Pantano Christian Church
Ben Greene
Pastor & Writer
The temperature was more than 100 degrees when Floyd walked out of the Gospel Rescue Mission in Tucson, Arizona.
People had offered Floyd a ride. He was beginning a 10-mile walk on this Sunday in August. But he wouldn’t say yes, not this time.
‘I want God to know how important this was to me,’ Floyd told Roger Blumenthal, the executive pastor of Pantano Christian Church, as Floyd explained his reason for not accepting rides.
Floyd was getting baptized that day at Pantano. He is one of 800-plus people who’ve been baptized in the last 20 months. Through the stirring of God’s Spirit, the number of worshipers has also doubled in the last year.
“What we are seeing over and over is people are listening,” Blumenthal said. “People are looking for something and because they’re looking, they’re hearing the voice of God.”
The church remodeled their auditorium, built in 1992, through a loan from Christian Financial Resources. That renovation increased their potential for ministry in the decades since.
“It was a big kingdom win,” Blumenthal said of their partnership with CFR. “It worked out super well.”
Seven or eight percent of Tucson is churched. There are lots of retirees, military or law enforcement personnel and defense contractors plus many college students at the University of Arizona. So the church has emphasized proclaiming Christ in the city of 500,000.
He said there are people in the city who don’t know any Christians. But God is working, so more and more men and women start walking with Jesus, just like Floyd has.
“We are all about the gospel,” Blumenthal said. “People need hope, the hope that Jesus has for the world, and that’s where we focus.”
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