Isidoro Francisco

My name is Isidoro Francisco Moro, I am 66 years old, I was born in Salamanca in a normal family, and I was raised according to the cultural rules and expectations of that time. When I was 8 or 9 years old, my whole family and I moved to the Basque Country, specifically to San Sebastián. The first years of my life were of a happy childhood. I adapted first to the climate and then to the circumstances that the Basque Country was going through at that time. Up until I was 14 years old I was studying to get my school certificate, but from that moment on and due to the financial need at home I started working. More than 50 years have passed since I started working and now I can realize how vainly my life passed until I met Christ.

   I was broken, lost, without self-control and when my hope was totally gone, the most unexpected thing came up 

Throughout all this time I have gone through many phases or stages, some better, others worse, but I can assure you that the only one that has been worth it is this last one that began on Saturday August 24, 2013. I was 58 years old, That day God had mercy on me and met me at a congress held in Ficoba (Irún) on the 23rd, 24th and 25th. From that day on my life took a radical turn, everything, absolutely everything, changed for the better in my life. Until then I had given my life to everything that this corrupt world offers us. Apart from a stage in which I dedicated myself to sports and gave a large part of it to the mountains of the Basque Country, the rest had been a totally disordered life and committed to all kinds of vices that only led me to despair and bitterness. This is how I spent my life, going from failure to failure and convinced that everything I did was right. The Lord Jesus allowed me to sink deeper and deeper until there came a time when there was no more depth. Destroyed courtships, marriages, a son, relationships with brothers and friends... I was basically alone and without any purpose or alternative to hold on to.

Since that Saturday in August 2013, my life went from being a life without meaning or direction to being a life with purpose, with aspirations and above all a life with a joy that I could never have imagined.

I was broken, lost, without self-control and when my hope was totally gone, the most unexpected thing came up in the most unexpected way and that is something that only God does. There were many things that God changed that day and now, in order not to waste time, I am not going to comment. But in summary my life changed since I met and gave my life to a true God.

Since that Saturday in August 2013, my life went from being a life without meaning or direction to being a life with purpose, with aspirations and above all a life with a joy that I could never have imagined. I began to congregate in the Rentería church. The road to get there was full of "coincidences", but I who lived it firsthand, I can assure you that only God could do it. Even so, the evil that I carried within, which I had experienced for a large part of my life, made me stumble over and over again until I fell back into an abyss, despite the fact that the Renteria church supported me and helped me in everything I could needed. Satan knows very well how to confuse and deceive people like me, but there is also a God who does not abandon us and I took refuge in his promise.

God put authorities at my side in the Rentería church who knew from the first moment what I needed. That is why on August 18, 2014  pastor Cristian  saw that my situation was so delicate that I was running the risk of falling off the precipice, so he told me: "we are going to the Vida Nueva Center in Pamplona". I agreed and that same afternoon Cristian took all of his family and we went to Pamplona.

I really think that it was this day when the real change began in my life, I still remember when I entered Vida Nueva. It was around 8:00 pm and when I saw the motto at the entrance: "Because nothing is impossible for God" something happened inside of me that I can't explain and that I wouldn't know how to define. I just knew that something new was brewing inside of me, and I wasn't mistaken. Almost seven years have passed since that day and I can assure you that what was taking place, among many other things, was a total personality change. In Vida Nueva God has made me a person who feels loved and who is capable of loving others; that  feels forgiven and is capable of forgiving others; who feels worthy and is able to give dignity to others... All this would not have been possible if God in his mercy had not put me in a place like Vida Nueva, and if people as excellent as the pastors who, in fellowship with the leadership team, have given themselves to God, willing to lose what they deserve on their own merits for people as insignificant as me.

Today I can say very loudly that I left behind that senseless life, empty of everything. Gone are all the ties that made me do everything bad and prevented me from doing anything good. Today is the day that I try to do all the good even with my setbacks, but if God has taught me anything, it is that he grants me repentance. I can only show my gratitude to God for placing me in such an indescribable place as Vida Nueva, Amen.