Ortiz, Evelyn Marbely Hernández
Evelyn Marbely Hernández Ortiz is an international Global Mission Fellow with the United Methodist General Board of Global Ministries, engaged in a two-year term of service.
The Global Mission Fellows program takes young adults ages 20-30 out of their home environments and places them in new contexts for mission experience and service. The program has a strong emphasis on faith and justice. Global Mission Fellows become active parts of their new local communities. They connect the church in mission across cultural and geographical boundaries. They grow in personal and social holiness and become strong young leaders working to build just communities in a peaceful world.
Marbely is a lay member of Santa Eduviges Church and Iglesia Santa Lucia, a Catholic congregation in Central America. She earned a certificate in agricultural engineering.
“We all have moments of happiness in our lives but also of sadness and difficulties that only with the help of God can we overcome,” Marbely said. “God’s word tells us that only God gives peace and strength, that as much as we want to do it by our own means, it is not possible without God’s help, and no matter that I am not a perfect person, God has helped me many times.”
Because God has helped her so much, Marbely wants to contribute her “grain of sand” where it is needed, with love for her neighbor, patience, respect and all those values that please God. “Being able to volunteer for this beautiful organization,” she said, “would make me feel edified and happy. It would help me fulfill one of my most cherished dreams since I was a child: to contribute my time and knowledge to whatever is within my reach, always keeping God in mind and heart.
“I am sure that being part of Global Mission Fellows would be a great blessing if this is God’s will,” Marbely added. She referred to Isaiah 55:8-9, NRSV: “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways my ways, says the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.”
Marbely continued, “God’s plans will always be good and better than ours since God is the only one who knows our present, past and future. I already feel grateful for this door that God has allowed me to knock on.”
She looks forward to sharing the knowledge acquired during her academic training, “always willing to give the best of myself with much love, patience and dedication, and learning everything that is necessary to improve and achieve the objectives effectively,” she said.
“I learn every day from people because we all have something to contribute, and all knowledge that strengthens our knowledge is good and necessary. If God has allowed me to obtain this knowledge, I also want to share it. Together, we can build a better world. By respecting each thought, opinion, point of view and contribution that each person can make and uniting them in the best possible way, no matter how small it may seem, little by little great things can be built.”