Moses Barrios

Background

About Moses Barrios

The Rev. Dr. Moses D. Barrios is the Senior Pastor of Calvary by the Sea Lutheran Church. He is an Indigenous leader of Mayan descent, born and raised in Los Angeles, CA with more than 25 years of ministry experience, serving throughout California and Hawaiʻi. Pastor Moses received both his graduate and post-graduate degrees from Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, CA. His doctoral project titled, “Confronting the Lack of Racial Unity in the American Christian Church,” is the one of his passions behind his ministry work. His other theological and biblical studies derive from Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary (P.L.T.S.) in Berkeley, CA, The Hispanic Center for Theological Studies (C.H.E.T.) an affiliate of North Park Theological Seminary in Compton, CA and Chicago, IL and Luther Seminary in Saint Paul, MN. He is an Ordained Roster Minister of Word and Sacrament with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA). Additionally, Pastor Moses is the President of Faith Action, a faith-based non-profit organization in Hawaiʻi advocating for justice and equity for the last 40 years. He has extensive experience as a community spiritual leader working with disproportionate people groups. Most notably with the skid-row houseless community in downtown LA and the queer community in the Greater LA area. Moreover, he has served in numerous traditions and denominations. This spectrum of theological and liturgical history has created an ecumenical approach and devotion to the engagement and reconciling of the local church and all creation. Moses enjoys speaking on racial reconciliation, LGBTQI inclusion outside and inside the church, church advancement strategies in the urban context, and liberation or prophetic preaching. Furthermore, as an advocate and activist for inclusion, racial reconciliation, and the repair of all creation –he fully believes the Trinitarian flow of the divine is healing the world. Hope is here, joy is here, and healing is already happening. Enter the flow!