NONILO & FELY SANCHEZ

Nonilo Sanchez is the late director of Sola Gratia Theological Seminary. After pastoring Community Bible Church in Cagayan de Oro on the Philippine island of Mindanao from 2002 through 2007, Nonilo moved to Pamugsukan, Gamut, Tago Surigao del Sur to focus on the Sola Gratia Theological Seminary, which provides the highest level of Biblical ministerial training for men preparing for a lifetime of ministry. The seminary has 3 extension campuses: Tagum City on Mindanao, Guiginto (Bulacan) in Luzon, and Inter-Tribal Seminay in T’boli South Cotabato. As a result of reaching out to the seminary’s neighbors, a church was founded on campus.

Nonilo also founded Sola Gratia Grace Alone International Inc. (SGGAI), a church planting ministry with a goal of training, sending, and supporting missionaries who evangelize “unreached” people groups in the Philippines and other countries. SGGAI adheres to teaching theology grounded on the sufficiency and final authority of the Scriptures, the doctrines of grace, and the conduct of ministry based on a philosophy that all of the Christian life must be an act of worship to God. Over 40 churches have been planted and more than 700 men all over Mindanao and Leyte Islands, including in Bulacan, Laguna and Cavite provinces of Luzon Island are now trained to spread the Good News. Nonilo is survived by his wife Fely, and are blessed with 4 children: Amiel, Keith, Kristine, and Kemuel, and 10 grandchildren.