05/07/2021
Elton DeMoraes Elected Texas Conference President
After much prayerful consideration and discussions, the Texas Conference Executive Committee voted to elect Elton DeMoraes as president of the Texas Conference of Seventh-day Adventists in Alvarado, Texas. DeMoraes spent many years working in the Texas Conference before accepting the position of vice president for ministries for the Southwestern Union of Seventh-day Adventists in Burleson, Texas.
Considered by many as a homecoming, DeMoraes started his ministry in the Texas Conference as an associate pastor for the Houston Central Spanish Seventh-day Adventist Church in 1998. Seven years later, he became pastor of the Tyler Seventh-day Adventist Church in Tyler, Texas.
He transitioned to the Houston Northwest Seventh-day Adventist Church in 2009 for just a year before being elected English evangelism director for the Texas Conference. That position was merged with church planting, so eventually, in 2011, DeMoraes became ministerial, church planting and English evangelism director for the Texas Conference.
As the conference grew, he transitioned to focus on the ministerial portion. Four years later, he was elected Texas Conference executive secretary, a position he held for four years before his election to the Southwestern Union Conference.
“We are happy to have Elder DeMoraes back in Texas territory,” David Montoya, Texas Conference executive secretary, shared. “His passionate desire to proclaim the gospel wherever he goes will only enhance the work here in the Texas Conference.”
Please join us in welcoming Elton DeMoraes back to the Texas Conference and continue to pray for God’s blessings for our Texas Conference family.
Tamara Michalenko Terry, associate director
Communication & Public Relations
