Closing Worship Speaker: Pastor Tita Valeriano

The Rev. Tita Valeriano is currently building up an evolving progressive faith community in the East Bay Area, California while raising a son, Taal, with her spouse, Jennifer. She has served in various ministries of the church, as parish pastor, campus ministry pastor, and the Lutheran World Federation’s Youth/Young Adult Secretary in Geneva, Switzerland and Regional Officer for North America. Her work has focused on nurturing an ecumenical, multicultural, missional church that invites and includes youth and young adults and people from various cultures, race and class. She is also very involved in justice-oriented and advocacy ministries in the community especially on immigration and economic justice. Recently she participated in various advocacy and accompaniment work on the recently passed bills, Differed Action for Childhood Arrivals, Domestic Workers Bill of Rights, LGBTQ immigrants. Born and raised Lutheran in the Philippines, she was trained in holistic mission. Also trained as a musician contextualizing church music and liturgy, she has traveled in different parts of the world, where she has learned from and worked with renowned church global musicians, and regularly leads creative worship and world music celebrations. Currently she is serving a house church, Way of Grace. For fun, she loves photography, international cooking, traveling and most of all to gather people from various walks of life around a bountiful table.