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SEMINAR PRESENTERS AT A GLANCE
Wesley Szamko
Pastor, Alberta Conference
Pastor Wesley Szamko is the new pastor of the Ponoka Rimbey district, having served the last five months as acting Sabbath School and Personal Ministries director for the Alberta Conference. He finds joy in empowering others to engage in Bible study and prayer and in effective witness and disciple-making as we prepare for Jesus’ soon return.
Seminar:
Distant to Disciple — innovative tools to reach post-Christians/ non- Christians
Pastor Wesley is from Alberta. He received his education at Burman University and Andrews University where he is currently a Doctor of Missiology candidate. Since entering fulltime ministry in 1994, he has served as youth pastor, university campus pastor, senior pastor, church-planter coordinator, mission president, and division Adventist Mission director. For the last 13+ years before returning to Canada, he has served the 14 countries of the Southern Asia-Pacific Division of the General Conference (Bangladesh, Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Pakistan, Philippines, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Timor-Leste, and Vietnam).
Pastor Wesley is married to Dr. Ivonne Szamko. Together they are blessed with two children, William and Alyssia. As a family, they seek to reveal the love of God to those they meet and to help people connect to God for eternity.
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