GUATEMALA – The Lutheran Church in Guatemala (Iglesia Luterana en Guatemala – ILG) has elected a new president: Rev. Luis Alberto Jasinto. President Jasinto was elected and installed to a two-year term during the ILG’s Church Assembly in Guatemala City on February 1.
“To serve as president is to be a servant of all and to be at the service of all parishes and their needs,” President Jasinto said, reflecting on his election. “As St. Luke writes: ‘So you too, when you have done all that you were commanded, say, “We are unworthy servants; we have only done what was our duty”’ (Luke 17:10).”
Rev. Jasinto is pastor of Lutheran Church of the Resurrection in Gualán, Zacapa, where has served since his ordination in 2000. Rev. Jasinto studied for pastoral ministry at Gauatemala’s Lutheran Center for Theological Studies (Centro Luterano de Estudios Teológicos – CLET). He also received a Master of Arts in Systematic Theology from Concordia Seminary (St. Louis, Missouri) in 2020.
President Jasinto succeeds Rev. Ignacio Chan, whose most recent period as president of the ILG began in 2019 and continued up until Rev. Jasinto’s election.
Also elected during the ILG’s 2025 Church Assembly were Rev. Esdras Natanael Orozco as Vice President; Otoniel Rodríguez Urrea as Treasurer; and Carlos Tobal Cerna as Secretary. Other business during the ILG’s Assembly included the reception of reports; approval of the church’s budget; and planning for youth and women’s conferences in 2025.
The Lutheran Church in Guatemala is a member church of the International Lutheran Council (ILC), a global association of Lutheran church bodies and groups, dedicated to proclaiming the Gospel of Jesus Christ on the basis of a shared commitment to the authority of Scripture and the Lutheran Confessions.
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