Today we’d like to introduce you to Nathanael Logan.
Alright, so thank you so much for sharing your story and insight with our readers. To kick things off, can you tell us a bit about how you got started?
I grew up in a what would appear as a normal family, but it was dysfunctional. Successful to the world’s standards but not what I needed to grow up successful and prepared for life as man. I entered the drug scene early on at age 15 and by age 25 I entered a 20 month long Christ centered drug rehabilitation program. I was coming fresh off a 10 year addiction to methamphetamine. There was no real discipline in our home. Up to that point I had no direction in life. I was overweight, out of shape and completely shot out mentally. No friends, I was already balding at age 25 and I had missed what were supposed to be some of the greatest, productive years of my life.
In 2009, by the grace of God, I got arrested on some misdemeanor charges and it was there I began a 1,000 mile journey to becoming who I am today.
This arrest led me to a program in Georgia called No Longer Bound. In that program everything changed. I was healed inside and out.
At No Longer Bound they offered training in different trades such as automotive, carpentry, graphic design. They placed me in the automotive training program and for 20 months I mentored under an older gentlemen who had 40 years in the industry. This is where I began learning how to use tools and do basic vehicles services and diagnostics.
This is the part I’m not good at….I have an amazing story of redemption but lack the ability to tell it effectively sometimes. So maybe that’s where I need help from someone who is skilled at writing and story telling and they can ask the right questions to help me because people should hear it. So I will give snapshots and timelines.
During my time at No Longer Bound I was having serious sharp stomach pains frequently which were a direct result of drug usage, inactivity, and smoking. I knew it was serious but never asked to go to the doctor. After around 16 months in the program I broke down one day and asked all the men in the program to pray for my healing. The next day I was instantly healed and I knew it. I didn’t suffer from any stomach pain for the next 7 years.
My dad was angry with me. He had given up hope and him and my mother were miserable. To him I had wasted to much of my life and I was so far gone mentally that no one thought I would amount to much of anything. I got kicked out of high school permanently in 11th grade because of repeated drug offenses. I suffered from mental illness, schizophrenia and paranoia, which made it very difficult for me to form relationships. Crippling social anxiety. I didn’t date until I was in my early 30’s because of fear. This was after spending 20 months at NLB and an additional 3 years working in ministry serving and giving back to the men in the program.
I had my first date at age 31 and I was so afraid of rejection that I downed 40 oz of beer on the way to meet her just to be able to socialize. This was the same year I left NLB and relapsed on alcohol and drugs. I spent a year battling. I didn’t quite have what it takes to be a man and fly on my own yet. I was back living with my parents using drugs. I was having dreams where I would take off and begin to fly but could never get more than 15 feet off the ground. The girl I met ended up being a God-send because at the time she was the only one who believed in me and was the friend I needed to believe in myself and get back up and keep going. She came to me at a strategic moment because I would’ve died and my parents would’ve died with me.
During this time from age 25-31 I did continue learning and working in the automotive field.
Kim and I ended up getting married and by the grace of God I started moving forward again into my calling to be a man after some very nasty relapses. We were from 2 different worlds. She was a school teacher with a clean track record and I was a washed up meth addict with with a growing trade skill but not much hope in the worlds viewpoint. Didn’t make sense for us to be together. We married 2016. Her dad gave me a hard time. He basically said I wasn’t able to take care of her financially so I wasn’t a man in his eyes. Which looking back, in all honesty, was a fair thing to say and think. I was far behind where I should’ve been at age 32.
At that time I did manage to stay sober and on 2/22/2018 God disciplined me by gracing me with the same stomach pain I had been healed from 7 years prior. I was a smoker, overeater, I didn’t work out, 50lbs overweight. I had knee problems, headaches, and overall daily fatigue. I had no health insurance and the one doctor visit I did have I was told possibly an ulcer. I researched how to get rid of an ulcer and found out it’s through a strict diet. This began my weightloss journey. The pain forced me to eat healthy. Cabbage juice in the morning, apples for lunch and healthy portions at dinner. I also began working out and joined a community fitness class.
I lost 17lbs the first 2 months and started feeling better than I ever had, but the stomach pain persisted. It went on daily for about a year and I finally prayed and told God I couldn’t take much more and I thought the discipline was a little harsh. He responded, “It will be worth it”. OKAYYYY….I guess. Sort of pissed me off because I wanted it to end.
In july 2023 a year and half later I was at the end of my rope. I had lost 50lbs, I could run a 7-8 minute mile. I was into cross fit and had grown leaps and bounds in personal discipline and health but the stomach pain was getting worse. I scheduled an endoscopy and the week before my appointment a lady from free chapel in gainesville showed up at the house, anointed me with oil and prayed for my healing. I never told her about my stomach but she knew as soon as she saw me. The next week leading up to the appointment after she prayed for me my stomach got better and better. The endoscopy revealed a perfectly healthy esophagus and stomach to my amazement and from that point the pain stopped and I’ve been healed since. That was 2019 I was healed. Oh the whole thing forced me to quit smoking as well.
While married to Kim I continued to work for auto shops and faith based rehabs. In 2017 God told me to climb blood mountain and when I got to the top He would give me direction for my life and career. When I reached the top of the mountain I ran into someone that I used to work with in the No Longer Bound auto shop! It was at that point I knew I needed to dive deeper into automotive training. He also told me He was going to take me back to work at the No Longer Bound auto shop at some point. I knew I needed to take classes and expand my knowledge in the field. This began a year and half long process of becoming ASE master certified. In the evening when I got off work I would spend my time watching training videos and taking notes because I learned the wide path mostly travelled was to come home drink beer and waste life watching tv and I witnessed co-workers with that lifestyle going no where. So I studied diligently. The week I got master certified and passed all 8 ASE exams I was hired at No Longer Bound as the shop manager! There I continued to learn and grow.
