Empowering diverse communities
through culturally sensitive outreach
Multilingual Ministries
We adapt the Adventist message to diverse cultural and linguistic contexts, respecting the unique identity of each community while sharing our faith.
We create spaces where immigrants, refugees, and ethnic communities can experience faith in their native language, celebrating their cultural traditions within the Adventist framework.
We establish bridges of dialogue with other religious traditions and develop community service programs that address the specific needs of each cultural group.

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Building Faith Across Cultures

Creating spiritual homes where diverse linguistic and cultural communities across North America can experience faith while honoring their unique cultural identities.

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Our specialized advisory committees serve specific cultural and linguistic communities, providing tailored spiritual support, cultural preservation, and mission advancement through dedicated coordinators who understand each community's unique context and needs.
Helps displaced communities with spiritual support, cultural integration, legal assistance, and essential resources for a new beginning.
An interfaith initiative in San Diego connects Muslim and Christian communities through health presentations, Bible study, and collaborative charity work.
Supports diverse Asian and Pacific Islander communities through cultural worship, leadership training, youth engagement, and evangelistic outreach.
Engages diverse communities with culturally sensitive evangelism, church planting, and services, fostering spiritual growth and integration in North America.
Supports Hungarian-speaking Adventists in North America, preserving cultural heritage while advancing mission through worship, community events, and leadership development.
Serves Greek-speaking communities in North America, blending Adventist beliefs with Greek cultural heritage through worship, health outreach, and interfaith dialogue.
Supports Haitian Adventists in North America through youth programs, media evangelism, cultural preservation, and community services, fostering spiritual and cultural growth.
Builds bridges between Adventist and Jewish communities through shared Sabbath observance, biblical festivals, Torah study, and respectful interfaith dialogue.
Supports Korean Adventists in North America through family ministry, youth engagement, evangelistic innovation, and leadership development, fostering cultural and spiritual growth.
Serves Portuguese-speaking communities in North America through church planting, leadership development, youth engagement, and culturally relevant evangelism and outreach.
Supports Romanian Adventists in North America through cultural adaptation, youth retention, evangelistic outreach, and intergenerational ministry, preserving heritage and faith.
Empowers Zimbabwean Adventists in North America through lay leadership, youth initiatives, virtual connectivity, and evangelism, preserving cultural heritage and spiritual vitality.
Serving non-English speaking communities, following Christ's method through scholarships, needs assessments, Spirit of Prophecy translations, and media evangelism.
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Our Team

Strategic leadership and supervision to each department and ministry which is a part of the North American Division.

Minervino Labrador

Vice President of NAD Multilingual Ministries

Axel Orellana

Assistant Director of NAD Multilingual Ministries

Terri Saelee

Adventist Refugee and Inmigrants Advisory

Gabriela Phillips

Adventist Muslim Relations Advisory

Robin Park

Asian Pacific Advisory

Mehbub Khan

SAAMNAD Advisory

Dr. Marius E. Marton

Hungarian Advisory

George Dialectakis

Greek Advisory

Jose Joseph

Franco Haitian Advisory
 

Ralph Ringer

Jewish Advisory

Daniel Ciobanu

Romanian Advisory

Sisa Sibanda Ncube

Zimbabwean Advisory

David Pires

Portuguese Advisory

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Dr. Minervino “Minner” Labrador, Jr. serves as Vice President for the North American Division of Seventh-day Adventists, where he leads the Multilingual Ministries department. With a lifelong passion for fostering unity in diverse communities, he has dedicated his ministry to serving multi-ethnic congregations across the United States.

Before his current role, Dr. Labrador was President of the Upper Columbia Conference, overseeing the church’s work across parts of Washington, Oregon, and Idaho within the North Pacific Union Conference. Previously, he served as Vice President for the Southwestern Union Conference, where he directed church ministries, ministerial leadership, men’s ministries, and stewardship.

His pastoral journey includes leadership in the Carolina Conference as Men’s Ministries Director and Senior Pastor of Sharon Seventh-day Adventist Church in Charlotte, North Carolina. He also served in the Florida Conference for many years as a pastor and Men’s Ministries Director. His extensive experience in multicultural ministry has allowed him to serve congregations of Jamaican, Haitian, Spanish, and English-speaking backgrounds.

Dr. Labrador holds a Doctor of Ministry degree in Redemptive Leadership and Healthy Organizational Structures from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. He earned his Master of Divinity from Andrews University and a bachelor’s degree from Southern Adventist University.

Born in Cuba, he immigrated to the United States in 1970 and grew up in a diverse, multi-ethnic neighborhood in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His upbringing instilled in him a deep appreciation for cultural diversity and mission-driven leadership.

His wife, Evelyn Labrador, a double major graduate of LaSalle University, actively supports his ministry and frequently joins him in engagements across the territory. Married since 1986, they are proud parents of two sons, Minner and Mario, both of whom serve their communities as career firefighters in Charlotte, North Carolina. They are also the joyful grandparents of five grandchildren.

Pastor Axel Carlos Orellana Castro has been serving as the Assistant Director of the Multilingual Ministry for the North American Division since 2022. In this vital role, he assists the Vice President for Multilingual Ministries and supports the diverse language ministries that reach many cultural communities across our territory.

Pastor Orellana Castro also manages Esperanza TV, our Hispanic Adventist channel for North America, where he oversees programming that brings hope and the Gospel message to Spanish-speaking viewers throughout the region and across social media platforms.

His background as a Chilean-born minister who spent his childhood and adolescence in Brazil before beginning his pastoral service in Chile, combined with his experience as a media and musical producer and composer for 27 years, has uniquely equipped him for this important work of connecting diverse communities with Christ’s message. His leadership at Esperanza TV has been instrumental in expanding our media outreach to Hispanic communities across North America.