By Adventist Review staff
The North American Division Executive Committee has elected a group of leaders to oversee the Seventh-day Adventist Church’s work in North America, Bermuda, and Guam and Micronesia during its year-end meetings.
The division’s top three posts — president, executive secretary, and treasurer — were filled at the General Conference Session in San Antonio, Texas, last July. Candidates for the rest of the division’s administration and departments will be elected to five-year terms at the weeklong meetings in Silver Spring, Maryland.
“The Nominating Committee brought back partial reports to the members of the 2015 NAD year-end meeting,” the North American Division said in a statement late Friday. “After prayerful consideration, the following names were presented and overwhelmingly approved by the Executive Committee.”
The names of people elected on Friday and Sunday are:
Vice Presidents
- Larry Blackmer – vice president for education
- Paul Brantley – vice president for strategic planning and assessment
- Debra Brill – vice president for church ministries
- Ernest Castillo – vice president for multilingual ministries
- Alvin Kibble – vice president for executive leadership, training and development, communication, social media, public affairs and religious liberty, publishing, regional conferences/ministries
- Gordon Pifher – vice president for media
Officers for Guam-Micronesia
- Delbert Baker, president
- Remenster Jano, secretary
- Victor Shepherd Pottinger, treasurer
Secretariat
- Kyoshin Ahn – associate secretary
Treasury
- Michael Jamieson – under treasurer
- Sharon Mabena – associate treasurer
- Michael Park – associate treasurer
Department Directors and Associate Directors
- J. Alfred Johnson II – Adult Ministries, director
- Paul Anderson – Adventist Chaplaincy Ministries, director
- Maitland DiPinto – Adventist Community Services, community engagement, director
- Sung Kwon – Adventist Community Services, executive director
- Sheri Uhrig – Children’s Ministries, director
- Daniel Weber – Communication, director
- Julio Muñoz – Communication, associate director
- Arne Nielsen – Education, associate director; director, secondary/accreditation
- Carol Campbell – Education, associate director; director, elementary/curriculum
- Davenia Lea – Education, associate director; director, early childhood education
- Claudio Consuegra – Family Ministries, director
- Pamela Consuegra – Family Ministries, associate director
- Ivan Williams – Ministerial Association, director
- Jose Cortes Jr. – Ministerial Association, associate director
- David Gemmell – Ministerial Association, associate director
- Esther Knott – Ministerial Association, associate director
- Elden Ramirez – Office of Volunteer Ministries, director
- Melissa Reid – Public affairs and religious liberty department, associate director; associate editor, Liberty magazine
- John Mathews – Stewardship Ministries, director
- Carla Baker – Women’s Ministries, director
- James Black Sr. – Youth Ministries, director
- Armando Miranda Jr. – Youth Ministries, associate director
- Tracy Wood – Youth Ministries, associate director
