I lived on the beautiful Caribbean Island of Puerto Rico, where I am from. I drove through the impressive Alaska Highway and, live in Alaska for 7 years. I have seen natural beauty. However, I have never seen anything like the Grand Canyon. One of the first things you are told is that at the Grand Canyon you can see that the earth is billions and billions of years. As a believer, I have never taken a strong position on this matter regarding the earth’s age. In my mind, I was convinced that the earth was made in 6 days as Genesis tells us and that, perhaps, there was a gap between Genesis 1:1 and Genesis 1:2.
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 2 The earth was formless and void, and darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was moving over the surface of the waters. Genesis 1:1-2 (NASB1995)
As you can see in verse one, God created the heavens and the earth, but verse two gives us the impression that something went wrong. As I returned home from my visit to the Grand Canyon, I searched for documentaries and ran into all kinds of ideas. As always, when I listen to a man about a particular topic I am not interested in the man’s opinion, but I eagerly look forward to the Scripture to confirm their position. In other words, people can say all kinds of stuff, I want to see the Chapter and the Verse.
An independent thinker with a profound call to see the orthodoxy of the church and passion for Christ manifesting together. Angel was born in Brooklyn, New York in April of 1968, he was raised on the beautiful island of Puerto Rico where he earned his B.S. degree in Sociology with a minor in Education from the Inter American University in San Germán in 1991. That same year he moved to Jacksonville, Florida. After working construction jobs for a year and learning the English language, his first job working with foster-care children in the capacity of youth care worker was with Jacksonville Youth Sanctuary in September of 1992. With JYS he was promoted several times as group home supervisor, legal caseworker, and program director.
While in Jacksonville, Angel studied a couple of martial arts styles. After earning his black belt, he became the founder of Good Fight Ministries as he used martial arts as an instrument to preach the gospel. In 2004 Angel was selected Martial Arts Instructor of the Year for the State of Florida and in 2005 Angel was inducted in the USA Martial Arts Hall of Fame where he also received the Christian Spirit Award. In July of 2005 Angel accepted his call to pastor a bilingual church in Winton, NC where he served for a couple of years. Five months later he lost his first wife to cancer in December of that same year. This initiated a deep valley of suffering in his life, a mountain of costly mistakes and the embracing of lifestyles of sin that are well documented through this blog.
In August of 2012 Angel moved to Fairbanks Alaska with his wife Rayette Casiano and six children who are now adults. In Alaska, Angel continued his social work-related career and his ministry of preaching, teaching and writing. Angel is the author of two books, Hope for the divorcee: Forgiving and Moving Forward and 7 Banderas de Esperanza: La Bendición de Yokdzonot.
In January 8th of 2020 Angel and his wife moved to Arizona. On June 8th 2021 Angel started his home church, not as a starting point, but as a closer way to how the church is suppose to look like according to Scripture.
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