Español Update
Since its beginning, Grace Church has been on a mission to make disciples in local communities, which has led to multiple congregations worshipping in different buildings across the Upstate. One of these communities, our Latino brothers and sisters in the area, needed a church home, and in response, Grace en Español was launched in 2014.
Now Grace en Español has two campuses, located in Spartanburg and Taylors, with around 250 people gathering for teaching and worship at each campus every Sunday. Recently they’ve been able to launch a student ministry (Fusion through Forge), and this September started re:generation. Grace en Español is actually one of the first churches to implement the re:gen program in Spanish, and now has four Step groups and two Groundwork groups.
But in addition to discipling Spanish speakers in the Upstate, Grace en Español has a vast digital reach. Their resources, including teaching, conferences, and online services have been accessed from 32 different countries, including every country where Spanish is the primary language. Families whose churches are closed due to COVID-19 have been able to utilize their online teaching, and there’s even a group of women in a Colombian prison studying the Ezer curriculum.
“There is a church in Nicaragua that uses everything that we do, even our teaching,” Robby Richard, our Grace en Español campus pastor explains. “I send him my notes and he uses them to teach after watching our sermons. We are hoping to do an online sermon prep class with him and some of his leaders in November.”
As the Latino population increases in the Upstate, the need for discipleship and discipleship resources in Spanish only increases. Click below for more about Grace en Español.