The Inter-American Adventist Theological Seminary (SETAI), an institution of the Seventh-day Adventist Church under the Inter-American Division, specializes in the theological education of mission-driven leaders in a creative and scholarly environment for the church, primarily in the Americas.
The Seminary serves a community of ethnically and culturally diverse origins, learning within their own cultural and national contexts. SETAI graduates lead lives of testimony and service. They minister, proclaim hope, and disciple worshiping communities with the Scriptures as their foundation.
- Proclamation: Christlikeness in Communicating.
- Spirituality: Christlikeness in Discipling.
- Academic Excellence: Christlikeness in Teaching.
- Service: Christlikeness in Serving.
- Stewardship: Christlikeness in Living.
- Diversity: Christlikeness in Loving.
- The Seminary will enhance its postgraduate education.
- The Seminary will maintain efficient and effective administrative and support services.
- The Seminary will focus its efforts on ministry areas for church leadership.
- The Seminary will continue to develop church leadership and encourage in its students spiritual maturity, tolerance for others' viewpoints, and hope in the soon eschaton.
- Promote spiritual maturity.
- Seek biblical and theological foundations.
- Proclaim hope for both the present and the future.
- Offer selfless service.
- Maximize the use of God-given gifts.
- Lead with humility.
- Encourage research.
- Share with other communities and constantly learn from them.