I remember getting saved in a car with my dad when I was six years old. Two years later, I got baptized in a church member’s swimming pool. However, when my dad started a series on Revelation, I started having second thoughts about my salvation but was afraid of revealing them due to the embarrassment of being an “unsaved pastor’s son.” At thirteen, on April 1, 2015, I couldn’t resist any longer and got the reassurance of my salvation. That same year, a Youth Camp was held in Honduras with the theme, “Christ Is Looking for Laborers.” On one of the nights of the camp, the speaker, who was a national pastor, started tearfully expressing the need for more preachers in Honduras. That day, I surrendered to full-time Christian service.

After God’s call to ministry, I felt that I needed to find a place to prepare for the ministry. After considering different colleges, God led me to go to Hyles-Anderson College to initiate my preparation for ministry. While there, I taught a Sunday school class, participated in soul winning every Saturday, played music specials for church and chapel, and was a bus captain and driver for my bus route on the south side of Chicago. Before coming to college, I had served in my local church in Honduras by soul winning, teaching Sunday school (three years), and playing music for congregational singing and special music.