Pacific Press^® Welcomes New Director

Nampa, Idaho (January 29, 2014) — Pacific Press^® has announced the recent hiring of Julio Chazarreta as Director of Multi-lingual Marketing and Sales. Chazarreta comes to Idaho from the Oregon Conference where he served for eight years as a pastor and evangelist. He is passionate about evangelism and looks forward to the opportunity of reaching more people for Christ through his contribution to El Centinela^®, sister periodical of Signs of the Times^®. It is his hope that it will become a powerful tool for evangelism throughout the North America Division.

One of Chazarreta's main goals for his first year at Pacific Press^® is to increase subscriptions to El Centinela^® by 20,000, and to work with all the coordinators across North America. Ricardo Bentacur, Editor of International Publications said, "I look forward to working with Julio on expanding the reach of El Centinela^® and, with the Lord's blessing, anticipate great things from our collaboration."

Vice President for Marketing and Sales, Doug Church said, "We're excited about the strengths Julio brings to this position and feel blessed to have this proven soul-winner join our ministry team."

Chazarreta said, "Sharing God's salvation is my passion. The Lord has greatly blessed and the opportunity to work at Pacific Press^® for His glory and honor is part of His blessing.

Julio Chazarreta replaces Carlos Camacho who transitioned last summer to the Nevada-Utah Conference as the Spanish Coordinator and senior pastor at Iglesia Adventista del Septimo dia Maranatha.