My wife Juanita, our son and daughter, and myself are originally from Mexico and naturalized citizens of the USA. I began my pastoral career in the Methodist Church of Mexico in 1995 and moved to the North Georgia Conference of the UMC (where our grown children still reside) in 2008 and to our conference in 2016. I completed my seminary studies at the Juan Wesley Seminary in Monterrey, Mexico, and continued studies in psychology in Tijuana, Mexico. My last appointment was a three-point charge with two of the churches in Momence, IL and one in Grant Park, IL.

 

My dream has always been a church that practices love, justice and mercy in all its relationships between members and our community, advocates for the most vulnerable, denounces the evil and injustice in society, whose members worship not only on Sundays, but with their lifestyle the rest of the week, and that has Jesus Christ as its foundation.