By E-mail:
elcamexico@yahoo.com
Direct dial phone from
the U.S.: 011-52-55-5616-5881
Fax: 011-52-55-5616-1246
Mailing address:
Centro Luterano
Apartado Postal 20-416
México DF 20 01000
México
Street address:
Calle de la Otra Banda #54
Colonia San Ángel
Delegación Álvaro Obregón
México DF
| ELCA Program Staff |
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Pastor Kim Erno, Program Director |
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Kim Erno is
an ordained ELCA pastor with more than 20 years of
parish ministry experience. He has worked with various
solidarity organizations related to El Salvador and
Mexico. Before this assignment, he was a mission
developer serving a Latino community in Washington, D.C. |
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Pastor Heidi Torgerson,
Program Associate |
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Heidi
Torgerson is an ordained ELCA pastor serving her first
call at the Lutheran Center. She has a background in
faith-based community organizing and has worked on
affordable housing, education funding reform, and
immigrants’ rights issues in Minnesota and Illinois.
Heidi also serves as Country Coordinator for the Young
Adults in Global Mission volunteer program in Mexico. |
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Mexican Program Team |
| Ms. Susana Juárez Toriz |
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Susana Juárez Toriz has studied to be a
professional translator and office administrator. Along with caring for
many of the logistical details related to our immersion programming,
Susana provides skilled accompaniment with groups and serves as a liason
to projects promoting “solidarity economics”. |
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| Mr. Erik Friend |
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Erik Friend offers support and
coordination for program visits in the nearby city of Cuernavaca, where
he lives with his family. Erik has a background in organizing small,
worker-owned cooperative businesses. His most recent project is a
cooperative that designs and constructs bicycles for those who have
physical limitations.
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| Ms. Ariadna Méndez Hernández |
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Ariadna Méndez Hernández is a student at
the Universiad de las Américas (UDLA) in the city of Puebla where she is
studying Latin American literature. She works with local labor
organizing efforts in the Puebla area and accompanies ELCA program
groups during school breaks. |
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Please note: The ELCA
Transformational Immersion Program does not organize hospitality
at the Lutheran Center for people who are not participating in
an immersion program. To coordinate hospitality apart from a
program group, please contact Eva Cortes, the Lutheran Center's
Administrator, at
corteseva2@hotmail.com |
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