Sandwich Church of the Nazarene

Rev. Larry Alan Fortado has been the pastor of the Sandwich Church of the Nazarene since May 1st, 2005. Before that, he was the pastor at Peru for 19 years. Rev. Fortado has ministered at Rock Island in Illinois, Lanett in Alabama, and Bloomington, Indiana. He has been married for 41 years to Dora, and they have two daughters and six grandchildren.

Pastor Larry's life verse is John 15:13: "Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends."

Dora Fortado

Dora Fortado is Pastor Larry's wife. She serves locally as a Sunday School teacher and as Missionary President. On the Zone she serves as the Zone Missionary Chairman, and on the District she serves on the Missionary Council for Prayer & Fasting and on the Executive Missionary Council.

Her personal testimony:

The first time I was told that I was loved was in a fourth grade Sunday School class. Ruby King told me that Jesus loved me. I gave my life to HIm and sought to learn all I could about Him. As a teenager I taught the pre-school Sunday School class, played the piano, and cleaned the church.

College came and Jesus somehow got pushed aside with "busy"ness. Years went by quickly. I married, had two children, and worked.

One day our neighbors asked if they could take our girls to the Church of the Nazarene in Bloomington, IN. This was our introduction to the Nazarene Church. A few months later God spoke to my heart. I had promised my mother that I would never "send" my children to church. Once more I turned to God. Soon I knelt at an alter and give my life to God. A few months later I went to the church on my way home from work, knelt before God and was sanctified. I have served Him faithfully since that day.

I am still amazed after all these years that God loved me as a child, as a teenager, as a young adult (even when I wasn't serving Him), and He loves me as a grandmother. I am richly blessed.

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