La Espada was started in 1971 by Dr. Roland Garlick, to be for the Spanish-speaking world what John R. Rice was for the English-speaking world. Dr. Garlick, burdened for the Spanish and seeing a void in the Spanish world, took all that he had and began a ministry. “When I was a boy my dad sat me and my sister down at the kitchen table, it was there he told us ‘Danny, Joy, God has placed a burden on my heart to start a ministry, I want you to know that it probably means that I won’t be able to leave you much of an inheritance, if any, but I promise you I will leave you a good name.’ And so, he set out to begin La Espada.” – Daniel Garlick, President of La Espada