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Elizabeth Padillo Olesen
Elizabeth originally comes from the Philippines, graduated Cum Laude from the combined degree program of Silliman University, Dumaguete City, Philippines as a teacher and pastor. She served as High...view moreElizabeth originally comes from the Philippines, graduated Cum Laude from the combined degree program of Silliman University, Dumaguete City, Philippines as a teacher and pastor. She served as High School teacher and as pastor of the United Church of Christ in the Philippines while carrying out relief and rehabilitation work for the typhoon-stricken fishing islands.
With support from the World Council of Churches in Geneva, she had the chance to take up ecumenical studies at Bossey Ecumenical Institute, also getting exposures to some sponsoring non-government organizations in Europe, engaged in Philippine rehabilitation-development work.
She joined her Danish husband, Jens Christian Olesen, in mission-development work under the United Mission to Nepal as sent out by the former Danish Santal Mission in Denmark, which at present is called Dan Mission. Within 5 years in Nepal, she carried out literacy program for Nepali women and taught English at Butwal Campus, Tribhuvan University. The family was stationed in the Philippines from 1991 to 1995 where Elizabeth served as consultant to the Central Visayas Ecumenical Fellowship of the National Council of Churches in the Philippines.
In 1995 her family moved to Denmark. Willing to be integrated into the new country, she took up teacher’s education in Danish language, and later was employed as a public school teacher for 8 years, teaching subjects like music, religious studies, history, art, and Danish as second language. In 2010 she took up the job as cross-cultural worker in Kolding Deanery, a church entity which consists of 31 local churches with the common project for foreigners, refugees and immigrants. Elizabeth was diagnosed as cancer patient by the time she took up the recent job and declared healthy after a battle of treatment. She continues to work for the life of the church. She hopes that church’s work for strangers will contribute to the common task of building peace and justice in our world. During free time, she writes poems and paints images of love, joy,faith and hope.view less
Books by Elizabeth Padillo Olesen
Spirituality for Peace and Justice: Book on Christian Spirituality