Birthplace: My name is Victor Helga Mares Diaz. My parents are Vilio Tomas Mares Pastor and Sara Diaz Piedra. I have 3 brothers: Williams Velarde Diaz (36) Nitsia (24) Rut (22), and me (20) I was born on October 30, 1984 in Arequipa , Peru . 

How I Came to know Christ: I was born into a Catholic family. They rarely ever went to church and weren't even baptized. My daily home life went this way: My father would drink and very frequently argue with my mother to the point that he would just leave the house. After a little time he would come back and they would be back together. It was not until I was around 8 that my father left for good. The absence of my father left a whole in my heart because except for my brother, there were no other male figures in my home. My brother was distant and since he was not my father and didn't stay there long anyway I didn't have a male in my life. After my father had left I began to go with my brother to a church in Majes (a town close to the city of Arequipa ). My brother would bring tracts home. It was on one of those days that I read one of the tracts and realized that I would go to Hell and that by no means of my own could I be saved because I needed Christ. I began to attend church and the children's activities faithfully. However I was not truly saved and was till very undisciplined. 

How Christ has changed my Life: After I received Christ at 8 years old there were manifest changes in my vocabulary, because every time I chose to cuss or mention dirty work I felt strangely bad and so I stopped doing it. In the same way whenever I would disobey my parents I had such a conviction of sin that I began to learn how to become more submissive. After a while, at the age of 19 I came to visit the Hunter Baptist Church and received assurance of my salvation. I wanted to get baptized but couldn't because I hadn't not first been disciple so I did. I stayed in the church for a year and after that went back to my mother's house. However I continued attending church. Then I began to attend a secular college at that year and began to miss church services. I began to get away from the things of God and getting in with the wrong crowd of people. I began to participate in some things that became vices to me such as Nintendo. When I was a little older I got involved in pornography by means of movies that I would watch at a friend's house. It was a dark time in my life at the age of 13. During this time I began to get involved in worldly parties with girls and with social events. My family had always made the same mistake and so they did not correct me o that. At the age of 14 I went to military school where I learned to behave aggressively towards people. 

Everything I did in this dreary world of sin and evil always turned out for bad. This was because I was a child of God and I was living like a child of sin. I would not participate in everything they did because now Christ lived in me. When I finished high school I applied to enter a certain University but was not accepted so I went to study industrial administration in the SENATI. During that year I was there I began to hang out with a worldly friend. He would brag about things he would do with girls and although it intrigued me I felt bad and unable to participate in those kinds of things. I thank God I was not able to do what they did and actually began to think about coming back to God. I started having many girlfriends but none of these relationships would ever last. I was very unstable and often did the wrong things. I was not doing well academically either so I withdrew from my studies for a time. I began to work but like any other boy that hasn't had any work experience it was very hard for people to give me work. I tried all kinds of things but it seemed as if life had no open doors for me. My emotional life was a fiasco and a mess. I could not have a serious relationship. However the last girlfriend I had was a Baptist girl and we would talk about things of the Lord. I began attending different churches with her but we had to split up when she had to go back to the University. Pastor Apolinario began visiting me and teaching me discipline, but I was still confused about many things. While talking about the salvation lesson I felt that I knew and understood that topic but when the subject of baptism came up it shocked me because I knew how serious the things of God were and I hadn't been baptized yet. 

My Calling into the Ministry: When I was 11 after one of the devotionals at the Christian College my brother stood in front of me and asked, ¨Don't you feel a burning desire to serve God.¨? I did feel that way but because I had been away from the Lord so long those memories of the things of God were very blurry. 

My Plans for the Future: I would like to be a missionary taking the Word of God to places of need. I still don't know where God will send me but I am praying for His direction. I feel a burden in my heart for the country of Bolivia although I still don't know what god will decide for my future. If I were to go to Bolivia I would raise up a church to begin to do the work of God, multiply that work and prepare other leaders to then reach the entire country for Christ. I know the language of Aymara and any other dialects I would need to study. I hope by the grace of God that He would confirm these dreams that God has given me. Meanwhile I am working in the ministry of the Iglesia Bautista Fe. I am helping out with the visitation, the cell groups and in the ministry of discipleship.