GENERAL CONFERENCE

Organized May 21, 1863

Territory: The land area of the World; comprising the East-Central Africa, Euro-Africa, Euro-Asia, Inter-American, North American, Northern Asia-Pacific, South American, South Pacific, Southern Africa-Indian Ocean, Southern Asia, Southern Asia-Pacific, Trans-European, and West-Central Africa Divisions.

Statistics: Churches, 67,055; membership, 16,049,101; population, 6,809,974,000 (online statistics).

Administration

President, Jan Paulsen.

General Vice Presidents, Lowell C. Cooper, Mark A. Finley, King-Yi Eugene Hsu, Gerry D. Karst, Armando Miranda, Pardon K. Mwansa, Michael L. Ryan, Ella S. Simmons, Ted N. C. Wilson.

Vice Presidents:

East-Central Africa Division, Geoffrey G. Mbwana.

Euro-Africa Division, Bruno R. Vertallier.

Euro-Asia Division, Artur A. Stele.

Inter-American Division, Israel Leito.

North American Division, Don C. Schneider.

Northern Asia-Pacific Division, Jairyong Lee.

South American Division, Erton Carlos Kohler.

South Pacific Division, Barry D. Oliver.

Southern Africa-Indian Ocean Division, Paul S. Ratsara.

Southern Asia Division, John Rathinaraj.

Southern Asia-Pacific Division, Alberto C. Gulfan Jr.

Trans-European Division, Bertil A. Wiklander.

West-Central Africa Division, Gilbert Wari.

Administrative Assistant to the President, Orville D. Parchment.

Center for Global Evangelism, Mark A. Finley.

Office of Assessment and Program Effectiveness, Paul S. Brantley.

Secretary, Matthew A. Bediako.

Undersecretary, Larry R. Evans.

Associate Secretaries, Rosa T. Banks, Agustin Galicia, G. T. Ng, Claude Sabot, Homer Trecartin; Assistant Secretary, Dian Lawrence.

Treasurer, Robert E. Lemon.

Undertreasurer, Juan R. Prestol.

Associate Treasurers, George O. Egwakhe, G. Thomas Evans, Jose R. Lizardo, Daisy J. F. Orion, Roy E. Ryan; Assistant Treasurer, W. Dean Rogers.

Controller, Verland V. Erntson.

Associate Controller, Eugene A. Korff.

Investment Manager, Roy E. Ryan; Unitized Fund Manager, Kenneth E. Rasmussen; Fixed Income Portfolio Manager, Linda K. Rogers; Money Fund Manager, Denise Greenough; Mortgage Portfolio Manager, Anees Abdelnour.

Special Assistant to the Treasurer, J. Raymond Wahlen II.

Associate Meeting Planner, Sheri Clemmer.

General Field Secretaries, Paul S. Brantley, Gary D. Krause, Angel M. Rodriguez, Charles C. Sandefur Jr., Benjamin D. Schoun, Brad Thorp.

Director of Archives and Statistics, Bert B. Haloviak; Assistant Directors, Peter Chiomenti, Rowena J. Moore.

Director of Human Resource Services, Ruth E. Parish; Associate Directors, Joel G. Swanson, Lori Yingling.

Executive Committee

GENERAL CONFERENCE MEMBERS

Administration:

President, Jan Paulsen.

General Vice Presidents, Lowell C. Cooper, Mark A. Finley, King-Yi Eugene Hsu, Gerry D. Karst, Armando Miranda, Pardon K. Mwansa, Michael L. Ryan, Ella S. Simmons, Ted N. C. Wilson.

Secretary, Matthew A. Bediako.

Undersecretary, Larry R. Evans.

Associate Secretaries, Rosa T. Banks, Agustin Galicia, G. T. Ng, Claude Sabot, Homer Trecartin.

Treasurer, Robert E. Lemon.

Undertreasurer, Juan R. Prestol.

Associate Treasurers, George O. Egwakhe, Jose R. Lizardo, Daisy J. F. Orion, Roy E. Ryan.

General Field Secretaries, Paul S. Brantley, Gary D. Krause, Brad Thorp. (Additional field secretaries as appointed by the General Conference Committee.)

Departmental Directors:

Adventist Chaplaincy Ministries, Gary R. Councell.

