Anton Flores-Maisonet, the co-founder of Alterna, a Christian missional community based in Georgia and comprised of United States citizens and Latin America immigrants, will be speaking at Bethel Mennonite Church in Mountain Lake on Sunday, July 27. He will speaker at the 10:30 a.m. morning worship service, as well as at a 1:15 p.m. session entitled, “Love Crosses Borders.”
A potluck meal will be held following the morning service in the Fellowship Hall. Those attending are asked to bring a dish to pass. Everyone is invited to attend. Bethel Mennonite is located at 301 9th Street North.
In 2006, Flores-Maisonet left his tenure-track faculty position at a private college to follow a call to a life of solidarity with newcomers from Latin America, especially unauthorized and unwelcomed immigrants. Alterna is devoted to faithful acts of hospitality, mercy and justice.
Flores-Maisonet and his wife, Charlotte, have been married since 1994 and two sons, Jairo and Eli. He is past chair of the steering committee of Christian Peacemaker Teams. He has also served on the boards of directors of DOOR (a ministry of the Mennonite Mission Network) and Jubilee Partners and has taught courses at the Central American Study and Service program (CASAS) of the Latin American Anabaptist Seminary (SEMILLA) in Guatemala.