Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey Veteran, Honey Mogul, I Am Second Founder – Now Fighting for Clean Food | Ron Simmons & Nate Sheets
Feb 28, 2026
Nate Sheets, entrepreneur who founded Nature Nate’s Honey and co-created the I Am Second movement, shares his faith-driven journey. He discusses a mission trip that shifted his life, building evangelism tools, caring for family through illness, and his run for Texas agriculture commissioner to back farmers and raise food quality.
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Hobby Hive Turned Into Nature Nate's
- Nate Sheets grew up as an Air Force kid, went into the Navy after high school, and later moved to Dallas where one hobby beehive turned into Nature Nate's, now a large honey company.
- He and his wife bought a single beehive as a shared hobby after marriage, which scaled into a business because Nate kept investing time and attention into beekeeping.
Venezuela Trip Sparked A Life In Ministry
- A mission trip to Valencia, Venezuela with E3 Partners launched Nate into 12 years of full-time Christian ministry and shaped his evangelism approach.
- That fieldwork led to creating the Evangelism Explosion tools and hands-on training that Nate used worldwide with pastors and volunteers.
EvangelCube Scaled Visual Gospel Sharing
- Nate helped design simple evangelism tools like the EvangelCube to make the gospel shareable using seven pictures representing death, burial, and resurrection.
- The EvangelCube scaled globally, training thousands of pastors (e.g., 20,000 in India) to use low-friction visual tools in local evangelism.
