PROFILE:
I was born in Alicante, Spain in 1990. I had the great privilege of being born into a Christian family. My dad is Spanish, but my mum is from Ballymoney in Northern Ireland. Since I was a child, growing up in Spain, my parents taught me the Holy Scriptures, and when I was five years old, I made a profession of faith. But as I grew up the evidence of a true conversion in my life was simply not there. I was taken to every meeting in church, and I sometimes read and prayed but there were no desires for God in my heart or mind.
However, when I was thirteen or fourteen years old, God began to put thoughts about Him and about eternity in my mind. I wasn´t seeking God, but He was seeking me. His mercy and grace began to make me think about my soul´s condition. One day I went to my bedroom and I simply asked the Lord to save me. I had known the way of salvation in my mind all those years, but Christ wasn´t mine, and I wasn´t His until that day when I turned to Him in repentance and I trusted in Him and in His death upon the cross. I believe He saved me at that moment because my life after that changed. I became “a new creature” (2 Corinthians 5:17). I now wanted to read my Bible and pray. I wanted to serve the Lord in whatever He would have me to do. I had a desire to witness to my friends about Christ, though sometimes I found it difficult.
In the summer of 2010, as I had come to Northern Ireland to work, I attended a Youth Rally in Ballymena Free Presbyterian Church. As Dr Cairns was preaching, the Lord worked in my heart, and called me to “Preach the Word” (2 Timothy 4:2). The next morning, He confirmed that calling in my life through the first three chapters of the book of Ezekiel.
Vanesa and I got married in October 2014 and two weeks later we came to Northern Ireland to live. Both Vanesa´s father and my father are pastors in Spain, and we both have a desire to reach our people for Christ. The door opened for me to study in the Whitefield College of the Bible in 2016, and I finished in 2020. While living in Northern Ireland, the Lord has given us three children, Abigail, Elizabeth and Ezekiel, and our prayer is that the Lord will save them early in life.
In January 2020 I was able to visit the work in Cortijos Nuevos (Spain), where pastor Lyle Boyd has been faithfully ministering for over 30 years. After I preached, he asked me if I would consider the work there as he was thinking about retiring. After much prayer, we believe that the Lord is leading us to Cortijos Nuevos, and we thank Him for opening every door, and allowing us to serve Him there.
