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Gerson Cardona recently joined our team in Indiana as the Deputy Director of The Daniel Initiative, and I am grateful for the opportunity to minister with him to impact our state and beyond. In this episode, we discussed the importance of working together as fellow believers to reach people with the gospel and to impact community needs. Gerson is a pastor’s kid, a church planter, a Christian college professor, a former police chaplain, and a former police officer. He has a heart for connecting church leaders and government officials for the purpose of ministering to them and partnering with them for the common good.
- A brief review of Gerson’s ministry experience and how God led him to work with us.
- His work in building bridges between the Hispanic pastors and police officers in urban Indianapolis prior to joining our effort.
- Our current efforts to assist Dr. Charles Ware and the Grace Relations Network with community needs in Indy.
- A review of what Scripture says about ethnic unity, and the importance of ministering with the Hispanic community.
- The fact that the Hispanic community recently topped 60 million and accounts for approximately half of the population growth in the US.
- The opportunities for churches that minister to different demographics to work together, and some of the challenges in such efforts.
- Some opportunities and challenges when it comes to Christian citizenship and partnering together for the common good.
- An encouragement to continue to engage/minister to the whole community despite the division of our times.