RLC Network Alexia Salvatierra

Alexia Salvatierra

Rev. Dr. Alexia Salvatierra is the author with Dr. Peter Heltzel of “Faith-Rooted Organizing: Mobilizing the Church in Service to the World” (Intervarsity Press) and the founder of the Faith-Rooted Organizing UnNetwork. She is a Lutheran Pastor with over 40 years of experience in congregational (English and Spanish) and community ministry, including church-based service and community development programs, congregational/community organizing and legislative advocacy. She serves as Affiliate Faculty for the Centro Latino and School of Intercultural Studies for Fuller Theological Seminary and ongoing Adjunct Faculty for the Masters in Urban Studies at Eastern University and Masters in Urban Transformational Leadership program at Azusa Pacific University, and has served as adjunct faculty for a number of other colleges and seminaries in the US and overseas. In addition to coordinating the Welcoming Congregations Network/Guardian Angels Project and assisting at Hope Lutheran Church, she serves as a consultant (training, facilitating, organizing and leading strategic planning) for a variety of national/international organizations, including World Vision, Intervarsity Christian Fellowship and the Christian Community Development Association. She has been a national leader in the areas of working poverty and immigration for over 20 years, including co-founding the national Evangelical Immigration Table, the 2007 New Sanctuary Movement, the Guardian Angels project, and the Matthew 25 Movement.

Letter to Homeland Security: Release Vulnerable Detainees

Alexia Salvatierra

March 29, 2020

Immigration & Refugees, Peace & Nonviolence, Politics

Sheltering in place may keep us apart, but it does not have to keep us from coming together on behalf of justice.

In the Name of the Christ Child Refugee

Alexia Salvatierra

December 20, 2018

Immigration & Refugees, Politics, Practical Justice

Organizations have been bringing North American “family members” to be a sign of the love of God and to return to tell the story.

What It Means to Call Jose “Brother”

Alexia Salvatierra

November 25, 2016

Immigration & Refugees, Politics, Practical Justice

Churches across the nation are making a public pledge to offer genuine sanctuary to vulnerable sisters and brothers.

Stay In or Stay Out! Is America Suspicious of Outsiders?

Alexia Salvatierra

December 20, 2012

General, Immigration & Refugees

BY: ALEXIA SALVATIERRA -- Are we a country whose fundamental orientation is to welcome or are we predominantly suspicious...