Charo Washer is a notable individual. She was born with the name Rosario Charo Washer. She is recognized in America as the spouse of Paul Washer, the initiator of HeartCry Missionary Society.
Charo’s international experience goes beyond her birthplace of Colombia, including stints in Bolivia, Paraguay, the United States, and Spain. She has worked as a missionary in Peru for 12 years; however, she does not have a strong belief in God, which is noteworthy.
Who is Charo Washer and her Relatives?
Charo is the eldest among her four sisters and the only girl. Originating in Lima, Peru, she was born to a Spanish father and a Peruvian mother. Nevertheless, she has not yet disclosed their whereabouts, names, or ages. This information will be updated once available.
Personal journey
Evangelist Paul David Washer, a Southern Baptist and a Calvinist from the United States, claims to have embraced Christianity while studying oil and gas law at UT Austin.
Thereafter, he spent a decade as a missionary in Peru and in 1988, founded the Heart Missionary Society to provide support to indigenous Peruvians spreading the gospel within their communities.
Wile subsequently relocating to the United States, Paul has been residing in Radford, Virginia, and has served as the mission director for HertCry since 2010. He has expressed some reservations in his role as HearCry’s missions director, and at times has been associated with the New Calvinists.
In a notable address in 2002, Washer delivered a “provocative message” to his congregation, cautioning that many, though professing to be Christians, might face eternal damnation. This talk on YouTube has amassed more than 3 million views as of 2021.
Quoted in the 2018 Netflix documentary American Gospel: Christ Alone, Washer contends, “In other religions, you earn your way to paradise by being good.” While Universalist Rick Pidcock contradicted this assertion, stating that it “falsely equates all other religions with people seeking to earn their way to heaven,” for Baptist News Global.
Matrimony and Partnership of Charo Washer
As a religious figure, she is wedded to the religious preacher Paul Washer. Many are curious about how Charo Washer crossed paths with Paul Washer for the first time.
In Peru, where Paul served as a missionary, he encountered Charo, who was also engaged in street evangelism. Sent respectively to the mission, they endured days without basic amenities and trekked through forests. Charo would later become Paul’s wife.
Paul recounted the story of their courtship during a Q&A session with children, narrating how he met and fell in love with her during the conflict, minstering to street kids while facing adversity. Despite opposition from her family to her conversion, she decided to stand firm without being disobedient, winning Paul’s admiration for her unwavering commitment.
When Paul sought her father’s consent for their union, he was refused due to the religious disparity as Paul was a Christian missionary at the age of 31. Nonetheless, he believed that if it were God’s will, the obstacle could be overcome. Ultimately, he received the blessing of his future father-in-law and married her.
After 28 years of marriage, they have been blessed with six children. While Paul established the HeartCry Missionary Society, Charo continues to contribute as a voluntary photographer.
Children of Charo Washer
She has four children with Paul. Their firstborn, Ian, arrived in 2001. Their second son, Evan, was born in 2004. Subsequently, Rowan, their third child, was born in 2007, and Bronwyn, their fourth, was born in 2016.
Influences and Theology
After 12 years as a missionary, she felt a void. Despite her good deeds, she realized they were merely tasks to complete, lacking true conviction. She believed her actions were righteous, but they failed to alter her feelings in God’s eyes. She struggled to acknowledge herself as a Christian as the Bible had not affected her as expected, rendering her heart cold and unyielding.
She accompanied Paul and gave sermons when he couldn’t leave her at the convent. Struggling to comprehend how God relates to the vulnerable, she was hesitant to fully embrace Paul’s teachings. Subsequently, Paul guided her through the biblical gospel message, leading her to recognize Jesus as her shepherd, thus kindling a newfound faith in Him.
Calvinists assert that even a pious life doesn’t guarantee salvation, as God has made an irrevocable choice regarding one’s eternal fate.
Age and Stature
Charo Washer stands at 5ft 4 inches. While her age remains undisclosed from any reliable source, she is regarded as a youthful and graceful religious figure.
Testimonial of Charo Washer
During her time in Texas, the Lord saved her, which came as a shock to many. Recalling her teenage years, she attributed her initial acceptance of Jesus to societal pressure rather than genuine repentance. Despite maintaining a moral upbringing, she acknowledged her lack of true remorse for sins. Ultimately, after a spiritual journey and guidance from her spouse, she found solace in the embrace of Jesus.
Understand, I had numerous close companions, and generally I simply socialized with missionary kids, and my friends were Christians, and so it was straightforward to dress like a Christian, it was simple to appear like a Christian, it was straightforward to attend church.
