Hello friends! Our names are Peni and Natalie Tapaweluwelu. We are an American-Fijian family with three little warriors. We live in Northern California, and will soon be planting new roots in Viti Levu, Fiji. We are lovers of Jesus, chasers of lakes, oceans, waterfalls, joy and good coffee. We love sports, culture and the arts (biased rugby lovers over here). 

Peni and I met in Melbourne, Australia in YWAM while training with a Polynesian dance company and then got to travel together, performing even after getting married! 

I am an artist and musician by education. 

Peni is a choreographer and traditional Fijian dancer. 

Our lives have been spent mentoring youth in various contexts...and we have a huge heart to see healthy and healed mothers, fathers and youth functioning in their full capacity throughout Fiji!

 Welcome to our journey! 

Fiji is wealthy with beauty, ripe with creativity, humble in royalty, its children pave a way for a generation of a thriving nation. It is at the brink of a Holy Renaissance, as the Lord is pouring out on those who call on His name. 

Our vision is to support the legacy of this chiefly, warrior nation by helping to reconnect the dots between: Heaven and earth, Lomalagi and Vei Dela ni Yavu;  Sons and Daughters to their Heavenly Father; Culture and family: Husbands and wives; Fathers and their children. 

We believe this: when an individual is healthy and strong in their identity, it creates healthy families, and healthy families create healthy cities, and healthy cities create a healthy, THRIVING nation! Fiji needs whole fathers, they need whole mothers, and they need a healthy next generation of giant slayers that can carry the fresh movement of God! 

Furthermore, our passion is to put on display the splendor and miraculous works of the Lord through arts, and empower those we encounter to do the same. As a family, we get to catch this Holy wave and partner with what the Lord is doing already in Fiji! Our part is to usher in an empowerment of Renaissance creation. As artists, musicians, and dancers, our family is equipped for such a time as this. The personal call on our family has always been to tell the stories and beauty of the Lord through our various art forms. Just as Miriam stood at the far edge of the Red Sea after crossing over, looking back at the season of trauma, she chose to pick up her tambourine, grab the women around her and lead her people wildly in song and dance! There is a fire in us to reignite the artists, the dancers, the inventors, builders and rebuilders, and the planters of the fields! The people of Fiji couldn’t be any better suited for “wild song and dance”! Let the Holy Fijian Renaissance begin!