Learn more on October 23rd!
Shannon Baker spent a year serving in Mexico through the ELCA young adults YAGM program. She will talk about her experience serving in Mexico through the ELCA young adults YAGM program and the many options available international service for young adults.
On Wednesday, October 23rd at Grace Lutheran Church you can come for dinner from 5:15 pm – 6 pm and/or hear her presentation in the Fireside Room at 6:15 – 7 pm. One-on-one conversations can also be arranged – just contact Alicia Anderson for more info!
MORE ABOUT YAGM The ELCA Young Adults in Global Mission program invites ELCA young adults ages 21-35 into a transformative, year-long journey in international service. Young adults serve in the spirit of accompaniment, walking alongside global companions in a manner that practices mutuality, interdependence and solidarity. Areas of service include, but are not limited to, health and development, congregational ministry, human rights, education, homelessness, addiction recovery, women’s issues and children and youth. All site placements provide opportunities for young adults to confront issues of wealth and poverty, racial privilege, economic disparity and globalization, all through the lens of faith.
MORE ABOUT SHANNON My name is Shannon Baker, and I have recently returned from a YAGM year of service in Guadalajara, Mexico, where I served in a migrant center and two member churches of the Iglesia Luterana Mexicana (Mexican Lutheran Church), leaning into themes of migration, storytelling, and theological education. Inspired by the boots-on-the-ground, love-in-action Catholic priest who runs the migrant shelter–and after about three years of debate with God on the subject–I’m starting my first semester of graduate school at Denver Seminary (online), where I hope to complete my Master’s of Divinity, concentrating on Social Justice, Advocacy, & Theology. In my free time (I hope I’ll still have some this fall!), you’ll likely find me writing fiction or poetry, reading the same, playing a ball sport of any kind, verbal sparring with family and friends, or trying to find woods/trails/lakes/nature-of-all-kinds to explore. Nice to “meet” you all!
