Tony Campos, Paco Damian and I spent June 13-20 visiting pastors in Mexico City, Zamora and Queretaro. It was a very exciting but typical week for us! We gathered a group of believers in Uren, Michoacan and arranged for a pastor from Zamora to begin working with them. A new church was born! We also met with two pastors who are ready to start multiplying and we’ll be going back in August to train their leaders to begin planting new simple, bi-vocational churches.
Another exciting element to this trip was making connections between some of our leaders and Mexicans who have family up in the United States. Each one represents the potential for another church!
Visiting believers in Uren, Michoacan.
June 22nd, 2009 | Category: Uncategorized | 
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The new leadership team for HFC met together in Chicago February 15-18th for the first time to build unity and cast vision. We had a great time together and found each leade
r has a strong passion for planting new churches among Hispanics both in the USA and in Latin America.
We focused on a unified strategy of building networks and providing resources to assist front line church planters. Each member of the team has planted churches and/or assisted others planting new churches in the past, and most on the team have worked with another team member over the last few years already. There is an incredible amount of experience in this team!
On the final day we looked at the existing projects we were each involved with and dared to dream a little about the future. We already have the groundwork laid for extensive work in Northern California, Chicago, Portland, Mexico and see new efforts beginning soon in Argentina and El Salvador. The team will meet again in May in Portland, Oregon for continued training and planning.
March 8th, 2009 | Tags: Chicago, leadership, Training | Category: News | Print This Post
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Take a look at our latest newsletter. We have some exciting news about HFC!
Geoff
February 8th, 2009 | Tags: Geoff, Newsletter, Training, What's Next | Category: Newsletter | Print This Post
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Dear friends and supports,
Attached you’ll find the November/December newsletter for Hispanics for Christ. As you may know, our co-founder and Executive Director, Jorge Osorio, recently went home to be with the Lord. In the newsletter, you can read more about Jorge’s life and the exciting next steps we’re taking as a ministry,
God bless,
Geoff
November/Deceber 2008 Newsletter
November 30th, 2008 | Tags: Board, East Side Community Church, Geoff, Jorge, Newsletter, Romans 5:6, What's Next | Category: Newsletter | Print This Post
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Hispanic Christian leader dies suddenly in Guatemala
Jorge Osorio’s influence felt in East County, Latin America
By Rob Cullivan
The Gresham Outlook, Oct 25, 2008
Jorge Osorio talks to a group of children in Mexico. The Portland resident was instrumental in founding Hispanic churches throughout the Americas, including Gresham.
Donna Osorio, Jorge Osorio’s wife, recalls he could speak with ease equally to rich and poor alike about Jesus Christ and would do anything to keep a church going, including vacuuming its floors.
“There wasn’t a task too big or too small,” she says.
Jorge, 59, unexpectedly died on Oct. 13 from complications related to an intestinal infection.
At the time of his death, Jorge was visiting his family in his native Guatemala and was exploring opportunities for establishing churches there.
Jorge founded Hispanics for Christ, which established churches throughout the Americas. Among the congregations he played a role in establishing is Comunidad Cristiana, which meets at Grace Community Church, 800 S.E. Hogan Ave.
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October 27th, 2008 | Tags: Jorge | Category: News | Print This Post
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