This gathering begins with a potluck dinner.

Elena serves as chaplain of the Shalom Center, a peace education, environmental education and spiritual development project of the Pentecostal Church of Chile. The Shalom Center organizes and coordinates programs, camps, and retreats in trauma healing and resilience development, conflict transformation, environmental education, leadership training, creative Bible study and other activities in support of the needs of local congregations as well as the national church (including, for example, liturgical dance gatherings, peace building camps, spiritual retreats for the children of pastors, youth, women’s and men’s groups, etc.). Learn more about her work here.