Leadership

Pastor Peter and his wife, Pastor Rocio, founded IPF in 1999 and continue planning and coordinating activities and ministering to the services. Pastor Peter is North American, born in Sarasota and fully bilingual, having lived and served as a missionary in Peru for six years.

Pastor Rocío is the wife of Pastor Peter, is Peruvian and serves as co-pastor in the church. She is very active in planning and coordination of activities in the ministry. She is also a gifted and talented minister and communicator, and is also bilingual. Pastors Peter and Rocío have three young adult children. The two older  were born in Peru and the youngest here in EE. UU. Everyone is bilingual.

Pastor Ivonne is from Mexico and has been in the church for many years. She joined the pastoral team a few year ago and has continued to maintain an active and vibrant role in the ministry, including planning, coordination and ministry of the Word of God. She and her husband Eric, who is from the Dominican Republic and serves in IPF Media, met and were married in IPF and have a young son together.

Andrés came to ourus more recently, but it is a mature and experienced addition to our IPF family. Together with his family, Andrés, Ana and their children are from Venezuela and are a great blessing for the ministry. Andrés accepted the Discipleship Ministry and we are now developing an an even more profound and powerful Grow process.

Mariela is Cuban, a Spanish teacher at Sarasota High School and a talented musician. She was our Worship Leader for years, but chose to transition into the ministry of youth. She's very good with teenagers and has been raising up the IPF Real Youth group. We are thrilled to have her with us in the youth ministry. She and her Argentinian husband, Leo, have two teenage children.

Karen is from Colombia and joined our team after meeting our talented multimedia director and musician, James, during a visit to the church. Karen has a huge for people and is doing a great work coordinating our Altar Care and Follow-Up Ministry. They have two young children.

Jimmy is Colombian and was born again with us years ago. He was a professional Salsa musician (as Jimmy Lazar) and arrived at a church service as a guest with his girlfriend. She then moved on and he stayed with us, joining the music team after getting founded. He met and married his wife, Kathy, and became a dad to her two young kids.  When Mariela changed over to the youth, Jimmy accepted the responsibility of directing the Worship Team. Now we are enjoying his great talents in our worship. What a great testimony!

Milka is from Panama, a daughter of pastors and a tremendous servant in the church. She has served for years with us in the children's area, and now her  adult daughter who is also a young mother and serving in the children's ministry. Milka directs a powerful team of ministers prepared to serve your children. Bring them with confidence! We use the E625 curriculum that is designed to weave together the learning process from ages 6 to 25 years. Together with our classes for the 0-5s, the process is complete. We are dedicated to keeping every child involved until they are young adults.