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I'm a youth pastor in Southern California at a Nazarene church. I've been serving here for about 4 years. We have a large youth group of around 100 teens from all different cultures and backgrounds.

We merged with a Spanish church in January of 07 and our youth groups are now ONE! As of a little more than a year ago, I am working with a co-youth pastor named Javier. If you want to know more about me, you can read my very first blog post here.

I started this blog as a way to remember the amazing things that happen in my everyday life in ministry... the hilarious things that my teens say and do, the joys and victories, and the life stories of the amazing teenagers that are the future of our church, and our world. But I am also glad when it brings encouragement and joy to others. Feel free to leave your comments and let me know you're reading!

I am so blessed to be here, I love my teens... they are my heart!


And by the way...
at our church...
we speak 5 languages!!!
English, Spanish, Korean, Chinese and Gypsy! :)


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Mexico!

2:15 PM at 2:15 PM

So we're gearing up for another Mexico trip. I realized that I never shared pictures from the last trip. So here are some pictures from our last Mexico trip. It was pretty cool to realize that we have actually formed relationships. Like we recognize the people and they know us too... it was fun to just get to hang out with them and share life while sharing Jesus' love. We BBQ'd hot dogs and chicken and ate with them and played with them and just hung out. We also brought some clothes and toys and things as usual.

I'll be sure to post more and maybe even some stories from the next trip :)


This is what happens when you eat licorice without your hands and Javier has the camera...
Me and Ameroni
Two of the kids there
Our team heading into the town square
Me and a cute little kid
A couple of the girls...
Olga and Gabriel
Pastor Gabriel, a couple of kids and the spider (its in the hole)...
Javi and Ameroni
Me and Ameroni
Ameroni trying to figure out what was on Javier's necklace (its Cuba)
Talking to the kids
Me and some of the boys
Javier and Pastor Gabriel with the kids
This kid was so good with that yo-yo thing... It was pretty cool to watch!
My favorite!
Some of the kids with Javier
This kid kind of got attached to me... but I kind of got attached to him too :)
Me trying to BBQ... mostly it was just for the picture because right after this it burned me and I didn't want to do it anymore :)
loved this kid!!!
Pastor Gabriel and me hanging out with some of the kids
Chivas #1!!! (that's a soccer team I'm pretty sure...)
This little boy was so cute...

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