William Castro - Assistant Pastor for Hispanic Outreach
William Castro, Assistant Pastor for Hispanic Outreach, was previously the pastor of Olivos Church for six years before coming to Mitchell Road. Under William’s leadership, the Hispanic community at Mitchell Road is growing each year.
The Mitchell Road Hispanic Ministry reaches out to the growing Hispanic community in Greenville. William’s passion is to see an incarnational and integrated ministry at Mitchell Road as well as other reformed churches, connecting the vibrant Hispanic community with established congregations to be one body in Christ.
William pours his passion and prayers into his ministry, hoping God will equip and train future ministry leaders from the Hispanic community. William is purposeful, positive, and ready with a smile. William and his wife, Judy, have two daughters, Grace and Laura, and they are expecting a third child in July 2012.
More about William:
Degrees: BA Theology, Escuela Superior de Teologia – Seminario Evangelico de Lima; ThM (Master of Theology), Greenville Presbyterian Theological Seminary
Background: Born in Trujillo, Peru
Favorite books: The Bible; “Poemas Humanos” by Cesar Vallejo
Favorite movie: “O Brother, Where Art Thou”
Favorite city: Lima, Peru
Favorite scripture:
Romans 1:14,16-17 “I am obliged both to Greeks and non-Greeks, both to the wise and the foolish. I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God for the salvation of everyone who believes: first for the Jew, then for the Gentile. For in the Gospel a righteousness from God is revealed, a righteousness that is by faith from first to last, just as it is written: ‘The righteous will live by faith.”
Favorite memory:
watching his "mother singing while making a Peruvian dessert as I watched the sky through the window – the color of the blue sky and the colors of the sunset appeared as lakes and faraway lands”.
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