NORTH AMERICAN DIVISION

Organized 1913

Territory: Bermuda, Canada, the French possession of Saint Pierre and Miquelon, the United States of America, Johnston Island, Midway Islands, and all other islands of the Pacific not attached to other divisions and bounded by the date line on the west, by the equator on the south, and by longitude 120 on the east; comprising the Atlantic, Seventh-day Adventist Church in Canada, Columbia, Lake, Mid-America, North Pacific, Pacific, Southern, and Southwestern Union Conferences.

Statistics: Churches, 5,243; membership, 1,090,217; population, 340,583,000 (online statistics).

Administration:

President, Daniel R. Jackson (E-mail: ).

Assistant to the President for Administration, Halvard B. Thomsen (E-mail: ).

Assistant to the President for Communication, Frederick M. Kinsey (E-mail: ).

Vice Presidents, Larry D. Blackmer (E-mail: ); Debra C. Brill (E-mail: ); R. Ernest Castillo (E-mail: ); Alvin M. Kibble (E-mail: ).

Assistant Vice President for Media Productions, Warren D. Judd.

Secretary, G. Alexander Bryant (E-mail: ); Associate, Carolyn R. Forrest (E-mail: ). Website: www.nadsecretariat.org.

Treasurer, G. Thomas Evans (E-mail: ); Associates, Marshall L. Chase, Patricia L. Horst, Delbert L. Johnson, Kenneth W. Osborn, C. Michael Park.

Executive Committee:

