Armando Garcia
Updated: 3/1/24
About Us
Armando was born (1943), raised and educated in Mexico City. After three years of Economics at the University of Mexico (UNAM) and four years of Industrial Relations at the University Iberoamericana, he finished his academic career in 1967, but he was just about to begin THE CAREER of his lifetime . . . a keruzo, a herald of the King, totally in Spanish.
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Armando and his wife, Sharon, immigrated to the United States in November 1969 to study Bible doctrine under R. B. Thieme, Jr., pastor of Berachah Church, Houston, Texas. He continues his study of Pastor Thieme´s teaching to this day. On June 8, 1997 he was ordained in Berachah Church as a “Minister of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.” In November 1998, Armando and Sharon moved to Costa Rica.
Purpose
Mission
Armando´s purpose is to convert the biblical information with which he had been blessed, into Spanish and to make that information available to anyone who is positive in the Spanish-speaking world.
Armando's mission is to communicate the Gospel of Jesus Christ and teach orthodox Bible doctrine (in Spanish) to those who are positive. Particularly pastors, evangelists, and missionaries.
History of Armando's Ministry
1998 - present
1998-2016
Armando evangelized and taught Bible doctrine in Costa Rica, Nicaragua, and Honduras. Initially he taught in the prisons of Costa Rica and still provides doctrinal information to prisoners. In 2000, he began teaching a small congregation, called Taller de Almas (Repair Shop of Souls) in San Josecito de Heredia, Costa Rica.These classes were recorded on cassettes for prisoners and members of the congregation. During these early years, he taught in parks, on buses, in the streets, everywhere he could in Nicaragua and Honduras.
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2009
Armando´s ministry expanded into cyberspace. He began broadcasting the Bible classes live over the internet via videoconferencing. He also began teaching Koine Greek and Theology to Spanish-speaking pastors, evangelists, and missionaries. The theology classes are based on an organization of the translated doctrines of R. B. Thieme, Jr into a systematic theological outline.
2015
Graciayverdad.org was launched with the purpose of being an instant access to live classes and a depository for over 3500 hours of recorded Bible classes, as well as written information such as study notes, doctrines, corrected translations, publications, etc. This website has a special, restricted area for communicators, where the language and theology class recordings, translated doctrines of R. B. Thieme, Jr., language texts, and other resources are available for these communicators only.
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2016
For health reasons, Armando and Sharon needed to return to the United States. The cyber ministry through video conferencing and www.graciayverdad.org continues to flourish, and with that move, the ministry branched more vigorously into the translation of the doctrines and publications of R. B. Thieme, Jr. into Spanish. Armando continues his weekly schedule of Bible, Theology and Greek classes, and has added a Hebrew class. Thanks to the wonders of of the internet, this ministry is not dependent on one´s location.
Goal
Armando hopes to preserve and perpetuate the availability of doctrinal and theological Bible teaching in Spanish.