This is only one mountain I’ve climbed in my journey. You can always ask me questions, but at this point there is so much to tell that it would be easier if I throw out some facts and leave the rest for questioning, if you’re still interested in the story. This story is really a story of redemption for someone who had no hope and wasted some of the best years of their life. It’s my story of becoming a man, a son, a husband, a father, a lover of God, and professional in my career.
-Kim and I did divorce. I relapsed which led to 3 months of pure hell, psych wards, back at my parents house using drugs again at age 36. It was a very short relapse, within 3 months I was back in rehab at Good Landing Recovery.
-I relapsed because I allowed pornography, alcohol, and cigarettes back into my life and small compromises led to big ones. The relapse took place right after my stomach was healed in 2019. The enemy crept in through small sins and divisiveness with my ex-wife. ultimately pride gave him the right to exploit. Yes I’m talking about the devil.
-I was led to start taking more automotive training classes online through O’reilly in 2019 in the midst of the chaos and divorce.
-2019 I ended up at Good Landing Recovery. I was there for 114 days. They allowed me to work at a local independent shop in the program.
-wife divorced me while at good landing on 01/17/2020
-my last week at Good Landing Recovery God told me to quit my job at the independent auto repair shop with no further instruction. I quit my job, and with bills to pay and no job for a week and just running on faith I started praying hard asking now what??!!. Around the 7th day I went for my daily jog and this mobile mechanic vehicle kept driving by me to the point it caught my attention. For some odd reason that same day I decided to go for a second jog, which I’ve never done. Never have I ever decided to workout twice in a day. Same thing again, mobile mechanic vehicle is passing me and eventually stops where I’m at and I realize its a sign. God was calling me to pursue being a mobile mechanic. I didn’t have any money. All I had was decent credit.
This very same week I saw the sign and quit my job, I also finished my online training classes, so I took a step of faith and I financed a truck, trailer, and equipment to be a mobile mechanic and I completed GLR. I got my business license on April 9th(Huge story behind that date) of 2020 and God gave me a scripture verse from Zechariah 9 that said, ‘Now I will restore double to you.’ and that is exactly what He did. I had spent $19.000 on credit cards to start the business and by month 4 had it half way paid off. My income doubled immediately and the business was instantly successful and stayed that way for 4 years. This was the beginning of Nate’s Professional Automotive Care.
-While mobile I met my second wife in 2020. She has been perfect in every way. We laugh together and we share the same beliefs. She is strong, wise, diligent and everything you would read about in Proverbs 31.I mean excellent wife, I get complimented on her all the time.
-We’ve been married almost 5 years and I’ve relapsed on her about 3 times. All 3 relapses lasted less than a week, but the amazing thing is she didn’t leave me and she loved me through all of it. On the 3rd one she made me go back to GLR. Which I reluctantly did, but after completing the 90 day program God promised to restore 7 fold.
-Everytime there is a choice to be made when I stand at a cross roads. It’s a choice to let my pride win or humble myself and go through the hardest door. When I let my pride win disaster follows. Win I let humility and obedience win God’s blessings and promotion overtake me.
-I closed mobile business in 2024 because we moved and worked at christian brothers automotive for one year.
-God told me to be humble, learn from the men at CBA and take more classes and read more books. I submitted because i knew after I climbed the mountain that I would have my own shop.
-After one year God spoke to me and said my training was complete and He showed me a shop in Gainesville, Ga. I leased the shop on May 6th, 2025 and God has been faithful with it ever since and it is growing and I couldn’t be more excited.
-I am also having my first baby, a son, this october and I can’t wait to show my parents. They are gonna be so proud because I’m healthy, I’m whole, I’m strong physically, clear-minded, a professional in my trade, a successful husband and entreprenuer. It’s been a 16 year process getting here from where I was, I feel like now is the time for all the hard work to reap a harvest and for all the pain and shame to be turned into victory and freedom. My parents only have a couple of years left in them but I believe they are going to be so good that the joy they have will swallow all the pain and make it all worth it. I’m see the promise God gave me from the book of Joel chapter 2 take shape in my life. “I will restore the years that the locust have eaten.”
Can you talk to us a bit about the challenges and lessons you’ve learned along the way. Looking back would you say it’s been easy or smooth in retrospect?
Lol. No. women, porn, drugs, nicotine. The biggest struggle has been fear and fear has been at the root of all it.
Thanks – so what else should our readers know about nate’s professional automotive care llc?
3696 Browns bridge rd, gainesville, Ga. 30504
I specialize in diagnostics on all domestic and japanese vehicles. From check engine lights, to tough electrical problems, modern vehicle electronics, ABS and traction control. I am proficient in all 8 major vehicle systems.
Recently I was brought a vehicle which had been to the dealership 3 times and an independent shop. No one could figure out the issue and everyone was replacing unneeded parts costing the customer alot of money. Because of all the diligence, training and study I was able to diagnose it within 2 hours and I fixed the vehicle and confirmed the repair.
My knowledge in electrical and OBD2 data pids sets me apart from your everyday mechanic.
I’m so proud when I solve tough problems that no one else can.
What does success mean to you?
Loving God with all my heart, mind, soul and strength and loving my neighbor as myself
Contact Info:
- Website: https://www.natesautocare.com
