Tracey King-Ortega
Col. Centroamerica L-804
Managua, Nicaragua
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In July 2005, Tracey King came under appointment for the third time as a PC(USA) mission worker, this time to serve as regional liaison for Central America. In her new role, Tracey will help create better communication between the Worldwide Ministries Division, mission personnel, partner churches, and PC(USA) congregations interested in ministry in Central America. She’ll have a special focus on programs of reconciliation and peacemaking.

For the first four months of her assignment, Tracey will be based in Louisville. In October 2005 she’ll move to Nicaragua. She will travel frequently to the five Central American countries in which the PC(USA) has denominational partners: Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua.

In Tracey’s previous appointment to mission service by the PC(USA) she was seconded to the Council of Evangelical Churches in Nicaragua (CEPAD) in Managua, Nicaragua, from 1999 to 2003. Her work with CEPAD involved helping churches and church people in the United States relate to Nicaraguan churches, mostly by organizing and coordinating travel seminars and study tours. She cultivated the development of long-term, committed relationships of solidarity, accompaniment, friendship, and spiritual growth between churches in the United States and churches in Nicaragua.

Letters from
Tracey King-Ortega

• September 2009
• April 2009
• September 2008
• March 2008
• August 2007
• April 2007
• August 2006
• April 2006
• January 2006
• July 2002
• August 2001
• January 2000

Tracey helped CEPAD connect with the ministry of SIPAZ, the International Service for Peace, which accompanies divided communities as they work towards peace and reconciliation in Chiapas, Mexico. This work has been important to Tracey since her experience in Chiapas as a participant in the PC(USA)'s Reconciliation and Mission Exchange Program.

During her year with the Reconciliation and Mission Program (1997-1998), Tracey was assigned to Mexico’s southernmost state, Chiapas, to work with CEDECH, the State Committee for the Defense of Evangelicals in Chiapas. She led delegations, translated documents, and produced bi-monthly bulletins and other educational materials.

Tracey’s service in Central America helped her discern a vocation in peacebuilding and reconciliation, so when her term of service ended in June 2003, she entered a master’s degree program in conflict transformation at Eastern Mennonite University in Harrisonburg, Virginia, graduating in May 2005 with a concentration in restorative justice.

Tracey holds a bachelor of arts degree in international studies from Whitworth College in Spokane, Washington. During college, Tracey spent six months on a Central America study/service tour through Guatemala, Honduras, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Mexico, studying politics, history, and sociology. She was president of the Whitworth College chapter of Amnesty International and secretary of the Whitworth College chapter of Habitat for Humanity.

Tracey is lifelong member of St. Peter’s by the Sea Presbyterian Church in Rancho Palos Verdes, California.

Birthday: December 2