Meet Rev. Evelyn Rivera
Reverend Fay Lundin
Rev. Evelyn Rivera was born in Brooklyn, New York and moved to Vieques, Puerto Rico in 1979. In the year of 1988, she moved back to the US to work as a Social Worker in Reading, PA.
She received her bachelor’s in Social Work from University of Puerto Rico (1988) and has a Master of Divinity from Wesley Theological Seminary (2015).
Rev. Rivera served as Associate Pastor of Middletown UMC in Middletown, MD for three years and previously served for ten years at Hughes-El Buen Samaritano UMC in Wheaton, MD. Rev. Rivera is a Provisional Elder for the Baltimore-Washington Conference.
Rev. Rivera’s greatest hope is for a church to offer God’s radical and inclusive grace to all people while calling every follower of Jesus to inner holiness, missional compassion, and justice rooted in the gospel of Jesus Christ.
She is the proud mother of two adult children, Eduardo and Emilio. She enjoys being the grandmother of two precious grandchildren that bring immense joy to her life.
She received her bachelor’s in Social Work from University of Puerto Rico (1988) and has a Master of Divinity from Wesley Theological Seminary (2015).
Rev. Rivera served as Associate Pastor of Middletown UMC in Middletown, MD for three years and previously served for ten years at Hughes-El Buen Samaritano UMC in Wheaton, MD. Rev. Rivera is a Provisional Elder for the Baltimore-Washington Conference.
Rev. Rivera’s greatest hope is for a church to offer God’s radical and inclusive grace to all people while calling every follower of Jesus to inner holiness, missional compassion, and justice rooted in the gospel of Jesus Christ.
She is the proud mother of two adult children, Eduardo and Emilio. She enjoys being the grandmother of two precious grandchildren that bring immense joy to her life.
Meet Amy
Amy is the Minister of Outreach at College Park United Methodist. In November of 2018, she joined CPUMC to work with the Hispanic ministries and then developed other outreach ministries for the church, including an intentional student community (Humble House) and an after school program, stART.
She lives on just the other side of College Park in Greenbelt, and considers herself a dual citizen of both wonderfully diverse and interesting DC suburb towns.
Amy dreams of and works to build a church that is the hands and feet of Christ in the world.
She lives on just the other side of College Park in Greenbelt, and considers herself a dual citizen of both wonderfully diverse and interesting DC suburb towns.
Amy dreams of and works to build a church that is the hands and feet of Christ in the world.
