“Echad Marriage & Family Ministry” – Magbiel Hernandez (06/12/2026)

To start, I'm just going to give you a testimony.

Because when you do marriage and family, when you are working in this area, people will look at you and say, OK, so you are like a perfect marriage.

You have a very good relationship with your wife.

So you are like in a position that you can teach and all that.

But you don't understand my situation.

So and the same thing with raising kids, because we started just working with marriages.

And with the time we transition because kids come, you know, start growing and coming to our family.

And then I was completely lost.

So.

My personal testimony is this one.

So Marissa and I got married on December 26, 1994, after dating for a year and three months.

So we came to the United States in September 1997.

And we had our first son in February 1998.

So Marissa came here.

She was pregnant when she got here.

So my son is a true Cuban-American.

So was conceived in Cuba, born here in the United States.

So we got to this beautiful country, and for the first time in our life, we felt... as human beings.

And I say to people, I'm an adopted child of the American family.

So that was my second adoption because I was adopted first by the Lord.

And then when I got here, I was adopted by this family.

And for the first time, I live a life just feeling respected as a human being with dignity, which we didn't have back in Cuba.

Later, a year later, after my son was born, we started having a lot of problems in our relationship.

So it was the first time we were living by ourselves, the first time we were raising a child, the first time living in the United States.

We needed to learn a lot of things.