Worship Pastors

“I love the energy & excellence of the worship at all the campuses of FRC. That seems to be our calling card”
Allen DiStefano
Magnification Pastor

Name: Allen DiStefano
Date of Birth: 12-31-64
Hometown: Miami
Hobbies: Basketball, cleaning my pool, hanging with my wife
Favorite Movie: Airplane! for comedy, braveheart for leadership
Favorite Food: Veal parmigiana
Favorite Book of the Bible: Romans
What are your strengths: leadership, encouragement, musician, wisdom
What are your weaknesses: impatient, prideful
Favorite quote: He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. Colossians 1:15
What books have changed your life: Baby boomerang-Murrin,Purpose driven church-Warren,Who’s in charge here-barnes,Good to great-Collins
What do you like the most about leading worship in your Campus: i love the energy & excellence of the worship at all the campuses of FRC. That seems to be our calling card
Most shocking experience while leading worship: One time during a song medley that we did a bunch I had changed the 2nd song to keep it “fresh.” While we were doing the medley I sang the original 2nd song in the medley and everybody else(vocals, orchestra, choir and congregation) sang what was on the screen-the new “fresh” song-Ouch!
Favorite praise/worship song: With all I am
What gives you the greatest joy in being a leader: to see other people become leaders
Who made the biggest influence in your life as a worship pastor: Bill Keith(my mentor in college) & Dan Southerland(former pastor at FRC)
Where do you see yourself in 10 years: Leading, loving and doing life at FRC!

Allen’s Blog

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“Leave a Legacy”
Ricky Garcia
Cooper City Campus

Name: Ricky Garcia
Date of Birth: 1/11/77
Hometown: New York, Manhattan
Hobbies: playing basketball, watching movies, writing music, being a Father
Favorite Movie: Transformers, First Night, Black Sheep
Favorite Food: Italian, Chicken Francese
Favorite Book of the Bible: James
What are your strengths? encouraging people
What are your weaknesses? dealing with finances
Favorite quote: “Leave A Legacy”
What books have changed your life? Bible, 90 mins in heaven by Don Piper
What do you like the most about leading worship in your Campus? having a team to help with tech, design, and not having to set up
Most shocking experience while leading worship? singing in a different key than what the band was playing
Favorite praise/worship song: “Everything Glorious” “Worship Medley” Israel Houghton
What gives you the greatest joy in being a leader? that people get to see my heart through my leadership
Who made the biggest influence in your life as a worship pastor? Pastor Nestor Hernandez, Israel Houghton, Marcus Witt
Where do you see yourself in 10 years? leading worship at FRC and hopefully one of the teaching pastors.

Ricky’s Blog

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The Best is Yet To Come…
Heredes Ribeiro
Doral Campus

Name: Heredes Viera de Azevedo Ribeiro
Date of Birth: October 13, 1982
Hometown: Soroocaba, Brazil
Hobbies: Blogging, PodCasting , Reading , Playing Guitar
Favorite Movie: That thing You Do
Favorite Food: All kinds of Brazilian Food
Favorite Book of the Bible: Psalms
What are your strengths: Leadership, Creativity & my Biceps
What are your weaknesses: Resting, Insecurity & my Biceps
Favorite quote: The Best is yet to come… - public domain
What books have changed your life: The Bible - God, Spark - Cirque Du
Soleil, The Creative Leader - Ed Young
What do you like most about leading worship in your Campus: Seeing new people connect with God for the first time in their lives & rocking n’ rolling.
Most shocking experience while leading worship: Kneeling down for worship mid-set and ripping my pants (in the butt area) - the air flow was very
shocking! Thankfully, only the bass player noticed
Favorite praise/worship song: Just spent an hour on this and still nothing
- sorry!
What gives you the greatest joy in being a leader: Seeing people reach
their God potential and also begin to lead.
Who made the biggest influence in your life as a worship pastor: My dad Pr. Jamil , My belated youth pastor Joshua Jefferson
Where do you see yourself in 10 years: Happily married with my wife Marcy
(heredesandmarcella.com) , about 7 kids (according to my wife)! Moving forward
in leadership to maximize my God Potential. Collaborating with others who are
different than me. Helping people to think about and create environments that
help them connect to God & others. Ohhh … And with HUGE biceps

Heredes’ Blog

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When you help someone up a hill, you find yourself closer to the top
Brian Fuller
Sawgrass Campus

Name: Brian Fuller
Date of Birth: October 17th, 1974
Hometown: Fort Campbell, Kentucky(Cincinnati,Oh area)
Hobbies: Cooking, Aquariums, Building stuff
Favorite Movie: Star Wars/ Wille Wonka and The Chocolate Factory
Favorite Food: Everything but Beef Liver
Favorite Book of the Bible: Proverbs
What are your strengths: Creativity and precision
What are your weaknesses: organization and being quite
Favorite quote: “When you help someone up a hill, you find yourself closer
to the top.” Anonymous
What books have changed your life: Bible, Professional Cooking
What do you like the most about leading worship in your Campus: Seeing God use random people to change lives for the good.
Most shocking experience while leading worship: playing “All For Love” in
3/4 Time…no one is quite sure what really went wrong!!!
Favorite praise/worship song: Jesus Paid It All
What gives you the greatest joy in being a leader: Knowing that change is
always around the corner
Who made the biggest influence in your life as a worship pastor: Allen
DiStefano
Where do you see yourself in 10 years: Flamingo Road Church Nashville!!!!

