Karen Gonzalez is a speaker, writer, and immigrant advocate, who herself immigrated from Guatemala as a child. Karen is a former public school teacher and attended Fuller Theological Seminary, where she studied theology and missiology. For the last 10 years, she has been a non-profit professional, currently working for World Relief, an organization in Baltimore, MD that serves immigrants and refugees. She wrote a book about her own immigration story and the many immigrants found in the Bible: The God Who Sees: Immigrants, The Bible, and the Journey to Belong (Herald Press, May 2019). She also has bylines in Sojourners, Christianity Today, The Christian Century, Christ and Pop Culture, and others.
The award-winning January Series of Calvin University is coming to Winnipeg. From Jan. 8 through Jan. 28, 2020, Transcona Christian Reformed Church will be one of 60 remote webcast locations worldwide to broadcast one of the nation’s leading lecture and cultural arts series. The daily speakers will take place from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at 131 Victoria Ave. West and is free.