How God called me into Ministry

“I thank Christ Jesus our Lord,
who has given me strength,
that he considered me faithful,
appointing me to his service”.
(I Timothy 1:12)



Since I born in the preacher family it is supposed that you are going to be a Christian, and in the preacher family you are going to heritage the pulpit, church, etc. When I was a child some of our games were “baptizing my brother or cousins, leading the worship, offering meditation… (Except communion, our parents don’t allow us to do that), when I was 8 or 9 years old I just want to be a Preacher like my Dad. But, when I was 13, many things and questions start to come to my mind.


I recall that I was at the Sandia el Chico Family Camp when Victor Vazquez a student of the Instituto Biblico Nacional was preaching about that if your parents are Christians that not mean that you are Christian or if they will be go to heaven, not necessarily you are going to the same place. I realized that a relationship with God is individual and I have to make a decision to invite Jesus to be my Savior and my Lord. To my mind came a thought “what if I die today, what I am going to say before God “I am the Minister son” no that not works, God will say me “I don’t now you”. Then I asked Jesus to come and live in my heart.


After that, I start my commitment trying to be a good Christian in the youth group of a very conservative church, pursuing a career and dreaming with the day when I will be an Engineer, Lawyer or Teacher to have my own family, house and success. Two years later I was starving in my spirit, tired of religious practices and legalisms in a church where the elders and many adults were immersed in all kind of Pharisees battles. I start to die in my relationship with God; I become a churchgoer because I was hosted by Christian families but not for conviction.


Then in the 1983 summer I was in the Sandia el Chico Camp and Jose Manuel Cortes a young bible college student beside a small lake after baptisms was preaching about the CALL OF GOD to those who he was calling to full time ministry, after he end his sermon he mentioned 15 churches with an urgent need of a Minister, and he made the Invitation… “Who is the young man or girl that going to respond God today –“Here I am”-…. Stand Up! 6 or 7 started to stand up, two of them invited me to do the same, but I was living an inner crisis… what about my school? What about my career? What about my plans? After that devotions time the camp was not more fun, I was struggling with that Call in my mind...
On that night I decided to go to the Instituto Biblico Nacional in Queretaro, MX and be prepared to serve God for the rest of my life. 28 years has been passed and without doubt I still have the same conviction, thats why..."I thank Christ Jesus our Lord, who has given me strength, that he considered me faithful, appointing me to his service".