Our History
Pastor Esteban Morales, Founder
Pastor Esteban Morales was born in Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico, December 22, 1950. He earned a degree in Medical Technology, profession that he undertook for some time before falling in a painful addiction to drugs. Jesus Christ arrived at his life at the age of twenty-five, in an campaign of the international evangelist Nicky Cruz, accompanied by the orchestra of Bobby Cruz and Richie Ray. He was discipled by Pastor Bobby Cruz, and called into ministry in only a year of his conversion.
As an evangelist and pastor, he developed outdoor campaigns and worships in many penal institutions in Puerto Rico. In the year 1985, he decides to open the center "Key to Liberty" in Carolina, PR. This center gave former-confined individuals a transition home when they finished their prison sentences. Pastor Morales also founded similar homes in Curazao, efforts to which he dedicated 10 consecutive years of his life.
In May 1st, 1991, already established with his family in the city of Kissimmee, Florida, Pastor Morales and his beloved wife Olga, began what would become their greatest venture, HOUSE OF FREEDOM. House of Freedom is dedicated to the rehabilitation of individuals with problems of addiction to drugs. For more than 19 years they have worked successively in favor of people who suffer from addiction. The fruits of their work are evident in the many lives that have received restoration and words of consolation, thanks to their dedicated service.
In the midst of hard work, tireless struggles and suffering a terminal illness, Pastor Esteban Morales passed away February 23, 2005. He already rests with the Lord, but his work has not died, they continue to live in a legacy left in the hands of his family, who united to a ministerial body, continue the work he began.
Citing the words of Evangelist Nicky Cruz in the farewell of his beloved friend, he said,
"The dreamer dies, but not the dream, because the dream belongs to God."
