Debleaire Snell, the speaker-director for the Breath of Life (BOL) ministry, and the senior pastor of the Oakwood University Church, will be speaking in the Rupp Arena for the CALLED Pastors Family Convention.

Since 2010, BOL speaker/director Snell has served as senior pastor of the three campuses of the First Seventh-day Adventist Church (First Church, Abundant Life, and “The Bridge”) in Huntsville, Alabama. He has conducted several major evangelistic meetings for the church; and throughout his time at First Church, there have been a total of 878 baptisms. In 2020, Snell launched a local television ministry with the Huntsville CBS affiliate.

Before serving in Huntsville, Snell was senior pastor at the Lima Drive Seventh-day Adventist Church in Lexington, Kentucky, from 2006-2010. In two years, Snell and his team conducted three evangelistic series, baptizing more than 100. Snell also served as senior pastor of the Salem Seventh-day Adventist Church in Columbus, Mississippi, and the Lee Memorial Seventh-day Adventist Church in West Point, Mississippi.

Snell has taught at Oakwood University as an adjunct professor since 2010. In addition to starting a devotional column in a local newspaper while in Kentucky, Snell has authored six books. He graduated from Oakwood University in 1999 with a bachelor’s degree in theology. In 2001, Snell earned his Master of Divinity from Seventh-day Adventist Theological Seminary at Andrews University in Berrien Springs, Michigan.

Originally from Tallahassee, Florida, the entire Snell family was baptized into the Maranatha SDA Church in Tallahassee, Florida in 1987. From the time he joined the church he was active, serving as Jr. Deacon and youth ministry assistant, and at the age of 17, he accepted the call of God on his life and pursued professional pastoral ministry. Pastor Snell is married to Gianna Snell and has a twelve year old son Jadon Christopher Snell.