Structure
CIEMAL’s structure is made up of:
A Board of Directors composed of representatives of each member
Church, reflects the diversity of members of the churches: youth, laypersons, pastors,
men, women, and indigenous persons.
A Council of Bishops composed of the Bishops and Presidents of
the Churches.
It is led by a president and vice-president elected by the directors and facilitates
the relationships among its members and its mutuality in pastoral care, fellowship
and training. It meets annually in an “Encounter,” Past Encounters have
been held in Mexico, Cuba, Chile, Brazil, Peru, Bolivia, Guatemala, Puerto Rico
and Argentina.
It has issued important documents on issues such as the injustice of the External
Debt and the blockade against Cuba.
Its president is a member of the Board of Directors of CIEMAL.
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
President - Brazil: Paulo Lockmann
Vice-president - Bolivia: Carlos Intipampa A.
Pres. Council of Bishops: Juan A. Vera Méndez
Secretary- Puerto. Rico: Lizzette Gabriel-Montalvo
Treasurer: Julio César Fernandes
General Secretary: Aldo M. Etchegoyen
REPRESENTATIVES OF THE CHURCHES
Argentina: Mariana Beux
Caribbean and the Americas: Samuel Samuels
Chile: Elizabeth Concha
Colombia: to be named
Costa Rica: Alejandro Chan Ortiz
Cuba: Yovanes Uría Laurez
Ecuador: to be named
Guatemala: Amílcar Solórzano
Mexico: Heriberto C. Jiménez
Panama: Pedro Aráuz Valdez
Paraguay: Alcides Garay
Peru: Alicia Paredes
Dominican Republic: Jocelyn Feliz
Uruguay: Marta Sáez
Confederation of Women: Marta Escudero Vizcarra
Member Churches
- Argentine Evangelical Methodist Church
- Evangelical Methodist Church in Bolivia
- Methodist Church in Brazil
- Methodist Church of the Caribbean and the Americas
- Methodist Church of Colombia
- Evangelical Methodist Church of Costa Rica
- Methodist Church in Cuba
- Methodist Church in Chile
- Evangelical United Methodist Church of Ecuador
- Evangelical Primitive Methodist Church of Guatemala
- Methodist Church of Mexico
- Evangelical Methodist Church of Panama
- Evangelical Methodist Community of Paraguay
- Methodist Church of Perú
- Methodist Church of Puerto Rico
- Dominican Evangelical Methodist Church
- Methodist Church in Uruguay
Emerging Churches
- Evangelical Methodist Church of El Salvador
- United Methodist in Honduras
- Evangelical Methodist Church of Nicaragua
- Evangelical Methodist Church in Venezuela
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