Mauricio Lagos, Administrative Director of the Seminary

Mauricio, the youngest of four children, was born in San Salvador on November 10, 1957 into a middle-class family. His parents were both teachers, his father, a National University Professor, and his mother, an Elementary teacher at a national school. Mauricio has a College degree in Civil Engineering, a Post Graduate Master’s degree in Sanitation Engineering, and a Master of Divinity Degree from Vida Nueva’s Seminary.

 Mauricio’s grew up in a half catholic, half atheistic home. Despite going to catholic schools, neither he nor his siblings developed any serious religious inclinations. Mauricio enjoyed his youth just like the other young men of his day. He had almost no contact with the gospel except for an occasional blip at the catholic church. Then, the civil war in El Salvador raised many worrisome questions in his heart. “Where would I go if I were to die?” His greatest fear was a death would come without notice and he would not have time to repent of his sins and ask for forgiveness, he feared he would end up in hell.

 In 1986, a friend invited Mauricio to a Bible Study, and it was then that he began to have contact with the gospel. In 1987, after hearing God’s Word he gave his life to Jesus Christ. It was in that Bible Study that Mauricio met Julio Contreras and Nelson Rivas, to this day they remain remarkably close friends.

 At first, Mauricio attended Iglesia Bautista Miramonte; however, in 1990, when Julio Contreras shared his vision to start a solid church built upon God’s Word and focused equally on evangelism and discipleship, he decided to be a founding member and part of the solid base of Iglesia Bautista Vida Nueva; founded in 1991.

 Amid all of God’s work in Mauricio’s life, He also gave him a beautiful wife, Patricia, married in August of 1990, and one and only beloved son, Samuel, born in April of 1999. Mauricio has served at Vida Nueva since its birth in 1991. He has fulfilled many roles, one being the Director of the Ministerial Training Institute, as well as a Ministerial Training Institute teacher, Academic Director of the Seminary, and part of the team raised up to get the Seminary Online. Currently, he is a deacon, a discipler, a Life Group pastor, and the Administrative Director of the Seminary.