2026 SPD Administrators Council

Leonard Johnson was born in New Providence, Bahamas, and is married to his lifelong companion and special friend, Denise Cooper, a Registered Nurse and Counselor. They are blessed with two adult children and four wonderful grandchildren.

Education

He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Theology with a minor in History from West Indies College, followed by a Master of Arts degree in Religion from Andrews University. In addition, he completed studies leading to the Master of Divinity equivalent, also at Andrews University. Subsequently, he began his Doctor of Ministry program at Andrews University and later transferred to Reformed Theological Seminary, where he successfully completed his doctoral degree.              

Experiences and Accomplishments

Pastor Johnson has faithfully served in various pastoral districts across The Bahamas and the former Cayman Islands Mission. Throughout his ministry, he has held multiple departmental leadership roles at both the Mission and Conference levels. His dedicated service and proven leadership culminated in his appointment as Executive Secretary and later as President of the former Bahamas Conference, now known as the South Bahamas Conference.

With the restructuring of the former West Indies Union Conference into two separate unions in November 2010, Pastor Johnson was elected President of the newly formed Atlantic Caribbean Union Mission, headquartered in Nassau, Bahamas. His effective leadership led to his re-election for a second term in 2015. In October 2017, he was called to serve as Associate Director of the Ministerial Department of the Inter-American Division of Seventh-day Adventist. Just a few months later, in March 2018, he was elected Executive Secretary of the Inter-American Division—a role he faithfully fulfilled until July 2025, when he was elected as a General Vice President of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventist.

Hensley Moorooven serves as Undersecretary of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, based in Silver Spring, Maryland, USA. He has previously served in Réunion, Madagascar, Zimbabwe, and South Africa. An ordained minister and teacher at heart, he is committed to preaching and teaching the Bible with clarity and simplicity so that people can remember God’s Word. He emphasizes that remembrance allows Scripture to take root, enabling the Holy Spirit to bring about lasting spiritual transformation. A native of Mauritius, Hensley is married to Valérie, a trained social worker and primary school teacher from Réunion Island. They have two daughters: Tania, a doctoral student in Occupational Therapy at Loma Linda University, and Amandine, a junior in Elementary Education at Southern Adventist University. Hensley’s seven-word personal mission statement is: “Seek God passionately and serve Him incarnationally.”

Dr. David Trim is Director of Archives, Statistics, and Research for the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists. Born to missionary parents in Bombay, India, he spent his childhood in Australia, growing up in Brisbane and Sydney. He has a BA from Newbold College and a PhD from King’s College, University of London. He was on the faculty of his alma mater, Newbold College, for ten years, teaching undergraduate history and religion, and graduate courses in missiology and hermeneutics; he then taught two years at Pacific Union College where he held the Walter C. Utt Chair of History. Dr. Trim was elected to his current position for the world Church at Annual Council of 2010 and is an adjunct professor of church history at the Seventh-day Adventist Theological Seminary. Dr. Trim is the author, co-author, or editor of 18 books, and has additionally published eighty scholarly articles and book chapters, and another seventy articles for general church readers. He is married to Wendy, a native of California; they have one adult daughter, Eve, who lives in Washington, DC. His brother and three sisters all still live in Australia.