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9705 Patuxent Woods Drive
Columbia, MD 21046-1565, USA
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At General Conference Session, Adventist Connect Showcases Tools to Help Churches Reach Communities
July 11, 2025
At the 2025 General Conference Session, NAD Secretary and Treasurer Elected to Serve New Term
July 8, 2025

Helping Adventist leaders in North America fulfill the vision and mission of the Seventh-day Adventist Church

The Secretariat department provides essential support through six key areas: church policies, missions coordination, human relations, administrative operations, resources, and special initiatives. From managing volunteer ministries and resolving personnel matters to maintaining credentials and coordinating meetings, we work behind the scenes to ensure smooth operations. Our goal is to empower you to focus on what matters most—reaching communities with Christ’s message of hope and wholeness.

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At General Conference Session, Adventist Connect Showcases Tools to Help Churches Reach Communities
At the General Conference Session in St. Louis, Missouri, held July 3-12, 2025, Marshall McKenzie, associate director of Adventist Connect, has been busy sharing new resources designed to help local churches connect with their neighbors digitally and in person. Adventist Connect, formerly Adventist Information Ministry, is built around three components: Frame, Engage and Thrive.
St. Louis, Mo.
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At the 2025 General Conference Session, NAD Secretary and Treasurer Elected to Serve New Term
During the morning business meeting on July 8, at the 2025 General Conference Session in St. Louis, Missouri, North American Division (NAD) executive secretary Kyoshin Ahn and treasurer Judy R. Glass were elected to serve another term when session delegates voted to approve the nominating committee recommendations for all 13 division secretaries and treasurers. Ahn and Glass are set to serve the 2025-2030 term.
St. Louis, Mo.
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Spreading an Evangelism Net
As Adventists today embrace Pentecost 2025 it is important to remember some cutting-edge innovations for Adventist outreach and evangelism that took place during the 1990s. Some three decades later it may be difficult to fully appreciate just how new (and at times even startling) these efforts were. Such discussions began in 1993 when the North American Division (NAD) leadership participated in a series of satellite broadcasts with the newly formed Adventist Communication Network.
Columbia, Md.
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How we serve

The Office of NAD Secretariat oversees and provides services in the following six key areas to support its mission:

  1. Church Policies
    • Develop, implement, and interpret church policies
    • Advise and inform division leaders on policy questions/issues as appropriate, to advance the cohesive and orderly operations of our ministry efforts
  2. Missions
    • Oversee the Office of Volunteer Ministries and Missionary Services departments.
      • Office of Volunteer Ministries brings together the unions, conferences, schools, churches and hospitals to reach communities through volunteer ministries, community outreach projects, literacy, evangelism, Bible work, and other outreach activities.
      • Missionary Services ensures that career missionaries who call the North American Division their home base feel seen, heard, and supported.  We support the Intra Division Missionary Program and the International Service Employee Program (ISE).
  3. Human Relations
    • Address personnel and member relationship issues, including but not limited to human relations policies and procedures, sexual ethics, diversity relations, conciliation, and dispute resolution
  4. Administrative Operations
    • Record, coordinate, and archive minutes for various NAD committees, the NAD Year-end, and other designated meetings
    • Issue and maintain records of employee credentials and licenses
    • Compile and manage membership data for statistical reports
    • Facilitate human resources for the NAD
    • Process and oversee the authorization of interdivision travel; process transfers, interdivision calls, independent transfers, and division status.
    • Compile data for the SDA Yearbook
    • Maintain the NAD calendar;
    • Process denominational status applications and process service requests for denominational workers
  5. Special Projects/Initiatives
    • Secretariat also handles special projects/assignments as directed by the NAD President