Bishop David E. Ramírez Wins 2023 Distinguished Alumni Award
Bishop David E. Ramírez is the winner of Asbury Theological Seminary’s Distinguished Alumni award for 2023. Asbury Seminary’s Distinguished Alumni award is designed to honor graduates who, in their personal lives and public ministries, exhibit the Seminary’s values of preparing a theologically educated, sanctified, Spirit-filled evangelistic ministry to spread scriptural holiness across the world.
Bishop David E. Ramirez, raised in Chile, has a rich family heritage as a third-generation pastor in the Church of God. As a young teen, he came to America to study at the Church of God Spanish Institute of Ministry. He received a Master of Divinity at the Pentecostal Theological Seminary, a Doctor of Ministry from Asbury Theological Seminary (2002), and two honorary doctoral degrees recognizing excellence in Christian leadership. As a professor, Ramirez specialized in teaching church growth, Christian leadership, practical theology, and biblical preaching.
He has a wealth of experience as a missionary, local pastor, church planter, and CPE Chaplain. For six years, he served as president of South Cone Ministerial Seminary in Argentina, followed by 14 years as the founder and president of the South American Theological Seminary in Quito, Ecuador. In 2006, he was appointed to serve the Southwest Hispanic Region as Administrative Bishop. From 2008 to 2016, he provided leadership to all of Latin America as the World Missions field director.
In addition to previous election to the Church of God International Executive Council and serving on multiple denominational boards, Ramirez has served on advisory boards and committees for several international ministry organizations: the Lausanne Movement, the 4/14 Window Movement, Compassion International, Empowered21, Oral Roberts University Board of Trustees, and the Pentecostal World Fellowship World Missions Commission.
In 2016, Ramirez was elected to the Church of God International Executive Committee as the Third Assistant General Overseer and also became the Executive Director for the Division of Education. He and his wife, Fernanda, are parents to Santiago, Fernando, and Valeria. Their ministry has proclaimed the hope of Jesus around the world.
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Congratulations David! So thankful for your vast ministry to the Kingdom of God and your friendship. May the Holy Spirit continue to fill you and Fernanda with wisdom and grit to push back the darkness in this world with the light of Christ. Love, Charles and Julie Kyker