Intro Episode: What is Gente Puente?
La versión en español
Summary – English (below) / Spanish
Gente Puente means people who are bridge builders. In other words people who try to break down barriers and unite the Body of Christ – the Church.
This podcast is for you if you are:
a Catholic leader in any ministry connected to the Hispanic/Latino community in the United States
looking for practical and concrete ideas, strategies and resources that have worked for other ministers just like you
don’t want to re-invent the wheel and prefer to collaborate with others
want to help build a community that encourages and supports one another
Patti Gutiérrez interviews Catholic leaders in all levels of ministry in the Church in the United States to bring you Hispanic Ministry Best Practices that you can implement and apply to your own ministry setting.
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English Summary of Intro Episode:
Hi everyone! Welcome to the Gente Puente podcast!! This is a place for Catholic leaders to hear about Hispanic/Latino Ministry Best Practices from around the United States and to receive encouragement from other ministers who understand all the joys and struggles that come with ministry! We are a community of gente puente – building bridges between God and his people as well as between diverse cultures and languages. If you are new and aren’t sure where to start, this is the place for you! If you have felt that you are building in vain or you’re all alone, this is the place for you! If you sometimes feel like you are reinventing the wheel and you want to collaborate more with others, this is the place for you! If you need new ideas and strategies that really work, this is the place for you! Welcome to the family!
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This Intro episode is to give you a little idea of what to expect from future Gente Puente episodes as well as to share a little about myself Patti Gutiérrez and how the podcast got started.
So let’s start with what you will hear on upcoming episodes:
* I interview Catholic leaders who are connected to the Hispanic/Latino community at all levels – parish and local ministries as well as diocesan, regional and national ministries. My guests are lay people, priests, deacons and religious sisters and brothers. And we will cover a wide range of pastoral areas – so you may hear an episode about celebrating Our Lady of Guadalupe at a parish or building a diocesan formation program or advocating for immigrant rights in a certain region or building a national vocation ministry for Latinos. We will explore Hispanic ministry from all angles.
* Through these interviews you will hear great concrete ideas,
