Grace Church | Ministry Plan 2019-2020

Meet Brandon Garcia
GRACE CHURCH EN ESPAÑOL WORSHIP MINISTER
Tell us a little about your job and what you do.
I lead worship, alternating between the Thursday Night service, Saturday night at
Pelham, and at Forge. My days consist of worship planning meetings, translating
songs, creating tracks for en Español, rehearsals, and meeting with our Español
campus volunteers.
Where have you served at Grace?
Soon after we got here, we found that we could really find purpose in helping build
the Spanish-speaking community here around our age. We started a group called “Los
Veintes” for young adults in their 20s, and we meet once a month.
We also lead a community group. We are working to build a culture of vulnerability
that’s not common in the Hispanic culture.
“Grace Church
existe para hacer
seguidores maduros
de Cristo al
equiparlos para una
vida de madurez
espiritual que
impacta su hogar,
comunidad y el
mundo para Jesús.”
How have you grown as a disciple in the past year?
The Bible was not the center and foundation of my life when I moved here. It was more
of a tool with good advice and direction to help me through life, but it was not my
everything. Since starting at Grace, the Bible has become the center of our marriage
and of my life. We spend more time reading it now and orienting our lives around the
Bible instead of orienting the Bible around us.
The community has been big for us too. Often in Costa Rica the conversations were
superficial, but here I’ve learned that to grow as disciples we have to include people in
our lives who are willing to have the tough and awkward conversations. It has been the
same for prayer—not just to say thank you to God but to be fully dependent on him.
What do you love most about leading Grace en Espanol in worship?
I love the way the congregation responds because they are really passionate about
worshiping and that our band is like a family. I also just love the idea of responding
after the teaching, which was new for me too.
What have you learned from working with our English-speaking
worship leaders?
The main thing is leading worship with character. Our church background before Grace
was more about performance and show. It used to be so important to me that the
lights, music, and performance were great. I’ve found that the character of the person
leading is more important than the skill.
Greer
SPARTANBURG
ACTION STEP
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Greenville
Powdersville
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TAYLORS
Mauldin
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HARRISON BRIDGE
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Spartanburg
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• Our Spanish campus has become one
of the largest Latino Bible-teaching
congregations in the state. Because
estimates put the hispanic population near
20,000 in the Spartanburg area and close
to 10,000 in the Mauldin/Simpsonville
area, we are starting regional campuses in
these areas in 2019 to continue to bring
a discipleship emphasis to the Latino
community.
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Piedmont
Simpsonville
Fountain Inn
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