Pastor Jesus Bocanegra and his wife Yashira met at Cristo te Ama in 1999. They married in May 2005 and have two children, Julie and Jared Seth. He currently is a bi-vocational pastor, pastoring the new Hispanic Mission Nueva Vida, and working with seasonal and migrant agricultural workers and has been since June 2008. Since 2004, he has been secularly employed at the Georgia Farm Worker Health Clinic as Administrative Support III and Certified HealthCare Interpreter-Spanish.