PASTORS ENRIQUE AND PATTY SALDAÑA
The Ebenezer Restoration Ministry was born in the heart of the Almighty GOD, depositing the call later in the heart of Pastor Enrique and Patty Saldaña, after fasting the Saldaña pastors seeking GOD's direction for their life and calling.
The Almighty GOD after several days of fasting and prayer gives Pastor Saldaña the name of the ministry and the specific call of restoration in the book of I S A I A S 58-12 and yours will build the ancient ruins the foundations from generation to generation and you will be called repairer of gates restorer of roads to dwell (hence the call of restoration) and Ebenezer after a spiritual war in which our GOD gave us the victory giving us the verse of 1 Samuel 7- 12 and Samuel took a stone and took a stone and gave it to the Lord. 12 and Samuel took a stone and named it EBENEZER, saying, "Thus far the LORD has helped us" and there the Lord gives the name and call (EBENEZER RESTORATION MINISTRY) which began on June 21 of the year 1999.
Beginning his first service in the mobile home of Pastor Saldaña attending that first service the pastor and his family that day June 21, 1999 was born Ebenezer Restoration Ministry in the city of Bryan Tex. Obeying the call of GOD for our lives and a mission to fulfill in the city of Bryan and College Station Texas and wherever the Almighty GOD wants to take us.
A call to preach a message of power in the name that is above every name the name of JESUS to restore lives and be anointed by the glorious HOLY SPIRIT to fulfill GOD's purpose for every life until this day we can say EBENEZER so far the Lord has helped us and we trust in our GOD that he will continue to take us from Glory to Glory from triumph to triumph and from victory to victory we believe that the call of GOD for the Eben- Ezer restoration ministry is to make history in our cities of Bryan and College Station Texas. Ezer restoration ministry is to make history in our cities and above all things so that the name of our lord and savior JESUS will be exalted. Thank you LORD JESUS for your confidence in us and my family and each one of us who are part of the Eben-Ezer Restoration ministry amen.
Vision of Evangelism
1)-To reach the lost through the Christ-centered message (Jesus preached) our vision, first of all, is to preach the sound doctrine (Titus 2-1) the gospel by all possible means (evangelism, house evangelism, crusades, congresses, radio, television, internet, youth, women's, men's events) as the apostle Paul says (Romans 15-19) preaching, with mighty signs and wonders, in the power of the Spirit of God, so that from Jerusalem, and round about as far as Jericho, I have filled all things with the gospel of Christ.
2) The Ebenezer ministry believes in a formal membership, for that reason we have the vision that each visitor becomes a member, active, committed to GOD, the church and others and not a visitor who is in a different church every Sunday for that we have our new member classes, because we seek that each visitor becomes part of the Ebenezer family (Ephesians 2-19 and Hebrews 10-25).
Vision of Spiritual Formation
3) Our vision is the spiritual formation of every believer to reach their potential and find the purpose that GOD has for their lives, for that we have our discipleship classes in 3 levels with their spiritual maturity class as it says (2 Timothy 3-17) so that the man of GOD is fully prepared for every good work.
4) Our vision is that every believer has a personal experience with GOD through the glorious HOLY SPIRIT, for which we celebrate glorious services full of the presence of God, with a praise whose center of the same is Christ Jesus that inspires a direct worship to our God, and that produces an outpouring of the HOLY SPIRIT, in different manifestations, healings, wonders, signs, miracles, as spoken in the book of Acts 2-17,18.
Vision of Restoration
5) Our vision is that every person reached be restored and live a new life in Christ, being a new creature in Christ, Jesus apart from worldly things serving the true God, the blessed word of GOD says to walk in newness of life we cannot serve two masters and can not come out of the same fountain fresh water and salt water, because the bible teaches in (2 Corinthians 5-17) so that if anyone is in Christ is a new creature the old things are passed away behold all things are become new.
OUR VISION: IS TO REACH, RESTORE, EQUIP AND FORM EVERY PERSON IN OUR CITY TO HAVE A TRANSFORMING ENCOUNTER WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT AND PRODUCE SPIRITUAL FRUITS OF A RENEWED LIFE THAT WILL BE THE LIGHT FOR THIS LOST WORLD THE RESULT A GENUINE CHRISTIAN SEPARATED FROM SIN THAT CAN REPRODUCE REACHING OUT TO OTHERS.