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About Christina

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Blessings to all that are viewing this. My name is Christina Cruz-Mendez. I am a Senior Pastor at Mission United International Church in Yonkers, NY working along side my husband Juan A. Mendez Jr. Senior Pastor, currently residing in Canton, Georgia. We have been together for 29 years with 2 children that God has blessed us with. Makes us the family of four - "JusChrist4". I have been a Christian and active in ministry for about 22 years now. Through all the rocky and smooth roads in life I am eternally grateful that God has brought me this far in life to share with the world what He is doing in me, through me and for me.

Little by Little and Bit By Bit

shoreI was watching this family of 6 at the beach this weekend. Wow! What a task but they appeared to have a good control system with 4 kids and one on the way. The mom took the boy, who appeared to be the youngest and the dad was watching the other three girls at once as they ranged in age about 2 to 4 years old. The girls obviously loved running into the water with the waves taking them. They knew daddy was close by and kept running back and forth into the water. What amazed me was the control he kept over the three of them. He was tall with long legs and arms, able to quickly stretch and grab each of them in perfect timing before the wave could carry them away.  I thought to myself –this is how God is with all of His children. No matter how many on this earth, He has got complete control over the situation of us all. Continue reading


Cast Down The Argument

imageWe have to cast down every argument and begin to get in agreement with God.

Cast down the ARGUMENTS!

The enemy loves to debate in your mind…
And he will CONTINUE until YOU AGREE with his point of view …..
“Don’t go to church, they are hypocrites there… Don’t bother with that person they are fake…. Stay away from those people… Just go and have fun, life is short…why waste your time in church!”

But everyone is just like YOU… A human flawed vessel that needs God to BREAK and CHANGE you! To BREAK the yokes of bondage! Tears don’t change you. The Spirit of God changes you. Being broken will change you. It is time to BREAK the lies of the devil! You have to CANCEL out the lies that happen in your head that you feed and get in AGREEMENT with God and His point of view.

This is how He rebuilds you. He changes everything, how you think, how you feel, what you do, what you say and all your other priorities in life–that all changes.

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Just Start Again

imageHave you ever experienced some sort of a relapse? You had wonderful progress and then whoops, there we go again…the pitfall. If it could be that simple then what is the answer.

JUST START AGAIN!

A relapse is a fall or slip back into a former state or practice. It could be in anything – where you relapse in some state or previous practice. It could be a mental relapse, an emotional relapse, a relapse into alcohol, drugs, addiction or ill practice. Whatever it is…there is HOPE in God. Recovery is possible! You just have to keep on. When you slip or fall –don’t feed it– just start again. Continue reading


When Beauty is Toxic

IMG_6389The Amanita Muscaria is a mushroom that is beautiful to behold but can be very toxic. Not fatal but it can cause sickness. A lot of things in life we note as beautiful yet they can be dangerous and actually cause sickness. What about the things that we want that are beautiful but that are not for us.

I woke this morning and immediately read Proverbs 31. This is the passage on the virtuous woman. What is a virtuous [conforming to moral and ethical principles; morally excellent; upright] woman? What does she possess? What gives her virtue, an effective force, an influence or power?  Continue reading