Stonebriar’s senior associate pastor of Hispanic Ministries recently accepted an additional role that will take the sound of his voice around the world.

In addition to his role at Stonebriar, Carlos Zazueta is the new Spanish field pastor for Chuck Swindoll’s radio ministry, Insight for Living (IFL). IFL started a Spanish-language broadcast—Visión Para Vivir—with only one radio station in 1987. Today, more than 800 stations broadcast the program in North and South America, Germany, New Zealand, and Spain.

Carlos is responsible for translating Chuck’s sermons into Spanish. He then delivers the sermons before SCC’s Hispanic congregation on Sunday mornings at their 11 a.m.  worship service. IFL professionals are on hand to record the sermons and prepare them for broadcast around the world. Carlos and the IFL team recorded the first broadcast using Carlos’ voice on May 20. The sermon is from Chuck’s 2003 series on the Book of Revelation, and it will air on January 6, 2008.

Carlos said the new assignment is challenging. “Preaching for radio is very different,” he said with a smile. “I have to slow down and articulate more. The microphone picks up even small sounds. So I even have to breathe more carefully.”

Carlos says this is a wonderful opportunity to minister to Hispanic people not only in North Texas, but now worldwide. “The apostle Paul told the believers at Colossae: ‘Devote yourselves to prayer with an alert mind and a thankful heart. Pray for us, too, that God will give us many opportunities to speak about His mysterious plan concerning Christ. That is why I am here . . . Pray that I will proclaim this message as clearly as I should’” (Colossians 4:2–4).

“I will need your prayers,” Carlos said. “Lots of them. By God’s grace and His mercy, I’ll be able to continue this task.”