{"id":187,"date":"2016-08-19T12:07:12","date_gmt":"2016-08-19T16:07:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth-mentors\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=187"},"modified":"2016-08-19T12:30:31","modified_gmt":"2016-08-19T16:30:31","slug":"daniel-velez-rivera","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth-mentors\/profile\/daniel-velez-rivera\/","title":{"rendered":"Daniel Velez-Rivera"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am passionate about establishing and sustaining faith communities with a vocational parish ministry focus in church planting and redeveloping congregations. I am most inspired when I help to nourish and strengthen multigenerational and multiethnic lay leaders to be Christ\u2019s ambassadors inside and outside the walls of the church. St. Gabriel&#8217;s has an English and Spanish language worship ministry in a very diverse exurb of Washington, DC. In 2014 St. Gabriel&#8217;s the first bilingual, authentically inclusive, multicultural Episcopal congregation in Loudoun County. Learn more at:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.saintgabriels.net\">http:\/\/www.saintgabriels.net<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I was invited to consider ordained ministry by my parish priest, an STH distinguished alum, the Rev. Dr. Titus Presler in 1999. I entered parish ministry after pursuing a dual master\u2019s degree in Divinity and Social Work from Boston University in 2006; I have served congregations in Salem, MA, Baltimore, MD, and Leesburg, VA. I am married to Parker Gallagher, the love of my life, who introduced me to the Episcopal Church in 1996. In my free time I enjoy the company of family and friends; cooking, traveling, yoga, the beach, music, dancing, golfing, and learning.<\/p>\n<h5>Location: Leesburg, VA<\/h5>\n","protected":false},"author":1603,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth-mentors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/187"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth-mentors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth-mentors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth-mentors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1603"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth-mentors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":195,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth-mentors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/187\/revisions\/195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth-mentors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}