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The Rev. Rafael Malpica-Padilla is executive director for the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) Division for Global Mission, Chicago, IL.
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The Rev. Rafael Malpica-Padilla is executive director for the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) Division for Global Mission, Chicago, IL.
He oversees a global program cooperating in approximately 70 countries with 309 missionaries and volunteers, 47 Chicago-based staff and annual expenditures of $28.2 million.
Malpica-Padilla has served ELCA Global Mission since 1993, as Area Program Director for Latin America and the Caribbean (1993-2000), Director for International Programs and Planning (2001-2002), and as Associate Executive Director (2002-2003). From 1987 to 1993, Malpica Padilla served as Bishop of the ELCA's Caribbean Synod. Ordained in (1981), he holds a B.A. in Philosophy from the University of Puerto Rico and a Master of Divinity from the Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia.
With his wife Luz D. Malpica, an occupational therapist working with children with learning disabilities, he is the parent of Rafael, Felix Javier, and Karla Marie. The Malpica Padilla family are members at Bethany Lutheran Church, Crystal Lake, Illinois.
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The Courage of Faith
Luke 1:48, 1:52-53; Phil. 2:7; Mt. 18:20, 28:20; Gal. 3:26-28
December 19, 1999
The Rev. Rafael Malpica-Padilla (ELCA)The Sundays in Advent give us the opportunity to hear anew the story of God's steadfast love for God's people. God has not forgotten the promise of the one who will sit in David's throne to rule with justice and righteousness, the one who will come to liberate God's people from the bondage of sin and the power of death. In Jesus, God's kingdom breaks into history. Through him God's salvific plan is put into action to exercise the reign of God in and through Israel.
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Rejoice and Be Glad:
Matthew 17:20-21
November 07, 1999
The Rev. Rafael Malpica-Padilla (ELCA)The Beatitudes are the opening of Jesus' first discourse in Matthew's gospel. This first discourse set its stamp on the whole of Matthew's gospel. What are we to make of it? What relevance does it have for us today?
There are divergent conclusions among biblical scholars concerning its meanings, its use, and its intent. The sermon is sometimes considered an impossible demand designed to drag readers to their knees in repentance. For others, it is a set of emergency rules not valid for all times. At times, the sermon has been read as a body of regulations meant not for all believers but only for an elite core of especially dedicated believers within the larger whole.
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