Church’s Southern Asia President Crosses 10-Year Mark

For 10 years, Ron Watts has helped push leadership and infrastructure improvements as president of the Seventh-day Adventist Church’s Southern Asia region. He still doesn’t let anyone leave his office without a personal prayer. During his two terms the church has established new offices, schools and churches in the region, which includes Bhutan, India, the Maldives and Nepal. Additional training seminars and employee workshops have yielded better-equipped church workers in the area, church leaders said.

New Principal for Adventist College in India

Students at Northeast Adventist College in Meghalaya, India, have a new principal, alumnus Berun Sangma, the college’s 25th leader since its establishment in 1941. Sangma, who most recently served as secretary for the church’s Northeast India Union, holds a master’s degree in theology. Northeast Adventist College is a Seventh-day Adventist-owned boarding school in the Khasi-Jaintiya Hills of Northeast India that offers college courses at the bachelor’s level.