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by: Victor Padilla
Seed Magazine: As a business man with diverse businesses, tell us about which business/businesses you focus on daily?
LA Capdevila: While our businesses are multifaceted, two restaurants, bakery, catering, banquets & business center, properties and rentals; I also have ministries responsibilities such as church planting, counseling and a new internet church that is being powered up soon, I oversee all of them and work with my managers to make sure we are focused on our companies success.
My family owns the world famous La Teresita restaurant, were national, state and local politicians make their appearance every election year. The landmark eatery hosts presidents, senators and local officials on a consistent basis. This famous Cuban Food eatery feeds thousands of patrons every week and the family is now in the process of taking their famous style of food statewide.
Seed Magazine: Tell us about your ministry
LA Capdevila: My wife Anita and I pastored a church for 24 years until a few years ago and have been planting churches throughout central and South Americas and the Caribbean for the same amount of years.
Most recently I have started to plant churches in Pakistan and I want to be part of the revival that will hit the middle east soon.
Seed Magazine: Tell us about your family history and the impact it has had on West Tampa and Tampa Bay in general.
LA Capdevila: We are celebrating our 52 years in this wonderful country and 42 years in business. We are so grateful to God for all the support that we have had from our community throughout the years we are visited by thousands every month and we are indebted to them and we do not take our success for granted. Even though I was born in Cuba, I am a Tampeño or Tampañian and proud of it.
Seed Magazine: Who is a hero/role model that you admire (living or deceased) and why do you admire them?
LA Capdevila: I have too many heroes to mention them all, but my Father Maximino is one of my hero’s, even though he is gone to be with the Lord. His life and principals still live on in me and in our family. There are many successful men and women that I admire because they have given their all and have taken many risks to become a success in their professions and in turn they are now touching many others with their stories of struggles and victories. I want to express a special thanks to all those who may not reach public recognition but in their everyday life they touch others with acts of kindness and labor of love.
What this world really needs is for all of us to rise up to the occasion, regardless of political persuasions, color or race, and touch those who are searching and are lacking and wanting to be loved and accepted.
Dr. Louis and Anita Capdevila are church planters and business entrepreneurs from Tampa, Florida. Dr. Louis Capdevila was ordained into the ministry by Dr. Gerald Derstine of Gospel Crusades in 1983 at Christian Retreat Bradenton, Florida. Dr. Louis has been planting churches in the Caribbean Islands, Central America, and South America for several decades; including, 52 churches in the island of Cuba. In 2013 Dr. L.A. started to work in the nation of Pakistan.
Dr. Louis Capdevila is married to Anita and they have three children: Daniel, Nicole and Justin. Louis and Anita are the proud grandparents of Briana, Analis, Alena, JJ and Amelia. He is also the chairman of King�s Ministries International, a ministerial licensing and church planting organization and Fellowship.