Weston Colton, for Deseret Magazine
A black Lincoln crawls along a divided highway,
skirting the sun-baked mountains west of Juarez. Behind the wheel, Pastor Jose Antonio Galvan argues with his phone until it starts streaming a sermon. “And the hand of the Lord set me down in a valley full of bones,” a voice says in Spanish the pastor’s own voice, recorded in a makeshift studio at his facility 8 miles southwest of the city. He grins, satisfied, and turns his wayfarers back to the road.
At 69, Galvan cuts a striking figure. Black suit coat over a dark sweater and broad shoulders. Silver locks flowing against caramel skin. The recording continues, reading from the Book of Ezekiel: “And he said, make the bones hear the word of the Lord