BUILDING BRIDGES ACROSS CULTURES
Rev. Dr. Gabriel Salguero, the president and founder of NaLEC, shares his personal story of coming to faith and overcoming depression and suicidal thoughts.
He discusses the diversity and growth of the Latino evangelical community in the United States, highlighting their values of community, family, and missional outreach.
Gabriel provides practical advice for building bridges across cultures and engaging in public life with faith, emphasizing the importance of curiosity, empathy, humility, and integrity.
You need to listen deeply to the pains and the struggles of people in the world, because how are you going to know what to respond to if you don’t know what the realities are?
OUR TEACHER
REV. Dr. Gabriel Salguero
NATIONAL LATINO EVANGELICAL COALITION | President & Founder
The Rev. Dr. Gabriel Salguero is pastor at The Gathering Place, a Latino-led multi-ethnic Assemblies of God congregation in Orlando, Florida. Salguero is also the president and founder of the National Latino Evangelical Coalition (NALEC), a coalition of several thousand evangelical congregations in the United States.
He was the former Director of the Hispanic Leadership Program (HLP), and the Institute for Faith and Public Life at Princeton Theological Seminary. Salguero is also a powerful voice on issues that affect the close to 9 million Latino evangelicals in the United States.
Salguero’s leadership of the National Latino Evangelical Coalition (NaLEC), a national network of Hispanic churches, offers an important voice for the growing diversity and changing demographics in our country.
He has written extensively on Latino evangelicalism, immigration, racism, and multicultural congregations.
Salguero has been named as one of the nation’s most prominent Latino evangelical leaders by the New York Times, Huffington Post, the New York Observer, the Center for American Progress, El Diario, CNN Español, NBC Universal, Univisión, and Jorge Ramos’s Al Punto .
In addition, his leadership on issues of young male education and criminal justice reform has been featured by the Discovery Channel and the Oprah Winfrey Network.
