Argentina in an acute poverty crisis
The pandemic has exposed social inequalities worldwide; at the same time, the distress is deeper. In the last three months, the...
Accompanying in Mission
Acompañando en Misión
ELCA Global Mission
Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Peru,
Venezuela
Representante Regional
Regional Representative
Gustavo Driau
- Apr 27
- 2 min
Rev. Wilma Rommel, elected presiding pastor in IELU Argentina-Uruguay
The United Evangelical Lutheran Church in Argentina and Uruguay held an ordinary general assembly on April 24, 2021. The assembly was...
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Gustavo Driau
- Apr 24
- 6 min
Ravaged by Covid, Brazil Faces a Hunger Epidemic
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/23/world/americas/covid-brazil-hunger.html The New York Times. Apr. 23rd, 2021 By Ernesto Londoño, Flávia...
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Gustavo Driau
- Apr 12
- 3 min
Hard poverty in Argentina: Companion church and World Hunger response.
On March 31, 2021, the National Institute of Statistics and Census (INDEC) of Argentina published its annual report on poverty....
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Gustavo Driau
- Apr 9
- 2 min
Solidarity from the Companion Church in Brazil IECLB
Mauro B. de Souza, the vice president of IECLB sent this letter supporting ELCA response to the winter storms in Texas Dear Gustavo...
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Gustavo Driau
- Apr 5
- 1 min
It is Easter Sunday! Lutheran Diakonia Foundation, Brazil
“When the Sabbath was over, Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James, and Salome bought spices so that they might go to anoint Jesus'...
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Gustavo Driau
- Apr 5
- 1 min
A sense of deep peace and uncontainable joy
2021 Easter Trembling and bewildered, the women went out and fled from the tomb. They said nothing to anyone because they were afraid....
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Gustavo Driau
- Apr 5
- 1 min
Lutheran Diakonia Foundation, Brazil. Good Friday 2021
Good Friday 2021. Lutheran Diakonia Foundation, Brazil "Near the cross of Jesus stood his mother, his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of...
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Gustavo Driau
- Apr 2
- 6 min
Lack of progress in the implementation of the Colombia peace process
https://english.elpais.com/usa/2021-03-30/politics-peace-and-poverty-a-powder-keg-called-colombia.html Politics, peace and poverty: a...
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Gustavo Driau
- Nov 16, 2020
- 3 min
Katie Kline is now a called and ordained ELCA minister of Word and Service.
Katherine Christina Andert Kline is now a called and ordained minister of Word and Service in the church of Christ. On October 31st,...
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Gustavo Driau
- Oct 7, 2020
- 2 min
See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not work or spin
Amid pebbles and fog, yellow and solitary, the Amancaes lilies return every year. When Lima turns grayer than ever, and winter increases,...
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Gustavo Driau
- Sep 24, 2020
- 2 min
Conversations on Migrants Ministries
On Wednesday, September 23, 2020, companion churches from Chile, Argentina, Colombia, and Peru participated in conversations with the...
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Gustavo Driau
- Sep 8, 2020
- 6 min
Lutheran School of Theology, Bogotá Colombia
The Lutheran School of Theology (LST) is a ministry of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Colombia, IELCO. Nelida Mora is the coordinator...
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Gustavo Driau
- Sep 3, 2020
- 2 min
IELB programs promote rights for children and adolescents
Bolivia faces crucial human development challenges, a difficult situation in one of the poorest countries in Latin America. Structural...
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Gustavo Driau
- Aug 22, 2020
- 3 min
Programmatic and staffing changes in Office for Latin America and the Caribbean
Dear brothers and sisters, “Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will...
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Gustavo Driau
- Aug 22, 2020
- 1 min
LAC - Mission Formation Webinar: Glocal Musicians come together
On August 27, 2020, the LAC Webinar in Mission Formation will take place. The webinar will engage musician from the Latin America...
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Gustavo Driau
- Aug 13, 2020
- 2 min
IELB-Bolivia COVID-19 Hunger Campaign in Tarija
Tarija is a city in southern Bolivia on the border with Argentina. Tarija has 270,000 inhabitants. COVID-19 has had a medium impact in...