That’s what all the kids did. I did what all the kids did, and that’s what we all did. We didn’t go drinking, doing this, or doing that because nobody did. And so, in a way, it was pretty simple for me to fit in that mold.
Ultimately… you know, I guess I compare that to the camp–the youth camp syndrome. Everybody is all hyped up about doing this, “Oh, let’s all go do it.” It wasn’t necessarily bad, but it was just doing things; it was just lovely, being a good person. And when I was 16, I felt that God was calling me to missions, to serve Him.
Like a lot of the kids at youth camp, you know, you’d throw your stick, and “God has called me,” and you, a lot of us felt like God was calling us. And, well, many of them are not even in church anymore, and here I am, but you know, at 32, I come to know the Lord. And it’s incredible how it was just truly God in all of this because I would be active in church, I would read– well, I wouldn’t say reading the Bible, but– in our church, we weren’t taught how to read the Word, how to study the Word. So the youth would always, you know, we would talk amongst ourselves and things: “Are you reading the Word?” And we were like, “Ya.” “So, how do you do it?” “Well, you just take the Word like this, and flip it around, and wherever you put your finger, God wants you to read that day.” So I thought, “Okay.” So that’s what we did; we had no earthly idea, we had no discipleship whatsoever, as far as knowledge of good as God sees it, knowledge of wrong as God sees it. Not what you think or even what your parents think about–but the Word of God.
So I grew up in my own imagination of right and wrong. Or just catching a little here and there from preaching. It wasn’t truly a desire to read the Word; that was another thing that was lacking in my life. And at 20 years old, I married a missionary, and I did have a love for missions; I had a love for people, and I wanted to evangelize; I had evangelized some people I’d witnessed. And to that, I guess the only explanation is that God can speak through a mule; he can speak through anyone.
And some well-meaning friends that I told this to–what just recently happened, They’re like, “Well, it’s not that you were not saved, it’s just that you know, sometimes we kind of grow cold in our love for God, but it’s not that, because I mean, look at you, you’ve been a missionary for 12 years.” And I’m thinking, for a minute, I was like, “Wait a minute, you know, I live here; I know what happened here. It’s not; it’s not what I’ve done because then you’re saying that it all works.
I’ve earned my way to Heaven or something? Or is it that… You know, well then, you’re saying that many people who have done good things have made it to Heaven that way. It’s not that; I know I’ve been empty for years, and it’s almost like I’m doing the right thing. I go and do this, I go and do that, but there’s no zeal, heart, or desire to read the Word; it’s almost like, “Check, I’ve got to do that.” You know, like your devotions, because, “Check,” you do this, “Check,” you do that. That’s what good people do. You know, and all of a sudden, it’s like God was confronting me as years would go by with the fact that I was resting out because good people can do so much, and still, all of a sudden, they’re at the end of the rope. But it’s not natural.
For a Christian, it’s natural to love someone or to desire to witness to someone, or to- to want the Word, even when you get up, and you think, “If I don’t read the Word of God, I’m just going to be a mess today.” Or all of a sudden, you feel a void in your heart, like I do now, for example. It was like, “Well, I haven’t done that; I need to, I need to.” It wasn’t “I want to; I desire to.” Or even praying, you know, before I would– “I’ll pray for my dad to be saved; I’ve got to pray for my grandparents to be saved.” It was this “Check, check, check” of a list of to-do’s; it wasn’t a desire; there wasn’t an intense desire in me. It was just my to-do list.
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Controversies
Even after working as a missionary for twelve years, the preacher’s wife continued to experience a lack of fulfillment. Her actions were not motivated by a sense of purpose or a desire to make the world a better place. All the charitable acts she carried out were the only items to cross off the list.
Charo reasoned that she was not a Christian because she did not have the inclination or the intent to read the scriptures God had provided for his followers.
She got up in a setting where she was taught right from wrong, and by the rules of the world in which she got raised, she had not engaged in any behavior that would be considered inappropriate.
But did everything she had done in defiance of her duties and the rules she had set for herself.
Charo was never far behind when Paul traveled from church to church to preach and give sermons.
After she admitted to her husband one day how she truly felt about not being a faithful Christian, the evangelist was able to guide her through the gospel and the scriptures of evidence to help her come to a decision.
He guided her through the Book of 1 John, the first of the Johannine epistles found in the New Testament and the fourth of the Catholic epistles.
And helped her understand that there is no room for error in the examinations found in 1 John; either you succeed, or you do not. There is no in-between.
In her testimony, she expressed gratitude to God and praised his glory for rescuing her when she feared she would not be able to triumph over her challenges.
She was also grateful to God for revealing that she should follow God with every fiber of her being, which unburdened her of all the pressures and stresses she had been carrying.
