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I was born in San Fernando, Mexico. I was raised in a Christian family where my parents served Jesus in our church. Due to this, I was educated to love and serve the Church of Jesus by being part of the worship team. I lived in Texas for 7 years while I was pursuing my Bachelors and Masters in Electrical Engineering. During this time I distanced myself from Jesus, I was still assisting church but my relationship with Him weakened. Nonetheless, He was still calling me and caring for me.

In 2012 God brought me to Arizona for work. In 2013 I married my beautiful wife Yuridia Espinoza and after some time of prayer, He called us to Redemption West Mesa. Here, we have grown greatly in our relationship with Jesus and his love for us. I have had the privilege of serving in the children’s ministry and in the worship team. We love being part of the Redemption West Mesa family.

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I met my wife Maggie at Redemption West Mesa – where else? And started to get to know each other at our church’s first annual Labor Day retreat in Sedona. We were married in April 2015 and have a beautiful daughter, Eva.

Jesus saved me when I was about eight years old, but didn’t really know what it meant to follow Him until I was an adult. Jesus truly changed my life when He was all I had left and I finally began to seek Him.

The thing I love most about Redemption West Mesa is how deep the sense of community is. Everyone truly knows and loves everyone else, and there are so many ways that the church loves its neighbors in the surrounding community.

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I am a prodigal daughter who loves Jesus and am grateful that God is so gracious and loving. I have been married to a godly man for almost 25 years and have four wonderful kids who are practicing adults. I have also been involved in kids’ ministry in some form or other for almost 25 years. God led our family from a church in the Chicago suburbs to East Valley Bible Church to Redemption West Mesa where we have been attending from its beginning.

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God rescued me and showed me my need for a Savior in 1986. Later that year, I married my husband, Mike! Since that time, I’ve been in ministry as a pastor’s wife, mother (of two precious daughters and six foster sons), missionary, Christian school teacher, and Biblical Counselor. I love to encourage women in their faith and walk with others through the painful circumstances of life. It is my joy to worship and serve Christ within Redemption West Mesa, my wonderful home church, and serve as a Biblical Counselor with Biblical Counseling of Arizona! I also love to teach little children to read! Above all, I hope that Christ is exalted and people know they are loved through the good news of Jesus Christ and His sacrifice on the cross!

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I am an Arizona native, raised in Wickenburg. I grew up in a home that didn’t know Jesus. However, my grandparents lived close by and had my brother and I participate regularly in the Catholic church. I lost my mom at 16 years old and was encouraged to get married before she passed as a way to help my brother and I survive.

I had glimpses of God’s love and character through people that he brought into my life during this time. I finally had the revelation of learning about what he had done for me and how great his love for me was after my 2nd child was born. What a revelation! Through Jesus, I had the opportunity to have been reconciled to him and have been given his spirit of peace, forgiveness, hope, and love.

I have a Psychology and Early Childhood Development degrees with a background in social work.

I married a man after God’s own heart, and together he and I are raising our 2 sons and our daughter. My family and I have been part of the Redemption family since 2009 when Praxis Church was still around. I have the honor and privilege to serve and love my community at West Mesa by participating in prayer gatherings, children’s ministry, women’s ministry, and at Immigrant Hope. May God continue using me as he wills and may I be open and obedient to follow Him.

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I teach Spanish at a Christian High School and enjoy playing tennis. The blessing of my life is to be married to Lynne. We absolutely love our daughters (and our foster sons)! We are finding our joy in Jesus. Our life is to help others to find their life and identity in Him. We desire to be faithful and useful for the Kingdom of God. I am so grateful that Jesus rescued me. And He continues to do so. Jesus is transforming me to his likeness as He is preparing me to spend eternity with Him.

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I am a born again Christian who was raised on the mission field. I was raised in Mexico and found Christ at an early age. I went to Bethel College in Indiana and moved to Arizona in 2010.

I found Redemption West Mesa in 2014 and have been part of the congregation ever since. I am always on the lookout for new and innovative ways to grow and better our ministry. My desire is to continue growing in my faith through my time spent at West Mesa!

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I am a native of AZ. I was Catholic throughout childhood up to my teen years. I married my pulchritudinous wife in the Catholic church. Although I wasn’t in a relationship with Christ, my faith said there is a God, and I wanted His blessing for our union.

Years later, God brought our hearts to find Him and a Christian church. All thanks to Him and the people He put in our lives. I am a graduate of Devry University. We have been blessed with 3 children. I have been running to and from God throughout my life, and I’m happy to say that He keeps running after me and calling to me. Thankfully, God has always put people in my path that shared Godly advice.

I found Redemption West Mesa as I was looking for a bilingual Christian church for my father, but God called my family and I instead to love and serve His church here. I enjoy helping and serving in the kids and worship ministries.

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I was born in Hermosillo, Sonora Mexico. When I was about 4 years old, my family immigrated to the United States. Ever since then, Phoenix has been my home. My mom and dad raised three young boys in the church and throughout different parts of The Valley.

I met Jesus at an early age, but my relationship with him grew deeper around the age of 21 serving in a church plant in South Phoenix. Later on, I served in a Hispanic church in the Maryvale area. It is there where I met my wife. We served together for years with the youth, building relationships and sharing the Gospel.

My wife and I heard about Redemption Church through my brother, who serves at Redemption Alhambra. When we first came to Redemption West Mesa, we felt welcomed, a sense of belonging, and a calling to serve in a multicultural/multiethnic bilingual church. For the past seven years, we have growing, serving, and raising our two daughters at Redemption West Mesa. We feel blessed and joyful with what God is doing in our lives.

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I was born in San Fernando, Tamaulipas Mexico. My mother met Jesus when she was pregnant with me, so I was born and raised in a Christian environment. I studied Psychopedagogy and I graduated in 2010. I worked as a teacher and also as an early stimulation therapist in the children’s hospital in my city.

In 2013 I married my husband Francisco Espinoza, and that same year I moved to Arizona. Now we are parents of two wonderful children, Francisco (2016) and Julieta (2018). God brought us to Redemption West Mesa in 2014, and since then God has given me the opportunity to serve in children’s ministry and women’s ministry. It is a blessing for me to be a part of Redemption West Mesa, my family in Jesus.