Emanuel Corro walked into Calvary Church seven or eight years ago, hoping for a healthy, safe church to bring his Spanish-speaking family and friends. He found the Converge church to be exactly that. Now, he’s a worship leader at a new church alongside Pastor José Magaña. “We really share the gift that God gave us,” […]

A farmer who saved a blustering, bellowing cow from death in an Iowa barn reminded Ray his life didn’t equal a full-stop failure. Drug dealing sent Ray’s parents to prison when the California boy was six or seven. Within a decade, he was in a gang with his uncles and cousins. They carried guns, sold […]

Two colossal challenges collided in late 2019 when Chris Lovelace became Converge PacWest’s church planting director. First, he and fellow leaders agreed to trust God for 25 new planters in northern California, northern Nevada and Hawaii by 2026. The collision came just a few months later: COVID-19 unleashed a prolonged, erratic disruption of work, life […]