Oakview Church welcomes missionary
Alina Saucedo, a General Board of Global Ministries missionary based in Costa Rica, will speak at 7 p.m. today at Oakview United Methodist Church, Waynesburg.
Saucedo serves as the mission finance auditor for Central America, parts of South America and the Caribbean, working with church leaders, mission partners and institutions to ensure mission funds are appropriately used.
A native of Bolivia, Saucedo worked in mission finance there before accepting the regional position. Her family has served the Methodist Evangelical Church in Bolivia for more than 40 years.
Educated in La Paz, she has been a teacher of socially disadvantaged youth and children and studied business administration and social psychology.
She has broad experience in the church and social organizations, where she has worked, particularly in the area of leadership development with young people and women.
“Family, places, spaces and people are the alive expression of the presence of God in my life,” she says.