Daniel R. Jackson, Chair; G. Alexander Bryant, Secretary; Juan Acosta, Bill Adams, Nilton D. Amorim, Eric D. Anderson, Niels-Erik Andreasen, Antonio M. Anobile, Michael Armayor, Hope Ashmeade, Kymn Astwood, George T. Atiga, Raj Attiken, Delmar Austin, Reuel Bacchus, Carla Baker, Delbert W. Baker, Trevor H. C. Baker, Nantoo Banerjee, Harold W. Baptiste, Seth T. Bardu, D. Edward Barnett, Lisa M. Beardsley, Matthew A. Bediako, Theodore R. Benson, Gordon Bietz, Neil Biloff, Barry C. Black, James L. Black Sr., Larry D. Blackmer, Kelly Bock, Larry Boggess, Gary Bollinger, Frank D. Bondurant, Kevin Boonstra, Shawn Boonstra, Helen Boskind, Robert C. Brauer, Debra C. Brill, George I. Brill, Gina Brown, Jeffrey O. Brown, Lloyd Brown, Patricia Brown, Benjamin P. Browne, Gary Burns, Eduardo Canales, Ramon Canals, Hamlet Canosa, Ron Carlson, Robert Carmen, Walter E. Carson, R. Ernest Castillo, Michael F. Cauley, Larry L. Caviness, Mario E. Ceballos, Timo Chacon, Shirley Chang, Marshall L. Chase, Charles L. Cheatham, Carl Patrick Chin, A. Ramon Chow, Monte Church, Chester Clark III, Ron E. M. Clouzet, George Coke, John Collins, Lowell C. Cooper, Robyn Cordova, T. Dean Coridan, Donald W. Corkum, Ken Corkum, Jose H. Cortes, Sabrina Cotton, Gary R. Councell, Hopeton Cousins, Sandy Crank, Ken Crawford, Thaine Creitz, Manuel Cruz, Robert Curren, Ray W. Daniel, James R. Davidson, Donovan Davis, Jerome L. Davis, Daniel O. Day, Kenneth A. Denslow, Victor Dingman, Maitland DiPinto, Paul H. Douglas, Karnick Doukmetzian, Charles W. Drake III, John Drake, Roger L. Dudley, Richard C. Dye Sr., Phyllis Edmonds, Mansfield Edwards, Sandra Eickmann, Melvin K. Eisele, G. Thomas Evans, Patrick Farley, Don Felkley, Jimmy L. Ferguson, Odette R. Ferreira, Ruthita Fike, Mark A. Finley, Sherry Fisher, Robert S. Folkenberg Jr., Brad Forbes, Carolyn R. Forrest, Denis Fortin, Stephen Foster, John C. Freedman, Debra Fryson, Jay Gallimore, Steven L. Gallimore, Dale Galusha, Larry Garrett, David A. Geriguis, L. James Gibson, Stephen Gifford, Russell H. Gilbert, Conrad L. Gill, Frank M. Gonzalez, Ricardo B. Graham, Samuel L. Green, Shelton Green, David E. Greenlaw, Millie Greer, Buford Griffith Jr., Rodney A. Grove, Elaine M. Hagele, William Hall, Bert B. Haloviak, Ronald B. Halvorsen Jr., J. Neville Harcombe, Currine Harris, Harold Ross Harris, Richard H. Hart, Raymond C. Hartwell, Daniel E. Herzel, Angenetta Hill, Gary Hodder, Mary Ann Hodges, Trudy Hoffman, Ellen Hokanson, Leighton Holley, Susan Hong, Paul Hopkins, Patricia L. Horst, Dan Houghton, Roscoe J. Howard III, King-Yi Eugene Hsu, Antonio Huerta, Darrell Huether, Timothy Hullquist, Alan Hurlbert, Van G. Hurst, Pauline Ijeh, Larry Innocent, Donald L. Jernigan, Delbert L. Johnson, George W. Johnson Jr., J. Alfred Johnson II, Larry Johnson, Mark A. Johnson, Washington Johnson, Carl S. Johnston, Eugene Joseph, Warren D. Judd, Ellie Kaanaana, Wayne Kablanow, Gerry D. Karst, Alvin M. Kibble, Shelley Kilgore, Don E. Kim, Donald G. King, Frederick M. Kinsey, Michael Knecht, Heather J. Knight, Bill Knott, Lorinda Knowlton, J. Deryl Knutson, Dochan Kwak, Sung K. Kwon, Robert E. Kyte, Nancy Lamoreaux, Kevin L. Lang, Robert E. Lemon, Thomas T. Lemon, Dave Livermore, Donald Livesay, John Loor Jr., Jose Antonio Lopez, Andrea Luxton, Bryan Mann, Richard A. Marker, Dennis Marshall, Eleanor Marshalleck, Jorge R. Mayer, Raymond Mayor, Alphonso McCarthy, Andre McCloud, Caroline McIntyre, Duane McKey, Donna McNeilus, Stephen L. McPherson, John K. McVay, Efrain Medina, V. J. Mendinghall, Carmelo Mercado, Lester P. Merklin Jr., Louis B. Metellus, William K. Miller, Armando Miranda, Bobby J. Mitchell, Bruce Moore, Marvin L. Moore, Hubert J. Morel Jr., John H. C. Moyer, Pardon K. Mwansa, Lola W. Nathan, Bradford C. Newton, James R. Nix, Don Noble, Eileen Oakley, Ron Oliver, Willie Oliver, Dionisio Olivo, Naomi Olson, Stephen Orian, Michael F. Ortel, Kenneth W. Osborn, Linda Oster, Jerry N. Page, Orville D. Parchment, Ruth E. Parish, Michael Park, Bryce Pascoe, Jan Paulsen, Walter L. Pearson Jr., Ruben Daniel Pechero, James E. Pedersen, Gerald D. Penick Sr., Frank J. Perez, Ed Pierce, Gordon E. Pifher, Gil Pina, Larry J. Pitcher, Dennis Plubell, Jeff Potts, Kristin Priest, Elizabeth Pule, Albert Quesada, Ruben Ramos, Sunilda Ramos, John Ramsay, Corrine Rawlins, G. Edward Reid, Allan L. Reimche, Norman Reitz, Mark Remboldt, Gordon L. Retzer, Barbara Rhodes, Paul Richardson, William G. Robertson, Randy Robinson, Calvin B. Rock, Daniel Rodela, Angel M. Rodriguez, Fred Rogers, Jose Vicente Rojas, Steven G. Rose, Stan Rouse, Warren Ruf, David Runnels, Frederick A. Russell, Horace Russell, Michael L. Ryan, Donald R. Sahly, Charles C. Sandefur Jr., Evelyn Saravia, Lawrence E. Schalk, Kenneth Schiffour, Marti C. Schneider, Benjamin D. Schoun, Glynn C. W. Scott, Charles W. Scriven, Loren Seibold, Stephanie Sheehan, Ralph Shelton Sr., Carlyle C. Simmons, Ella S. Simmons, Charles B. Simpson, Hepsiba S. Singh, David C. Smith, Robert S. Smith, Ron C. Smith, Jorge Soria, Weymouth Spence, Lincoln E. Steed, James L. Stevens, Dragan Stojanovic, Verlon W. Strauss, Garry Sudds, Ernie Sylvester, Manuela Terencio, Astrid Thomassian, Leon D. Thomassian, Halvard B. Thomsen, Gary F. Thurber, Frank Tochterman, Max C. Torkelsen II, Max A. Trevino, Arnold Trujillo, Michael Tucker, Kendall Turcios, Deborah Turner, Larry Unterseher, Donald W. Upson Sr., Jesus Uriarte, Miguel A. Valdivia, Rodney Van Putten, Robert T. Vandeman, Thomas L. Verrill, Lilya Wagner, Douglas Walker, Twyla Wall, Ralph S. Watts III, Dave Weigley, Rita Weisz, Norman L. Wendth, Vincent White Sr., Ronald H. Whitehead, Phyllis Whitley-Washington, Lyn R. Wick, Kenneth J. L. Wiebe, DeWitt S. Williams, Walton A. Williams, Jeffrey K. Wilson, Ted N. C. Wilson, Randal R. Wisbey, Billy E. Wright, Edward Wright, Joyce Yeager, Lori T. Yingling.

