Maria Camila

Maria Camila Betancur is the Founder and Head Minister of The Hive. She walks as a devoted student of the Divine, weaving her spiritual path into every aspect of her life and service. Her work is rooted in prayer, ceremony, and the remembrance of our relationship with the sacred, the Earth, and one another.
Born and raised in Colombia, Maria’s love for nature and community began early, shaped by time spent outdoors and in the kitchen alongside her grandmother. This upbringing cultivated her deep reverence for land, lineage, and the wisdom carried through ancestral traditions. She now lives in devotion to restoring right relationship with the Earth and to guiding others toward remembrance of the sacred through ceremony, prayer, and communal practice.
Maria has spent years studying and apprenticing within ancestral traditions of the Americas. She has received ceremonial teachings and initiation in the Amazon from Shipibo-Konibo elders, where she was given the ceremonial name Birerate. She has also studied under mentors connected to the Comcaac tradition of the Sonoran Desert, deepening her understanding of lineage-based sacramental work and spiritual stewardship. These experiences inform her role as a guardian of ceremonial space and a servant of the sacred within the church.
In addition to her ceremonial formation, Maria has trained in Systemic Family Constellations and other modalities that support reflection, reconciliation, and relational awareness. Within the church context, these tools are used as supportive practices for integration, discernment, and spiritual growth.
Maria’s calling is to serve as a bridge between ancestral wisdom and contemporary spiritual life, creating spaces where prayer, sacred sound, movement, and community support allow individuals to listen more deeply to their own inner guidance. Her ministry centers on devotion, responsibility, and the belief that spiritual transformation unfolds within relationship — with the Divine, with the Earth, and with the community that walks beside us.