Sara Frutos

What a blessing it is to spend time with Sara Ana Frutos! She is a certificated Wellspring Counselor right here at Lakeside. Salvador and Gertrude Frutos gave birth to Sara in 1955 while living in Chicago. “Papa owned a grocery store and momma stayed home to take care of her brood of six children.”  Sara was only two years old when her father was instantly delivered from alcoholism. “Papa fell to his knees in a park and cried out ‘Lord God if You really exist, change me’ and God answered his earnest prayer.”  Her uncle Everardo was the pastor of their Spanish Congregation in Chicago and when Sara was 12 years old, while in attendance at an old fashioned tent revival, she was baptized in the Holy Spirit.  As a senior in High School she traveled to Spain and met her future husband, Juan Antonio. After corresponding for months, Juan Antonio moved to Chicago and they were married in 1975.  “The Lord blessed us with two beautiful daughters."  Their eldest Candee, lives and works in Indianapolis, Indiana as an executive secretary.  Their youngest daughter Sonia founded an English Academy in Spain where she works as a bi-lingual teacher.  In 1976 her husband’s father died of cancer,  then Juan Antonio chose to no longer attend church.  In 1978 her parents founded their first church in Fort Wayne, and in 1988 after a dream, her parents drove to Mexico with $600.00 USD in their pockets to build a church in Chapala. Her parents held bible studies in their home for years while “Iglesias del el Espiritu Santo” was built by miraculous donations. Today Sara's brother Raul Frutos is the senior pastor and his wife Anabel Frutos runs the "Love in Action" orphanage in Chapala.

Sara and her family moved back to her husband’s homeland of Spain in 2001. For a few years Sara worked as an English tutor while raising her youngest daughter.  In 2014 her husband fell in love with a woman 20 years younger and he asked for a divorce.  Divorced and with a fragmented heart Sara moved back to Chicago for a short time.  In prayer she got confirmation in her spirit that she was to move to Mexico. In June 2014 Sara arrived in Chapala and she immediately attended her first Wellspring Conference at Jucum.  Jan Hicks conducted her soul’s interview and her broken heart was healed.  During her graduation ceremony her dormant purpose came fully alive. “I announced at the Wellspring conference that I knew what my calling was.” Where there seemed to be no way - God provided His way. After 38 years of marriage, through the pain and agony of a divorce, the enemy intended to destroy her faith, but our merciful God turned it into a ministry, for His glory. Genesis 50:20.  Sara forgave her ex and his girlfriend, and she was set free. With great compassion and gratitude, Sara now refers to all counseling sessions as Divine Appointments. Her ministry scripture is Isaiah 61:1 "The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me, because the Lord has anointed me to preach Good Tidings unto the meek, He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives in the prison of pain." 

Judy Whitener raised the money for Sara to fly to Alaska for some advanced Wellspring training. Sara has now conducted over 500 one on one counseling sessions in the USA and in Mexico.  “When the Lord initially directed me to move to San Juan Tecomatlan (SJT), I resisted and made all kinds of Jonah excuses. I did not want to leave my comfort zone or follow His guidance until I heard about the needs of one family that was totally devastated by their son’s rape at a daycare.”  Since January 2019 Sara has been living in SJT and God has blessed her immensely for her obedience.  She recounts instant healings from Lupus, Alcoholism, demonic oppression, depression and drugs. “It has been a spiritual domino affect”. Like the Woman at the Well, by word of mouth, the community is calling for appointments. In July 2023 Sara had her niece deliver the block buster hit "The Chosen" in Spanish to the girls at Love in Action. Sara was blessed by God to travel to Spain to attend her daughter's wedding and to be a witness to the people she meets. To reach Sara for a personal counseling appointment email: saraanafrutos@gmail.com or call her directly on her cell 332-177-2191