Since July 2014, Emilio has served as the Spanish Ministries Director of Pacific Church Network (PCN), an association of over 70 churches in Southern California. Prior to becoming a Director, he served on the PCN board. Emilio is very active in Christian ministry in Southern California. Since 1984, he has been the pastor of the Spanish-speaking congregation at Bell Gardens Baptist Church. He was an Associate Professor at Biola University until 2012 and an adjunct professor of Historical Theology at Fuller Seminary. Emilio was a contributing editor to La Biblia de Estudio de la Biblia de las Américas, a study Bible in Spanish published by the Lockman Foundation in May of 2000, and now published by Broadman and Holman. He contributed a chapter in Vivir y Servir en Exilio (Living and Serving in Exile) published in 2008 by the Los Angeles chapter of the Fraternidad Teológica Latinoamericana (FTL). He also serves as the Director of Pacific Church Network's Seminario de las Américas (Seminary of the Américas). Emilio and his wife, Dunia, have been married since 1979. They have two married adult sons.