A Just Response to the Border Crisis feat: Sarah Heath and Alexia Salvatierra - a podcast by Wild Goose Festival

Rev. Alexia Salvatierra is the author with Dr. Peter Heltzel of Faith-Rooted Organizing: Mobilizing the Church in Service to the World (Intervarsity Press). She is a Lutheran Pastor with over 40 years of experience in congregational and community ministry, including church-based service and community development programs, congregational and community organizing and legislative advocacy. She is an affiliate professor at Fuller Theological Seminary and adjunct at four other academic institutions. In addition to coordinating the 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 is a national leader in immigrant justice, co-founder of the New Sanctuary Movement, the Evangelical Immigration Table and M25 (Matthew 25/Mateo 25).

 

Rev. Sarah Heath currently serves First United Methodist Church in Costa Mesa California, where she is the lead pastor for a church re-start and revitalization. Along with being a pastor Sarah is a speaker and a writer. She is the author of “What’s Your Story? Seeing your life through God’s eyes” and “The Authenticity Challenge: 21 days to a more content life.” She is the host of Sonderlust the podcast. You can hear Sarah featured on the litrugists podcast, Homebrewed Christianity, A tiny Revolution with Kevin Garcia and other podcasts or catch her on youtube with buzzfeed for ask a pastor anything. www.revsarahheath.com