EMPOWER SCHOOL - Key Persons
Tony Salas has been involved in ministry for more than 35 years. He planted and pastored a church that was geared toward people who didn't normally go to church and was blessed to see many people discover they wanted a relationship with Christ. For most of his ministry he focused on teens and young adults with an emphasis on reaching those from under-served areas of the city.
His youth ministry centered on discipleship, outreach and missions and he has had the privilege of leading more than a thousand students and adults on overseas trips to share the love of Christ around the world, from Paraguay, South America to Si Racha,Thailand and many places in between.
Sam and Jessica are graduates from the Empower School of Discipleship, currently serving the Lord in an impoverished community in the Ocala National Forrest.
"We met in 2013, while going through the discipleship program in Umatilla. After we got married one year later, we were asked to come and serve as staff for the discipleship program. We taught for about 18 months in Florida before the Lord opened a door for us to begin a ministry in Kenya."
"Over the past 5 years we having been traveling back and forth between the USA and Kenya. While we were Stateside in March 2020, the Lord gave us a clear directive to leave our home in Alabama and relocate to a broken community in Marion County Florida. So we did. We currently have 5 children, and we are all involved in ministry together. Living out the relational and incarnational ministry of Christ."