"If your vision is for one year, plant wheat. If your vision is for a decade, plant trees. If your vision is for a lifetime, plant people." - Ancient Chinese Proverb- "Our vision goes beyond a lifetime, our vision is for eternity." -Pastor Jose
Male
36 years old
Manhassett, New York
United States
God, Spending Time with My Wife & Sons, Ministry, Traveling the World, Reading Interesting Books, Swimming, Baseball, and Racketball.
Music
Movies
Television
YANKEES Baseball
Books
The Bible. I also enjoy reading interesting books on Leadership, Theology, Youth Ministries, Adventist History, Church Growth, Discipleship, Sports, Espionage, and World Politics.
Favorite Authors: Paul the Apostle, John the Apostle, Moses, David the Psalm Writer, Solomon, George Knight, Ellen G. White, John Maxwell, Max Lucado, Charles Swindoll, Armando Valladares, David Yallop, and Leon Uris among others.
Heroes
My father, Pastor Jose H. Cortes Sr.
There are people whom I admire such as: John Nevins Andrews, the first Adventist Missionary and one of the youngest Seventh-day Adventist Church leaders ever. I also admire anyone who is willing to lead through positive change and sacrifice for a cause which is greater than self.
Andrews University
Berrien Springs, MI
Graduated: 1996
Student status: Alumni
Degree: Master's Degree
Major: Master of Divinity
Clubs: President of Hispanic-American Club
1994 to 1996
Columbia Union College
Takoma Park, MD
Graduated: N/A
Student status: Alumni
Degree: High School Diploma
Major: Theology/Pastoral ministry
Minor: Media & Broadcasting
Clubs: President of Ministerial Association 1993-1994/Senior Class Pastor 1993-1994/Junior Class President 1992-1993
1990 to 1994
Rancocas Valley Reg H
Mount Holly, NJ
Graduated: 1990
Student status: Alumni
Degree: High School Diploma
Clubs: Captain, Junior Varsity Baseball Team (1989)
1988 to 1990
Pastor Jose & Joanne's Companies
Greater New York Conference of the Seventh-day Adventist Church Manhassett, New York US Director Adventist Youth Ministries Department
2003-Present
Potomac Conference of the Seventh-day Adventist Church Washington DC, Virginia & Maryland US Associate Director Youth Ministries Department
2000-2003
Potomac Conference of the Seventh-day Adventist Church Maryland & Virginia US Senior Pastor/Youth Pastor Silver Spring Spanish/Hyattsville/Manassas/Washington Spanish Churches
1992-2003
Pastor Jose & Joanne Office @ Home, preparation to speak at two graduations this weekend, and attending a funeral in the afternoon. Praying for Estercita Montano & her family on the view more
About me: I am a Friend of God, the Husband of my gorgeous wife Joanne, the Father of two extremely handsome and super intelligent young men, Jose III and Joel Benjamin. I am a Seventh-day Adventist Pastor, presently serving God and my church as Director of Adventist Youth Ministries in the Greater New York Conference of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, with about 180 churches, companies, and groups, 24,000 members, and 15,000 youth and young adults under the age of 35.
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Who I'd like to meet: Jesus, my Savior, face to face.
