“With Eternal Love” was the theme of the SENDAS Graduation 2021. The prophet Jeremiah (31:1-9) reminds us of God’s faithful love in times of difficulty. We give thanks to God for his loving care.

For the second consecutive year we held our graduation virtually. God blessed us with many graduates coming from thirteen different countries including Bolivia, Chile, Costa Rica, Cuba, Ecuador, El Salvador, the United States, Honduras, Mexico, Panama, Peru, Puerto Rico, and the Dominican Republic. We graduated a total of 68 students, a record number over the last four years. We infinitely thank God who has allowed us to be a means of blessing in equipping many men and women who he has called to ministry.

As part of the graduation, we also celebrated the 50th anniversary of SENDAS. We remembered the first seminary president, Rev. Howard Conrad, and his successors, Rev. Louis Regains, Dr. Jerry Porter, Dr. Enrique Guan, and Rev. Randy Vorce.

The graduation was dedicated to missionaries Rev. Dr. Ruben Fernandez and Rev. Dr. Monica Mastronardi de Fernandez for their 25 years of service and dedication to SENDAS which represents half the time that our institution has been in existence. For that we are profoundly grateful. During the same event, AETAL (Association of Theological Evangelical Education in Latin America) gave their annual award to Dr. Ruben Fernandez which will be highlighted in a future e-news publication.

For this and so much more that cannot be mentioned in such a brief space, we express our enormous gratitude to all those individuals who have served and continue to serve SENDAS as well as those who have placed their trust in this institution blessed by God for their ministry formation.

Dr. Marco A. Velasco
Vicerrector Académico