Ivan L. Williams, Sr. sensed a call to ministry at thirteen years of age while serving in an evangelistic meeting, and his ministry has spanned many years in three different conferences. He served as a Chaplain-Lieutenant Colonel for the US Air Force, and as a Chaplain for the California State Assembly. He has a passion to help pastors find their purpose and meaning in ministry. He enjoys media ministry, barbering, and landscaping, and has been able to be all he can be with unconditional love and support of His Heavenly Father, wife Kathleen, and their two children, Imani, and Ivan, II. Ivan serves as the director for the Ministerial Association of the North American Division of Seventh-day Adventists. The NAD ministerial team serves and supports one hundred ministerial directors and over four thousand pastors in Bermuda, Canada, the United States, Guam and Micronesia. Prior to this, he served as the Ministerial Director for the Northern California Conference.