Rev. Rafael Cruz

Pastor & Director, Grace for America

Rev. Rafael Cruz is an ordained minister and the director of Grace for America, preaching in churches and at pastors’ conferences across the United States. Born in Cuba in 1939, he fought the Batista regime as a teenager and was imprisoned and tortured before arriving in Texas in 1957 on a student visa. He washed dishes for 50 cents an hour while learning English and working his way through the University of Texas, and later built a small business in the oil and gas industry. He is the author of A Time for Action: Empowering the Faithful to Reclaim America and the father of U.S. Senator Ted Cruz.