Andrea Cano is an ordained minister with the United Church of Christ, who responded to the call of spiritual care as a clinical and palliative care chaplain at an age when most people are planning to retire. Before arriving in the northwest in 1999, she filled her passports serving with the Geneva-based World Council of Churches, the World Association for Christian Communication, and the Latin American Council of Churches. She most recently served as the Interim President of the Ecumenical Ministries of Oregon and as the volunteer pastor and designer of worship for the New Blue Church, an English speaking, interdenominational community in Mazatlán, Sinaloa, Mexico, of faithful and progressive people from Canada, the US, and Mexico. She has a passion for cooking and helping others explore the world through food, using stories from her family’s history from Spain, Portugal, northern and central Mexico and Texas.

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