Welcome to College Park United Methodist Church Rev. Evelyn Rivera!
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 is serving as an Associate Pastor of Middletown United Methodist Church and previously served for ten years at Hughes- El Buen Samaritano UMC. 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 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 is serving as an Associate Pastor of Middletown United Methodist Church and previously served for ten years at Hughes- El Buen Samaritano UMC. 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.