After months of prayer, confusion, joy, confusion, prayer, joy and a lot of long distance conversations, Christy and I decided to move back. I am still floored, literally, by God’s provision, love and patience. Christy and I enjoy long walks, camping, books, tea, foreign food, movies, theater, arts in general (God bless hippies :)), Wii, frisbee and, for now, playing with kids we can send home when we’re done.
I was born in Mexico City, Mexico. I spent most of my life in the town of Tlalpan which is on the south side of Mexico’s Federal District.
I owe my love for children to a man called Byron Morales. When I was just about 15 he encouraged me to help run a bursting Saturday night program in the poverty stricken town of San Andres. He showed me how patience, energy and love from Jesus could transform and give hope to even the very least of these.
In 2002 I went to Bible College in Ecuador and continued to work with children in down town Quito and a Street Kids home on the north side. I also learned how to eat cui (which I will let you look up on your own).
In 2003 I went to Fresno Pacific University became broke and accepted an invitation to work for Redwood Covenant Church the spring of 2004. Once here I continued my studies at the much cheaper, and better, SRJC and took on Starbuck’s part time (like pretty much every one else my age; “it’s the benefits man”).
In 2004 I also met the most beautiful and naturally talented woman in the world while serving coffee at Starbuck’s. To my dismay she didn’t think twice about telling me to get lost, but after two years of begging, pleading and muscle flexing, Christy Michelle decided to take her chances and we were married by the ocean at Patrick's Point State Park in Eureka. We then moved to the great city of Chicago where Christy finished a degree in Biblical studies at Moody Bible Institute and I managed to squeeze out a degree in Theater and Performance Arts at North Park University.
In the fall of 2007 I got a call from a slightly wacky Swedish-Minnesotan-gone Californian Pastor asking me to come back to RCC and work for Redwood Kids. “Consider me a meteor in your backyard” said Pastor Scott Peterson (A phrase I know I am not the first to hear...) After months of prayer, confusion, joy, confusion, prayer, joy and a lot of long distance conversations, Christy and I decided to move back. I am still floored, literally, by God’s provision, love and patience. Christy and I enjoy long walks, camping, books, tea, foreign food, movies, theater, arts in general (God bless hippies :)), Wii, frisbee and, for now, playing with kids we can send home when we’re done.
