It is recognized that the member care movement in Latin America started around the 1999-2000s (O’Donnell 2011). In this article, I would like to introduce the idea that, symbolically, we could say that as a movement, Latin member care workers are in an adolescent stage. We have a lot of passion, but we are not well integrated or mature, and we do not have a clear identity.

While women continue to sacrifice immensely for God’s mission, they are victims of sexism and marginalization.

The phenomenon of globalization is impacting all sectors of society, and mission agencies are no exception. Of course, mission agencies have always been concerned with culture—we have been talking about cross-cultural communication and strategies for reaching out across cultures for as long as we’ve existed