
The Reverend Richard J. Aguilar "This is the day the Lord has made; we will rejoice
and be glad in it." Richard was born in San Antonio, Texas on November 2 1956. He was reared in the west side barrio of this city. Richard is one of eight children of Fela and Raphael Aguilar. He attended Father Antonio Margil Elementary and Fidel Tafolla Junior High School. Richard came ti the Episcopal Church when he was in the 9th grade and a friend, Richard Ramos invited him to a youth gathering. Since that time over forty family members have been baptized, confirmed, and married in the Episcopal Church. A nephew, James Murguia is rector of Saint David's in San Antonio.
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The Reverend Leonardo Cespedes, D.D. Father Leonardo Cespedes was born in Tampico, Tamaulipas, Mexico and subsequently lived and began his education in Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico. He then moved to Guadalajara, where he attended St. Andrews school for boys, an Episcopal institution, for five years. There he received the foundation which would eventually lead to his theological education. He was granted a scholarship to Church Divinity School
of the Pacific in Berkeley, California, and was ordained a Deacon at the
chapel of the seminary in 1946 by Rt. Rev. Karl Morgan Black, Bishop of
California. Father Cespedes was deputy to six General Conventions
of the Episcopal Church. Also, he was a member of the Executive Council
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Family and Youth Minister Mark Rentfro, son of Anne and Daniel Rentfro, Jr. was born in Brownsville on December 31, 1985. He attended Episcopal Day School and St. Joseph’s Academy, lettering in track, cross country, basketball, baseball, was a peer mentor, a Christian Life Community leader, and a member of the National Honor Society. A life-long active member of the Church of the Advent, Mark attended the diocesan Camp Capers, was an acolyte, and regularly attended Sunday school and youth group functions. During the summer of 2005, he was a counselor at Camp Capers. In 2006, Mark spent a semester at the University of London, Queen Mary College. During the summer of 2007 and 2008, he was on staff at Camp Capers as Lead Counselor. During his senior year at Trinity University in San Antonio, Mark volunteered at St. David’s Episcopal Church as a leader for their junior high youth group. Mark received his B.A. degree in English from Trinity University in May 2008, where he was member of the varsity baseball team and Sports Editor of the campus newspaper. He joined the staff at Church of the Advent on September 1, 2008 as the Family and Youth Minister.
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