2013 Sunday Interdenominational Worship

Beginning the second full day of EAD 2013, Rev. M. Linda Jaramillo of the United Church of Christ broke open the Word of God at our Interndenominational Worship as it relates to food justice and the call for a just farm bill.

 

 

Keynote Preacher

The Rev. M. Linda Jaramillo, Executive Minister of the United Church of Christ Justice and Witness Ministries

Linda Jaramillo is executive minister of the UCC’s Justice and Witness Ministries, responsible for the church’s work on human rights and social, racial and economic justice. Jaramillo has been active in various UCC settings; as a member of the Commission for Racial Justice and the board of the Coordinating Center for Women; as a member and moderator of Ainsworth UCC in Portland, Ore.; as moderator, vice-moderator, treasurer and search committee chair in the Central Pacific Conference; as a member and committee chair of the Executive Council; and as assistant moderator of General Synod. In 2002, she was a UCC delegate to the World Council of Churches Assembly in Harare, Zimbabwe in 1998. She is a former president and vice-president of the Council for Hispanic Ministries and former co-convener of the Council of Racial and Ethnic Ministries.

Jaramillo has over 30 years of management experience working with state, county, and federally funded programs in Oregon, including Head Start, migrant services, child welfare, violence prevention, HIV/AIDS treatment and prevention, and adult community-based education. She received a B.S. in Business Administration from Portland (Ore.) State University and a Master of Divinity degree from UCC-related Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley, Calif. Fluent in both English and Spanish, she is the first Hispanic to serve as a member of the Collegium.