Welcome once again everyone to the conversations that matter

podcast. I'm your host John Harris as always and today I have with me

Pastor Richard Vargas from the IFCA International. IFCA.org is the website.

He is the executive director for the IFCA and I've invited him on to share a little bit about the IFCA because I know there's a lot of

pastors right now who are in various denominations associations, cooperations, all the other

nations out there trying to do ministry with each other, get encouragement,

pull resources, all that kind of thing, network.

And they're experiencing some challenges depending on the group that they're in because of one of the big things is social justice and whether or not that particular group actually shares their convictions on that topic and the reason I wanted

Pastor Bargis to come on is to just talk about the IFCA because one of the things

that has impressed me with the IFCA is they have a magazine they put out. I actually have a copy here called

Voice magazine and a few issues ago now I can't remember it might have been last year

they had a whole thing on critical theory, social justice, and they really went after it. And that's not something you see in the ordinary every day. And so,

Pastor Vargas, thank you so much for joining me and being willing to talk about this.

Appreciate it.

Yeah, thanks for inviting me.

Glad to.

Why don't you tell us a little bit about the IFCA and the history of it.

What is it? How is it formed, why was it formed, and then on top of that, you know, what can pastors today who are thinking about joining, what kind of benefits can they get from joining?

Yeah, so IFCA was officially started in 1930 in a suburb of Chicago, Illinois, called

Cicero, right in the middle of ganglands, and it was started being Illinois called

the Cicero right in the middle of ganglands and it was started because of what was happening here in

America with what were called modernists at the time which were liberals.

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