Inés Velasquez-McBryde is a pastor, preacher, reconciler, and speaker. She is Co-Lead Pastor of The Church We Hope For, a multiethnic church planted during the 2020 pandemic in southern California. She is originally from Nicaragua where her father was a pastor and community developer and her mother was a diplomat at the Spanish embassy under Foreign Affairs. Her life was shaped by her two parents who took her on multiple humanitarian missions and discipled her into the work of justice after Nicaragua’s civil war. Inés earned her MDiv at Fuller Seminary and was a Chaplain at Fuller for 2 years. She has 22 years of combined ministry experience in church-planting and pastoral staff leadership in multi-ethnic churches. She has spoken in local church pulpits across the nation, as well as at national and regional conferences sharing her passion for multiethnic church planting, racial reconciliation, justice, and the full inclusion of women in pastoral leadership. Ines loves salsa dancing, café con leche and guava empanadas.
Publications: She Is: Biblical Reflections on Vocation workbook for Fuller’s DePree Center for Leadership; Finding God: Hope is a Habit that Grows in the Dark 10-week Devotional, Fuller’s DePree Center for Leadership
Awards & honors: Ian-Pitts Watson Preaching Award at Fuller Theological Seminary
