Texas Conference Votes New Church Planting Coordinator
Tamara Michalenko Terry
Texas Conference of Seventh-day Adventists Executive Committee voted Robin Lopez as church planting coordinator during its July 25, 2019 meeting. Lopez will also lead two church plants: New Braunfels Spanish and Fredericksburg Spanish. Both in Texas.
“As our membership is growing, so are the needs to plant churches in the Texas Conference territory,” Carlos J. Craig, Texas Conference president, states. “There are certain guidelines that have to be followed for church status. The church planting coordinator assists with making sure each church has a successful start.”
Lopez began working as a pastor for the Texas Conference in 2008 at the Victoria, Texas, and Beeville, Texas, Spanish Seventh-day Adventist churches. In 2010, he transferred to the Durango and Eastgate Spanish Seventh-day Adventist churches in San Antonio, Texas.
He has a bachelor’s degree in theology from Atlantic Union College in South Lancaster, Massachusetts, and a master’s in religion with a focus on evangelism and church administration from Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia.
Lopez shares that he assisted in planting his first church, Fitchburg Spanish, in 2001, and has been hooked on planting churches ever since. Three years later, he assisted in planting a Winter Park, Florida, youth Spanish church.
Since 2013, Lopez has been the church planting coordinator for the South/Central Texas area. He organized two church plants: Southeast Spanish in San Antonio, Texas, in 2013, and the Converse Spanish in Converse, Texas, in 2018.
He began his new position August 1, 2019.
Congratulations on your new position in the Texas Conference!
May God bless you abundantly as you serve this conference coordinating many more new church plants.
The Texas Conference has a rich history of pioneers leading the way to open churches in rural and urban areas.
Congratulation and thank you for your recent help.
May the blessings of God be with you and your family.