When I started at CIU in 2005, I was in the process of moving to El Salvador to serve as a fulltime missionary with Reliant Mission. I served in El Salvador as the Missions Coordinator and a leader of women’s ministry for 10 years.
In 2009, I got married to Jorge Solorzano, a youth leader, and deacon who was working with the church in El Salvador. Jorge and I served fulltime at the Great Commission Church in San Salvador, El Salvador until the beginning of 2017. Within that time we had two beautiful children; Sophie is now 7 years old and Jorgito is 5. God had begun to stir our hearts to plant churches years ago. We thought that we would continue to serve in Latin America and possibly move to South America to plant churches, but the Lord was actually calling us to plant a multi-ethnic church in the United States in my hometown, Annapolis Maryland.
Once we moved to Maryland in 2017, my sending church, Bay Area Community Church then trained Jorge as a pastor. In 2018, Jorge was ordained as a Pastor and now Jorge will finish his seminary studies at Lancaster Bible College with a Master’s in Church Planting this December of 2019. God had used Micah 2:13 which says, “the One who breaks open the way will go before them...” The Lord really opened the way for us to follow His vision for our lives to move us Maryland to plant a church. The name of our church is Axis Church. It is Axis because we believe that when Jesus is the “axis” of our lives and everything revolves around Him, all things hold together (Col. 1:17). Our mission statement is to “inspire people to make Jesus the center of their lives.” We have a core team and have been preparing for our Sunday launch, which happened on September 8th of this year. We are so amazed to see all God has done in our lives and are excited about what He will continue to do.
How has your degree helped you?
It has really helped me to be able to have a clearer understanding of the whole plan of God's redemption throughout the whole Bible. It has helped me in leading women's ministries and preparing messages also.
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