Nathanael & Dana Rains
Nathanael and Dana serve as Bible translators among Mazatec communities in Mexico. There are many indigenous people groups in Mexico who still use their native language in daily life. The Mazatecs are one of those people groups. Nathanael and Dana work with Mazatec believers, training and equipping them for the task of translating the Scriptures into their mother tongue. Their desire is to see the Mazatec church nourished and strengthened through access to God’s Word in the language and format they understand best.
Nathanael and Dana met while studying linguistics at the Canada Institute of Linguistics (CanIL). They got married in 2018 and moved to Mexico in 2021 with their 7-month-old daughter, Hadassah. After a season of discernment and preparation, they chose to work among the Mazatecs of Puebla and began making regular visits to a village called San Lorenzo in March of 2022. Their son, Josiah, was born roughly a year later.