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I'm Pastor Renzo Salvatore Ventrice and my awesome wife is Betsy Lynne.

Together, we'd like to announce we've planted this new church in the Agawam area.

 

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We are a "Developing" church affiliated with the Christian & Missionary Alliance. My wife and I have lived in Massachusetts most of our lives. We have a great love for New England because of its rich spiritual, religious and historical heritage.

I was born of Italian immigrants. My mother was born in Northern Italy from the city of Verona; made famous by Romeo & Giulietta, and my father was born in Southern Italy from the town of Gerace Superiore, Calabria. As you can see, I come from very good stock; I'm at least a 100% ITALIAN !
My mother was a very skillful seamstress and my dad was a famous shoemaker. While in (retirement), they still worked out of our own home. They were very industrious, people who gave me the American dream. My parents maintained our much treasured Italian heritage. Italian was my first language, and as a young boy, we visited Italy often. My parents had me in their "golden years" of life and called me "tesoro" (their treasure). I was greatly loved by them!

This wonderful life I was so blessed with was almost cut short at the early age of fourteen. While walking with my friends on a winter's night, I was struck by an out of control car and thrown through its windshield and left for dead. I always was left wondering why I miraculously lived when I should never have survived such an event.

At the age of twenty, I found my answer. I had been working in a small company and one of my co-workers was a bi-vocational minister. He and two other co-workers were "different". They seemed to share some life view the rest of us didn't understand. They didn't party and drink, swear and smoke or disrespect women. This raised my curiosity, so we began having deep, personal conversations. For the first time in my life I began to explore the Bible.

Discovering the reality of a place called Hell; and by all accounts, I was heading there, I was totally undone by this frightening truth. I went home from work under tremendous conviction of all the wrongs I had ever committed. Alone, I fell on my knees before Jesus Christ and begged Him to come into my heart and forgive me of all my sins. Immediately, I was dramatically forever changed from the inside out! Since that eventful day, I've been living out the purpose for why God didn't allow me to die at fourteen.

I have been in Pastoral ministry since 1984. I've served as Associate Pastor under great mentors and heroes of faith. We're now in the "second half of the ballgame", and we're going for all the marbles!

Our Mission is to teach proven Biblical principles for developing great marriages, loving homes, close-knit families and better extended relationships. Christ's Last Commandment is our First Concern: "Go into all the world and make disciples..." (Matthew 28:19-20) So winning souls and making them His disciples is what we're all about. Let's discover together with a few laughs, and maybe a few tears how to become all God created us to be!

We'd like to personally invite everyone to come and visit us sometime. We'll always begin Discipleship classes at 9:00 AM, it would be our pleasure to meet you.

Please feel free to call me at 413-478-7879.