Children's Ministries, Linda Mei Lin Koh.

Communication, Rajmund Dabrowski.

Education, C. Garland Dulan.

Family Ministries, Ronald M. Flowers.

Health Ministries, Allan R. Handysides.

Ministerial Association, ___.

Public Affairs and Religious Liberty, John Graz.

Publishing Ministries, Howard F. Faigao.

Sabbath School and Personal Ministries, Jonathan Kuntaraf.

Stewardship, Erika F. Puni.

Trust Services, Jeffrey K. Wilson.

Women's Ministries, Heather-Dawn Small.

Youth Ministries, Baraka G. Muganda.

WORLD DIVISION MEMBERS

East-Central Africa Division

Administration:

President, Geoffrey G. Mbwana.

Secretary, Blasious M. Ruguri.

Treasurer, Philip Philipsen.

Union Presidents:

East African, Musyoka Paul Muasya.

East Congo, Etzer Obas.

Ethiopian, Alemu Haile Maruta.

Rwanda, Hesron Byilingiro.

Tanzania, Joshua K. Kajula.

Uganda, John Kakembo.

West Congo, ___.

Euro-Africa

Administration:

President, Bruno R. Vertallier.

Secretary, Gabriel E. Maurer.

Treasurer, Peter R. Kunze.

Union Presidents:

Czecho-Slovakian, Mikulas Pavlik.

Franco-Belgian, Jean-Claude Nocandy.

North German, Klaus-Juergen van Treeck.

Romanian, Teodor Hutanu.

South German, Guenther Machel.

Swiss, David Jennah.

Euro-Asia

Administration:

President, Artur A. Stele.

Secretary, Mikhael F. Kaminskiy.

Treasurer, Guillermo E. Biaggi.

Union Presidents:

Caucasus, Pavel I. Liberanskiy.

East Russian, Victor A. Kozakov.

Southern, Rubin R. Ott.

Trans-Caucasus, Alexander Schwarz.

Ukrainian, Vladimir A. Krupsky.

West Russian, Vasiliy D. Stolyar.

Inter-American

Administration:

President, Israel Leito.

Secretary, Juan O. Perla.

Treasurer, Filiberto M. Verduzco Avila.

Union Presidents:

Caribbean, Eugene F. Daniel.

Central Mexican, Tomas Torres.

Colombian, Eliseo Bustamante.

Cuban, Daniel Fontaine Marquez.

Dominican, Cesario Acevedo del Villar.

French Antilles-Guiana, Max-Rene Laurent.

Guatemala, Mario Augusto Calderon.

Haitian, Theart St. Pierre.

Inter-Oceanic Mexican, Cesar Gomez.

Mid-Central American, Jose Alfredo Argueta.

North Mexican, Abner de los Santos.

Puerto Rican, Jose Alberto Rodriguez.

South Central American, Wilfredo Ruiz.

South Mexican, David Javier Perez.

Venezuela-Antilles, Julio A. Palacio.

West Indies, Derek A. Bignall.

North American

Administration:

President, Don C. Schneider.

Secretary, G. Alexander Bryant.

Treasurer, G. Thomas Evans.

Union Presidents:

Atlantic, Donald G. King.

Canada, Seventh-day Adventist Church in, Daniel R. Jackson.

Columbia, David Weigley.

Lake, Don Livesay.

Mid-America, Roscoe J. Howard III.

North Pacific, Max C. Torkelsen II.

Pacific, Ricardo Graham.

Southern, Gordon L. Retzer.

Southwestern, Max A. Trevino.

Northern Asia-Pacific

Administration:

President, Jairyong Lee.

Secretary, Akeri Suzuki.

Treasurer, Clyde M. Iverson Jr.

Union Presidents:

Chinese, James S. F. Wu.

Japan, Masaki Shoji.

Korean, Dae Sung Kim.

South American

Administration:

President, Erton Carlos Kohler.

Secretary, Bolivar Alana.

Treasurer, Marino F. de Oliveira.

Union Presidents:

Argentina, Carlos Ursus Gill Krug.

Bolivia, Roberto Gullon.

Central Brazil, Domingos de Souza.

Chile, Eber Liessi.

East Brazil, Mauricio Pinto Lima.

Ecuador, Leonel Lozano.

