{"id":24201,"date":"2025-07-11T00:27:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-11T00:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/?p=24201"},"modified":"2025-07-11T19:08:46","modified_gmt":"2025-07-11T19:08:46","slug":"ted-elects-directors-and-associates-for-new-quinquennium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/ted-elects-directors-and-associates-for-new-quinquennium\/","title":{"rendered":"TED Elects Directors and Associates for New Quinquennium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>10 July 2025 | St Louis, USA [<em>tedNEWS<\/em>]<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday afternoon, 10 July, the Trans-European Division (TED) Caucus to the 62nd General Conference Session voted to approve the TED Nominating Committee&#8217;s recommendation to appoint the following directors and associates to serve for the 2025\u20132030 quinquennium:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Field Secretary, Public Affairs and Religious Liberty, &amp; Publishing<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ian Sweeney (incumbent)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Associate Treasurer\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Candy Layson (incumbent)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Associate Secretary<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Dean Papaioannou (incumbent)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Youth and Public Campus Ministries\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Marcel Ghioalda (incumbent)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Teens, Adventurers &amp; Pathfinders Associate\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Kevin Johns (incumbent)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Adventist Mission &amp; Women&#8217;s Ministries<br \/>\n<\/strong>Sylvia Mendez\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Sylvia630.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-24231 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Sylvia630.jpg\" alt=\"Sylvia\" width=\"420\" height=\"630\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Sylvia630.jpg 420w, https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Sylvia630-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Sylvia630-350x525.jpg 350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Pastor Sylvia Mendez, who most recently served as Women\u2019s Ministries Director for the Australian Union Conference in the South Pacific Division, brings experience in church planting and Women&#8217;s Ministries. She holds a BA in Ministry and Theology and is currently completing an MBA at Avondale University.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Communication &amp; Media\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\nVanesa Pizzuto<\/p>\n<p><strong>Communication &amp; Media Associate\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\nJoseph Phillpott<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/J-Philpott630.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-24232\" src=\"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/J-Philpott630.jpg\" alt=\"Joe Philpot\" width=\"420\" height=\"630\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/J-Philpott630.jpg 420w, https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/J-Philpott630-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/J-Philpott630-350x525.jpg 350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Pastor Joseph Phillpott recently served as the Communication and Media Director for the North England Conference. From 2017 to 2022, he served as a pastor in the Midlands, United Kingdom. He has a keen interest in sharing the Gospel through social media and has experience in marketing. Phillpott holds a BA in Theology and an MA in Biblical and Pastoral Studies.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Education, Sabbath School &amp; Personal Ministries\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\nKayle de Waal (incumbent)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Family and Children&#8217;s Ministries\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\nKaren Holford (incumbent)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ministerial, Chaplaincy &amp; Stewardship<\/strong><br \/>\nDavid Neal<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Featured image: Back row left to right: Kayle de Waal, Marcel Ghioalda, Kevin Johns, David Neal and Ian Sweeney. Front row left to right: Sylvia Mendez, Vanessa Pizzuto, Candy Layson, and Karen Holford. Not pictured: Dean Papaioannou, and Joe Phillpot. Photo: [Jimmy Botha] AME (CC BY 4.0)<\/p>\n<p>Photos supplied by Sylvia Mendez and Joseph Phillpot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A diverse and energetic team <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":24236,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1576,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24201","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\/24201","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=24201"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24252,"href":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24201\/revisions\/24252"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}