I accepted Christ at eight years old during a Vacation Bible School at our church in Arequipa. I recognized that I was a sinner and needed a Savior and simply asked Christ to save me. My father Henry Vasquez was a pastor in Lima for several years before becoming a missionary to a jungle city in Peru. God allowed me to grow up not only in church, but actively participating in many aspects of my father’s ministry, including the music, Sunday school, children’s ministries, and interpreting for the deaf. After graduating from high school, I entered college to study Civil Engineering. My father often asked me whether I would be willing to serve God if He called me. It was a tough question for me. Missionary life comes at a cost. My family had grown up without some of the common comforts that I hoped to provide my family with. I didn’t want my wife or children to have to go without the things I craved having or experiencing when I was younger. Nonetheless, by God’s grace my heart stayed tender to Lord. I could honestly answer that if God were to call me, I would be willing to give Him everything. When God moved my father to a Chancay to plant a church, I was well on my way to a professional career in civil engineering. I met a wonderful young woman who was exactly what I had prayed and waited for. We married in 2021. As a newly married couple, my wife and I also moved to Chancay where there were many work opportunities for my field as a civil engineer. As we attended my father’s new church plant, my wife and I began to get more involved in weekly ministry. God worked in my heart regarding the spiritual needs I saw all around me in this new city. My father had to travel unexpectedly for several months to help my sister after an emergency surgery. He asked me to fill the pulpit for him and visit the new Christians to ensure their encouragement and growth while he was away. At the same time, God began to close doors in my career. Although it was initially discouraging that God did not appear to be answering my prayers for the perfect job, I sensed peace and excitement as He allowed me to be used to lead souls to Christ and to preach. Over the course of my father’s absence, God continually worked in my heart and challenged me. Would I be willing to give up everything I had worked for to take on Christ’s mission to the lost? “But when he saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion on them, because they fainted, and were scattered abroad, as sheep having no shepherd.” (Matthew 9:36) God confirmed that He was calling me to serve Him full time in missions, and in the months that followed continued to clarify a vision for the city of Chancay. It has been a tremendous privilege for my family and I to serve for these last four years alongside my parents in their church planting ministry. During that time, I was enrolled in Bible college and graduated in December of 2025. By His grace, I was ordained to the ministry in February of 2026; my family is commissioned and sent out of Efata Baptist Church in Lima. We partnered with Macedonia World Baptist Missions in March 2026. The Macedonia family has been a help and encouragement for us as we endeavor to spread the Gospel to the deaf and hearing, and plant God-honoring Baptist churches in the growing communities of northern Lima.