Departments:

Adventist Chaplaincy Ministries, Gary R. Councell; Associate, Mario E. Ceballos. E-mail: . Website: www.adventistchaplains.org. Assistant Directors (Field Representatives): Jose McLaughlin (SW NAD Quadrant); James North (Seventh-day Adventist Theological Seminary); Lester Rilea (SE NAD Quadrant); Larry Roth (NW NAD Quadrant). Chaplains' Associations: Campus, Corrections, Healthcare, and Military.

Children's Ministries, Phyllis Whitley-Washington. (E-mail: ). Website: www.childmin.com.

Communication, Frederick M. Kinsey (E-mail: ); Associate, George W. Johnson Jr. (E-mail: ).

Education, Larry D. Blackmer (E-mail: ); Associates, Odette R. Ferreira, Debra Fryson, Dennis Plubell. Website: www.nadeducation.org.

Family Ministries, Willie Oliver (E-mail: ). Website: www.adventistfamilyministries.com.

Health Ministries, DeWitt S. Williams (E-mail: ). Websites: www.nadhealthministries.org; www.nadhealth.info.

Ministerial Association, Ron E. M. Clouzet (E-mail: ); Associates, Esther Knott (E-mail: ); Walton A. Williams (E-mail: ).

Publishing Ministries, Alvin M. Kibble (E-mail: ).

Sabbath School and Personal Ministries, J. Alfred Johnson II (E-mail: ).

Stewardship, G. Edward Reid (E-mail: ). Website: www.adventiststewardship.org.

Trust Services, Jeffrey K. Wilson (E-mail: ); Associates, Charles B. Simpson (E-mail: ); Wilfredo Sumagaysay (E-mail: ).

Women's Ministries, Carla Baker (E-mail: ). Website: www.nadwm.org.

Youth Ministries, James L. Black Sr (E-mail: ); Associate, Manuel Cruz (E-mail: ). Website: www.adventistyouthministries.org.

Agency:

ADRA. Director, Alvin M. Kibble (E-mail: ); Associates, Maitland A. DiPinto (E-mail: ); Sung K. Kwon (E-mail: ).

Ministries and Services:

Adventist Colleges Abroad, Inc. Director, Odette R. Ferreira (E-mail: ).

Adventist Community Services. Sung K. Kwon (E-mail: . Website: www.communityservices.org.

Adventist Information Ministry (AIM). Berrien Springs, Michigan 49104-0970. Telephone: 1 (800) 253-3002. Fax: 1 (269) 471-6072. E-mail: . Website: www.callaim.org. Director, Twyla Wall; Assistant to the Director, Douglas Janssen.

