Pastor Misael Fajardo-Perez
Rev. Misael Fajardo Perez first served in the Northwest Intermountain Synod as the Mission Developer for the Wenatchee Valley Lutheran Latino Ministry.
Originally from Mexico City, Pastor Misa came to the United States when he was 18 years old.
He attended Trinity Lutheran College, Issaquah, WA. After graduation, he was called to work with young people in the multicultural context of Yakima, WA at Tree of Life Lutheran. He went on to earn his Master of Divinity from Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary in Berkeley, CA, graduating in May, 2013 with a concentration on evangelism and justice.
Following his ministry as Mission Developer he was called as an Interim Pastor for Faith Lutheran Church in Leavenworth, WA. Once he ended his task as interim, he was called to be the Senior pastor at the ELCA’s Pacifica Synod with St. Peter Lutheran / Iglesia Luterana San Pedro in Santa Ana, California, until January 2022. Pastor Misa served as an Interim Pastor for Our Redeemer Lutheran, in Garden Grove, CA. He concluded his term there at the end February 2023. He was then called to Christ Lutheran Church in West Covina and now serves there as the Senior Pastor as well as Superintendent of Christ Lutheran’s preschool and elementary school which shares the same campus as the Church.