Updated: North American Division Elects Leadership

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