Serve Locally announced that Rev. Fil Nesta will join the denominational team as director of bilingual churches.
“In a season marked by fear, anxiety, and uncertainty for the Latino community in the United States, we are pleased to offer increased support and care for Spanish-speaking churches and church plants,” said Glenn Peterson, senior director of church planting. “Fil’s ministry has been marked by a faithful commitment to God’s people and our shared mission to join God in God’s work to make more disciples among more populations in a more caring and just world.”
Nesta will join Mary Hendrickson, director of missional vitality; Pat Stark, newly named director of church planting, Peterson, and the rest of the Serve Locally team in encouraging health, renewal, and multiplication within local churches.
In this new role, Nesta will seek to embody the Covenant’s commitment to being a growing multiethnic movement of churches. He is committed to seeing generations find and follow Jesus, no matter what language they speak.
“Bilingual churches are a vital expression of the Covenant’s mission,” Nesta said. “I am eager to collaborate across our denomination, working closely with conferences as we plant and support bilingual churches that bear witness to the hope and renewing work of Jesus.”
Nesta is ordained by the Covenant and studied at University of California Berkeley (BA), Fuller Theological Seminary (MA), and Centro Hispano de Estudios Teologicos (CHET).
He lives with his wife, Juana, in Oakley, California. They have three children. He began his new role on December 16.
