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Join us for this free Christianity Today webinar Hispanic Heritage of Faith: The Vital Role of Churches in Latino Communities
Each year, from September 15 to October 15, the US observes National Hispanic Heritage Month to honor and celebrate the rich contributions of American citizens of Hispanic and Latino descent. This year’s Hispanic Heritage Month coincides with the release of a new study conducted by Fuller Theological Seminary’s Centro Latino, the Brown Church Institute, and Urban Strategies.
Based on interviews and research, “The Hispanic Church Survey” casts fresh light on Hispanic congregations and nonprofits and the significant roles they play as community hubs and social-service providers.
CT is joining Centro Latino, Brown Church Institute, and Urban Strategies to host a virtual roundtable featuring responses to the study by Latino evangelical thought leaders.
Join us on September 15, at 1 PM CDT. Register now to attend the live webinar or to receive a link to the recording.
Panelists
ALEXIA SALVATIERRA
Dr. Alexia Salvatierra is the academic dean of the Centro Latino at Fuller Theological Seminary as well as the assistant professor of integral mission and global transformation. A Lutheran pastor, she is co-author of Faith-Rooted Organizing: Mobilizing the Church in Service to the World (IVP), founding developer, and coordinator of the Fuller’s Diplomado en la Respuesta de la Iglesia a la Crisis Migratoria (Professional Certificate in the Church’s Response to the Immigration Crisis), and a consultant for a variety of national international organizations, including World Vision, Intervarsity Christian Fellowship, CRU, and the Christian Community Development Association.
ROBERT CHAO ROMERO
Dr. Robert Chao Romero is “Asian-Latino” and has been a professor of Chicana/o Studies and Asian American Studies at UCLA since 2005. Robert is the author of numerous academic articles and books, including The Chinese in Mexico, 1882-1940 and Brown Church: Five Centuries of Latina/o Social Justice, Theology, and Identity, which received the InterVarsity Press Readers’ Choice Award for the best academic title in 2020. He is also an ordained minister, an attorney, and director of the Brown Church Institute.
MARICELA H. HERNÁNDEZ
Rev. Maricela H. Hernández is a pastor and inspirational speaker who serves on the 21-person denominational board of the Assemblies of God. As an executive presbyter, she’s a national leader for a denomination that has more Hispanic churches than any other denomination in the United States. She also is the secretary/treasurer of the Texas Gulf Hispanic District of the Assemblies of God and is active internationally as the USA Women Ministries representative for the Hispanic World Fellowship of the Assemblies of God. Prior to her current roles, Hernández served as lead pastor of Templo Paraiso, Sullivan City, Texas, and as assistant pastor of Family Christian Assembly, Penitas, Texas.
ANGEL MARCIAL
Dr. Angel Marcial serves as bishop of Latin America for the Church of God (Cleveland). He began his pastoral ministry in his native Puerto Rico as a pastor with the Church of God denomination, where his responsibility and influence steadily expanded to include service as superintendent of the Hispanic Caribbean and administrative bishop of the Southeast Hispanic Region of the United States. In 2018 Dr. Marcial assumed the position of field director for Latin America, and in 2022 was he elected to the Church of God’s 18-member governing body overseeing the entirety of the denomination. He also serves as the president of the Florida Fellowship of Hispanic Councils and Evangelical Organizations.
Lisa Treviño Cummins (moderator)
Lisa Treviño Cummins is the president of Urban Strategies, an organization she founded in 2003 with a mission to tool, connect, and resource community and faith-based organizations focused on helping their neighbors flourish. A third-generation American of Mexican descent, Lisa traces the formation of her identity and worldview to her family and faith. Prior to Urban Strategies, she was an executive in community-development banking at Bank of America, and in 2001 she helped launch the White House Faith and Community-Based Initiative and served as its associate director for two years. She is the co-author, with Lorena Garza Gonzalez, of Inheritance: Discovering the Richness of Latino Family & Culture.