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Gustavo Driau
- Aug 11, 2020
- 1 min
Rev. Adita Torres Lescano+
It is with deep sadness that we pray at the death of Pastor Adita Torres Lescano, Pastor-President of the Lutheran Church of Peru. Her...
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Gustavo Driau
- Aug 8, 2020
- 2 min
Oswald de Andrade, Brazil: Geronimo
Oswaldo de Andrade was part of the modernist’s artists movement of São Paulo —a group of artists and writers active in the 1920s and...
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Gustavo Driau
- Aug 8, 2020
- 2 min
Hunger alleviation in Cobija, Bolivia. A IELB and Montana Synod shared COVID-19 campaign
Cobija is a city located well to the north in Bolivia, on the border with Brazil. On the Acre River The city has a population of about...
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Gustavo Driau
- Aug 3, 2020
- 2 min
"You give them something to eat", Mathew 14:16
The Gospel reading on the first Sunday of August 2020 describes the miracle of the multiplication of the loaves. Jesus feeds a multitude...
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Gustavo Driau
- Aug 2, 2020
- 2 min
IELB and Montana Synod: food security program in Bolivia
Food security program in Caranavi.
Photos by pastor Emilio Aslla
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Gustavo Driau
- Jul 31, 2020
- 2 min
Conscious Basket Campaign; FLD-Brazil
Lutheran Foundation of Diaconia (FLD), Mission Council among Indigenous Peoples (COMIN), Center for Support and Promotion of Agroecology...
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Gustavo Driau
- Jul 30, 2020
- 2 min
Lutheran Church in Punta Arenas: "common pots" to alleviate hunger
In Chile, the long and complex battle against the coronavirus has ups and downs. As of July 20, more than 9,000 deaths have been...
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Gustavo Driau
- Jul 19, 2020
- 3 min
"Women Health" project leaders contribute to alleviating hunger in Peru.
Life in the "Human Settlement January 31" in Piura, Peru, has always been very difficult due to the lack of sanitation and drainage...
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Gustavo Driau
- Jun 29, 2020
- 5 min
In Bogotá, a light of hope between migration and COVID-19
Doña Nelly and Angelica are volunteer personal serving at the IELCO Migration Center in Bogota
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Gustavo Driau
- Jun 25, 2020
- 2 min
A sea of little fires, tiny flames
"A man of the Neguá nation, on the coast of Colombia, was able to climb to the high heaven. On his return, he told a story. He said he...
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Gustavo Driau
- Jun 25, 2020
- 3 min
Water means life. SEPEC-Peru repairing earthquake damaged wells
Sugar cane production in Peru has a dimension of exploitation and abuse for centuries, everywhere all around the world. Three communities...
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Gustavo Driau
- Jun 18, 2020
- 3 min
Waste pickers cooperatives receive support in Porto Alegre, Brazil
Brazil has the most confirmed COVID-19 cases in Latin America: 800,000 infections COVID-19 cases and 43,000 deaths as of June 15. Brazil...
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Gustavo Driau
- Jun 13, 2020
- 5 min
The pandemic threatens the lives of vulnerable people in Espirito Santo, Brazil
Espirito Santo is one of the twenty-six states of Brazil. Its capital is Vitória. It was founded in 1535 by Portuguese colonists in what...
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Gustavo Driau
- Jun 8, 2020
- 4 min
Christ on the Street, in Santiago, Chile
Mrs. Elizabeth Grünholz, President of La Trinidad Congregation wrote this relevant and meaningful letter bout “Christ on the Street” The...
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Gustavo Driau
- Jun 3, 2020
- 4 min
What does it mean to be called "The Good Samaritan Congregation"?
The "La Faena" neighborhood, part of the Peñalolen commune, was from its beginnings in the 1950s, a community of self-management,...
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Gustavo Driau
- May 30, 2020
- 2 min
During the pandemic times, the poorest struggle the most to keep their families safe
The Lutheran Church of Peru (IL-P) moved quickly to adapt their programs to provide food and hygiene kits to the families and...
