Leadership Team

General Conference Women's Ministries
12501 Old Columbia Pike
Silver Spring, Maryland USA 20904-6600
1 (301) 680-6636
[email protected]

Heather-Dawn Small presently holds the position of director for Women's Ministries at the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists. Heather-Dawn is the wife of Pastor Joseph Small and the mother of a daughter Dalonne and a son Jerard.

Prior to coming to the General Conference in 2001, Heather-Dawn held the position of Children's and Women's Ministries director for five years for the Caribbean Union Conference located on the twin island republic of Trinidad and Tobago. Heather-Dawn earned a master's degree in leadership with emphasis in pastoral care to women. She is presently a candidate for a doctorate degree in Inter-Cultural Studies.

Heather-Dawn loves air travel, reading, embroidery, scrapbooking, and stamp collecting and she enjoys ministry to women. As she travels the world she has three passions – to see more women involved in evangelism, to encourage women to be involved in ministry to others – especially young women, and to share the joy that God has given her in spite of life's many challenges. Her favorite word is JOY and her favorite saying is "Don't let anyone steal your joy."

General Conference Women's Ministries
12501 Old Columbia Pike
Silver Spring, Maryland USA 20904-6600
1 (301) 680-6608

Galina Stele, D.Min., has served the Office of Archives, Statistics, and Research since 2012 as a research and evaluation manager. Born in Russia (and growing up mostly in Kazakhstan), Stele has traveled the world to serve the Adventist Church in various positions including professor of theology at Zaoksky Theological Seminary in Russia, coordinator and general editor of Shepherdess and Living Church in the Euro-Asia Division, and director of the Euro-Asia Division’s Institute of Missiology.

Galina was the first woman to graduate with a doctorate of ministry from Andrews University in 1996 and is a widely published author. Her special interests are human-subject research, small groups, church member and youth retention, and family matters.She loves being involved with evangelistic events. She is in demand as speaker for evangelistic series, Weeks of Revival, women's and youth congresses, and Total Member Involvement (TMI) events.

Galina's nine years of experience at the division level as Shepherdess Coordinator included many combined events with Women's Ministries. Her practical theology, in-depth Bible study, and love for small groups will fit in well with Women's Ministries goals, objectives, and resources. Her organizational and leadership skills are already a blessing for the world church. 

In her free time, Galina enjoys reading and writing, gardening, cooking, assembling puzzles, and spending time with family, Galina is married to Dr. Artur Stele, General Conference Vice President, and they have an adult son and a grandson.

General Conference Women's Ministries
12501 Old Columbia Pike
Silver Spring, Maryland USA 20904-6600
1 (301) 680-6636
[email protected]

Being associate pastor and ordained church elder has provided manifold blessings through her work in multiple ministries at various Seventh-day Adventist churches in Maryland, including mentoring and nurturing youth; ministries for adults, women, children, and deaconesses; outreach and evangelism, Pathfinders, and also Sabbath School. Her love of singing, reading, teaching, and preaching are a great resource in serving God.

Her husband, Joseph Kelly, son Praveen, twin daughters Serena and Selena, sons-in-law Samuel and Ebenesar are a great support in her ministry. The excitement about the arrival of her first grandson, born in July 2019, is still fresh!

Premila holds a master’s in business administration, a bachelor’s in business administration, and a bachelor’s in education. Passionate about women’s ministries, her desire is to encourage and empower women to live a God-inspired life. She firmly believes God’s Word in Jeremiah 29:11, “I know the plans that I have for you…”

General Conference Women's Ministries
12501 Old Columbia Pike
Silver Spring, Maryland, USA 20904-6600
Tel: 1 (301) 680-6608
[email protected]

Rebecca Turner became WM editorial assistant in August 2016. She had already served as WM administrative assistant for four and a half years. Prior to this, she worked for vice presidents at the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists for more than twenty-one years.

Educated in English, journalism, and elementary education, Rebecca created the first women’s ministries newsletter in 1991, simply because her desk in the presidential office suite was situated close to Rose Otis, then director of the newly organized office of women's ministries—and because Rebecca was willing to help. She finds it incredible that one of her responsibilities today is the WM Mosaic newsletter.

