He was also founding chairman of the National Latino Evangelical Coalition. In the course of his long career, he presided over the Association of Interdenominational Pentecostal Leaders, Radiovisión Cristiana, the Assembly of God Bible College of Puerto Rico and the NYC Christian Children’s Parade. He was also presented with the Keys to the City by then New York City Mayor Ed Koch. Carrión was awarded, among other recognitions, honorary doctoral degrees from Fuller Theological Seminary, New York Theological Seminary, Valley Forge Christian College, and Nyack College. In recognition of his life’s leadership, work, and service, Rev. While Superintendent, he envisioned and brought to fruition a 120-acre camp in the Catskills, Camp Manahaim, which served as the home for a new Bible college, ministers’ retreat, and summer camp for children. Carrión shepherded and grew the organization from 47 congregations in the New York metropolitan area to more than 360 congregations in the eastern United States, Canada, Puerto Rico, the Caribbean and Central and South America. In 1962, he became a pastor of a church on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, and by 1967, was elected the leader of that church’s organization, the Spanish Eastern District of the Assemblies of God, as Superintendent. He went on to serve in this capacity for almost 40 years. Within a few short years, he gave his life to God and the ministry. Carrión moved to New York City and worked in a variety of jobs, including diamond setting in New York City’s Diamond District. He was the tenth of twelve children born to this marriage. He was born in Juncos, Puerto Rico on December 8, 1934, to Adolfo Carrion, II, and Carmen Garcia de Carrión. He was the father of the former Bronx borough president of the same name. Carrión was 79 years old and had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer only two months prior. He was surrounded by his immediate family, including former Bronx Borough President Adolfo Carrión. Adolfo Carrión passed away on Friday, September 5, at 11:39 p.m., at the home of his daughter Elizabeth, in Montebello, New York. “SEU wants to be leading the way with Latino churches to raise up the next generation of leaders while partnering alongside what the Assemblies of God is already doing in the nation,” says SEU President Kent J. The university is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges. Southeastern has a comprehensive online learning program and more than 200 extension site programs nationwide. Southeastern offers more than 100 degree programs including bachelor's, master’s, and doctoral degrees. served as superintendent of the AG’s Spanish Eastern District for nearly 40 years. The partnership will allow SEU to better serve NaLEC pastors and congregations with affordable and accessible education through a direct partnership to the Lakeland campus, as well as through delivering courses at the local church level. The Adolfo Carrión Hispanic Leadership Center will encourage and create educational opportunities for Hispanic students. This landmark initiative will yield abundant fruit.” “Their commitment to empowering and equipping the Hispanic Pentecostal church and its growing cadre of leaders is unparalleled. and global Latino Pentecostal communities,” Salguero says. “Southeastern University is an ideal partner for the U.S. Salguero is an SEU board member and the pastor of The Gathering Place, an AG church in Orlando, Florida. Salguero founded NaLEC, a national coalition of several thousand Hispanic evangelical congregations. In the future, the university and NaLEC plan to develop curriculum in Spanish that would be used for college credit and certification programs for Latino-led churches and communities. In the 2020-21 academic year, 2,070 Hispanic students were enrolled at SEU, comprising 21.7% of total enrollment. It also will connect the university’s current and future population of Hispanic students with a leading Latino Pentecostal association. This will enable the university to partner with more church networks that are developing leaders from diverse backgrounds. As SEU’s partner and a leader in the Latino Pentecostal and evangelical movement, NaLEC will promote SEU exclusively as the school of choice for the Hispanics. will help increase SEU’s outreach to Hispanic students and equip them for leadership positions in ministry and other vocations. The partnership with NaLEC’s extensive network of churches across the U.S. In addition, the university’s Hispanic Leadership Center is being renamed the Adolfo Carrión Hispanic Leadership Center. Southeastern University (SEU), the Assemblies of God school in Lakeland, Florida, has a new partnership with the National Latino Evangelical Coalition (NaLEC).
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