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Gustavo Driau
- May 30, 2020
- 2 min
The pandemic exposes the vulnerability of Venezuelan migrants and refugees
More than five million Venezuelans have fled their country in recent years, driven by a deep political, social, and economic crisis. Of...
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Gustavo Driau
- May 27, 2020
- 2 min
Afro-Brazilian rural communities supported by FLD-CAPA
The Quilombola communities are descendants of Afro-Brazilian slaves who defended their lives, in the 18th and 19th centuries, fleeing to...
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Gustavo Driau
- May 26, 2020
- 1 min
For the Healing of the Nations
The world has been shaken by the COVID-19 pandemic. Everyone, everywhere, is impacted by the disease. There are lockdowns and...
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Gustavo Driau
- May 25, 2020
- 2 min
Colombia, red flags means hunger
The COVID-19 pandemic finally reached Latin America. More than half of the cases of COVID-19 around the world were detected in Latin...
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Gustavo Driau
- May 22, 2020
- 2 min
The southernmost Lutheran church in the world responding to the pandemic
IELCH started in February 2020, a program to support Haitian and Venezuelan migrants in the city of Osorno. The emergence of the COVID-10...
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Gustavo Driau
- May 20, 2020
- 2 min
Montana Synod launches a campaign to support companion church in Bolivia
The effects of the pandemic hit Bolivia hard. The country is in total quarantine as a preventive measure against the spread and spread of...
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Gustavo Driau
- May 15, 2020
- 3 min
Peace, relief and hope in this time of need, Piura
The Peruvian Evangelical Lutheran Church, IL-P, has contacted a few years ago the Lutheran mission "Christ The King" in the city of...
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Gustavo Driau
- May 11, 2020
- 2 min
Women Health Program, in the Peruvian Andes
The "Women Integral Health" project for in Cusco, Peru, promotes the health and empowerment of participants through the transformation...
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Gustavo Driau
- May 10, 2020
- 2 min
Working diligently to care for affected communities
The team of the "Integral Women's Health in Cusco" program, of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Peru (IL-P) is working on an awareness...
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Gustavo Driau
- May 10, 2020
- 3 min
The church in Colombia, serving migrants in COVID-19 time
The most important thing is that the virus has not prevented to continue so serve the people who need it most in this community. Ana...
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Gustavo Driau
- May 10, 2020
- 2 min
The Church in Peru, serving in pandemic times
Maria Luz Chirinos Trinidad is a member of the Lutheran Church of Peru (IL-P), in The Good Shepherd Congregation, near the International...
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Gustavo Driau
- May 10, 2020
- 2 min
The church in Chile, adapting programs to emergency
The Evangelical Lutheran Church in Chile develops an emergency migrant accompaniment and assistance project in the city of Osorno, almost...
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Gustavo Driau
- May 7, 2020
- 1 min
La Paz, Bolivia; the church responding hunger
In mid-March, Bolivia government initiated a total quarantine as a prevention measure against corona-virus expansion. Then economy is...
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Gustavo Driau
- May 15, 2019
- 1 min
Good Samaritan Congregation-Chile. 50 anniversary
On Friday 26 and Saturday, April 27, 2019 the Congregation "The Good Samaritan" of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Chile - IELCH,...
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Gustavo Driau
- May 13, 2019
- 1 min
Lutheran School, in La Paz-Bolivia, 28 anniversary
The Lutheran School in El Alto, La Paz; Bolivia celebrated its 28th anniversary on May 2. The Lutheran School was created by the Bolivian...
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Gustavo Driau
- May 7, 2019
- 2 min
Diakonia Global Mission visits projects in Brazil
Rebecca Duerst, director of Diakonia (International Development and Disaster Response) visited the partner organizations of ELCA / Global...
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Gustavo Driau
- May 6, 2019
- 2 min
Pastor German Loayza, elected presiding pastor in IELB
On last March 24, the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Bolivia celebrated the 2019 Ordinary Assembly. Pastor German Loayza was elected as...
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