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  Toshio Shibata

  Executive Secretary

  Toshio Shibata

  

  Executive Secretary / E-mail

  The Executive Committee of the Seventh-day Adventist Church voted to elect Pastor Toshio Shibata as the executive secretary of the Northern Asia-Pacific Division during the General Conference business session on July 8, 2025. Pastor Shibata has various experience in pastoral service, departmental ministry, and administration. For the past nine and half years, he has been the executive secretary for the Japan Union Conference since 2016. Before that, he served ten years as director of youth department at the JUC since 2006. During his nineteen and half years of service at the JUC, he also served concurrently as various department director, Children, Communication, Education, PARL, PGTS, and Publishing department. He began his pastoral work as a local church pastor in 1993. His pastoral ministry includes serving at the college church in Japan and the Loma Linda Japanese Church in the United Sates. He has Bachelor of Theology degree at the Saniku Gakuin College in 1993 and Master of Ministry degree at the AIIAS, 1999. Pastor Shibata, fourth generation of Adventist and his wife have two children.

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  Lee, HyungJin

  Associate Secretary

  Lee, HyungJin

  

  Associate Secretary / E-mail

  Pastor Lee HyungJin began his pastoral ministry in 2000 at the SDA language institute. During his pastoral ministry, he served as a local church pastor, a chaplain of the SDA language school.

  Pr. Lee graduated from Sahmyook University in Korea with a B.A in Theology, and obtained his Master’s Degree from Andrews Theological Seminary.

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