Having Faces: Being Neighbor

I came to Guatemala with a Graduate Preaching Fellowship in 2004 to learn to be neighbor. I was ordained at the St. Paul Area Synod Assembly in June 2007 as a pastor of the Iglesia Luterana Agustina de Guatemala and commissioned for service by two Synods of the ELCA and the Global Mission Unit of the ELCA. I serve in Guatemala with the ILAG as a missionary and a pastor.

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Friday, November 16, 2007

Baptism

The church in El Tuerto is struggling in general because the Dominicans have an elementary school in the neighborhood-only good school there. They demand that all students have their first communion there. They are telling all the Lutherans that their baptisms are not valid because they were free and in order to have their first communion, and pass the school year, they have to be re-baptized correctly. The irony is that the Dominicans will not do the baptism and send the families to the San Jose Catholic church. This second church asks, correctly, if the baptism was with water and in the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Yes, well then it is a baptism. So now the Dominicans are saying that San Jose is not a church either (for not wanting to commit heresy I guess).

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