My name is Fabio Correa and I was born and raised in Bogotá, Colombia. I come from a large family made up of ten brothers and sisters and my parents. I have been blessed with a wonderful wife and children, three girls and one boy. We have been living in Toronto, Canada since 2004.
Since I was very little my grandmother taught me to have a great love and respect for God, but it was in Atlanta, when I was going through rough times and was feeling confused and frustrated, that I went to church and could say that I had my first real meeting with God. Ever since that moment I felt the need to share evangelism with anyone who crossed my path. I couldn’t understand how such great truth wasn’t revealed to me earlier in life, and how not everybody knew about it. The desire to want to tell everyone about what I had experienced made me want to invite everyone I knew to The Salvation Army Church in Atlanta, Georgia. That is the church where I had my first meeting with God and where my family and I congregated. It was there where I felt that God wanted me to start working as a pastor and at the same time my pastor there felt the same feeling. At that moment is when he started to encourage me to start responding to the call I was getting from God. It was very tough at first because my wife, even though she had a great love for God, was not feeling the call. Around the same time we had to decide to come to Canada, and at that moment once again God showed us that I should respond to his calling but here in Canada.
All this time of intimacy with God has allowed us to get to know him better and he has proved to us that now more than ever he is present in our lives. Now in our ministry we have been able to see greatness, the miracles of healing with in our brothers in Christ, the support we have felt in our ministry, and so many other wonderful things that for me to be able to describe each and one of them I would have to write a whole novel. Each time someone enters this church full of problems, confused, with no hope I think back to my first meeting with God and want no more than just that for each one. And that when they get here, they come back each week more thankful than ever. Happy with life and how things have turned out for them all thanks to God. It’s at that moment where we feel so grateful because we know God’s hand is there supporting us the whole way.
Being trained to serve God I feel is a great thing. I am doing what I most wished for in life and learning something that I can apply not only to my life but to anyone in need.
