Costa Rica
FERNANDO & SILVIA ROCHA DEL VALLE
Liberia, San Jose
Fernando Rocha Del Valle is ministering at the Academia Ministerial Cristiana (AMC). He is serving as one of the professors at the Academy to help equip and train pastors and leaders. He is also Dean of Students at the Academy. He has a Bachelor’s degree in Teaching Sciences and a master’s degree in Theology, he uses his knowledge to assist the students in learning God’s word in the Academy. He has a great passion for discipleship and teaching God’s word.
Fernando grew up in Central California and was a gang member starting at the age of 10. The following 15 years of drugs, crime, and violence placed him in Juvenile Hall, California Youth Authority, and the California State prison system. Because of his lifestyle, he was facing life in prison because of California’s Three Strikes Law. In God’s providence, he chose deportation since he was an undocumented immigrant. After living in the United States for 25 years, his sudden move to Mexico was quite a shock, and he became depressed and felt lost. God placed him in a situation where he had no option but to look upon the Cross. God brought him to Ebenezer Bible Church in the Colony Eagle’s Nest, a neighborhood east of Tijuana. Though Fernando had heard and ignored the Gospel throughout his life, God appointed this time for him to understand it.
After God saved him, God put in him a desire to learn His Word, and he graduated from Instituto Biblica de la Gracia, established in YUGO Ministries in 2006, after seven years of growing in God’s Word and serving the body. God appointed him the Pastor-Teacher at Ebenezer, where he pastored faithfully for 13 years. He has been happily married to Silvia Tapia de Rocha for 21 years.
Fernando grew up in Central California and was a gang member starting at the age of 10. The following 15 years of drugs, crime, and violence placed him in Juvenile Hall, California Youth Authority, and the California State prison system. Because of his lifestyle, he was facing life in prison because of California’s Three Strikes Law. In God’s providence, he chose deportation since he was an undocumented immigrant. After living in the United States for 25 years, his sudden move to Mexico was quite a shock, and he became depressed and felt lost. God placed him in a situation where he had no option but to look upon the Cross. God brought him to Ebenezer Bible Church in the Colony Eagle’s Nest, a neighborhood east of Tijuana. Though Fernando had heard and ignored the Gospel throughout his life, God appointed this time for him to understand it.
After God saved him, God put in him a desire to learn His Word, and he graduated from Instituto Biblica de la Gracia, established in YUGO Ministries in 2006, after seven years of growing in God’s Word and serving the body. God appointed him the Pastor-Teacher at Ebenezer, where he pastored faithfully for 13 years. He has been happily married to Silvia Tapia de Rocha for 21 years.