Turning Challenges into Purpose
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ometimes people don’t choose their professional path in life, it chooses them. Or rather, God chooses for them. That’s exactly what Pedro Ojeda, principal of Holbrook
Indian School (HIS) in Arizona, will say if asked why he chose education as a career. “I was known to emphatically state that I would never teach or preach,” Ojeda recalled of a time in his life when he was quite confident about what he wouldn’t do. “But once God guided me towards Adventist education by clearly closing other doors at two major times in my life, I never looked back.” Pedro Ojeda was born in Cuba a few years after the current system of government was established. His parents, who were missionaries for many years, were fortunate enough to have heard of the Adventist message via Voice of Prophecy radio, and they studied at the Adventist college in Cuba before the new regime shut down religious expression. The family moved to Jamaica when Ojeda was just a little tyke, and he
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