The Latino Ministry Strategy of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America was developed by a group of qualified and faithful people from a variety of cultures that use Spanish as their primary language, who were born or trace their heritage to Mexico, Central and South America and the Caribbean. The Latino community of the ELCA is a “community of communities”.

In 1997, the director for Latino Ministries of the ELCA Commission for Multicultural Ministries assembled a group of pastors, lay leaders, administrators, professors, theologians, community organizers and others involved in Lutheran Latino ministries from across the United States and Puerto Rico to form the steering committee that spearheaded the development of the Latino Ministry Strategy of the ELCA.

(Excerpt from the Latino Ministry Strategy)