Pastor Ramona’s Home for Community Connection
Learn how Pastor Ramona uses media to inspire, inform, and connect.
Image: Celebrating Pastor Ramona's birthday earlier this year (L-R): Logan, Patrick, Pastor Ramona, Kendra, Willow, Jess, Seth, and Matt.
Pastor Ramona Guadalupe has been part of our community longer than most of the staff, having begun her journey as a mediamaker in 2011 at Vermont Community Access Media and Middlebury Community Media. A minister with the American Baptist Churches of Vermont and New Hampshire, she aimed to create videos to reach Spanish and English speakers with her words of inspiration, hope, and instruction.
Pastor Ramona says, “When I first started doing this, there was a need in the community of bilingual, especially the farmers that work down in Addison County. There was no voice for them to hear the Word of God in Spanish and English. So, I was a voice for them.”
Image: Media Factory Co-Director Seth Mobley with Pastor Ramona at the 2014 VCAM and RETN Producer Party
Her program, “The Promises of God / Las Promesas de Dios,” is a weekly bilingual show airing on the CREATE channel, and also playing on the radio. The video is filmed in our TV studio, generally producing two shows at a time. Rev. Ramona arrives in a flurry, dressed impeccably, and warmly greets our production technicians prepping the studio for her.
“I got the training here… the staff are wonderful. That I was able to use my skill, my vocation this way. Oh, it’s a joy.”
Rev. Ramona spoke with Champlain College Broadcast Television students Harland Kissel and James Szodoray about her experience as a community producer. You can watch the video here:
“Pastor Ramona represents the best qualities that community media has to offer and is always a delight to see here in the studio," says Media Factory Co-Director Seth Mobley, "She has had an unwavering commitment to sharing heartfelt messages of kindness and compassion — values that are often absent in much of the media being consumed today.”
Pastor Ramona has made a home for creating community connections through the Media Factory. And we want to be a place for informing, inspiring, and connecting for many years to come.
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You can watch The Promises of God / Las Promesas de Dios Saturdays from 4:30-5:00PM on the CREATE Channel - Comcast 1074 and BT 15 +215, and listen Sundays from 3PM - 3:30PM on 99.3FM WBTV-LP.