Sandra Roberts - Executive Secretary

• Executive secretary of Southeastern California Conference since November 2004. She is the first woman to be elected an officer of the conference.

• Conference associate youth director for senior youth ministry from 2000 to 2004.

• Copastor/associate pastor of the Corona church from 1995 to 2000.

• Chaplain at Loma Linda Elementary and Junior High from 1992 to 1995. 

• Pine Springs Ranch general manager and summer camp director from 1987 to 1992.

• Has worked in Southeastern California Conference since 1987, when she was called from the Central California Conference, where she was a religion teacher at Modesto Adventist Academy.

• Associate dean of women and home economics teacher, Cedar Lake Academy, from 1980 to 1982.

• Earned a Doctor of Ministry degree, with emphasis in spiritual formation, from the Claremont School of Theology; a Master of Arts degree in religious education from Andrews University, and a Bachelor of Science degree in dietetics from Loma Linda University. 

• Holds an ordained/commissioned minister credential.

• Preaches in local churches; participates in ordination services and special occasions at churches such as groundbreaking ceremonies, dedications and anniversaries. Recommends the development of local church organizations to the Executive Committee, such as branch Sabbath schools, affiliate groups, companies and churches.
  

• As executive secretary, Pastor Roberts maintains minutes of Executive Committees and constituency sessions and chairs the Education Board and Pine Springs Ranch Advisory Committee.

• The daughter of Seventh-day Adventist missionaries, Pastor Roberts is a world traveler. Her goal is to visit at least one new country every year. Her list of countries visited numbers more than 80.