Rebecca loves learning and then sharing what she’s learned, particularly when the subject is the Bible. Her favorite Bible text is Lamentations 3:22-23, "The Lord's mercies ... [and] compassions fail not. They are new every morning; great is thy faithfulness" (KJV).

Private Bag
Mbagathi 00503
Nairobi, Kenya
EAST AFRICA
Tel: 254 (2) 514-4400
Email: Debbie Maloba
Website: ecdadventist.org WM page

Krasnayarskaya Street 3
107589 Moscow
RUSSIAN FEDERATION
Tel: 7 (495) 786-8150
Fax: 7 (495) 786-8155
Email: Akseniya Liberanskaya
Website: esd.adventist.org 

P. O. Box 830518
Miami, FL 33283-0518
USA
Tel: 1 (305) 403-4700
Fax: 1 (305) 403-4600
Email: Edith Ruiz-Espinoza
Website: www.interamerica.org WM page

Schosshaldenstrasse 17
CH - 3006 Berne
SWITZERLAND
Tel: 41 (31) 359-15-15
Fax: 41 (31) 359-15-66
Email: Dagmar Dorn
Website: women.eud.adventist.org

9705 Patuxent Woods Drive
Columbia, MD 21046-1565
USA
Tel: 1 (443) 391-7200
Email: DeeAnn Bragaw
Website: www.nadwm.org

P. O. Box 43
Goyang Ilsan 10401
KOREA
Tel: 82 (31) 910-1500
Fax: 82 (31) 919-4412
Email: Raquel Arrais
Website: www.nsdadventist.org  WM page

Caixa Postal 2600
70275-970 Brasilia, DF
BRAZIL
Tel: 55 (61) 3701-1818
Fax: 55 (61) 3345-7778
Email: Jeanete Lima
Website: www.adventistas.org WM page

Locked Bag 2014
Wahroonga, N.S.W. 2076
AUSTRALIA
Tel: 61 (2) 9847-3333
Fax: 61 (2) 9489-0943
Email: SPD Women's Ministries
Website: women.adventistchurch.com

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P.O. Box 4583
Rietvalleirand 0174
SOUTH AFRICA
Tel: 27 (12) 345-7000
Email: Margery Herinirina
Website: www.sidadventist.org WM page

Post Box 2, HCF
Hosur 635110,
Krishnagiri District, Tamil Nadu
INDIA
Tel: 91 (4344) 263-800
Email: Premila Masih
Website: www.sudadventist.org WM page

P.O. Box 040
4118 Silang, Cavite
PHILIPPINES
Tel: 63 (46) 414-4000
Fax: 63 (46) 414-4001
Email: Virginia Baloyo
Website: www.ssd.org WM page

119 St. Peter's Street
St. Albans, Herts AL1 3EY
England
UNITED KINGDOM
Tel: 44 (1727) 860-331
Fax: 44 (1727) 866-312
Email: Karen Holford
Website: ted.adventist.org WM page

22 Boite Postale 1764
Abidjan 22, Cote d'Ivoire
WEST AFRICA
Tel: 225 (22) 44-0-97
Fax: 225 (22)44-23-41
Email: Omobonike Sessou
Website: wad.adventist.org WM page

12/F Citimark, 28 Yuen Shun Circle
Siu Lek Yuen Shatin
HONG KONG
Tel: 852-2838-3991
Fax: 852-2834-3991
Email: Nickey Shum
Website: wwww.chumadventist.org

P.O. Box 90-2026
Jdeidet El-Metn
Metn
LEBANON
Tel: 961 (1) 690-290
Fax: 961 (1) 690-490
Email: Amal Fawzy

Ukrainian Union Conference of Seventh-day Adventists
Luk'yanivska Street, 9/10-A
04052 Kyiv
Ukraine
380 (44) 467-50-49
Email: Irina Begas

Israel Field
Seventh-day Adventists
6 Lincoln
Jerusalem 9100
Israel
972 (2) 625-1547
Ross Ann Kirshner