About Rev. Dr. Liz Rios
Dr. Rios has a number of passions but one thing is certain, she has always been an advocate for a healthy local church and a supporter of the people who lead in it. She is considered to be a national faith-based leader due to all her work in faith-based and community nonprofits as well as education.
Since April 2008, Dr. Liz has served as Consulting Editor for Outreach Magazine, a national magazine for church leaders, pastors and planters.
To contribute to Latinx Pentecostal history, she researched and wrote a chapter for Latino Religions and Civic Activism called "The Women are Warriors" highlighting the many achievements of Latina Pentecostal women in the NYC social activist world. The chapter was reprinted in Azusa Street and Beyond 100 Years of Commentary on the Global/Pentecostal Charismatic Movement which was highlighted at the Azusa Street Centennial.
Dr. Rios has also been a contributor for CALLED, a magazine for women in leadership. From 2005-2013 she informed and inspired women nationally as a regular columnist and Contributing Editor for PRISM magazine and from 2013-2015 served as a member of Evangelicals for Social Action Advisory Board (the publisher of the magazine). In 2015, Dr. Rios also became a columnist/mentor for Latin Business Today. Dr. Rios has always been an advocate for women in leadership way before it became a thing. She founded the Center for Emerging Female Leadership in NYC that would gather women and the men that supported them from around the Tri-state area in NYC gathering as many as 800 women. At the time, (1996-2001) it was the largest, most diverse, inter-faith gathering of women leaders in NYC. Then she moved to South Florida. In Florida, she co-founded Latinas of Legacy in Florida, now operated as a positive social network of Latina sisters who have united in purpose to be difference making divas and change agents in society and who are committed to encouraging and empowering one another in all fields of endeavors. The main goal is to build character, celebrate womanhood and reinforce Latino culture. Dr. Rios also published her own magazine until 2017 called SOAR helping women's dreams take flight (view a few select issues here). Today, Dr. Rios has a few research projects in que including a collaboration book project Somos Ellas: The Power and Resiliency of Latina Women.
She is also proud to serve as a Founding Board Member and Vice President of Plant 4 Harvest, a church planting organization dedicated to helping church planters of color plant healthy churches and reach the nations via project management, training and development. Dr. Rios serves as a board member of the National Latino Evangelical Coalition which is a national network of Hispanic evangelical congregations, leaders, and not-for-profits committed to Gospel-centered transformation in the work of justice and mercy. To highlight the voices of people on the margins and their allies, she hosts a monthly author Facebook live show called JustUs Talks through her organization The Passion Center.
Dr. Rios has been in ministry for over 28 years including serving as a pastor for a total 15 years (11 as an Executive Pastor and 4 as a co-lead Pastor with her husband). She now is the Founder of a non-traditional faith community called The Passion Center that is dedicated to educating people who have a passion for justice, advocacy and change in the South Florida area. She's worked most of her life in nonprofits and in higher education. She has also been an entrepreneur and has consulted schools, faith-based organizations and non-profits since 1996 with online school development and a host of other things via Passion for Purpose International. She is part of the Serenity Projects team which also works around the country helping schools build online campuses and meet academic quality standards providing access to education in remote and often struggling communities.
Her educational background consists of a Bachelor of Arts in Liberal Arts, a Master of Arts in Management with an emphasis in Nonprofit Management from the Regent University School of Business and an earned Doctorate in Education in Organizational Leadership/Adult Education from Nova Southeastern University. She has also done Post- graduate work at Fordham University School of Religion, Indiana University Center of Philanthropy and the Blanton Peale Graduate Institute for Pastoral Counseling. In 2019, she is due to graduate with a Doctor of Ministry degree from Southeastern University where she is focusing her doctoral project on a civic advocacy and social justice church planter training program. A recent article in Christianity Today on the premise of her dissertation could be found here.
As an Afro-Latina, Puerto Rican American she considers herself to be a writer/activist and advocate for women in ministry, faith-based civic activism, and biblical justice. In addition to what has already been mentioned, Dr. Liz research interests include the churchlessness epidemic, Pentecostal Latinx civic engagement, the micro-church movement and educational equity. Dr. Liz is also passionate about speaking and writing on women in ministry, healthy leadership, and church health/culture to name a few. As a writer, her articles have appeared in print or online for Sojourners, Influence, Called, Christianity Today and Pentecostals and Charismatics for Peace and Justice.
Dr. Rios loves staying involved in her community and loves supporting organizations who work to make South Florida better. Her work has been celebrated and honored over the years. Dr. Rios is honored to have been mentioned in the Encyclopedia of Women and Religion in North America, Volume 1. She was named one of twelve Hispanic Women of Distinction in August 2014 for her work in the South Florida community. Dr. Rios has served on the Education Advisory Board of the City of Miramar and is also a proud Charter member of the South Broward Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. As a bi-vocational minister, she currently serves as a high school college counselor, preparing students for college and guiding them through the college process. She has two children, Samuel now in college and Daniel, her special needs angel. She's been married to the love of her life and greatest supporter, Rev. Hiram Rios for 29 years.
Fun Fact: Dr. Rios also loves makeup so just for fun, she earned a Certificate in Make up Mastery from the Academy of Glam in Davie.
Since April 2008, Dr. Liz has served as Consulting Editor for Outreach Magazine, a national magazine for church leaders, pastors and planters.
