Manuel Ortiz (1938–2017) was an American pastor, professor, and writer, best known for teaching at Westminster Theological Seminary and for founding Spirit and Truth Fellowship, a multiethnic church in Philadelphia.
While Ortiz was raised in the Roman Catholic Church, he converted to Evangelical Christianity in young adulthood.
[1][2][3] After serving in the United States Marine Corps, Ortiz attended Philadelphia College of the Bible, graduating in 1972.
He moved to Chicago and did graduate work at Wheaton College, and began to engage in his lifelong passion for urban ministry.
He remained at Westminster and taught there for almost 20 years, while at the same time planting and pastoring the urban and multiethnic congregation Spirit and Truth Fellowship,[4] a ministry of the Christian Reformed Church in North America.