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Macho Lara is a pastor, writer, and educator based in New York City.

He is the co-founding pastor of The Table NYC, a church in Sunnyside, Queens, where he pastors alongside his wife, Erica.

Macho has spent most of his adult life in ministry, including preaching, teaching, worship leadership, church planting, and pastoral leadership. He is ordained with the Christian & Missionary Alliance and holds degrees in Pastoral Ministry, Christian Studies, and Church Development.

Outside of pastoral ministry, Macho works as a Lead IT Instructor at Year Up United, where he teaches technology and helps develop curriculum and instructors.

He is the author of Those Who Wait: Biblical Stories for When God Seems Slow and several shorter books on church and community. He also writes regularly on Substack.

Macho and Erica have been married since 2007 and have two children, Eliana and Elias. They also have a Miniature Poodle named Rocky.