Inés Velasquez-McBryde

Inés Velasquez-McBryde is a pastor and speaker. She is the lead pastor of The Church We Hope For, a multiethnic church 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 (2019) and was a Chaplain at Fuller for two 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.