Hispanic/Latino/Latina
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The Hispanic/Latino(a) presence in this country is not new. They have been part of our cultural, political, and religious reality for generations. However, during the last 30 years this population has seen a dramatic rise in its growth. The estimated Hispanic/Latino(a) population in the United States according to the 2006 U.S. Census Bureau was 44.3 million. This makes the U.S. Hispanic/Latino(a) population the nation’s largest ethnic minority. (This estimate does not include the 3.9 million residents of Puerto Rico). Hispanic/Latino(a)s then constituted 15 percent of the nation’s total population. This means that 15 percent of the current U.S. population connects their roots to some part of Latin America and the Caribbean.
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For more information about the Hispanic/Latino(a) Concerns please contact us:
Mail: 100 Maryland Avenue, N. E. Suite 400, Washington D.C. 20002.
E-mail: info@gcorr.org or evalentin@gcorr.org.
Phone: (202) 547-2271.
- Churchwide education and advocacy on U.S. immigration concerns and reform legislation.
- Strengthen commitment to the United Methodist National Plan for Hispanic/Latino(a) Ministry. Through the plan the church is able to expand its development and strengthening of Hispanic/Latino(a) local churches and ministries.
- Recruitment and retention of candidates for the ordained ministry.
- Educational support and empowerment of Hispanic/Latino(a) youth.
- Theological education that is relevant to Hispanic/Latino(a) students in seminaries and Course of Study programs.
- Youth and Young Adult ministries.
- Leadership development for the Hispanic/Latino(a) laity.
- Continued development of resources which address the Hispanic/Latino(a) ministry context and which are developed by Hispanic/Latino(a) persons.
- Needed changes in the appointment process for Hispanic/Latino(a) pastors, specifically around the issue of mobility within annual conferences and across jurisdictions.
- Efforts to ensure that Hispanic/Latino(a) voices and votes are represented in decision- making gatherings of the church, such as annual conferences councils on ministries, seminaries, general agency boards and staff, the Judicial Council, and the Council of Bishops.
- Outreach ministries that meet the needs of the Hispanic/Latino(a) immigrant families such as education, health, legalization process, training, English as a Second Language lessons, affordable housing and economic opportunities.
GCORR maintains a close relationship with the national Hispanic/Latino(a) caucus, MARCHA (Methodist Associated for the Hispanic American Cause), as well as conference and jurisdictional caucuses. It also serves as a resource to the National Plan for Hispanic/Latino(a) Ministry, while the General Commission cooperates by monitoring the church's response to the Hispanic/Latino(a) ministry plan.
- Stop the Madness and Cruelty of Immigration Raids
- We join our voices with the thousands who express dismay about the cruel immigration enforcement raids wreaking havoc on helpless families, and we call for them to cease.
- United Methodists look to Latin America
- The delegates hear a call to more fully embrace their counterparts in Latin America and the Caribbean.
- Church leaders support sanctuary for immigrants
- Pastor calls immigrants' plight an "affront to God."
- Church urges humane treatment of immigrants
- About 300 United Methodists gather for a rally on immigrant and human rights in Fort Worth.
- United Methodists hold first Latino workshop on AIDS ministries
- The United Methodist Church is taking steps to come to grips with and stop the "devastating effect" that HIV/AIDS is having on the Hispanic/Latino community in the United States.
- Jorge Domingues Named to Lead Three Units at United Methodist Mission Board
- The Rev. Jorge Domingues is the new interim head of three interrelated program areas of the General Board of Global Ministries, the international mission agency of The United Methodist Church.
- Mañana: El futuro es nosotros! Mañana: The Future is Us!
Hispanic/Latino/a Heritage Month Celebration - Septiembre 23, 2007
First United Methodist Church of Hyattsville, Maryland
Preacher: The Rev. Dr. Eliezér Valentín Castañón
- Centro Latino: “Doing Jesus’ Job” in the Immigrant Community
- A church within a church is thriving in Council Bluffs, Iowa. The pastor says that one of his first tasks is to help the members of his Spanish-speaking flock overcome their sorrow at being separated from families back home in Latin America.
Print Resources
Acuña, Rodolfo F. ANYTHING BUT MEXICAN: CHICANOS IN CONTEMPORARY LOS ANGELES. London and New York: Verso, 1996. ISBN 1-85984-031-0.
Campbell, Richard C. Two Eagles in the Sun: Your Questions Answered About Mexican Hispanics in the Border Southwest and Other Hispanics in The United States Las Cruces, New Mexico: Editts...Publications, 1995. Richard Campbell is a United Methodist pastor who has lived in Texas for several years. This book serves as a handbook for quick information about Hispanic traditions and culture.
Eliozondo, Virgilio. THE GALILEAN JOURNEY: The Mexican-American Promise. New York: Mary Knoll Press, 1983. (Helps readers reflect about the biblical message relevant to race, mestizaje, socio-cultural identity and political domination.)
Gonzalez, Justo L. MANANA: Christian Theology from the Hispanic Perspective. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1990. Takes the reader from a better understanding of the Hispanic culture to the rediscovery of familiar theological themes.
Gonzalez, Justo L., SANTA BIBLIA: THE BIBLE THROUGH HISPANIC EYES, Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1996. The writer enables the reader to discover new dimensions of the Bible when read through Hispanic eyes. Some of the major paradigms of the Hispanic American biblical interpretation - marginality, poverty, mestizaje, exile and alienness, and solidarity - guide and illumine this new reading.
Gonzalez, Justo L., editor. VOCES: Voices from the Hispanic Church. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1992. A collection of essays representative of the Hispanic community's diversity in the U.S.
Recinos, Harold J. HEAR THE CRY!: A Latino Pastor Challenges the Church, Louisville: Westminster/John Knox Press, 1989. A moving description of the Latino struggle in the United States, especially as the author shares growing up in New York. An analysis of economic and social realities that oppress people within the context of our faith.
Velez-Ibáñez, Carols, G. BORDER VISIONS: MEXIAN CULTURES OF THE SOUTHWEST UNITED STATES. Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Press, 1996. ISBN 0-8165-1684-7.
Online Resources
Language Matters: The blessings of hablar Español
A Commentary by The Rev. Dr. Eliezér Valentín-Castañón*