Adventist-laymen's Services and Industries (ASI). Telephone: 1 (301) 680-6450. Fax: 1 (301) 622-5017. Website: www.asiministries.org. Secretary-Treasurer, A. Ramon Chow (E-mail: ). ASI Missions, Inc. 12501 Old Columbia Pike; Silver Spring, Maryland 20904-6600. Secretary-Treasurer, A. Ramon Chow.

AdventSource/PlusLine. Telephone: 1 (800) 732-7587. Fax: 1 (405) 486-8819. Website: www.plusline.org.

Asian/Pacific Ministries. Advisor, R. Ernest Castillo (E-mail: ).

Association of Adventist Colleges and Universities, Inc. 12501 Old Columbia Pike; Silver Spring, Maryland 20904-6600. Chief Executive Officer, Larry D. Blackmer.

Auditing (See listing under General Conference Services).

Church Resource Center (Vervent). 12501 Old Columbia Pike; Silver Spring, Maryland 20904-6600. Telephone: 1 (301) 680-6339. Fax: 1 (301) 680-6697. Director, Daniel O. Day (E-mail: ); Associate Director, Dave Gemmell (E-mail: ).

Czech Ministries. Advisor, Larry D. Blackmer (E-mail: ).

Deaf Ministries. Advisor, Debra C. Brill (E-mail: ).

Disabilities Ministries. Advisor, Debra C. Brill (E-mail: ).

Ghanaian Ministries. Advisor, Halvard B. Thomsen (E-mail: ).

Greek Ministries. Advisor, R. Ernest Castillo (E-mail: ).

Haitian Ministries. Advisor, Alvin M. Kibble (E-mail: ).

Hispanic Ministries. Advisor, R. Ernest Castillo (E-mail: ).

Hungarian Ministries. Advisor, Larry D. Blackmer (E-mail: .

Information Technology Services. Telephone: 1 (301) 680-6525. Director, Nancy Lamoreaux (E-mail: ); Associate, George I. Brill (E-mail: ). Telephone: 1 (301) 680-6451.

Ingathering: Hope for Humanity. Telephone: 1 (888) 425-7760; 1 (301) 680-6439. Website: www.Hope4.com. Maitland A. DiPinto (E-mail: ).

InMinistry Center. SDA Theological Seminary; Andrews University; Berrien Springs, Michigan 49104-1500. Telephone: 1 (269) 471-3353. Fax: 1 (269) 471-3347. Cell: 1 (269) 605-9484. Director, Walton A. Williams (E-mail: ).

Institute of Church Ministry. Andrews University Seminary S136; Berrien Springs, Michigan 49104-1530. Telephone: 1 (269) 471-3589. Fax: 1 (269) 471-6202. Director, Roger L. Dudley. E-mail: .

Jewish Ministries. Advisor, R. Ernest Castillo (E-mail: ).

Korean Ministries. Advisor, Halvard B. Thomsen ().

Muslim Ministries. Advisor, R. Ernest Castillo (E-mail: ).

Native American Ministries. Advisor, Halvard B. Thomsen ().

Office of Human Relations. Carolyn R. Forrest (E-mail: ).

Office of Information and Research. Frederick M. Kinsey (E-mail: ).

Office of Public Affairs and Religious Liberty. Halvard B. Thomsen (E-mail: ); Associate, Lincoln E. Steed (E-mail: ). North America Religious Liberty Association, Inc. President, Halvard B. Thomsen; Vice President, Lincoln E. Steed; Executive Director, Barry W. Bussey; Secretary-Treasurer, Deborah Knott. Website: www.religiousliberty.info.

Office of Volunteer Ministries. Director, Jose Vicente Rojas (E-mail: ). Telephone: 1 (800) 331-2767. Website: www.HeSaidGo.net.

Philanthropic Service for Institutions. Telephone: 1 (301) 680-6131. Fax: 1 (301) 680-6137. Website: www.philanthropicservice.com. Director, Lilya R. Wagner (E-mail: Lilya. . Associates, Paul Hopkins (E-mail: ); Kristin Priest (E-mail: ).

