| POSITION: CEO and Pastor
PHONE: (619) 977-0633
LOCATION: El
Cajon
LENGTH OF SERVICE: 4 years
WHAT
DOES THE ORGANIZATION DO? We minister to the lost, the 1% of society that most have given
up on. Our four phase discipleship ministry houses, feeds, and ministers
the Gospel of Jesus Christ to these individuals that have made a
commitment to learn a new way of life. Our pastors and overseers
live with the disciples 24 hours a day 365 days a year. We have
ranches in the East County that house our first phase men and women.
We operate the Fabulous 7 Motel and Emma’s restaurant where
disciples in phase 2, 3, and 4 learn Christian work skills and prepare
for ministry. Our family restoration program currently is ministering
to 35 families with 57 children. We go where the pizza man won’t
deliver to minister to the 1% of society that most fear.
WHAT ARE YOUR PRIMARY DUTIES: My primary
duties are husband, father and pastor of Set Free Baptist Fellowship
of San Diego, located at the East County Ministry and Arts Center
in El Cajon. I am also the operations officer for the fellowship
and the CEO of Set Free Facility Management Company. The management
company employees over 20 graduates of the program and cares for
the operation of the motel and restaurant. We provide safe self-sustaining
facilities for the fellowship to operate its discipleship programs.
WHAT
AREA OF EXPERTISE DO YOU HAVE OR ARE YOU KNOWN FOR? My gifts are administration and teaching,
my work history is in facility management.
WHAT
WOULD YOU LIKE TO ACCOMPLISH? We hope to bring this model of ministry to over 200 cities
around the country in the next 10 years. The model we have developed
here in El Cajon will work anywhere in a city where drug addicts
and the homeless exist. We will locate a drug and prostitute-ridden
motel and restaurant and transform them into transitional living
facilities promoting the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
WHERE
DO YOU FEEL THE LORD IS LEADING THE ORGANIZATION? We hope to be a large part of this
end time revival that is spoken by the prophets “the latter
rain.”
WHAT
IS FRUSTRATING TO YOU?The amounts of monies that are wasted by the government and their reluctance
to allow faith-based ministries like Set Free to receive grants
without the strings and sometimes ropes they attach.
WHAT DO YOU ENJOY MOST IN YOUR JOB? Watching an individual come into the
program torn up from the floor up and then seeing them two months
later after their ranch experience, then seeing them through to
graduation and back into the kingdom as ministers of the Gospel.
HOW
CAN PEOPLE PRAY FOR YOU OR YOUR ORGANIZATION? Pray for the Lord’s hand to be on us. All we need is Him
and the power of His might.
DO
YOU HAVE A NEED FOR VOLUNTEERS? The greatest need we have is for child-care workers both during
the morning hours with the toddlers and then after school activities.
TELL US ABOUT YOUR FAMILY:
My
wife Jacky works with the San Diego Rescue Mission as Regional Thrift
store manager. We have four children: David 10, Daniel 7, Adam 6,
and Anna 3.
WHAT IS YOUR HOME CHURCH? Set Free El Cajon,
where I serve as pastor.
IS
THERE A FAVORITE BOOK THAT HAS MADE AN IMPACT ON YOUR LIFE? The book that has impacted my life
like no other is the Bible, it has given light in the darkest times
and brought comfort when I was hurt, it has guided me when I was
lost and provided hope for our future.
WHAT
IS YOUR FAVORITE SCRIPTURE? Before coming to Christ I was a thief and when I first read
this scripture it not only removed my guilt but gave me my life’s
mission. Eph. 4:28: “Let him that stole steal no more: but
rather let him labor, working with his hands the thing which is
good, that he may have to give to him that needeth.”
IS THERE A “NUGGET” YOU WOULD LIKE TO SHARE? Do not judge a book by its cover. Many times people look at
others and judge them before they even say hello. Take the time
to speak to someone today that you might normally avoid.
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