Melanie Mitchell
Calle Pinos Alto 132, 1-1
Madrid 28029
Spain
Email: Melanie Mitchell

In January 2004 Melanie Mitchell was appointed to serve as pastor of the Iglesia de Cristo, a Spanish-seaking, multicultural church in Madrid, Spain. The church is part of the Madrid presbytery of the Iglesia Evangélica Española.

The path that took Melanie into mission service in Spain began when she was a teenager. “At age 17,” she writes, “I went on my first medical mission trip, believing that I was taking God with me. I was surprised to find when I arrived in Honduras that God was already there.”

Melanie has learned that mission, as an encounter of the other, leads to the discovery that God is at work among people we never even knew about, of backgrounds other than our own, with whom our common ground is the God whom we claim to have known all of our lives.”

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Letters from
Melanie Mitchell

• February 2006

Melanie has been living in Spain since 2000. During her first year in Spain she attended at the Church of the Resurrection in Madrid, doing monthly preaching, weekly worship, Bible study, clothes closet, and youth catechism. Before her sojourn in Spain, she served as chaplain resident at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia. She was a supply preacher in Georgia and Alabama from 1996 to 2000, and from 1993 to 1995 she served as mission associate in Birmingham at Independent Presbyterian Church’s Department of Community Ministries. In this capacity, she gained experience as an organizer and facilitator of mission trips, local mission projects, and mission interpretation.

Melanie is working toward a doctorate at the Universidad Pontificia de Comillas. She plans to continue her research on the soteriology of the sixteenth-century Spanish theologian Juan de Valdés, focusing on his theology of the reign of God.

Melanie has a Master of Divinity from Columbia Theological Seminary, Decatur, Georgia and a licenciatura in dogmatic and fundamental theology from the Universidad Pontificia de Comillas in Madrid, Spain. She has a Bachelor of Arts from Davidson College in Davidson, North Carolina.

Melanie was ordained to the ministry of Word and Sacrament and installed by the Presbytery of Madrid and the Presbytery of Sheppards and Lapsley as pastor of the Iglesia de Cristo on September 20, 2003.

Prior to her ordination, Melanie was a life-long member of the Independent Presbyterian Church in Birmingham, Alabama. She is married to Amador López-Pina. They have one child, Laura Emily.

Birthdays:
Melanie - August 30
Laura Emily - November 22, 2005
Gabriel Adam - February 19, 2008