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CBN.com – No choir singing hymns, just some hip-hop and the rock band singing really loud. No stained glass windows or pews. Just a converted school gym with chairs and bleachers. Welcome to the Richmond Outreach Center (ROC). It’s a church where soccer moms sit beside biker chicks and businessmen hang out with body pierced teens.
What draws this eclectic group together? An unbridled passion for God and a desire to tell others about Him. Geronimo Aguilar, affectionately known as Pastor G, started this remarkable church five years ago.
Pastor G knows firsthand how God can transform a life.
“I was at the bottom of the barrel when He saved me,” says Pastor G. “He completely took me, a poor little street kid from LA who was in a gang, doing drugs and getting into all kinds of trouble. He changed my life. So if He can change me, there’s no one He can’t change.”
And that’s what the ROC is all about – changing lives.
“Every week we go into the same neighborhoods; we knock on the doors; and we say, 'How can we serve you?” says Pastor G. “By them not just seeing us on Thanksgiving or Christmas but seeing us every week all year long, they know that we mean business about loving them.”
Kat Jordan is one of ROC’s success stories. By the age of 21, Kat says she was “hopelessly” addicted to crack cocaine.
She was facing jail time when she reluctantly agreed to come to ROC’s discipleship home.
“I know that about two weeks after I came here, God changed my heart,” she says. “I felt free. I felt free for the first time in years. I felt like a huge burden had been lifted off my shoulders. I could breathe and be without drugs.”
The ROC has more than 90 active ministries, but one of the most unique is the Whosoever Bus Outreach.
Every Sunday afternoon and on weekdays, the buses travel to Richmond’s inner city to brighten the lives of young children.
The after school program and visits to ROC services give these kids a second chance.
On Saturdays a bus rolls out to pick up some of the city’s most forgotten residents. The homeless eagerly board the big yellow bus for a visit to the 6:00 service. Fellowship, warm clothes, food and most of all love can make a life changing difference. It did for George.
“They keep me out of the gutter. They have saved me in more than one way,” he says. “I go out there. There’s people [who] don’t look down their nose at me. They treat me as an equal and that means a lot to somebody like me.”
Pastor G says that every church can change a city, one person at a time.
“We don’t have any special secret. We don’t have a magic wand, but what we do is show up. We don’t just talk about it; we go do it. I think if people would say, ‘I’m going to put some work into reaching my city,’ God can do great things.”
For your passionate commitment to reach the lost through your Whosoever Bus ministry, The 700 Club salutes you, Richmond Outreach Center of Richmond, Virginia.
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