This sermon was delivered at the 2025 Disciples Preaching Retreat, an annual gathering where Disciples preachers come together for renewal, study, and the shared experience of hearing and reflecting on the proclaimed word. Rev. Ramos Goycolea brings a distinctive pastoral voice shaped by his ministry with the Shalom Mennonite Fellowship — a congregation committed to peace, community, and faithful discipleship in the Tucson context. His sermon offers Disciples preachers an example of preaching that is at once theologically grounded and responsive to the particular community a pastor serves.

Rev. Pedro Ramos Goycolea is the Pastor of Shalom Mennonite Fellowship in Tucson, Arizona.

Recorded at the 2025 Disciples Preaching Retreat.

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