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Pastor
Pastor Rey Diez(Fennimore, Stitzer)
Office Hours: 10am-2pm (although, they may vary with appointments, worship services, etc.)
Rev. Dr. Rey Diaz was born in the Dominican Republic and grew up attending church with his parents. Since childhood, he has developed a keen interest in reading and writing. In December of 1973, Rey decided to move to New York where he lived in Corona Queens, and started attending church in Queens, New York. During one of the services, he invited Jesus into his heart and began his Christian journey in 1976. His first pastor there, Pastor Roberto, connected Rey with Rev. Pedro Pablo Pirón, an ordained clergy in the New York Annual Conference. Rey was then sent to a recruiting training in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In 1978 he was hired to serve in Gloucester, New Jersey to work with migrant workers for two consecutive years.
After serving the workers in Gloucester, Rev. Pirón sent Rey to start a new Hispanic Congregation in Hempstead, Long Island. After three and half years of hard work in building a congregation there, he presented that Hispanic congregation fully organized to the New York Annual Conference. During his years in New York City, he served 4 different congregations: Hempstead, Long Island; Sun Set Park, Brooklyn; Jamaica, Queens; and Williamsburg, Brooklyn. In 1998, he decided to transfer his membership to the Wisconsin Annual Conference and has served congregations in Madison, Port Edwards, Wausau, Lake Geneva and Delavan Spanish, Sparta, and Richland Center, prior to his current appointment at the Fennimore UMC and Stitzer.
Rev. Diaz has a Bachelor’s Degree in Liberal Arts from the College of New Rochelle, in New York; the Course of Study from Garrett Evangelical Seminary, in Evanston, Illinois; a Master of Divinity, from New York Theological Seminary; a Diploma of 3 years from The Academy of Preaching in Nashville, Tennessee; and a Doctor in Ministry from Drew University in Madison, New Jersey. Rev. Dr. Rey Diaz is an ordained Clergy from the New York Annual Conference and has been serving in the Wisconsin Annual Conference since 1998.
Rey has three children (Joselyn, Raquel, and Oscar) and eight grandchildren. He also has three stepchildren (Randy, Laura, and Melvin) and wife, Santa Tineo.