Mainstage | Tuesday | Opening General Session

Rev. Dr. Gabriel Salguero is pastor of The Gathering Place, a Latino-led multi-ethnic Assemblies of God congregation in Orlando, Florida.

Salguero is also the president and founder of the National Latino Evangelical Coalition (NALEC), a coalition of several thousand evangelical congregations in the United States. He was the former Director of the Hispanic Leadership Program (HLP) and the Institute for Faith and Public Life at Princeton Theological Seminary. Salguero is also a powerful voice on issues that affect the close to 9 million Latino evangelicals in the United States. Salguero’s leadership through NaLEC offers an important voice for our country’s growing diversity and changing demographics.

He has written extensively on Latino evangelicalism, immigration, racism, and multicultural congregations. Salguero has been named as one of the nation’s most prominent Latino evangelical leaders by the New York Times, Huffington Post, the New York Observer, the Center for American Progress, El Diario, CNN Español, NBC Universal, Univisión, and Jorge Ramos’s Al Punto. In addition, the Discovery Channel and the Oprah Winfrey Network have featured his leadership on young male education and criminal justice reform.

Rev. Salguero has served on the White House Faith-Based Advisory Council, the National Association of Evangelicals (NAE), and the National Advisory Council of the My Brother’s Keeper Alliance. He is also on the board of La Asociación Evangélica Latina (AEL), the coalition of Latin American evangelicals, the representative body for all evangelical associations in Latin America.

Salguero holds a BA in Spanish and History from Rutgers University, an M.Div (magna cum laude) from New Brunswick Theological Seminary, and a Doctorate in Divinity (honoris causa) from Eastern Nazarene College.

Rev. Salguero lives with his wife, the Rev. Jeanette Salguero, and their two sons in Orlando, Florida.