Southern California Conference

Lauren Lacson

Articles by Lauren Lacson

  • Tammie Lindsay Is Ordained

    Tammie Lindsay Is Ordained

    The sanctuary at Bethel church in Pomona was full on August 29 as friends, family, and colleagues gathered for the ordination of Tammie Lindsey. Lindsey has served in three Southern California Conference churches since joining the conference in 2022. The service was filled with praise, celebration, and recognition of God’s leading. Lindsey’s biography highlighted her…

    Lauren Lacson
  • John Strehle Joins SCC Office Team as Director for Planned Giving and Trust Services

    John Strehle Joins SCC Office Team as Director for Planned Giving and Trust Services

    John Strehle has worn various hats throughout his career. For the last 12 years, he served as a pastor here in the Southern California Conference (SCC). Before joining SCC, he pastored various churches outside SCC, was a district pastor, served as a school chaplain and Bible teacher, and was the Natural Church Development (NCD) director…

    Lauren Lacson
  • Essential Characteristics for Cultivating Our Mission

    Essential Characteristics for Cultivating Our Mission

    Every organization needs direction and purpose. As part of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, the Southern California Conference (SCC) joins in the church’s mission of proclaiming the gospel to all people with a Christ-centered message of hope and wholeness. But how we do that is unique to our context and territory. In August 2024, “Exalting Christ…

    Lauren Lacson
  • SCC Equip Training Comes Back for a Second Year

    SCC Equip Training Comes Back for a Second Year

    This May, hundreds of leaders in SCC churches gathered for training and fellowship from all areas of the conference—from Santa Barbarato Rolling Hills—for Equip26. Thirteen breakout sessions included classes titled “Reaching Gen Z Today,” “Seeking the Shalom of the City: The Church in the New Mission Field,” “The Steward’s Calling: Managing God’s Resources With Integrity,”…

    Lauren Lacson
  • San Fernando Spanish Church Celebrates God’s Faithfulness Throughout 50 Years

    San Fernando Spanish Church Celebrates God’s Faithfulness Throughout 50 Years

    This summer, San Fernando Spanish church celebrated decades of ministry. A small group that would become San Fernando Spanish church met to worship together for the first time in the 1940s. A church building was later purchased, where the congregation met until a 1971 earthquake damaged the buildingbeyond repair. But this didn’t dim the congregation’s…

    Lauren Lacson
  • Grace Hill at Vallejo Drive Church Takes First Global Mission Trip to the Philippines

    Grace Hill at Vallejo Drive Church Takes First Global Mission Trip to the Philippines

    This year, Grace Hill at Vallejo Drive church lived out its belief in global evangelism by taking its first global mission trip to the city of Tuguegarao, Cagayan, Philippines. The team spent one week involved in evangelistic meetings, medical and dental services, a gospel concert, and more. During the two days of medical and dental…

    Lauren Lacson & Samuel Adarme
  • San Fernando Valley Academy Junior High Basketball Team Earns Back-to-Back Championship

    San Fernando Valley Academy Junior High Basketball Team Earns Back-to-Back Championship

    This spring, the San Fernando Valley Academy (SFVA) junior high basketball team celebrated a back-to-back championship when they won the Division 1 playoff game against New West Charter School this March. As part of the Foundation for Interscholastic Youth Athletics (FIYA) league, SFVA Huskies participates with other elementary and middle schools across the greater Los…

    Lauren Lacson
  • Table Tennis Serves Up Fun at SGA

    Table Tennis Serves Up Fun at SGA

    High school sports often bring to mind basketball, soccer, or volleyball. But 10 years ago, when then-principal Angel Nair encouraged San Gabriel Academy Elementary teachers to bring extracurricular, elective options that would be creative and different, a new option came up. Junior high teacher Sean Lehnhoff, who teaches grades 5-8, immediately thought of table tennis.…

    Lauren Lacson
  • Oakwood University President Visits Historic Church in Los Angeles

    Oakwood University President Visits Historic Church in Los Angeles

    On the weekend when Gina Spivey-Brown, Ph.D., was inaugurated as the incoming president of Oakwood University, Lawrence S. Dorsey II, director of the Greater Los Angeles Region of the Southern California Conference (SCC), was introduced to her by a mutual friend. “Immediately after I told her what I did, she asked me, ‘What can you…

    Lauren Lacson
  • Introducing SCC Department of Education: A New Team Is Energized for Mission

    Introducing SCC Department of Education: A New Team Is Energized for Mission

    In July 2025, when James P. Willis II, then SCC vice president for education, and Nancy Garcilazo, then SCC associate superintendent, moved on to new endeavors, it was only a few months into Wayne Dunbar’s tenure as associate superintendent. Dunbar had recently joined the SCC education team from La Sierra University, where he served as…

    Lauren Lacson
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