If you are blessed with God-fearing parents, seek counsel of them. Open to them your hopes and plans, learn the lessons which their life experiences have taught, and you will be saved many a heartache. Above all, make Christ your counselor. Study His word with prayer. Ministry of Healing, p. 359
Thank you Lord for all the trials, tribulations, and all the stumbling blocks that have been in my life, because without them I could not be the Christian I truly am.. Thank you for oppening my eyes, and not letting me give up during these hard times, where i saw myself struggling with my believes, and thank you for those people who till this day believe that you never turned your eyes from me, and showed me to stand tall, ask for forgiveness, and carry on with the plan you set forth for me to do. Though man may look at me as a person whom can not be trusted, You Lord gave me the strenght to look behond all that, and keep fighting the fight for VICTORY, I pray for those whom still can clean the speck that is within thier own eyes, Yes Lord Jesus let their hearts see the real Goodness in others instead of their mistakes. Let us truly learn that we are all equal in your sight and that no matter how small or big our sins are, to you they are the same, yet you still forgive us and forget those sins and you cast them to the deepest part of the ocean, For that Lord I will always be thankfull. Yes Lord Thank you, and thank you for the blessed promisses you gave us all, even though we were still sinners you forgave us, Thank you my JESUS for saving my life once again, Thank you, AMEN
A veces uno cae, Se levanta, Pide perdon, Vuelve a caer y nuevamente pide perdon. Tu dices, Avergonzado; "Senor, Aqui estoy otra vez". Y Jesus te mira con amor y te pregunta: "Otra Vez"? Por que dices otra vez si es la primera vez que te veo aqui? Sabes, Cuando Jesus perdona, Olvida. El arroja tu pasado en lo mas profundo del mar y te muestra el azul limpio de un cielo sin limites, Lleno de posibilidades futura.
*De modo que si alguno esta en Cristo, Nueva criatura es: las cosas viejas pasaron; Todas son hechas nuevas,
RE: How Many Times? How Many Times? SERMON ON FORGIVING OTHERS Preacher Man 70 Times 70 70 Times 70.How many Times.How many times can one forgive another for there trespass against us? Why should I forgive such and such he or she why they have done such an evil thing to me. Why Lord why?Matthew 18:22 Jesus saith unto him, I say not unto thee, Until seven times: but, Until seventy times seven. How many times? How many times have you been forgiven? How many times have we fell short of the glory of God. Then come to Jesus crying Lord forgive me for looking at that on the computer or tv.Forgive me Lord for talking about that person at work.Jesus forgive me for cursing at the other driver for cutting me off. Forgive me Jesus for lying,stealing, for going places I should not go. We ask for forgiveness then the next day or next min or even second we are back doing it again. How many times?How many Times has the Lord Forgiven us? Our trespasses.Matthew 6:14 For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you:Matthew 6:15 But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.Who do we think we are that we cannot forgive?I was browsing the TV one day and came across this show called Steve Wilcos wilco whatever it is. I was disturbed to hear what was being said. It was a story of a woman as a little girl that was raped by a grown man. Years later she comes on th
Thanks so much for your prayers, I really appreciate the fact that you are always praying for me. So far everything has been going wonderful here in Honduras....the kids just melt my heart....anyways, saludos desde Honduras....and have a great Sabbath! ;)
Why, Why, Why, Why Me? By Tomas Gonzalez. (Preacher Man)
Just when things start looking up for you, And you feel like there's is nothing that can stop you from doing God's will, and you suddently fail at the task that God has put before you, You start blaming God and others. and you say to yourself, God why did you let me fail? and you just want to give up and don't want to go to church, and you start acting like how could this be happening to me, I was in charge of this and that at church I deserve to be treated with respect, I did alot for this church, How dare they, I'm a better Christian than him or her... well that's when you have to start looking at the real problem, This happens to often to alot of us Chrstians. We become a deacon or an elder even a youth director, and we start to feel that we are better than the rest of our Church brothers and sisters, or that we have some type of power over others, The reality of it all is that we start thinking more of ourselves and less in JESUS. It does not mean that we don't bealive in God, It means that we start putting ourselves before him, and That is something that will always make you fall on your face, We should never ever take our eyes away from what our Heavenly Father has to offer us, and never think that you have the power. The power comes when you fully understand that this Blessing only comes from God and Him only. Don't get blind sided by the stumbling blocks that satan puts in our way, Get up ant clean youself up, And say out loud God Lead on, I'm right hear waiting for you to countinue to guide me in the right path, Never put yourself first there is only one way and it is God's way... READ; Psalm 3: 5-7
