(Left) Pastor Ryan Hablitzel with his wife René and children Reuben, Ryleigh, Roman and Remington. (Right) Pastor Angel Heredia with his wife Alexa. Evangelism in 2005, Ryan continued his pastoral education and received a degree in religious ministry from Weimar College in 2007. Ryan attended the seminary at Andrews University in 2008 and received a call to the Nevada-Utah Conference upon his graduation in 2011. Ryan and René have four children: Reuben, Ryleigh, Roman and Remington. Ryan now pastors his second district in the Nevada-Utah Conference, which includes the Ogden, Logan and Community Vineyard churches north of Salt Lake City, Utah. “My passion is the Church’s mission,” Ryan said. “My greatest desire is to see churches reach their full potential.”
Angel Heredia
Angel Heredia Cruz was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico. He grew up attending the SeventhDay Adventist Church where his mother Milda I. Cruz was a passionate Sabbath School teacher, church clerk and elder. His mother had a great influence on his early years and gave her son her devotion to the Lord and His church. From 1994 to 1998 he studied theology at Antillean Adventist University. After graduation, he served in various districts as an associate pastor and senior pastor for the Eastern SDA Conference in Puerto Rico. In 2001, Angel went to Andrews University to pursue his master’s degree in youth ministry and
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later a master’s in business administration. In 2005, he graduated from Andrews Pathfinder Leadership Training and moved to Hawaii for May 11 Las Vegas, Nevada training in clinical pastor education. He then went N.U.C.A. Summer Camp back to Puerto Rico to work June 22-29 as a youth evangelist and professor for undergraduate theology students in Antillean University. He became an advisor for the mayor of the city of Vieques, Puerto Rico, as a result of his spiritual influence among the people of that city. In 2008, Angel was invited to speak at a youth rally in the Napa Valley, Calif., where Alexa Duenas was invited with her brothers to sing for the event. Immediately, their hearts were drawn to each other and after meeting again later, they were married and Angel accepted the invitation to be associate pastor at Mountain View Church in Las Vegas. Angel and Alexa have enjoyed serving together. They consider it their privilege to live the rest their lives serving God, because they know that they are merely undeserving sinners in desperate need of Jesus.
Julio Juarez
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fter considering the outstanding pastoral qualities of Harold Rosales, of the Red Cliffs/Cedar City, Utah district, the NevadaUtah Conference Executive Committee voted to grant him a seminary sponsorship to Andrews Theological Seminary beginning August 2014. Rosales began his journey in the Nevada-Utah Conference in April 2012 when he transferred here from the Oregon Conference. He is a 2011 graduate of Walla Walla University, with a B.A. degree in
religion and a minor in history. His gentle, but enthusiastic spirit is contagious and attracts others to the message of the Savior. His 10-year-old son Isaac is the joy of his life. Rosales said of himself: “Simply, I am honored to serve in the Nevada-Utah Conference and look forward to the day when I won’t have to serve in pastoral ministry anymore because that will mean our Lord and Savior has come for all of us. May the flag of heaven never stop flying in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.”
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