Sonya Luna

Sonya Luna is a missionary with the Board of Global Ministries of The United Methodist Church serving through the National Plan for Hispanic and Latino Ministries (NPHLM) in the Detroit Annual Conference.

Native to Michigan, Sonya earned her Bachelor of Arts from Kalamazoo College. She worked as Latino Ministries Coordinator for Ypsilanti First United Methodist Church, her home church, and as a foreign language teacher for the Maple Academy in Oaxaca, Mexico. She began working in the Detroit Annual Conference in her current position in January 2008.

Sonya and her husband live in Dearborn Heights, MI.

Building bridges

By: Sonya Luna on 5/23/2012
Topics: Hispanic Ministries

Sonya Luna, Hispanic/Latino missionary for the Detroit Conference, writes about ways local churches can build bridges between different cultures and languages. 

Making Room

By: Sonya Luna on 11/1/2010
Topics: Local Church Concerns, Other Voices, Radical Hospitality, Reflections, Hispanic Ministries

Welcoming new people into our churches and making room for them might mean metaphorically and/or literally that we will have to rearrange the furniture, use some of our fancy plates and silverware, put out more food and coffee, and learn some new recipes and ways of eating, but in the end we will rejoice because we will be blessed with the love of God and the presence of HIS SON our Savior Jesus Christ.