NORTH AMERICAN DIVISION (NAD)

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, 5,118; membership, 1,030,361; population, 331,764,000 (online statistics).

Telecommunications:

Telephone: 1 (301) 680-6400.

Fax: 1 (301) 680-6464.

Website: www.nadadventist.org.

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

Administration:

President, Don C. Schneider (E-mail: show).

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

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

Vice Presidents, Debra C. Brill (E-mail: show); R. Ernest Castillo (E-mail: show); Alvin M. Kibble (E-mail: show); Gerald N. Kovalski (E-mail: show).

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

Secretary, Roscoe J. Howard III (E-mail: show); Associate, Carolyn R. Forrest (E-mail: show). Website: www.nadadventist.org/sec/.

Treasurer, Juan R. Prestol (E-mail: show); Associates, Marshall L. Chase, Delbert L. Johnson, Kenneth W. Osborn, C. Michael Park; Assistant Treasurer/Director of Accounting, Patricia L. Horst.

Executive Committee:

Don C. Schneider, Chairman; Roscoe J. Howard III, Secretary; Juan Acosta, Bill Adams, Beverly R. Amlaner, Donald R. Ammon, Nilton D. Amorim, Eric D. Anderson, Niels-Erik Andreasen, Michael Armayor, Hope Ashmeade, Kymn Astwood, George T. Atiga, Raj Attiken, Delmar Austin, George P. Babcock, Reuel Bacchus, Carla Baker, Delbert W. Baker, Trevor H. C. Baker, Nantoo Banerjee, Harold W. Baptiste, Seth T. Bardu, Lisa M. Beardsley, Matthew A. Bediako, B. Lyn Behrens, Theodore R. Benson, Dale J. Bidwell, Gordon Bietz, Neil Biloff, Barry C. Black, James L Black Sr., Larry D. Blackmer, Kelly Bock, Larry Boggess, Gary Bollinger, Kevin Boonstra, Shawn Boonstra, Helen Boskind, Bob Brauer, James Brauer, Debra C. Brill, George I. Brill, Gina Brown, Jeffrey O. Brown, Patricia Brown, Benjamin P. Browne, G. A. Bryant, Russell C. Burrill, Eduardo Canales, Ramon Canals, Hamlet Canosa, Dennis N. Carlson, Ron Carlson, Walter E. Carson, R. Ernest Castillo, Michael F. Cauley, Larry L. Caviness, Timo Chacon, Shirley Chang, Marshall L. Chase, Charles L. Cheatham, Carl Patrick Chin, Ronald M. Christman, Chester Clark III, Ron Clouzet, George Coke, John Collins, Lowell C. Cooper, Robyn Cordova, Dean Coridan, Donald W. Corkum, Ken Corkum, Sabrina Cotton, Gary R. Councell, Hopeton Cousins, Sandy Crank, Ken Crawford, Thaine Creitz, Robert Curren, Ray Daniel, Carol Davidson, James R. Davidson, Jerome L. Davis, Daniel O. Day, Kenneth A. Denslow, Victor Dingman, Maitland DiPinto, Chan Kwak Do, Charles W. Drake III, John Drake, Richard DuBose, Roger L. Dudley, Edward Dunn, Richard C. Dye Sr., Phyllis Edmonds, Sandy Eickmann, Melvin K. Eisele, G. Thomas Evans, Patrick Farley, Martin W. Feldbush, Jimmy L. Ferguson, Odette R. Ferreira, Ruthita Fike, LeRoy Finck, Mark A. Finley, Sherry Fisher, Brad Forbes, Carolyn R. Forrest, Stephen Foster, John C. Freedman, Debra Fryson, Jay Gallimore, Steven L. Gallimore, Dale Galusha, Larry Garrett, Lawrence T. Geraty, David A. Geriguis, L. James Gibson, Stephen Gifford, Russ Gilbert, Conrad L. Gill, Frank M. Gonzalez, Ricardo B. Graham, Gordon Gray, Samuel L. Green, Shelton Green, David E. Greenlaw, Millie Greer, Buford Griffith, Rodney A. Grove, Elaine M. Hagele, William Hall, Richard R. Hallock, Bert B. Haloviak, Chris Hankins, J. Neville Harcombe, Currine Harris, Harold Ross Harris, Richard H. Hart, Raymond C. Hartwell, Daniel E. Herzel, Angenetta Hill, Gary Hodder, Mary Hodges, Trudy Hoffman, Ellen