About Us

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.
Mission Statement
We are providing multilingual resources, supporting immigrant congregations, fostering cultural understanding, and equipping leaders to meet the unique spiritual and social needs of diverse language communities—so that all believers can be fully integrated into the body of Christ and grow as disciples.
Vission Statement
To cultivate a unified spiritual community where language diversity is embraced as a gift from God, allowing all people to experience and express their faith in meaningful ways. We envision a church where cultural and linguistic differences strengthen our collective witness, reflecting the Kingdom of God—where every nation, tribe, and tongue will worship together.
How We Serve
  • We help to network immigrant communities across the North American Division.
  • We collaborate with unions and their conferences in ministries to these emerging communities.
  • We monitor and oversee the language groups through advisories of differing language groups.
  • We provide appropriations to financially support these emerging communities.
  • We provide seminars and conferences on cultural intelligence.
  • We provide multilingual resources connecting emerging communities with needed materials.
  • We support camp meetings between unions when emerging people groups gather.
  • We fund efforts that serve refugee and immigrant evangelism programs.
Contextualized Evangelism
We adapt the Adventist message to diverse cultural and linguistic contexts, respecting the unique identity of each community while sharing our faith.
Community and Belonging
We create spaces where immigrants, refugees, and ethnic communities can experience faith in their native language, celebrating their cultural traditions within the Adventist framework.
Interfaith and Community Outreach
We establish bridges of dialogue with other religious traditions and develop community service programs that address the specific needs of each cultural group.

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

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Axel Orellana

Assistant Director of NAD Multilingual Ministries

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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

Samuel Kim

Korean Advisory

David Pires

Portuguese Advisory

Daniel Ciobanu

Romanian Advisory

Sisa Sibanda Ncube

Zimbabwean Advisory

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.