Early life
Dante Gebel was born into a working-class family. His mother was of English descent and his father of German origin and was a carpenter by profession. He himself said in a sermon from the Crystal Cathedral on November 21, 2014 that when his mother was sick with cancer, Dante's older brother took his parents to an evangelical church service where a pastor prayed for his mother's healing. Soon after, Mrs. Gebel's illness disappeared spontaneously. His father Federico, who was an alcoholic, gave up alcohol and attended church with his family for the rest of his life. He affirmed in an interview with Cristianos al dia channel that he has Asperger syndrome. In his adolescence he began to serve in the church as a musician playing the drums, as a singer and accompanying evangelists in various campaigns. In 1990, he married Liliana and they began directing the radio program "Línea Abierta, prohibited for adults". The program was very well received and from then on some churches began to invite him to preach at evangelistic events. In 1996 he rented the José Amalfitani Stadium also known as Vélez Sarfield in Buenos Aires to carry out an evangelical event known as the Superclasico . It had the participation of the politician an singer Palito Ortega The attendance was 50,000 people who came from all over the country. Subsequently, the 'Superclasicos' were held again until 2020 in different places such as the River Stadium, the Plaza del Obelisco de Buenos Aires or Luna Park.Pastor
From 2009 to 2012, he was pastor of the Hispanic church at Crystal Cathedral, Garden Grove, California The number of persons attending the cathedral's Hispanic Ministry was increased from 300 to 3,000 since Gebel took over in 2009 . After that the congregation moved to the Anaheim Convention Center and was renamed Favorday Church He currently pastors the Hispanic megachurchbr>River ChurchBooks
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