VENEZUELA-ANTILLES UNION MISSION

Organized 1927; reorganized 1989

Territory: Aruba, the western portion of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, and the islands of Bonaire and Curacao in Netherlands Antilles; comprising the Central Venezuela, East Venezuela, Netherlands Antilles, North Central Venezuela, South Central Venezuela, Southeast Venezuela, West Central Venezuela, and West Venezuela Conferences; and the Aruba, Southwest Venezuela, and West Los Llanos Venezuela Missions.

Statistics: Churches, 814; membership, 219,980; population, 28,636,994 (online statistics).

Administration:

President, Julio A. Palacio.

Secretary, Orlando Ramirez.

Treasurer, David Poloche; Associate, Pablo Carreno.

Executive Committee:

Julio A. Palacio, Chair; Orlando Ramirez, Secretary; Leo Acosta, Benirde Almerida, Luis Astudillo, Jorge Atalido, Jorge Barboza, Julio Bolivar, Edgar Brito, Saul Brito, Daniel Cabezas, Luis Caldera, Aishel Camelia, Pablo Carreno, Jose Felix Carreno, Gerardo Chacin, Ney Devis, Alex Depusoi, Rodolfo Escobar, Wilmer Figueroa, Rafael Galluzo, Marbellys Garcia, Ricser Gomez, Daniel A. Gonzalez, Osmar Gonzalez, Alberto Guzman, Luis Hernandez, Areli Huerfano, William Jimenez, Shurman Kook, Servio Labasti, Kenneth Luis, Jacqueline Magdalena, Amado Marcano, Jesus Martinez, Luis Mata, Douglas Mattheus, Argenis Mayz, Floro Mendez, Carlos Meza, Bertha de Moreno, Jorge Omana, Eufracio Oropeza, Milder de Palacio, Zenaida Pannefleck, Augusto Perez, Carlos A. Perez, Emilio Perche, David Poloche, D. Johannes Ponte, Freddy Porras, Marcos Riera, Angel Rodriguez, Beny de Rodriguez, Josney Rodriguez, Eliu Rosas, Marcos Salas, David Salazar, Carlos Schupnik, Fernando Toala, Oscar Torres, Lucido Vegas, Javier Villegas.

Departments:

Children's Ministries, Milder de Palacio; Associate, Beny de Rodriguez.

Communication, Rodolfo Escobar; Associate, Marcos Salas.

Education, Javier Villegas; Associate, Alcibiades Manrique.

Family Ministries, and Women's Ministries, William Jimenez; Associate, Beny de Rodriguez.

Health Ministries, Leo Acosta; Associate, Argenis Mayz.

Ministerial Association, Luis Astudillo; Associate, Daniel Cabezas; Evangelism, Ney Devis; Associate, Fernando Toala.

Public Affairs and Religious Liberty, Carlos Schupnik; Associate, Amado Marcano.

Publishing Ministries, Oscar Torres.

Sabbath School and Personal Ministries, Ney Devis; Associate, Fernando Toala.

Stewardship, Orlando Ramirez; Associate, Jorge Atalido.

Youth Ministries, Rodolfo Escobar; Associate, Moises Prieto.

Agency:

ADRA, Rodolfo Escobar; Associate, Victor Julio Marquez.

Legal Association:

Nonprofit Civil Association of Venezuela Antilles Union of Seventh-day Adventists (Asociacion Civil sin fines de lucro Iglesia Union Venezolana Antillana de los Adventistas del Septimo Dia).