The leadership of the Italian Union of the Seventh-day Adventist Church (UICCA) is changing. On Tuesday, September 13, the Executive Committee met in Florence to elect the new officers of the denomination in Italy. President Mario Brito and Secretary Barna Magyarosi, of the Inter-European Division of the Adventist Church, also took part in the meeting.
Pr. Andrei Cretu is the new UICCA president; Pr. Ignazio Barbuscia is the new secretary.
The appointments became necessary after the departure of President Stefano Paris, who moved to the United States with his family for a training experience at the Adventist hospital complex, Kettering Health.
The Committee therefore entrusted the vacant chairmanship to Pr. Cretu, already secretary of the UICCA since 2019. And, accordingly, it appointed Pr. Barbuscia, national director of Adventist Youth Ministries, to the position of secretary of the Union.
President Cretu said during an interview with Hopemedia Italia: 'I am happy to be able to face this new task together with a team - the executive committee of the Italian Union - and with the newly elected Secretary Barbuscia and Treasurer Murittu. We are a team. I am at peace knowing that we are all working together for the good of the Adventist Church in Italy."
One of the goals of the Adventist Church in Italy is service.
"I would like to see our Adventist community continue to work with love and without prejudice," Cretu continued. "The Apostle James teaches us that faith that manifests itself without actions is a faith without value. It is essential that the Adventist Church continues to express its faith through service," Cretu concluded.
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