Our Senior Pastor
Pastor: a spiritual overseer especially : a clergyman serving a local church or parish: a minister or priest in charge of a church:
: a person whose job is to take care of sheep : a person who takes care of and guards a flock of sheep
Rev. Anna Ruth Burgos
Senior Pastor of Peniel Church in Fort Myers, Florida
There are many things I do not understand. I have stopped asking God questions, like why and for what. I recognize his sovereignty and accept that he does not have to answer to me for all the things he has done in my life.
Our trajectory from New York City to Fort Myers took me to different levels of ministry: ten years in the music ministry, district music ministers, and teaching in the Lee County School District for thirty-one years. After a turbulent time in our family of suffering and trials, we began pastoring in 2007. I assure you pastoring a church was not in my agenda. I saw firsthand the suffering pastors went through in the ministry, and I did not want the job. But at the same time,
I saw the transformation the Holy Spirit does through dedicated men and women, like my parents who are willing to give their lives for Jesus. I saw drug addicts transformed, prostitutes become women of God, and families restored through the power of the Holy Spirit.
Although it is written as a devotional, I did not want to confine the reader to any day or month of the year. The reader can choose a title and be blessed by the story and the Word that inspired that selection.