{"id":16415,"date":"2023-10-31T19:47:50","date_gmt":"2023-10-31T19:47:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/?p=16415"},"modified":"2023-11-09T10:23:34","modified_gmt":"2023-11-09T10:23:34","slug":"north-england-conference-director-to-serve-as-a-general-conference-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/north-england-conference-director-to-serve-as-a-general-conference-leader\/","title":{"rendered":"North England Conference Director To Serve As A General Conference Leader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>October 30 2023 | St. Albans, UK [David Neal]<\/p>\n<p>At the 2023 Annual Council of the General Conference (GC) of Seventh-Day Adventist, in Silver Spring, Maryland, USA, Jaipaul Daniel Ebenezer Sundararaj was elected Associate Director of Sabbath School and Personal Ministries.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-16475 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Ebenezer-Daniel-2_16x9-2-e1698781186747.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"279\" height=\"347\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Ebenezer-Daniel-2_16x9-2-e1698781186747.png 279w, https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Ebenezer-Daniel-2_16x9-2-e1698781186747-241x300.png 241w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 279px) 100vw, 279px\" \/>Sundararaj served as the Personal Ministries and Evangelism Department director of the North England Conference (NEC) since 2022. He also served as a member of the Mission Board of the Trans-European Division (TED).<\/p>\n<p>His focus serving the NEC\u00a0 has been \u201cdiscipleship ministry,&#8221; the nurturing, equipping, and empowering of individuals for Christian leadership. Previously, Sundararaj has served as a pastor, area ministerial field secretary, and Bible teacher at both secondary and university levels. Sundararaj is currently working on his MSc in Counselling and Psychotherapy from Salford University.<\/p>\n<p>TED Discipleship and Education director Kayle de Waal, who has recently worked closely with Sundararaj on a Christ for Europe initiative in Manchester, England, welcomed his new appointment. &#8220;We are so pleased with how the Spirit has worked to call Daniel to the GC and can see why! He&#8217;s committed and passionate has good administrative capacity, vision, and a desire to empower our people to reach their friends and communities with the Three Angels&#8217; message. We know that God will uniquely use him for the world field.<\/p>\n<p>Reflecting on his new appointment, Sundararaj commented, &#8220;This call to serve as Associate Director for Sabbath &amp; Personal Ministries at the General Conference is humbling. I dedicate myself to serving the Church with humility and diligence.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>While his appointment will be a new and exciting challenge, the Sundararaj family are extremely &#8220;grateful to the North England Conference family for allowing us to serve, and they will always be very close to our hearts.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sundararaj will assume this role on November 1, 2023: our warm wishes and congratulations on his new appointment.<\/p>\n<p>_______________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/adventist.news\/news\/new-leaders-elected-to-serve-at-annual-council-2023\">Adventist News Network<\/a> provided the source material for this story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jaipaul Daniel Ebenezer Sundararaj &#8211; elected to serve as Associate Director of Sabbath School and Personal Ministries<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":16483,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1576,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-leadership-development","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16415"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16538,"href":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16415\/revisions\/16538"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}