Polish Ministries. Advisor, Larry D. Blackmer (E-mail: .

Portuguese Ministries. Advisor, R. Ernest Castillo (E-mail: ).

Prayer Ministries. Ruth Jacobsen (E-mail: ).

Prison Ministries. Advisor, J. Alfred Johnson II (E-mail: ).

Romanian Ministries. Advisor, R. Ernest Castillo (E-mail: ).

Russian Ministries. Advisor, Larry D. Blackmer (E-mail: ).

Seminars Unlimited (Revelation Seminars). 403 East Highway 67; P.O. Box 66; Keene, Texas 76059. Telephone: 1 (800) 982-3344; 1 (817) 641-3643. Fax: 1 (817) 641-3640. Chair, Don C. Schneider; Director, Carl S. Johnston; Treasurer, Alan W. Weis.

Spirit of Prophecy. Alvin M. Kibble (E-mail: ).

Yugoslavian Ministries. Advisor, Larry D. Blackmer (E-mail: ).

Adventist Radio Broadcasters Association (ARBA):

Member Stations:

KACS FM, Chehalis, Washington.

KADV FM, Ceres, California.

KARM FM, Visalia, California.

KCSH FM, Ellensburg, Washington.

KEEH, Spokane, Washington.

KGTS FM, College Place, Washington.

KJCR FM, Keene, Texas.

KLRF FM, Walla Walla, Washington.

KNDL FM, Angwin, California.

KPLL-LP, Lewiston, Idaho.

KPLW FM, Wenatchee, Washington.

KSDA FM, Agana Heights, Guam.

KSOH FM, Yakima, Washington.

KSVA FM, Corrales, New Mexico.

KTFY, Twin Falls, Idaho.

KTSY FM, Boise, Idaho.

KUDU FM, Tok, Alaska.

KYPL FM, Yakima, Washington.

VOAR 1210-AM, Mount Pearl, Newfoundland, Canada.

WAUS FM, Berrien Springs, Michigan.

WBIN AM, Benton, Tennessee.

WBLC AM, Lenoir City, Tennessee.

WDNX FM, Savannah, Tennessee.

WGTS FM, Takoma Park, Maryland.

WJOU FM, Huntsville, Alabama.

WJYC FM, Milford, Ohio.

WSGM, Tracy City, Tennessee.

WSMC FM, Collegedale, Tennessee.

(For further information, see Radio and TV Stations section.)

North American Division Evangelism Institute (NADEI):

NADEI; Andrews University; Berrien Springs, Michigan 49104-1590. Telephone: 1 (269) 471-8303. Fax: 1 (269) 471-8324. (Church Planting--Seeds: 1 (800) 255-7568.) E-mail: . Website: www.nadei.org. Director, Ron E. M. Clouzet; Associates, Donald James, Eduard Schmidt; Business Manager, Lyle Litzenberger.

Retirement Plans of the North American Division:

Administrator, Delbert L. Johnson; Associates, Judy A. Beers, Marilyn Pazitka, C. Maurine Wahlen, Lyn R. Wick.

United States Retirement Plans:

Telephone: 1 (301) 680-6249. Fax: 1 (301) 680-6190. E-mail: .

Address: 12501 Old Columbia Pike; Silver Spring, Maryland 20904-6600.

Plans Administered:

Adventist Retirement Plan.

North American Division Retiree Auxiliary Healthcare Assistance and Death Benefit Fund.

North American Division Retiree Auxiliary Loma Linda Foods Employee Fund.

North American Division Retiree Auxiliary Tuition Assistance Fund.

North American Division Retirement Hospital Medical Fund.

Seventh-day Adventist Hospital Retirement Plan.

Seventh-day Adventist Retirement Plan of the North American Division.

Seventh-day Adventist Church Retirement Plan for Canadian Employees:

Telephone: 1 (905) 433-0011. Fax: 1 (905) 433-0982.

Address: 1148 King Street East; Oshawa, Ontario L1H 1H8; Canada.

Director, Marilyn Pazitka (E-mail: ).