Al Guerra was born in Cuba in 1955 and came to the United States in 1968. He grew up in New York City and attended Southern Connecticut State University.  He excelled in gymnastics, but failed in his attempt to represent the United States team for the Pan-American Games.  This experience led him on a spiritual search, which culminated when he accepted Christ through the testimony of a classmate.  As a new Christian he had a great desire to learn the Word of God.  For this reason, he attended the Emmaus Bible School located then in Oak Park, Illinois.  There he met his wife, Mónica, who had been born in Argentina and came to live to the United States when she was a child.

After getting married in 1980, Al began studying at Talbot Theological Seminary in southern California.  His son, Jonathan, was born in 1985.  After graduating, he was the pastor of a small Bible Church in Whittier, California.  In 1986 the Guerra’s moved to Houston, Texas, where Mónica had once lived.  There Al began to pastor a Southern Baptist Church made up of only seven families.  During the next ten years, the church grew to 350 people.  In 1995, Guerra also began teaching part time at a Southern Baptist Seminary.

In 1996, the Association of Southern Baptist Churches requested him to serve as a consultant for 84 Hispanic Churches in the Houston area.  So Al began serving on a denominational team of leaders.  Soon, he began also serving as a temporary pastor of the Hispanic Congregation at the Baptist Church of Tallowood (a congregation that is part of an American church).  Beginning in June of 1998 he became Pastor of the Hispanic Congregation of Wheaton Bible Church.  Since then, he has been focusing on training Hispanic leaders and organizing the church by creating new ministries to meet the unique needs of this growing congregation.  Under Al’s leadership this Hispanic congregation has grown from 150 people to over 500 people today.