Brian’s Blog

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I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me
Vaughn Biggs
Cooper City Campus

Birthday: 12/16/83
Hometown: Queens, NY
Hobbies: I enjoy writing music, traveling, meeting new people, playing singing,
boating, anything that has to do with ocean activities lol
Favorite Movies: I cant think of my favorite movie right now, but when I have time I like to watch Punked, extreme home makeover, NBA basket ball, runs house, cribs
My favorite food is Sushi
My favorite book in the bible is Proverbs & Psalms
My strengths are encouraging, loyalty
My weakness is not being able to say NO, I’m learning
My favorite quote is: I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me
Books: Rich dad poor dad, Purpose driven life, all you need to know about
the music business.
My campus: I like the diversity, I like the fact that we have are own
building
A shocking experience leading worship was back in the day when I would wear suits, I sang the whole service with a huge rip in my pants that was a day I
will never forget.
My favorite praise and worship song is: to worship you I live, and some
other songs that I cant think of at this time.
The great joy in being a leader is to see potential and gifts in people and
help bring them to life.
Israel Haughton has had a huge influence in my life as a worship leader,
also Darlen Zscech and the whole Hillsong crew
In ten years I see my self happily married with a few kids, a more anointed
worship leader, a greater leader, a grammy award winning singer songwriter,
and have mentored/ developed at least 10 up and coming worship leaders.

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“People don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care”
Cristian Garcia
Cooper City/Hallandale Beach Spanish

Name: Cristian Jeffrey Garcia
Date of Birth: Feb, 9th, 1979
Place of Birth: San Salvador, El Salvador.
Hobbies: Going to the Beach, Playing Tennis, Surfing the Internet
Favorite Movie: I love all the Action/Comedy kind of movies
Favorite Food: I love Pasta, Churrasco Argentino, Mexican Food.
Favorite Book of the Bible: Philippians
What are your strengths: Musical Arrangements, Creativity, Leading
What are your weaknesses: I’m easily distracted, I Try to please everybody, man… do I really have to say it all?
Favorite quote: “People don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care”
What books have changed your life: The Bible, The Winning Attitude, El perfil de 3 monarcas, The 7 habits of the highly effective people.
What do you like the most about leading worship in your Campus: I love the way spanish crowds respond to the worship. It’s very expressive.
Most shocking experience while leading worship: Tangling my foot with the mic chord and almost falling into the crowd!
Favorite praise/worship song: “Draw me Close to You”, “God of Wonders”
What gives you the greatest joy in being a leader: Been able to see God’s hand touching his people.
Who made the biggest influence in your life as a worship pastor: Enrique Gonzalez, Worship Pastor (Centro Internacional de Alabanza) in El Salvador.
Where do you see yourself in 10 years: Leading worship, training musicians, married, Big Belly (Just Kidding), Picking up my kids at the School of Music.

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“Victory can be achieved only through the relentless pursuit of excellence”
Marc Millan
Hallandale Beach Campus

Name: Marc Millan
Birthday: May 26th
Hometown: The Bronx, New York
Hobbies: Watching Football, movies and being home with my family.
Favorite Movie: The Matrix
Favorite Food: Steak!
Favorite Singer: Michael English
Favorite band: Coldplay/U2
Favorite Book of the Bible: Psalms
What are your strengths: Communication, music, encouragement
What are your weaknesses: Impatience, frustration
Favorite quote: “I firmly believe that any man’s finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is the moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle-victorious.” Vince Lombardi-
What books have changed your life: Purpose driven life-Rick Warren, What is takes to be #1: Vince Lombardi on Leadership.
What do you like the most about leading worship in your Campus: I love the moment countdown hits zero and I get to do what God designed me to do best and share that with people who serve the very same awesome God!
Most shocking experience while leading worship: Singing my heart out then realizing after the song that my wireless mic was turned off the whole time.
Favorite praise/worship song: “Mighty To save” Hillsong-
What gives you the greatest joy in being a leader: To see how through God’s help I was able to contribute to someone believing in themselves and watch them grow in life.
Who made the biggest influence in your life as a Worship Pastor: My Father Rosario Millan, Brian Fuller and Ricky Garcia.
Where do you see yourself in 10 years: Taking Flamingo Road’s music ministry to a global level and have our church’s music mentioned the way Hillsong and Lakewood’s are right now. We can get there!