Hokanson, Leighton Holley, Susan Hong, Paul Hopkins, Patricia L. Horst, Dan Houghton, King-Yi Eugene Hsu, Antonio Huerta, Darrell Huether, Timothy Hullquist, Alan Hurlbert, Pauline Ijeh, Larry Innocent, Daniel R. Jackson, Michael R. Jamieson, Donald L. Jernigan, Delbert L. Johnson, George W. Johnson Jr., J. Alfred Johnson II, Larry Johnson, William G. Johnsson, Carl S. Johnston, R. Clifford Jones, Eugene Joseph, Ellie Kaanaana, Wayne Kablanow, Gerry D. Karst, Alvin M. Kibble, Shelley Kilgore, Don E. Kim, Donald G. King, Frederick M. Kinsey, Norman W. Klam, Michael Knecht, Lorinda Knowlton, J. Deryl Knutson, Luke Kolpacoff, Eric A. Korff, Gerald N. Kovalski, Sung K. Kwon, Robert E. Kyte, Jerry Lafave, Kevin L. Lang, Samuel Lee, Robert E. Lemon, James L. Lewis, David Livermore, Donald Livesay, John Loor Jr., Jose Antonio Lopez, Andrea Luxton, Bryan Mann, Richard A. Marker, Larry Marsh, Dennis Marshall, Eleanor Marshalleck, Jorge R. Mayer, Raymond Mayor, Alphonso McCarthy, Andre McCloud, Duane McKey, Donna McNeilus, Stephen L. McPherson, John K. McVay, Efrain Medina, Lonnie E. Melashenko, V. J. Mendinghall, Carmelo Mercado, Lester P. Merklin Jr., Louis B. Metellus, William Miller, Armando Miranda, Bobby J. Mitchell, Robert D. Moon, Bruce Moore, Marvin L. Moore, Thomas J. Mostert Jr., Gary Moyer, John H. C. Moyer, Pardon K. Mwansa, Lola Nathan, Bradford C. Newton, Derrick M. Nichols, James R. Nix, Don Noble, Eileen Oakley, Ron Oliver, Willie Oliver, Dionisio Olivo, Naomi Olson, William M. Olson, Stephen Orian, Michael F. Ortel, Kenneth W. Osborn, Richard C. Osborn, Linda Oster, Jerry N. Page, Orville D. Parchment, Ruth E. Parish, Michael Park, Bryce Pascoe, Jere D. Patzer, Jan Paulsen, Walter L. Pearson Jr., Ruben Daniel Pechero, James E. Pedersen, Gerald D. Penick, Frank J. Perez, Ed Pierce, Gordon E. Pifher, Gil Pina, Larry J. Pitcher, Jeff Potts, Juan R. Prestol, Kristin Priest, Elizabeth Pule, Albert Quesada, Sunilda Ramos, John Ramsay, Gary E. Randolph, G. Edward Reid, Norman Reitz, Gordon L. Retzer, Barbara Rhodes, Paul Richardson, William G. Robertson, Calvin B. Rock, Daniel Rodela, Angel M. Rodriquez, Jose Vicente Rojas, Stan Rouse, Corrine Rowlins, Warren Ruf, David Runnels, Horace Russell, Ron Russell, Michael L. Ryan, Monte C. Sahlin, Donald R. Sahly, Charles C. Sandefur Jr., Evelyn Saravia, Kenneth Schiffour, Marti C. Schneider, Du'ane M. Schoonard, Benjamin D. Schoun, Glynn C. W. Scott, Charles W. Scriven, James Segar, Loren Seibold, Harry Sharley, Stephanie Sheehan, Ralph Shelton, Manford Simcock, Carlyle C. Simmons, Ella S. Simmons, Charles B. Simpson, Hepsiba S. Singh, David C. Smith, Robert S. Smith, Ronald C. Smith, Jorge Soria, Lincoln E. Steed, James L. Stevens, Verlon Strauss, Ward D. Sumpter, Robert L. Sweezey, Ernie Sylvester, W. L. Taylor, Manuela Terencio, Astrid Thomassian, Leon D. Thomassian, Halvard B. Thomsen, Gary Thurber, Frank Tochterman, Max C. Torkelsen II, Max A. Trevino, Arnold Trujillo, Michael Tucker, Kendall Turcios, Debbie Turner, Ken M. Turpen, Jesus Uriarte, Miguel A. Valdivia, Rodney Van Putton, Robert T. Vandeman, Douglas Walker, Phyllis Whitley-Washington, Ralph S. Watts III, David Weigley, Rita Weisz, Vincent White, Ronald H. Whitehead, Lyn R. Wick, Kenneth Wiebe, DeWitt S. Williams, Walton A. Williams, Jeffrey K. Wilson, Ted N. C. Wilson, Edward E. Wines, Randal R. Wisbey, Kenneth H. Wood, Billy E. Wright, Ed Wright, Walter L. Wright, Joyce Yeager, Lori T. Yingling, Deborah Young, F. Martin Ytreberg.

