Simon Guevara is an ordained pastor currently serving in a suburb of Chicago. He hasn’t always served in ministry—in fact, he hasn’t always been a Christian. Raised culturally religious, he considered himself an “informed atheist” as a young adult. But the Lord had planted a seed of faith in his heart that opened him to the gospel on his 30th birthday. “I don’t say that I accepted Jesus at that time, more than I surrendered myself to Christ in His mercy.” Later, he followed the Lord’s leading to leave his career in broadcasting for ministry. He graduated Grand Rapids Theological Seminary in ’08 and has pastored churches in Michigan and Texas, before coming back north to Illinois in ‘18. He is passionate for evangelism and living out of the abundant love of God. His real joy is his wife Alicia (Hekman) and their family of 5—each with wildly different personalities.