Carmen Retzlaff

Carmen Retzlaff is an ELCA pastor serving as Parish Associate in the Lutheran-Presbyterian mission congregation in the South Valley, Camino de Vida, which is a Spanish-speaking congregation composed primarily of recent immigrants. She started an outdoor church in Central Texas, and is a founding member and leader of the North American Wild Church Network. She works at UNM Hospital in the Health Literacy Office. She and her family are rebuilding an abandoned earthship off-the-grid cabin north of Taos.