The Rev. Roberto Escamilla counts his blessings, including that he’s 92 and still active in ministry.
“It’s just grace,” Escamilla said of his long life and career. “Grace, grace, grace. Amazing grace.”
Escamilla is a living link to the great Methodist missionary evangelist E. Stanley Jones (1884-1973), whom he served as Spanish-language interpreter and travel companion.
On his own, Escamilla created a substantial, often groundbreaking legacy in Hispanic United Methodist ministry as pastor, author, agency leader, teacher and more.
And his work goes on. Most afternoons, he’s in his untidy office at First United Methodist Church in Ada, Oklahoma, where he’s minister of evangelism.
He’ll grab a legal pad and a phone and contact recent visitors, encouraging them to join the church. He’ll call members who are ill or isolated or both.
“I primarily listen,” he said.
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