{"id":10437,"date":"2016-06-24T18:11:42","date_gmt":"2016-06-24T22:11:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/?p=10437"},"modified":"2016-06-24T18:11:42","modified_gmt":"2016-06-24T22:11:42","slug":"grieving-together-interview-with-a-latino-pentecostal-minister-in-orlando-on-reaching-out-to-his-lgbt-neighbors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/2016\/06\/grieving-together-interview-with-a-latino-pentecostal-minister-in-orlando-on-reaching-out-to-his-lgbt-neighbors.html","title":{"rendered":"“Grieving Together”: Interview with a Latino Pentecostal Minister in Orlando on Reaching Out to His LGBT Neighbors"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

Christianity Today<\/em>:<\/p>\n

For a Latino, Pentecostal<\/a> megachurch just 10 minutes south of the Orlando nightclub Pulse, the scriptural call to \u201cmourn with those who mourn\u201d has become their heartbreaking reality in the wake of Sunday\u2019s deadly rampage. This week, Iglesia El Calvario<\/a> prepares to host funerals for victims, offer grief counseling, and conduct ongoing outreach for their city and its LGBT community.<\/p>\n

The nearly 4,000-person Assemblies of God<\/a> church prayed, gave blood, and passed out water on Sunday, while death counts climbed from 20 to 30 to 40 to 50. That evening, they heard from Governor Rick Scott and Lieutenant Governor Carlos Lopez-Cantera in a citywide vigil held in their sanctuary to remember the lives lost\u2014many of them Hispanic and gay, at the club for Saturday\u2019s Latin night.<\/p>\n

Gabriel Salguero, a pastor at Iglesia El Calvario and founder of the National Latino Evangelical Coalition<\/a>, joined his LGBT neighbors in relief efforts. He offered prayers in Spanish and English at an 8,000-person event hosted this week by Equality Florida<\/a>, a gay advocacy group. When local reporters inevitably asked about the tension between evangelicals and the gay community, he responded, \u201cWe\u2019re called to be Christ to everybody, and we\u2019re called to love our neighbor, every neighbor.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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