Julio Guarneri (USA) is the current Executive Director for Texas Baptists. He was born in Mexico City and grew up in Monterrey, Mexico, where his parents carried out evangelism and discipleship work among university students in both cities.
Julio undertook tertiary studies in the USA. He was licensed to the ministry and pastored his first church shortly after high school graduation in 1984 in Freer, Texas. During his 39 years of pastoral ministry, he has served various churches throughout Texas.
Julio Guarneri has served on the board of Buckner International, twice as president, and as first vice-president of Texas Baptists. He has also served as chair of the Stark College and Seminary board and as moderator of the Tarrant Baptist Association.
Having spoken in many places in the USA, one of his greatest joys has been speaking to gatherings of pastors in the Philippines for multiple years about making disciples. Julio’s passion is to make disciples who make disciples, living out a holistic mission that brings the Gospel to bear on the whole person and the whole community for the whole world.