North Brazil, Marlinton Souza Lopes.

North Peru, Orlando Ramos.

Northeast Brazil, Geovani Souto de Queiroz.

Northwest Brazil, Gilmar Zahn.

South Brazil, Ignacio Luis Kalbermatter.

South Peru, Samuel R. Sandoval.

West Central Brazil, Helder Roger C. Silva.

South Pacific

Administration:

President, Barry D. Oliver.

Secretary, Lawrence P. Tanabose.

Treasurer, Rodney G. Brady.

Union Presidents:

Australian, Chester G. Stanley.

New Zealand Pacific, Jerome P. Matthews.

Papua New Guinea, Thomas B. Davai.

Trans Pacific, Waisea Vuniwa.

Southern Africa-Indian Ocean

Administration:

President, Paul S. Ratsara.

Secretary, Solomon Maphosa.

Treasurer, Goodwell Nthani.

Union Presidents:

Angola, Teodoro Elias.

Botswana, Paminus Machamire.

Indian Ocean, Samuel Ravonjiarivelo.

Malawi, Saustin Sampson Mfune.

Mozambique, Girimoi Muchanga.

Southern Africa, Francois Louw.

Zambia, Harrington S. Akombwa.

Zimbabwe, Evans Muvuti.

Southern Asia

Administration:

President, John Rathinaraj.

Secretary, Gordon Christo.

Treasurer, G. S. Robert Clive.

Union Presidents:

East-Central India, Choudampalli John.

Northeast India, Lalchansanga Colney.

Northern India, Hidayat Masih.

South-Central India, Daniel Padmaraj.

Southeast India, Muthiya S. Sundaram.

Southwest India, Stanley Samuel.

Western India, Ramesh Y. Jadhav.

Southern Asia-Pacific

Administration:

President, Alberto C. Gulfan Jr.

Secretary, Joshua W. Mok.

Treasurer, Keith R. Heinrich.

Union Presidents:

Bangladesh, Eric P. Monnier.

Central Philippine, Agapito J. Catane Jr.

East Indonesia, Noldy Sakul.

Myanmar, Saw Muller Kyaw.

North Philippine, Abner S. Roque.

South Philippine, Wendell Serrano.

Southeast Asia, Ronald W. Townend.

West Indonesia, Johnny Lubis.

Trans-European

Administration:

President, Bertil A. Wiklander.

Secretary, Harald Wollan.

Treasurer, Johann E. Johannsson.

Union Presidents:

Adriatic, Branko Bistrovic.

Baltic, Valdis A. Zilgalvis.

British, Donald W. McFarlane.

Finland, Atte Helminen.

Hungarian, Tamas Ocsai.

Middle East, Kjell Aune.

Netherlands, Wim Altink.

Norwegian, Tor Tjeransen.

Pakistan, Younis Masih.

Polish, Pawel Lazar.

South-East European, Djordje Trajkovski.

Swedish, Robert Sjolander.

West-Central Africa Division

Administration:

President, Gilbert Wari.

Secretary, Onaolapo Ajibade.

Treasurer, Emmanuel S. D. Manu.

Union Presidents:

Central African, Allah-Ridy Kone.

Eastern Nigeria, G. C. Nwaogwugwu.

Ghana, Samuel A. Larmie.

North-Western Nigeria, Joseph Adebisi Ola.

Sahel, Guy Roger.

West African, Erkki Haapasalo.

EX OFFICIO MEMBERS

Adventist Development and Relief Agency International: Charles C. Sandefur Jr., President, and Executive Director.

Adventist International Institute of Advanced Studies: Stephen R. Guptill, President.

Adventist Review: Bill Knott, Editor.

Adventist Risk Management, Incorporated: Robert E. Kyte, President, and Executive Director.

Adventist University of Africa: Brempong Owusu-Antwi, President.

Adult Sabbath School Bible Study Guide: Clifford Goldstein, Editor.

Adventist World Radio: Benjamin D. Schoun, President, and Executive Director.

Andrews University: Niels-Erik A. Andreasen, President.

Archives and Statistics: Bert B. Haloviak, Director.

Biblical Research Institute: Angel M. Rodriguez, Director.

Christian Record Services, Incorporated: Larry J. Pitcher, President.

Geoscience Research Institute: L. James Gibson, Director.

