Welcome to the Team Ronald Sanchez!

        We welcome Ronald Sanchez (and his wife Alex) to the Calvary McAllen team.  As of August 2nd Ronald is our new Associate Minister of Missions Intern.  While two of our interns (Frank San Martin and Josh Rainha) have been called to other churches, we are blessed to have Ronald take this role on a full-time basis.  We are able to do this because of a partnership with Texas Baptists' Center for Missional Engagement and UTRGV's Baptist Student Ministry.  The intern agreement is for two years.

    While our missions budget has seized the opportunity for a matching grant from Texas Baptists, most of the Sanchez' compensation comes from outside Calvary as they have raised their own support.  Ronald will spend about one fourth of his time serving with the UTRGV Baptist Student Ministry and three fourths of his time in Calvary mobilization and multiplication.

    Ronald will report to Pastor Chad Mason and will focus primarily on the mobilization of young adults for God's mission and in multiplication efforts, particularly church planting.  He will relate to our current church starts in Donna and Reynosa, while also working to train other church planters to start new congregations in the RGV.  As a fully bilingual staff member Ronald will relate to both the English-language and Spanish-language congregations.

    Of course Ronald and Alex are not new to Calvary.  Both of them served in the BSM while in college.  Alex (Granda) Sanchez was a Calvary member and served as a missions intern before getting married to Ronald.  Even while they spent a couple of years in Houston where Ronald taught in the public school system, Calvary continued to be a spiritual family and a network of friends to them.

    For sometime now Pastor Chad has been mentoring the Sanchez' as they explore their call to full-time international missions service, perhaps with the International Mission Board (IMB) of the Southern Baptist Convention.  It is our hope that two years of associate minister of missions internship at Calvary will better prepare this wonderful family for full-time international missions.

    Ronald is a pastor's son of Cuban descent and graduated with a teaching degree from UTRGV.  Alex is originally from Mexico and graduated from UTRGV with a Bachelor of Science in Biology.  Both of them love the Lord, love Calvary, love college students and love missions.  What a blessing and honor is to have them join our team!

    Let's welcome them back to Calvary, pray for them, support them and make sure their transition from Houston back to the Valley is as smooth as possible!