Miami, FloridaYou did not choose Me but I chose you and appointed you that you would go and bear fruit, and that your fruit would remain, so that whatever you ask of the Father in My name He may give to you.
John 15:16
Liset and I came to Christ in 1990 in Havana, Cuba. After we got married, the Lord called us to serve Him. In 1993, the Cuban government put me in prison for 10 days for holding Bible studies in our home in Havana. After the trial, I was sentenced to two years under house arrest. In spite of the limitations, we continued serving the Lord.
We met The Navigators at a seminar on discipleship at our church, through a couple who we later learned were part of The Navigators’ Hispanic ministry.
We continued ministering to couples and holding Bible studies in our home until 1998 when a missionary couple from Guatemala invited us to be trained as missionaries. We went to Guatemala in January 2000 and returned to Cuba in June and started a discipleship center in Havana. During the following seven years, we were able to minister to 5,000 people and were able to train and disciple almost 400 pastors and leaders.
In June 2006, the Lord opened the door for us to come to the U.S. as refugees, and as soon as we arrived in Miami, we called the Navigtor staff couple we had previously met and asked them to coach us as we started a new life in the U.S.
After a year of meeting and coaching, we felt in our hearts that God was calling us to be part of what The Navigators do: “Advancing the Gospel of Jesus Christ and His Kingdom into the nations through spiritual generations of labor living and discipling among the lost.”
In September 2007, we started as Navigator Intern staff working with ethnic minorities in the U.S. Our ministry is to raise up laborers in the Hispanic community in the U.S. and the Caribbean, and accomplish the Great Commission of Mathew 28:19-20.
