministry that he now has the privilege of being a part of at Shiloh.

 

In addition to growing up in an AMF camping ministry, Nathan also served as a Youth Pastor for a period of about 7 years, part of the time in Nampa, Idaho, and part of the time in Sisters, Oregon. While he was in Nampa, he met his wife Meagan and they were married in 1993. They currently have three children, Sariah who was born in 1998, Rachael who was born in 1999, and John who was born in 2005.

 

Both Nathan & Meagan came to know the Lord as their personal Savior at a young age through the leading of their Mothers. Nathan at age 5 and Meagan at age 4. Nathan made a more substantial commitment to the Lord, including a commitment to serve Him and go wherever He asked at age 7. This happened when his Father, Rich, was reading the Bible and praying with him before bed one night. Rich had shared something about serving the Lord, and told Nathan about a time in his life when he had told God that he would go wherever the Lord wanted and do whatever he asked even if it meant going to Russia (this was in the 1970's when Russia was a very scary place to go). This really impacted Nathan, and after his Father left the room, Nathan spent some time in prayer and basically told the Lord this same thing that his Father had said. Nathan feels that at that point, God called him into a life of full-time ministry.

 

Nathan's life verse is 2 Timothy 4:1-5: "I solemnly charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead, and by His appearing and His kingdom: preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort , with great patience and instruction. For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but wanting to have their ears tickled, they will accumulate for themselves teachers in accordance to their own desires; and will turn away their ears from the truth, and will turn aside to myths. But you, be sober in all things, endure hardship, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry." NASB

 

Meagan's life verse is 2 Corinthians 12:9-10: "And He has said to me, 'My grace is sufficient for you, for power is perfected in weakness.' Most gladly, therefore, I will rather boast about my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may dwell in me. Therefore I am well content with weaknesses, with insults, with distresses, with persecutions, with difficulties, for Christ's sake; for when I am weak, then I am strong." NASB