On Thanksgiving weekend 1973, 53 evangelical faith leaders, representing a wide swath of denominations, signed the “Chicago Declaration of Evangelical Social Concern.” Its drafting was driven by increasing concern over divisions forming between Christian faith, and a commitment to social justice.

One of my favorite hymns from growing up is Katherine Hankey’s “I Love to Tell the Story.” When I was asked to return to the Palmer community as the “seminary storyteller,” I was tasked to do exactly that: tell the story of Palmer.

Whenever things seemed to line up in people’s lives, no matter how peculiar they may be, a member of my congregation instantly saw the hand of God at work and would exclaim, “Coincidence? I think NOT!”

The work of the Missiologist and Theologian honored by Palmer's Online Master of Theological Studies Latinos/as Program in Virtual Conference.