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