Fausto Franco

Pentecost Today USA Council Member

Fausto Franco is the oldest of four children born and raised in the Bronx, New York. With a BS in Computer Science (Siena College), a MEng Computer Systems Engineering (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute) and MA Theology (Catholic Distance University). He served as the national coordinator for the Secretaria Juvenil Nacional (National Youth Secretariat) for the Hispanic Catholic Charismatic Renewal for the United States and Canada and served in the Albany Diocesan Service Committee. He participated in the first international Catholic Charismatic Youth Conference in Parana, Brazil in 2012.  He was published in the summer 2018 edition of Pentecost Today magazine and has also written for the Dominican Republic national Catholic Charismatic Renewal magazine “Revista Alabanza” in Spanish. He was also the Hispanic Youth/Young Adult coordinator for Ministerio Juvenil at the Hispanic Catholic Charismatic Center for the Archdiocese of New York. Fausto was a speaker at the Golden Jubilee 50th anniversary for the Catholic Charismatic Renewal in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in July 2017 and was a participant at the V Encuentro of Latino/Hispanic Ministry representing ecclesial movements. Fausto served as the CHARIS USA Youth representative ad experimentum and also as a facilitator for the CHARIS Servant Leadership Course. He is also a member of the Locos por Jesus ministry that travels to the Dominican Republic on mission, and is a speaker who has traveled throughout the United States and abroad to evangelize.

Fausto is currently an adjunct professor at Catholic Distance University and part of the Pentecost Today magazine editorial board. Also he is a member of the REC Council (Resident Encounter Christ) prison ministry for the Albany Diocese and a Catechist at his parish The Shrine Church of Our Lady of the Americas. He is married to his wife Natalie and they live in Albany, NY with their child.

Updated 12/2022