Mentoring for Young Adults Grant

The World Outspoken Internship program is expanding!

World Outspoken is a recipient of the Forum for Theological Exploration’s Mentoring for Young Adults grant. WOS is committed to offering internship opportunities to undergraduate and graduate students as they process a hyphenated identity, ministry to diasporic people, and faithful ways to honor the traditions they inherit. These interns are given real ministry experiences that will prepare them for the complex challenges of the mestizo church.

Launched as a pilot August 2020, The World Outspoken Culturemakers Internship Program successfully welcomed five interns onto the team. These talented students contributed to the ministry of WOS through graphic and web design, social media management, course creation, and content translation during the 2020-2021 academic year. Mentoring is a critical component of the program. Small group gatherings and one-one conversations between interns and mentors, become catalysts for spiritual and professional growth.

Thank you, FTE, for partnering with us in preparing in the next generation to lead whole and healthy ministries.

Capacity Building Grant Award Announcement

We are thrilled to announce that World Outspoken has been selected to receive a Capacity Building Grant from Leadership Education at Duke Divinity in partnership with Asociación para la Educación Teológica Hispana (AETH). Capacity Building Grants offer Christian institutions resources to strengthen their current organizational capacities and build new ones in a yearlong project.

Leadership Education aims to create lasting change in U.S. congregations by supporting Christian leaders and the institutions they serve. They design educational services, develop intellectual resources, and facilitate networks of institutions that cultivate a coherent vision of Christian institutional leadership and form Christian leaders. Leadership Education is an initiative of Duke Divinity School funded by Lilly Endowment Inc. and based in Durham, N.C.

AETH's mission is to promote excellent and pertinent theological education of Hispanic/Latino/a leaders in their service to the church and the world. AETH recognizes and affirms the valuable work that Bible Institutes and other theological entities undertake in preparing pastors and lay leaders for the work of ministry within Hispanic/Latino/a churches.

We will announce more details about our project later this Spring, but for now you can expect it to relate to the Mestizo Podcast. Again, we are honored to be among the recipients of this prestigious award, and look forward to increasing our support of the mestizo church.

New Partners

World Outspoken believes that our partners are fundamental to the preparation of the Mestizo Church for ministry in today’s world. These three new partners address key areas of preparation for the church. We will be working with them to provide training, resources, and free content addressing key areas of ministry.

Mygration Christian Conference

Mygration Christian Conference provides excellent, free webinars where they explore God's heart through stories of immigration. It is becoming increasingly important that the church understand the complexities of immigration biblically. In partnership with the conference, we will regularly share events addressing this subject.

Brown Church Movement

The Brown Church Movement is a collective of Brown church folks doing things around the country that impact, inform and inspire the Brown church world and its allies. Many organizations and leaders joined together to set start the movement, and we are happy to be one of them. To learn more about the Brown Church, check out our interview with Dr. Robert Chao Romero on the book that inspired the movement.

Passion2Plant

Passion2Plant (P2P) is a church planting, revitalization, and planter support network that works primarily with Black and Brown individuals. We will be partnering with P2P to provide teaching to their cohorts of future church planters.

New Partnership and Podcast

We are excited to announce that World Outspoken has officially partnered with the Association for Hispanic Theological Education (AETH) to launch The Mestizo Podcast. The first season of the show will be 8 episodes and is set to release March of 2020. Read the description of the show below.

Bienvenidos al Mestizo Podcast, the show for the mixed people of the mixed church. On this podcast we explore the complicated challenges of being part of, serving in, and growing an ethnic church en el ciglo 21. As first-generation immigrants age out of their leadership and the mestizo church transitions to the 2nd and 3rd generation, how does the ethnic church continue to thrive? What should an ethnic church look like today? These questions and more are what we explore together with your hosts, Emanuel Padilla y la Dra. Elizabeth Conde-Frazier.

Get to know your hosts

Emanuel Padilla

Emanuel Padilla is the program head of the Bachelors of Theology and Cultural Engagement at Moody Bible Institute. He is also managing director of World Outspoken, a ministry dedicated to preparing the mestizo church for cultural change through training, content, and partnerships. Emanuel is committed to drawing the insights of the Latino/a church for the blessing of the wider church body. He is a licensed qualified administrator of the Intercultural Development Inventory (IDI), and uses this tool among others to consult with churches on diversity & inclusion, organizational change, and community engagement. His favorite dish is arroz blanco con carne guisada.

Dr. Elizabeth Conde-Frazier

Rev. Dr. Elizabeth Conde-Frazier is a practical theologian. She is an ordained pastor of the American Baptist Churches with over ten years of pastoral experience. She was founder of the Orlando E. Costas Hispanic and Latin American Ministries Program at Andover Newton Theological School, served as a tenured professor of religious education at the Claremont School of theology and as academic dean and vice president of education at Esperanza College of Eastern University. Currently she is the Coordinator of Relations for Theological Entities at the Association of Hispanic Theological Education. She is a Judson Press author of the bilingual book Listen to the Children: Conversations with Immigrant Families.

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