Griggs University and International Academy: Donald R. Sahly, President.

International Health Food Association: Joel Zukovski, Director.

Loma Linda University: Richard H. Hart, President.

Loma Linda University Medical Center: Richard H. Hart, President.

Ministry Magazine: Nikolaus Satelmajer, Editor.

Oakwood College: Delbert W. Baker, President.

Pacific Press Publishing Association: Dale Galusha, President.

Past President of the General Conference: Neal C. Wilson.

Review and Herald Publishing Association: Robert S. Smith, President.

White Estate, Ellen G: James R. Nix, President.

ELECTED MEMBERS

Three lay persons from each division (without regard to membership):

East-Central Africa: L. Jeremiah Lima, Jeannette K. Matita, Lorna G. Okotto.

Euro-Africa: Rene Garcia, Carmen Ingeborg Schulz, Marius C. Sturz.

Euro-Asia: Ella Grents, Olga Pervanchuk, Vasile Rotaru.

Inter-American: Joan Y. Clarke, Rolando M. Giron, Miguel A. Rosado.

North American: Shirley Chang, Carl P. Chin, Ruben Daniel Pechero.

Northern Asia-Pacific: Lisa Sangsook Choi, Joseph Hin-Chung Wong, Masao Yanaga.

South American: Milton S. Afonso, Jorge C. Echezarraga, Nair Costa Lessa.

South Pacific: Carolyn M. Catton, Roger E. Marshall, Mesake T. Senibulu.

Southern Africa-Indian Ocean: Lorna Cedras, Jose Miudo, Edith Mkawa.

Southern Asia: Mahesh D. Biloria, Michael N. A. Pedrin, Rita Salve.

Southern Asia-Pacific: Charles C. Ligan, Catharina S. Nangoy, Alex Rajakumar Ponniah.

Trans-European: Nevenka Cop, Nina K. H. Myrdal, Frensly Panneflek.

West-Central Africa: Veronique M. Mbio, Emmanuel K. Noudoda, Jael A. Yohanna.

One pastor from each division (without regard to membership):

East-Central Africa: Tatipanga San-me.

Euro-Africa: Ivan M. Nikolov.

Euro-Asia: Jobir Iskhakov.

Inter-American: Aymer Sarria.

North American: Ralph E. Shelton Sr.

Northern Asia-Pacific: Bookwon Chun.

South American: Paulo E. Bravo.

South Pacific: David Kila Gairo.

Southern Africa-Indian Ocean: Pedro Donca Tatomelane.

Southern Asia: ___.

Southern Asia-Pacific: Orlando S. Deocades.

Trans-European: Ian Howard Sleeman.

West-Central Africa: Richard Asiedu Ntriakwah.

One additional church pastor or other front-line denominational employee for every 500,000 members or major fraction thereof beyond the first 500,000:

East-Central Africa: Jonathan Bizirema, Patrick M. Mulindwa, Ilunga Wazenga.

Inter-American: Saul K. Alvarez, Esaie Auguste, Jose Dorismar, Juan Carlos Duran, Shurman R. Kook.

North American: David C. Smith.

South American: Josias C. Almeida, Leonor Segunda Bustinza de Carbo, Walter Streithorst, Alberto R. Timm.

Southern Africa-Indian Ocean: German H. Hlanze, Norman Maphosa, Bareng Moahi, Emmanuel Mwale.

Southern Asia: Swamidass Johnson.

Southern Asia-Pacific: Caroline V. K. Tobing.

Thirty members at large:

Harold W. Baptiste, Gordon Bietz, Barry C. Black, Gina S. Brown, Chester V. Clark III, Luka T. Daniel, Laurie J. Evans, Jimmy L. Ferguson, Ruthita Fike, Ulrich W. Frikart, Shelton Green, Evelyn J. Hernandez, Dan Houghton, George Ipi, Donald L. Jernigan, William G. Johnsson, Kevin L. Lang, Donna McNeilus, Lester P. Merklin Jr., Ruy H. Nagel, Don Noble, Richard Osborn, Orville D. Parchment, Ruth E. Parish, Calvin B. Rock, Alma D. Rodriguez-Banda, Lawrence E. Schalk, Halvard B. Thomsen, Robert Hermann Vollmer, Debbie D. Young.