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FIELD
Enrique worked for several years on electrical equipment as a maintenance engineer on marine drilling rigs in Campeche, Mexico for Petróleos Mexicanos. In 1991 he traveled to Havana, Cuba, and participated in the International Youth Baptist Conference of Central America, Mexico and the Caribbean. He met many pastors there who invited him to conduct evangelistic campaigns in their churches. 

Since then God has called him to full-time work as a missionary. He starts new church plant projects, visits the sick, baptizes new believers and leads the Lord's Supper. As an evangelist he conducts personal evangelism clinics, preaches at churches and wins souls for the Lord. As a teacher he leads Bible studies in homes and disciples new believers. 

From 1992 to 2008 he ministered with the mission agency International Sports and Cultural Exchange as missionary, evangelist and coordinator of discipleship in Mexico and Central America. 

In January 2009 the Lord led the Azuas to Missions Door. After meeting Joaquin Vargas (Director of Latino and Caribbean Ministries) and Jorge Salazar (Coordinator of Missions Door missionaries in Mexico) they were appointed on February 18, 2009. 

FAITH
Enrique was born into a Catholic family, but his family didn’t know the Bible or Christ as Lord and Savior. At the age of 22, when he was studying at the university, two Christian classmates shared the Word of God with him and invited him to evangelistic lectures at the First Baptist Church of Tampico, Tamaulipas. There he heard the sermon "Many Religious in Hell." He came to understood that it is not important to have religion, but Christ in the heart through new birth (John 3:1-16). After hearing that sermon, on the night of September 26, 1983 he received Jesus as Savior and Lord of his life. 

In December 1983, Enrique and the youth group of his church evangelized the neighborhood where he lived and planted the Star of Bethlehem Baptist Church.

In 1985 he moved to Ciudad del Carmen, Campeche to work with PEMEX Oil Company. There he partnered with American missionaries Harvey and Martha Walworth and planted the First Baptist Church of Ciudad del Carmen.

In 1991 Enrique moved to Merida, Yucatán, where he was accepted as a member of the First Baptist Church and ministered there for several years. He was ordained there for ministry on August 10, 2003. 

FAMILY
Enrique met Noemí (who is Cuban) in March 1991 during the International Youth Baptist Conference in Havana, and they married in 1994. They have a son named Adiel.