Rev. Doralbis Hidalgo Ricardo

   

          The Rev. Doralbis Hidalgo Ricardo  serves as a missionary with the United Methodist Mission Church of Honduras.  She, along with her husband, David Sardiñas, is assigned to serve as pastor of the two Methodist Mission churches in Talanga , Honduras .

          Rev. Hidalgo is a graduate of the Technical School in Accounting, located in Villa Clara, Cuba .  She is a graduate of the United Methodist summer Course of Studies at Garrett Evangelical Seminary in Chicago , Illinois , competing six summer sessions.

          Rev. Hidalgo has served as pastor of the Methodist Churches in Abreus and four missions in Cienfuegos , Cuba ; the San Juan de los Years y Cifuentes Churches as well as the Manicaragua Church  in Villa Clara, Cuba .  She has been an itinerant Elder since 2001, and Director of the Noemí Deulofeu Nursing Home of the Methodist Church in Havana , Cuba , from 1993 through 2003.  Her most recent positions were as Superintendent of the Havana District of the Methodist Church in Cuba, and President of the Board of Directors of the Theological Evangelical Seminary in Matanzas, Cuba.

          Other responsibilities in the church have included being a member of the Council of Ministries of the Methodist Church in Cuba since 1990.  She has served as a Sunday school teacher, camp chaplain, and national advisor to the Methodist Secondary League, directing the national work and annual camps.

          Rev. Hidalgo and David have grown children.  David Manuel is an independent artist, married, and living in Havana , Cuba .  Daniel Alberto lives with his parents in Talanga.   Doralbis is an Elder of the Annual Conference of the Methodist Church of Cuba.

 

March 2004