Departments:

Adventist Chaplaincy Ministries, Martin W. Feldbush; Associate, Gary R. Councell. E-mail: show. Website: www.adventistchaplains.org. Field Representatives: Lester Rilea (SE United States); Jose McLaughlin (SW United States); James North (Seventh-day Adventist Theological Seminary). Adventist Military Support Center Directors (NAD): Christopher Fritz (South Korea); Ted Pae (Japan); Gordon Weidemann (Europe). (For additional information see Institutions and/or Other Entities.) Chaplains' Associations: Corrections, Educational, Healthcare, Military-related.

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

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

Education, Gerald N. Kovalski (E-mail: show); Associates, Larry D. Blackmer, Odette R. Ferreira, Debra Fryson.

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

Health Ministries, DeWitt S. Williams (E-mail: show).

Ministerial Association, Russell C. Burrill (E-mail: show); Associates, Ron Clouzet, Du'ane M. Schoonard, Walton A. Williams.

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

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

Stewardship, G. Edward Reid (E-mail: show).

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

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

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

Agency:

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

Ministries and Services:

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

Adventist Information Ministry. Berrien Springs, Michigan 49104-0970. Telephone: 1 (800) 253-3002. Fax: 1 (269) 471-6072. Cell: 1 (269) 208-6000. E-mail: show. Website: www.aiministry.net. Director, Robert D. Moon; Associate Director for Operations, Twyla Wall.

Adventist-laymen's Services and Industries (ASI). Telephone: 1 (301) 680-6450. Fax: 1 (301) 622-5017. Website: www.asiministries.org.

President, Deborah Young; General Vice President, Chester Clark III; Vice Presidents, Viorel Catarama, Chip Doss, Leasa Hodges, Doreen Schmidt, Barbara Taylor. Secretary-Treasurer, Ronald M. Christman (E-mail: show); Assistant Director, Sharon Robberson (E-mail: show); Communication Director, Judy A. Thomsen (E-mail: show).

Adventist PlusLine (a service of AdventSource). Telephone: 1 (800) 732-7587. Fax: 1 (805) 497-7099. Website: www.plusline.org.

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

Association of Adventist Colleges and Universities, Inc. 12501 Old Columbia Pike; Silver Spring, Maryland 20904-6600. Chief Executive Officer, Gerald N. Kovalski.

Auditing (See listing under General Conference Services).

Church Resource Center. 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: show); Associate Director, Dave Gemmell (E-mail: show).

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

Czech Ministries. Advisor, Gerald N. Kovalski (E-mail: show).

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

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

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

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

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

Hungarian Ministries. Advisor, Gerald N. Kovalski (E-mail: show).

Information Technology Services. Telephone: 1 (301) 680-6465. Director, Nancy A. Lamoreaux (E-mail: show); Associate, George I. Brill.

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

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) 591-1554. Director, Walton A. Williams (E-mail: show).

Institute of Church Ministry. Andrews University Seminary S136; Berrien Springs, Michigan 49104-1530. Telephone: 1 (269) 471-3407. Fax: 1 (269) 471-6202. Director, Roger L. Dudley. E-mail: show.

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

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

North American Division Retirees Association. 2712 Dorothy Drive; Cleburne, Texas 76031. Telephone: 1 (817) 271-1160. President, L. Stephen Gifford (E-mail: show).

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

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

Office of Public Affairs and Religious Liberty. Halvard B. Thomsen (E-mail: show); Associate, Lincoln E. Steed (E-mail: show).

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

Polish Ministries. Advisor, Gerald N. Kovalski (show).

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

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

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. Chairman, Don C. Schneider; Director, Carl S. Johnston; Treasurer, Alan Weis.

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

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

Yugoslavian Ministries. Advisor, Gerald N. Kovalski (E-mail: show).

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.

KPLW FM, Wenatchee, Washington.

KSDA FM, Agana Heights, Guam.

KSOH FM, Yakima, Washington.

KSVA FM, Corrales, New Mexico.

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.

WJYC FM, Milford, Ohio.

WOCG FM, Huntsville, Alabama.

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: show. Website: www.nadei.org. Director, Russell C. Burrill; Associates, Donald James, Eduard Schmidt; Business Manager, Lyle Litzenberger.

Retirement Plans of the North American Division:

Administrator, Delbert L. Johnson; Associates, Marilyn Pazitka, Lyn R. Wick.

United States Retirement Plans:

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

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: show).