Boehler, Genilma

Dr. Genilma Boehler, a pastor of the Methodist Church of Brazil, has served as a Global Missionary of the United Methodist Board of Global Ministries since 2011. She currently serves as a faculty and theological researcher at Theological Community of Mexico. Her professional experience has spanned pastoral care, Christian education, social movement and university education.

As a pastor, Boehler served in various parishes of the Methodist Church in Brazil and as chaplain at the Izabela Hendrix Methodist University Center, Minas Gerais, and coordinated pastoral care at the Methodist University of Sao Paulo. She served in the streets of Belo Horizonte, Minas Geraid, and trained bilingual educators/literacy teachers in Brazil and Paraguay. Boehler worked with lay people and evangelical pastors of the Methodist Church with Bishop Adriel de Souza Maia.

She has produced Sunday school for resources for youth and young adults. As a university professor, Boehler taught at the Methodist University Center of Porto Alegre, where she coordinated the Gender Cathedra. At the Izabela Hendrix Methodist University Center, Belo Horizonte, she created the Human Rights Observatory and coordinated transversal courses in humanities, symposiums and congresses. At the Latin American Bible University in San José-Costa Rica, her focus was systematic theology and ethics. At the Ecumenical School of the National University, Boehler collaborated in writing projects for two master’s degrees and was a professor in master’s and doctoral degree programs in Costa Rica.

At the United Methodist University of Mozambique, Africa, Boehler taught systematic theology and anthropology and wrote a strategic plan and three extension project proposals for an academic journal. Since January 2023, she has been a professor in theological studies and theology and gender at the Augsburg Lutheran Seminaries in Mexico and the Baptist Seminary in Mexico. As a guest and volunteer, she served with FEET/CIEETS in Nicaragua as a theology teacher, lecturer, text reviewer and guide to theses and dissertations. She is a specialist in critical gender studies, decolonial and postcolonial theories and queer theory. Boehler’s experience and skills include writing and revising texts in Portuguese and Spanish, speaking to diverse audiences, and teaching virtual and in-person classes.

Boehler is the mother of two adult children, Guillermo and Arturo.