To contribute to Latinx Pentecostal history, she researched and wrote a chapter for Latino Religions and Civic Activism called "The Women are Warriors" highlighting the many achievements of Latina Pentecostal women in the NYC social activist world. The chapter was reprinted in Azusa Street and Beyond 100 Years of Commentary on the Global/Pentecostal Charismatic Movement which was highlighted at the Azusa Street Centennial.
Dr. Rios has also been a contributor for CALLED, a magazine for women in leadership. From 2005-2013 she informed and inspired women nationally as a regular columnist and Contributing Editor for PRISM magazine and from 2013-2015 served as a member of Evangelicals for Social Action Advisory Board (the publisher of the magazine). In 2015, Dr. Rios also became a columnist/mentor for Latin Business Today. Dr. Rios has always been an advocate for women in leadership way before it became a thing. She founded the Center for Emerging Female Leadership in NYC that would gather women and the men that supported them from around the Tri-state area in NYC gathering as many as 800 women. At the time, (1996-2001) it was the largest, most diverse, inter-faith gathering of women leaders in NYC. Then she moved to South Florida. In Florida, she co-founded Latinas of Legacy in Florida, now operated as a positive social network of Latina sisters who have united in purpose to be difference making divas and change agents in society and who are committed to encouraging and empowering one another in all fields of endeavors. The main goal is to build character, celebrate womanhood and reinforce Latino culture. Dr. Rios also published her own magazine until 2017 called SOAR helping women's dreams take flight (view a few select issues here). Today, Dr. Rios has a few research projects in que including a collaboration book project Somos Ellas: The Power and Resiliency of Latina Women.
She is also proud to serve as a Founding Board Member and Vice President of Plant 4 Harvest, a church planting organization dedicated to helping church planters of color plant healthy churches and reach the nations via project management, training and development. Dr. Rios serves as a board member of the National Latino Evangelical Coalition which is a national network of Hispanic evangelical congregations, leaders, and not-for-profits committed to Gospel-centered transformation in the work of justice and mercy. To highlight the voices of people on the margins and their allies, she hosts a monthly author Facebook live show called JustUs Talks through her organization The Passion Center.
Dr. Rios has been in ministry for over 28 years including serving as a pastor for a total 15 years (11 as an Executive Pastor and 4 as a co-lead Pastor with her husband). She now is the Founder of a non-traditional faith community called The Passion Center that is dedicated to educating people who have a passion for justice, advocacy and change in the South Florida area. She's worked most of her life in nonprofits and in higher education. She has also been an entrepreneur and has consulted schools, faith-based organizations and non-profits since 1996 with online school development and a host of other things via Passion for Purpose International. She is part of the Serenity Projects team which also works around the country helping schools build online campuses and meet academic quality standards providing access to education in remote and often struggling communities.
Her educational background consists of a Bachelor of Arts in Liberal Arts, a Master of Arts in Management with an emphasis in Nonprofit Management from the Regent University School of Business and an earned Doctorate in Education in Organizational Leadership/Adult Education from Nova Southeastern University. She has also done Post- graduate work at Fordham University School of Religion, Indiana University Center of Philanthropy and the Blanton Peale Graduate Institute for Pastoral Counseling. In 2019, she is due to graduate with a Doctor of Ministry degree from Southeastern University where she is focusing her doctoral project on a civic advocacy and social justice church planter training program. A recent article in Christianity Today on the premise of her dissertation could be found here.
As an Afro-Latina, Puerto Rican American she considers herself to be a writer/activist and advocate for women in ministry, faith-based civic activism, and biblical justice. In addition to what has already been mentioned, Dr. Liz research interests include the churchlessness epidemic, Pentecostal Latinx civic engagement, the micro-church movement and educational equity. Dr. Liz is also passionate about speaking and writing on women in ministry, healthy leadership, and church health/culture to name a few. As a writer, her articles have appeared in print or online for Sojourners, Influence, Called, Christianity Today and Pentecostals and Charismatics for Peace and Justice.
Dr. Rios loves staying involved in her community and loves supporting organizations who work to make South Florida better. Her work has been celebrated and honored over the years. Dr. Rios is honored to have been mentioned in the Encyclopedia of Women and Religion in North America, Volume 1. She was named one of twelve Hispanic Women of Distinction in August 2014 for her work in the South Florida community. Dr. Rios has served on the Education Advisory Board of the City of Miramar and is also a proud Charter member of the South Broward Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. As a bi-vocational minister, she currently serves as a high school college counselor, preparing students for college and guiding them through the college process. She has two children, Samuel now in college and Daniel, her special needs angel. She's been married to the love of her life and greatest supporter, Rev. Hiram Rios for 29 years.
Fun Fact: Dr. Rios also loves makeup so just for fun, she earned a Certificate in Make up Mastery from the Academy of Glam in Davie.
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Dr. Liz serving as panelist with Dr. Ed Stetzer and new and seasoned church planters or planter trainers on Latino Church Planting. - NaLEC Latino Summit July 2018
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Dr. Rios' contributions to books include a chapter in each of these books.
Dr. Rios' Dissertation was on Transformative Spirituality in Christian Education
My chapter in Latinos in Civic Activism by Elizabeth D. Rios on Scribd |
