In my capacity as Harvard Chaplain, my responsibilities included providing opportunities for social and spiritual nurturing and care to students and faculty of the Seventh-day Adventist faith tradition. Additional responsibility included serving as a member of the Harvard Chaplaincy Committee that governs the overall spiritual welfare of the Harvard University Community.

The Atlantic Union Conference is a regional headquarters for the Seventh-day Adventist Church in the northeast United States (covering the states of New York, Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Connecticut, Massachusetts and Rhode Island) and the island of Bermuda. It serves six regional conferences with a membership of more than 123,060 scattered throughout 650 churches; it also owns and operates 61 schools, one health care facility, and numerous community-based ministries. The Youth Ministries Director is an exempt level position reportable only to the president of the organization. I led a team of six conference youth directors and their associates and staff giving leadership oversight and execution of the organization’s strategy and vision to more than 60 thousand youth and young adults.

The Southern New England Conference caters to a constituency of some 20,000 members and covers the states of Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island. As Family ministries director my responsibilities included providing psychological, social and spiritual support to families, single adults, parents and children. This include planning and coordinating an annual couples retreat, young adults and collegiate retreats, establishing social support groups, crisis interventions and counseling. As the Associate youth director my responsibilities were specifically to provide spiritual and social support to young adults and Adventist students attending public tertiary institutions in Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut.